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NOTES AND QUERIES. [12 s. m. MARCH 31, 1917.

MILLAIS : ' CHRIST IN THE CARPENTER'S SHOP.' Where can one find the original of the picture painted by Millais in 1 850, called ' Christ in the Carpenter's Shop ' ? It represents our Lord as standing before His kneeling mother and being kissed by her, while blood is flowing from a wound in the left hand, and dropping on to the other hand and the sacred feet.

(Rev.) J. FRANK BUXTON.

21 Farndon Road, Oxford.

SIXTEENTH - CENTURY MAPS. Who was Johannes a Deutecum, one of the contri- butors to the ' Theatrum Orbis Terrarum,' 1570, published by Abraham Ortelius of Antwerp ?

I should also like to know who were Ferandus Berteli (of Rome ?), and G. F. Camotius (?) of Venice, cartographers of circa 1560. Did they publish books, or merely loose sheets of maps ? I have searched several books of reference without finding these names. G. J., F.S.A.

CUTTING OFF THE HAIR AS A PRESERVATIVE AGAINST HEADACHE. In a letter dated Feb. 2, 1690/91, from an Oxford under- graduate to his father, I read :

" S r, I have been very obnoxius all this winter to a pain in y* head, insomuch that it hath been no small affliction to me & a great hindrance to my studyes.

lam by all advised to cut of my hair as the

only preservative."

I should be glad to know if this was a popular remedy, and if it was countenanced by the faculty at the time.

JOHN R. MAGRATH.

Queen's College, Oxford.

INSCRIPTIONS RELATING TO DURHAM. I am especially interested in Durham biography, genealogy, and history, and would welcome from any collector of epitaphs at home or abroad that 01 any person who is recorded as being of the county of Durham. These isolated epitaphs might be a missing link in the pedigree of some Durham family.

J. W. FAWCETT.

Consett, co. Durham.

WOODCROFT MANOR. In tracing the his- tory of Wood croft (the WitcT croft of the Pipe Roll Society, xiv. p. 2, A.D. 1194-5) Manor here, I have met with a lapsus calami that I myself cannot correct. It is this. Dr. W. A. Copinger refers, in his ' County of Suffolk,' iv., 1905, p. 178, to an action " Elena daughter of Peter le Pestur v. Adam le Charpenter, touching a messuage and land in Saham Monachorum," adding as

origin " Patent Rolls, 3 Edward I., 16d." Will some one kindly rectify this erroneous reference and copy the true entry ?

That the date is not approximately in- correct is rendered probable by the inclusion, in the local Add. Chart. Brit. Mus. 9529 of A.D. 1293, of the names of Thomas and Adam le Carpenter ; both forms occur nine times in Pedes Finium of 1201 to 1309 ; and Walter Rye (' Feet of Fines,' 1900, p. 176) gives Gilbert le Pestour as suing " in Framlyngham Castel," only six miles distant, in 1330. CLAUDE MORLEY.

Monks' Soham, Suffolk.

' MEMOIRS OF THE LA TOUCHE AND GUINNESS FAMILIES.' Some twenty years ago the late Mr. Patrick Traynor, the well- known bookseller of Essex Quay, Dublin, a great authority on all matters connected with Dublin, mentioned to me that about the year 1870 a little book with the above title passed through his hands, and that it was the only copy he had ever seen. The volume was about three inches square and half an inch thick, it was printed on yellow paper and bound in plain glazed purple cloth. From the paper and type used, Mr. Traynor believed the book was privately printed about the year 1830, at the office of The Comet newspaper in D'Olier Street, Dublin, where ' The Parson's Hornbook ' was published, and from internal evidence it was probably written by a person of from 70 to 80 years of age. Can any reader of ' N. & Q.' give further information about the book, or say where a copy may be found ?

GERTRUDE THRIFT.

79 Grosvenor Square, Rathmines, Dublin.

" WARD ROOM." Why is the room on board a vessel where the commissioned officers dine called a ward room ?

JE ANNETTE E. WATERMAN. Pittsfield, Mass., U.S.A.

MAJOR - GENERAL CHAMPAGNE'S REGI- MENT. What regiment of infantry (either British or Indian army) was known as Major- General Champagne's Regiment, at the end of the eighteenth century or beginning of the nineteenth century ? D. R.

ARMS OF ST. WILFRID. Can any reader tell me whether St. Wilfrid had a coat of arms, where it is to be seen, or on what authority the blazon rests ? Walcott (Treasurer of Chichester) gives Az., 3 suns or, 2 and 1, but no authority.

ClCESTRENSIS.