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Having thus enunciated the fallacy, Dr. Join's iroes 011 to show it is a fallacy, stating that "it is neitlior a new nor a dangerous distemper," and devoting three 8vo pages to the matter. Much of this is to illustrate the practice, even in those days, of calling simple things by high-sounding names, e.g., " there are no women to be had at present ; even those at a two-penny puppet-show of a ^ country village, forsooth, are all called the Ladies."

ALFBED S. E. ACKEBMANN.

ElGHTEENTH-CENTTJKY LEAD-TANK LET- TERING (12 S ii. 390). I cannot explain the phoenix or the crowns ; they may be a crest and a trade -mark. But the arrangement of letters is not uncommon at that date, and in the instances which I have been able to test by contemporary documents the upper letter is the initial of the surname, the letter to the left the initial of the husband's Chris- tian name, that to the right of his wife's ; they denote the persons for whom the tank was provided.e.gr.,

E A E

1715 stood for Eason, Andrew, Elizabeth.

J. HAMLET. Barrington, Ilrainster.

The initials were commonly those of the owner. The S in this case probably stands for Seymour. The crest of the Somersets is out of a ducal coronet or, a phoenix or in flames proper. SUSANNA CORNER.

Lenton Hall, Nottingham.

PORTRAITS IN STAINED GLASS (12 S. ii. 172, 211, 275, 317, 337, 374). The church of All Hallows, Allerton, now in Liverpool, contains many stained - glass windows by Burne-Jones and Morris. When asked by the donor to introduce portraits of two deceased children into a stained - glass window intended as a memorial, Burne- Jones declined the commission as bad art, and this window was therefore designed by another hand. See ' History of the Manor of Allerton,' &c. B. S. B.

In the east window of Saintbury Church, Gloucestershire, there is a small figure of an ecclesiastic in the attitude of prayer with the legend " San Nicolas priet pur W. L." Richard Graves, the antiquary, of Mickleton, considered this to be a portrait of William Latimer, the learned Vicar of Saintbury, who died and was buried there in 1545.

In Norton Church, Derbyshire, there has been placed, within the last few years, a window to the memory of the wife of the

present vicar, which contains a portrait of the deceased lady. It is a very pleasing^ window, and the portrait is readily noticed amongst the other faces delineated.

CHARLES DRUBY. 12 Ranmoor Cliffe Road, Sheffield.

At Stanton Lacey Church, Salop, there are two figures (copies of those by Sir Joshua Reynolds in the ante-chapel of New College, Oxford) of Hope and Faith ; the centre- figure is a portrait of the Hon. "R. H. Clive, at one time M.P. for Ludlow.

St. Peter is the patron saint of the church, and the late vicar, Dr. Bowles, personates him in another window alongside St. Paul, which is a portrait of Mr. Clement, late M.P_ for Shrewsbury. H. T. BARKER.

Ludlow.

A very beautiful window was placed in the church of Brompton, in Northallerton,. during my incumbency, in memory of John Kettlewell, the Nonjuror, who was a native and benefactor of the parish. The work was C. E. Kempe's, and, at my request, he- introduced a portrait of Kettlewell, taken from the engraving in the folio edition of: his works. S. R. C.

The Precincts, Canterbury.

WELTHEN (12 S. ii. 309, 376). I notice this name occurs twice in Gloucestershire. Harry Ellye of Newland, whose will was proved in the year 1553 at Gloucester P. C.,. mentions his wife Welthianr ; and there is also an entry in the King's Stanley Parish Register : " Symon Awood was married to Welthian Tratman, June 30, 1603."

W. A. S. ELY.

HENRY FATJNTLEBOY, FOBGEB (12 S. ii. 367). On the assumption that modern as well as contemporary references will be- acceptable, I send the following :

' The Invisible Avenger, or Guilt's Fatal Career,' no date, but catalogued G. Vickers,. London, 1851 ; full narrative of the forgeries at pp. 234-42.

' The Romance of Crime/ published at 148 Fleet Street, about 1865 : account of the trial, with portrait of Fauntleroy in the dock.

Serjeant Ballantine's ' Experiences,' 1882 ;. in chap. xxv. it is told how Fauntleroy figures in Bulwer Lytton's ' Disowned ' : the scheme for escaping from Coldbath Fields Prison.

' Old and New London,' c. 1884, vol. ii.- 455 : Dickens's anecdote relating to Faunt- leroy 's famous curagao ; popular rumour that, the execution had been evaded.

W. B. H..