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EOMNTON TOURNAMENT, 1839. Wanted lists of prints and accounts of the famous Eglinton tournament. It has been stated that, owing to increase in stature, few of the knights could obtain old suits of armour to fit them. Can any reader confirm this ?

R. M. HOGG.

Irvine.

HERALDIC QUERY : PURPLE IN HERALDRY. I should be glad to know the names of any families entitled to bear in their coat of arms the very rare tincture of purple. Jere. Wright, armorial painter, 1700, in his ' Wright Families ' (in manuscript) gives an instance that of

" Richard Wright of ye Inner Temple, London, who alwaies wrote Le Wright. Hee beareth quar- terly, or, and gules, a Lyon Rampant, purptire, charged uppon the shoulder w th an Oaken Leaf of ye first"

I shall be grateful for any information.

LEONARD C. PRICE. Essex Lodge, Ewell.

JOHN MOSES. Can any one give me the date and place of death, and place of burial, of John Moses, Esq., who was father of Mary Moses, who married in 1788 (as first wife, Aubrey, 6th Duke of St. Albans (1802- 1815) ? She died in 1800, leaving an only daughter Mary, who married (as second wife), Ncv. 6, 1811, George William, 8th Earl of Coventry. He is described as being & merchant of Kingston-upon-Hull, and was living about 1770. What more is known of him ? J. W. F.

" LIBERTY." Can any reader say whether " liberty " was formerly used in the sense of " leave " or " furlough " in the navy or army ? j 1. p. 3.

(The 'N.B.D.,' s.v. 'Liberty,' sb. 4 c, has: Naut. Leave of absence.' ' The first quotation is from 1758. Liberty-day, liberty-liquor, liberty-man, and liberty -ticket, all referring to sailors, are men- tioned under section 10.]

CARLYLE AND NEWMAN. Is it true that

Carlyle said of Newman that he had the

intellect of " a sick rabbit " ? If true, when,

and under what circumstances, was it said ?

STAPLETON MARTIN.

The Firs, Norton, Worcester.

THE CO-OPERATIVE SYSTEM IN FICTION. I wish to obtain particulars of any fiction dealing with the co-operative system. I have ' A Nineteenth - Century Hero ' {Laura M. Lane), 1885. J. ARDAGH.

35 Church Avenue, Drumcondra, Dublin.

H. C. PIGEON. Residing in Liverpool, he was one of the founders of the Lancashire and Cheshire Historic Society. In the year 1849 he delivered the inaugural address to the members, and in the course of his speech quoted Capt. Cuttle's motto, " When found, make a note of." Mr. Pigeon was an enthusiastic antiquarian and archaeologist, and an artist of fair ability ; he not only illustrated the papers he read to the Society, but also those of other members. The first volume of the Society's reports contains two of his etchings of the interior of Lancaster Castle, copied from oil paintings made about the year 1780. He also wrote and illustrated a ' History of Shrewsbury.' In 1858 he resided at 3 Westbourne Villas, Harrow Road, London, and for a few years acted as corresponding secretary to the above society. Can any reader give shortly an account of his origin, profession, &c. ?

CITIZEN.

QUAKER'S YARD, GLAMORGANSHIRE. What gave rise to this name for a populous place in a railway and coal district ?

ANEURIN WILLIAMS.

ST. BARBARA, V.M. (12 S. iii. 41, 136, 158, 175.)

I AM afraid that PREBENDARY DEEDES will get very little information from the Continent for some time to come. But he may be referred to a French work which ought to be found, I think, in every important public library in England, ' Les Caracteristiques des Saints eimmeres et expliques,' by Ch. Cahier, S.J., 1867, 2 vols., 4to, with many illustrations. It contains an interesting study on the subject of St. Barbara, in which even the comic element is not omitted, for she is mentioned as having been the patron saint of hairbrush makers, because of the pun which the name " Barbe" affords in French (Barbe = beard). The book is used in France by every artist or person interested in religious art, and in all probability it will be a long time before a better work of this kind is produced.

A book by Mr. M. Drake on the same subject has recently appeared in England, but I notice with regret that the consensus of opinion seems to be that any success it may meet with will be of the nature of a succes d'estime.