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NOTES AND QUERIES. [12 s. n. JULY is, wie.

' THE MAN WITH THE HOE.' Can any of your readers tell me when and by whom this poem was written, and when it appeared ?

I see extracts from it in a book of ' Familiar Quotations,' and it is ascribed to Edwin Markham (b. 1852). The name of this poet is quite unknown to me, though probably this fact argues " myself unknown."

J. WlLLCOCK. Lerwick.

SCARLET GLOVES AND TRACTARIANS. (See

II S. viii. 509.) Under this heading I asked in 1913 why Henry Kingsley in ' Leighton Court ' makes the wife of a Tractarian vicar wear scarlet gloves in deference to her husband's orders. I have just discovered a passage in S. Baring-Gould's ' Life of the Rev. R. S. Hawker,' in which, describing Hawker's appearance, the author says : " His gloves were crimson. He wore these in church as well as elsewhere." And later he speaks of the vicar's blood-red hands in church. As ' Leighton Court ' is about that part of the country, it is probable that an allusion to the vicar was intended by Henry Kingsley. But this does not solve the problem, why did the vicar wear crimson or scarlet gloves ? M. H. DODDS.

Home House, Low Fell, Gateshead.

ABBE PATIL PEYRON'S ' ANTIQUITIES OF NATIONS.' -The English translator of this work is said to have been a Mr. Jones. Who was he ? ANEURIN WILLIAMS.

DENMARK COURT. The Jewish Chronicle lately mentioned a synagogue being situated in Denmark Court. I cannot find any reference to a court so named in any map of London, either old or modern. Perhaps one of your readers will kindly enlighten me. MAURICE JONAS.

SYMBOLS ATTACHED TO SIGNATURES. In the Guildhall in Rye is preserved the original agreement made between Oliver Cromwell and the citizens of Rye. The signatures of the latter are in many cases accompanied by varying signs or symbols such as an anchor, &c. Are these signs trade badges, or what are they ? GRAHAM MIL WARD.

77 Colmore Row, Birmingham.

PAYNE FAMILY. Jonathan Payne (Paine),

a Quaker, married Anne, had a daughter

Henrietta, baptized May 31, 1778, Ballin- temple, Tullow, co. Carlow, and a son Jonas, married April 25, 1804, at Urghlin, Carlow, Martha Bunbury. His will was dated June 24, 1 830. He had a (?) cousin, Caleb Payne, of Colbinstown, co. Kildare, married Sarah

Svans in 1767. Will, proved Dec. 14, 1808, ' mentions large sums of money due to him ?y Royal Canal Co., Lord de Clifford, Earl of kVestmeath, and others " ; also a relative, ''aroline Payne, a widow, married Wm. Ber- nard, 1764, at Carlow. I should be greatly obliged by any particulars concerning these r amilies, parentage, dates of birth, &c., and heir exact relationship.

E. C. FlNLAY.

1729 Pine Street, San Francisco.

BLESSED WILLIAM OF ASSIST. Anthony Parkinson, in his ' Collectanea Anglo- Minoritica ' (London, 1726), at pp. 33-4, sub anno 1232, writes :

" Br. William Anglicus departed this Life now- He was an English Frier of extraordinary Learning, and is said to have been a Doctor of Divinity ; but was yet more famous for the Holiness of his Life ; which was attested by many undoubted Proofs ; For, he was a ThaumcUnryus for supernatural Gifts ana Miracles, both whilst living and after his Departure out of this Life : so that he seemed to out-doe his Founder S 1 Francis, One of whose Disciples and Companions he was. He died at Atsisium, and was buried in the lower Church of the Friers Minor there, near the Body of S c Francis. The Franciscan Martyrologe, on the 7 th day of March, has this Character of him, viz. Beatus Gulidmus, eximioe Perfectionis Vir ; qui Sanctitate <L- Miractilis, turn in Vita, turn po*t Obttum, maxime daruit. That Author quotes more Vouchers than can be here inserted."

Southey, in his ' Commonplace Book,' 2nd Series, p. 395, says :

" Guelherme Anglico, who was elected in'the room of Joao Capella the Judas, worked so many miracles after his death that to keep peace in the convent Fr..Elias, the general of the order, was obliged to beg he would work no more it brought such a rabble there. Dead as well as alive he was obedient, 189. A like story of Fr. and Pedro Cataneo. Cornejo, vol. i. p. 356."

What is the authority cited by Southey ?

Have recent Franciscan studies thrown any light on William the Englishman, the Beato of Assisi ?

JOHN B. WAINEWRIGHT.

THE NEVILLE HERALDRY. " Or, fretty gules " (with various cantons), is given as the ancient coat of the Nevilles ; one blazon being " Or, fretty gules, a canton ermine," which is precisely the same as that of the Noels. Were the Noels originally Nevilles ? Their crest, " a stag statant," seems to have some reference to the Nevilles' old office as Warden of the King's Forests north of Trent.

The present bull's head crest of the Nevilles is derived from the Bulmers, and the late J. R. Planche ingeniously deduced the shield of the Raby branch from the