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the stalls, a considerable space had to be left free, in order to leave roomfor processions from the High Altar to the lectern and to the ecclesiastics in their stalls ; as well as for processions of the whole ecclesiastical establishment on Palm Sunday, Corpus Christi Day, Easter Sunday, and other festivals, and on every Sunday in the year. The lectern also was often of great size, and , gangway had to be left on either side of it. In Lincoln Minster so styled, from time immemorial, together with York and South- well, although none of them was a monastic church the space from one chorister's desk to its vis-a-vis is 1 8 feet ; from the back of the northern to the back of the southern stalls is 40 i feet, which is above the average breadth of an English cathedral or monastic choir. The breadth of the ehoir conditioned the whole of the planning of the church ; for as a rule the nave and transepts were naturally given the same breadth as the choir, in order that the central tower should be square.

See Mr. Francis Bond's ' Stalls and Tabernacle Work ' (1910).

A. R. BAYLEY.

SHEPPAKD OB SHEPHERD FAMILY OF BLIS- WOBTH, NORTHAMPTONSHIRE (12 S. ii. 391). Your correspondent would do well to con- sult the first six volumes of Northampton- shire Notes and Queries, wherein are to be found numerous and voluminous notes on the Sheppard family. JOHN T. PAGE.

Long Iruliington, Warwickshire.

For the pedigree of this family consult George W. Marshall's ' Genealogist's Guide,' 1903, which contains a list of references. E. E. BARKER.

'THE LONDON MAGAZINE' (12 S. ii. 149, 198, 378). The origin of The London Maga- zine is given in much detail in an article by the lat e W. Roberts on ' The Rivals of The Gentleman's Magazine,' in The Bookworm, vol. iii. 281-7 (1890). W. B. H.

PRICE : HERALDIC QUERY (12 S. ii. 349). All that is known of the baronetcy of Sir Herbert Price maybe found in ( ! . E. Cokayne's ' Complete Baronetage ' (iii. 18). The dig- nity does not appear in most authorities because conferred by Charles II. before the Restoration. Sir Herbert was son of Thomas Price of the Priory, Brecknock, by Anne, sister and heir of John Rudhall of Rudhall, and grandson of Sir John Price, Knight, of the Priory-, M.P. for Brecknock- shire in 1547. He was returned M.P. for Brecknock Town to both the Short and

Long Parliaments of 1640, until disabled as a Royalist, May 8, 1643. He was an active officer in the King's army, and held Hereford for Charles I. till its surrender to Sir William Waller, April 25, 1643. He afterwards fought at Naseby as a colonel, and enter- tamed the King at his Priory House, Aug. 6, 1645, when he was knighted. His estates were ordered, before May, 1649, to be se- questered, and although he petitioned to compound, the matter was referred to a sub-committee, and apparently his petition not allowed, his estates being sold by the Treason Trustees in sections in 1654. Later on he joined the King in exile, and from about 1658 is styled baronet. No patent of creation exists, but Mr. Cokayne was of opinion that the honour was conferred about June of that year. He unsuccessfully con- tested Brecknock at the election to the Convention Parliament, 1660, but was elected as a baronet to the Pensionary Par- liament of 1661, retaining his seat till his death. He was buried in Westminster Abbey, Feb. 3, 1677/8. The baronetcy failed on his son's death in 1689. In Burke' s ' General Armory ' the arms of " Price of the Priory and Fonmon, co. Brecknock," are Sable, a chevron between three spearheads argent, embrued or. W. D. PINK.

AUTHOR WANTED (12 S. ii. 369). The poem required is probably Tom Moore's ' How sweet the Answer Echo makes.' A musical setting will be found in No. 16, Curwen's ' Choruses for Equal Voices,' by H. Engels (2rf.). The poem is beautifully expressed. I quote the first stanza :

How sweet the answer Echo makes

To Music at night !

When, roused by lute or horn, she wakes, And, far away, o'er lawns and lakes

Goes answering light.

It is probably included in Moore's pub- lished poems. CURIO Box.

A PRIZE AT TRINITY COLLEGE, DUBLIN, IN 1789 (12 S. ii. 389). I have in my pos- session a much older prize-book of Trinity College, Dublin, than your correspondent's, an edition of the satires of Juvenal and Persius. At the foot of the title page, which is printed alternately in black and red, we find :

Dublinii

Ex officina Georgii Grierson 1728

The book, a small one, is handsomely and strongly bound in red leather, and stamped on both sides with the arms of the University seal. It retains a printed testimonium