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NOTES AND QUERIES. [12 s. n. NOV. 25/1916.

" it could be handled, and it was repaired with transparent vellum. I believe women do this kind of work better and more neatly than msii, Fazakerly also repaired in a marvellous way a piece of the church register which I found, It had been missing for upwards of one hundred years, being folded up inside some other documents, and having got very badly torn and stained.

R. S. B.

RIGHT HON. SIB ANDREW RICHAKD SCOBLE, K.C.S.I., K.C. (12 S. ii. 390). GENERAL HILL will find an interesting ac- count some four or five pages in ' Ancient "West- Country Families, vol. i. pp. 214 et seq., and frontispiece, by B. H. Williams, published this year by J. A. D. Bridger, 112 Market Jew Street, Penzance, wherein the death of the above is recorded as occur- ring on Jan. 17 last, not as stated.

HOWARD H. COTTERELL, F.R.Hist.S.

Foden Road, Walsall.

I regret that I am not able to refer GENERAL HILL to a pedigree of the family of the late Sir Andrew Scoble, but he will find some details of the family in a volume published in 1874, entitled ' Kingsbridge and its Surroundings,' by S. P. Fox. A few references to persons of the name of Scoble will also be found in Vivian's ' Visitations of Devon and Corn- wall.' Whilst this information is not exactly what is sought, it may help your correspon- dent on to a track which will lead him in the right direction. H. TAPLEY-SOPER.

City Library, Exeter.

ST. INAN (12 S. ii. 348). This saint is a very shadowy personality, whom it is not possible to identify with any degree of certainty. The only authority for his existence is Adam King, a regent in the University of Paris towards the end of the sixteenth century. In 1588 he published a translation of the Catechism of the Jesuit Canisius, and prefixed thereto

" Ane Kallendar perpetuale contininn baith the awld and new Kallendar, With dyuers vthers thingis pertininj* thairto, verie profitable for all sort of men : maid be M. Adame King, professeur of Philosophe and Mathematikis at Paris."

He assigns Aug. 18 to

" S. Inane, confess: at iruine [Irvine] in Scotland vnder king kennede y e I [anno] 839."

Needless to say that this is very late and untrustworthy authority, unsupported by any other. If there ever was a Confessor Inan of Irvine, Adam King must have had access to records to which we have none. H there never was such an individual, we are

compelled to suspect that King invented him to fill a blank day in his calendar. Bishop Reeves, the erudite editor of ' Vita S. Columbse,' mentions a St. Enan as holding a place in the Irish Calendar (' Ecclesiastical Antiquities of Down,' &c., pp. 285, 377). Intercourse between Ulster and Ayrshire was frequent and close in early times, but the- day assigned to the Irish St. Enan was not Aug. 18, but, March 25. As for the personal name embalmed in "Tenant's Day" or " Tinnan's Day," it may belong to one of several saints. Personally I should incline to identify it as Wynnin, the name of a saint closely identified with Ayrshire and the epouymus of Kilwinning. For this, see Bishop Forbes' s ' Kalendars of Scottish Saints,' pp. 463-6.

In the ' New Statistical Account of Scotland ' (Ayr, p. 577) the brief description in King's ' Kallendar ' is expanded into a biography of some detail, but the particulars existed only in the writer's imagination.

It may be mentioned that Adam King,, who alone is responsible for the personality of St. Inan, became Protestant, returned from Paris to Edinburgh, was admitted advocate, appointed a commissary in 1600, and died in 1620. HERBERT MAXWELL.

Monreith.

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The True History of the Conquest of New Spain. By Bernal Diaz del Castillo. Edited and published in Mexico by Genaro Garcia. Trans- lated into English, with Introduction and Notes, by Alfred Percival Maudslay. Vol. V. (Hakluyt Society.)

WE have here the concluding volume of Dr.. Maudslay's translation of Bernal Diaz del Castillo. All those interested in the subject know that the original is one of the most important documents for the expedition of Cortes into Mexico and the establishment of Spanish dominion there. In Bernal Diaz are combined an extraordinary number of the qualities and advantages which go to make the competent and successful historian of a great adventure. We would place not last among these his persistent, but not overwhelming,. ill-luck. A man of quick wits, faultless and dogged courage, great common sense and trust- worthiness, for years administrator of the district in which he had been given lands, turned to by Cortes to help him put of straits on the march when other men failed him, he was the close friend of the leaders, and in a position both to observe their doings and to estimate their characters ; but he never himself attained to a foremost place, nor yet to settled wealth and ease. In addition to a remarkably strong memory he possessed a sound judgment, which, through his being always in a relatively subordinate position,. was not subject to that warping which is apt to