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refused to believe in the restoration to life, through the instrumentality of St. James, of a yoimg man who had been hanged thirty- six days before. " If thy son liveth," he said to the mother, " so do the fowls in this dish ! " for he was at table :

" And lo ! scarcely had he uttered the words when the fowls, being a cock and a hen, rose up full-feathered in the dish, and the cock began to crow, to the great admiration of the judge and his attendants."

Mrs. Jameson refers her readers to Southey's ' Pilgrim of Compostella.'

I believe I saw this subject in glass many years ago on the south side of the nave of Troyes Cathedral, but in subsequent flights through the happy hunting-ground of eccle- siologists I failed to come on it again.

Folk-Lore for December, 1916, which has only just (March 12) been issued, contains an Irish variant of the legend new to me. At Lismore Cathedral, co. Waterford, on what is called the Magrath tomb, a cock crowing on the lid of a cooking-pot is carved :

" The story which is given in explanation is that the Roman soldiers watching at Our Lord's sepulchre were scoffing at the possibility of His resurrection, and one of them said it was just as possible that the fowl they were then cooking in the pot would return to life. As the \vord was said the lid was thrown off and the cock flew up alive and crew. (Told by the sexton of the cathedral as an old belief.) " P. 424.

The writer in Folk-Lore gives also a prose rendering from Dr. D. Hyde's ' Songs of Connacht,' vol. ii. pp. 152-6, of verses in which Mary Magdalene encounters an ap- parently Irish guard at the sepulchre he exclaims, " My ochone ! " and it is upon his expression of unbelief that the cock miracle is performed. ST. SWITHIN.

MEWS OR MEWYS FAMILY (12 S. ii. 26, 93, 331, 419, 432 ; iii. 16, 52, 113, 195). No one seems to have noticed that there is a long pedigree of this very old Hampshire family in Berry's ' Hampshire Genealogies.' I append the following, which I received from the College of Arms a short time ago:

(Beneath the same arms as those above the Mews family in the ' Visitation of Hampshire,' 1686, already described.)

Sir William Mewys of [sic] in the Countie of Hampshire, knight, maryed and had yssue John Mewys, sonne and heire; Bycharde Mewys, seconde sonne.

Bycharde Mewys of Bookleye in the countie of Hampshire, esquire, second sonne to Sir William Mewys, knight, maryed Dorathe doughter

to Cooke of Haxbridge in the Countie of

Hamp., gent., and by her had issue William

Mewys, his eldiste sonne ; Elizabeth, maryed to- William Bethell in Winchester, gent.; Jane, maryed to John Worsley, gent.

Thomas Mewys of Bisshopton in the Countie- of Wiltshire, gent., second sonne to the aforesaid Bycharde Mewys of Bookley, esquire, maryed Ellin [sic] wyddowe of. . . . Yonge, and by her as yet hath no issue.

Copied from the ' Visitation of Wiltshire,' 1565 (G. 8. 66), now remaining in the Heralds' College, London.

EVERARD GREEN, Somerset Herald-of-Arms.. 25 Jan., 1917.

It is evident that a strong Hampshire vein is found in this pedigree. But exactly what was the relationship between this Wilt- shire branch and that of Ellis Mews of Winchester, who bore the same arms and whose pedigree is in the ' Hampshire Visitation,' is more than I am able to say. Dr. Marshall in ' The Genealogist's Guide ' gives the name as spelt fas it clearly was). indifferently Mews or Mewys. It has also- been spelt Meulx, Meux, Mewis, Mewes.

A MASTER OF ARTS.

I too, like AN OLD EAST ANGLIAN, must acknowledge a slip. It is due to my having accepted another's statement without verifi- cation. The marriages of Mr. (afterwards Sir)) Paulet St. John and of Mr. Carew Mildmay of Shawford, to Mrs. and Miss Pescod (mere et fille) respectively, took place in 1761, not,. as stated, at St. Lawrence's, but at the Church of St. Maurice, Winchester. Both marriages are shown in Phillimore's volume- of Registers dealing with this parish.

A HAMPSHIRE MAN.

HANS-TOWN OR CADOGAN-LAND (12 S. iii. 70, 155). If your correspondents under this head should be unaware of it, they may be interested to know that some of the old cast-iron posts at the road corners in the- neighbourhood are still in situ, stamped in. relief : HANS

TOWN 1818.

In several cases the date seems to be 1810' or 1819. There are two of the posts, for- example, at the church end of Sedding Street (until lately Upper George Street),. and two in Cadogan Place at the east end of Pont Street.

By the way, there is a similar post in Eaton Square, marked GPD. What does this stand for? D. O.

Permit me to express my thanks to ALAN STEWART for his illuminating answer. But is there not one slip ? I distinctly remember that Cadogan Square was nearly