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Points. There be Seven Great Branched Candle- sticks of Brass hanging down from the Top ; and many other Places for Candles and Lamps. The Seats are Benches, with Backs to them that run along from West to East."

ARCHIBALD SPARKE.

The name signifies Bury's Limits, and in- dicates' the borders of the territory per- taining to the town house of the abbots of Bury St. Edmunds. "Bury's" has be- come "Be vis" by the mutation of "u" into " v." WOOD GREEN will find a fuller dissertation on the subject in Habben's ' London Street-Names ' and also in Taylor's ' Words and Places.'

WLLLOTTGHBY MAYCOCK.

Here formerly stood the city mansion and gardens of the abbots of Bury. The corruption of Bury's Marks to Bevis Marks is undoubted v. ' Old and New London,' by Walter Thornbury, vol. ii. p. 165 ; also Wheatley and Cunningham's ' London, Past and Present,' vol. i. p. 180 ; and see Stow, p. 55. A. GWYTHEK.

Windham Club.

Stow, in his ' Survey of London,' speaks of Buries Markes in Aldgate Ward, a large house pertaining to the abbots of Bury in Suffolk, and therefore called Buries Markes, corruptly Bevis Markes.

I suppose that " Mark " here means a possession held by a community.

A. G. KEALY, Chaplain, R.N., retired.

Bedford.

PORTRAITS IN STAINED GLASS (12 S. ii. 172, 211, 275, 317, 337, 374, 458, 517 ; iii. 15, 36, 76, 95, 159). There are two more of the above which I omitted to include in my late contribution. One, ancient, is the window in Shelton Church, Norfolk, to Sir John Shelton, K.B., and his wife Anne Boleyn. These are of the greatest interest, as she was the aunt of her namesake Anne Boleyn, the unfortunate Queen of England, being daughter of Sir William Boleyn of Hever Castle, Kent, and Blickling, Norfolk (who was buried in Norwich Cathedral in 1505), by Margaret, daughter and coheir of Thomas Butler, Earl of Ormonde. Her brother Thomas Boleyn, Earl of Wiltshire, was Queen Anne's father. Sir John Shelton, High Sheriff of Norfolk in 1505 and again in 1523, was knighted, 1509, at the coronation of Henry VIII., dying Dec. 21, 1539, aged 62. His wife was appointed governess to the Princess Mary (a curious fact, considering her relationship to Queen Anne Boleyn), and

made her will as " widow, of Carrow, Nor- folk, desiring to be buried in Carrow Church," Dec. 19, 1556, proved Jan. 8 following. Sir John was buried at Shelton. In the east window his and her portraits appear kneeling in prayer. The arms of Shelton and Boleyn appear on their tabard and surcoat. Her death dates the window.

The other one is at Hawstead Church,. Suffolk, is modern, arid a remarkably fine specimen. It is to the memory of two rectors of the church, the inscription being as follows :

" The above window is dedicated to the glory of God J in memory of two distinguished Rectors | of this Parish Joseph Hall, Rector 1601-1608; | succes- sively Bishop of Exeter & Norwich, whose son | Robert was here baptized, and Sir John Cullum, Bar' | F.R.S. F.S.A. the learned Antiquary, Rector 1762-1785."

In the centre is a representation of the- Crucifixion, and in the lights to the right and left are portraits of the two men kneeling at prie-dieux. Their arms are above them.. The portrait of the Bishop is from a well- known print, and that of Sir John is from his portrait by Angelica Kauffman at Hard wick House. The window, designed by Edward Prioleau Warren, was carried out by J. Dix, and erected in 1899.

GERY MILNER-GIBSON-CTTLLUM, F.S.A.

The west window in the church of St. Ebba at Ebchester, in the county of Durham, is a memorial of stained glass, containing a representation of the Ascension, erected to the memory of Elizabeth Jane Surtees of Hamsterley Hall, who died March 12, 1874, aged 60 (widow of Robert Smith Surtees, the sporting novelist, who died March 16, 1864, aged 60), by her daughter Eleanor Surtees (wife of Col. S. M. Benson and relict of 5th Viscount Gort). In the group of figures who are watching the scene are the portraits of Mrs. Surtees and her only son Anthony Surtees (who died, unmarried, March 17, 1871, aged 23).

Consett, co. Durham.

J. W. FAWCETT.

There is in Southwell Minster at the east end a window of Flemish glass with mam portraits. They are traditionally said represent Francis I. of France, "Louise of Savoie, Rabelais, Luther, &c. The subjer's, in each of which our Lord is the central figure, clothed in the purple robe, are Hi* baptism, a miracle of healing, the entry inf o Jerusalem with Zacchseus in the tree, end the buffeting by the Roman soldiers, wi<h two remarkable heads mockingly demanding Christ to divine.