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NOTES AND QUERIES. [12 a.m. JUNE. 1917.

dedicated to the Blessed Virgin, who is seen seated on the roof. There is an inn on the left at a certain distance, and the island is connected with the shore by a bridge.

The monk is being accosted by a beggar armed with a club, to whom he is giving food and drink. Another beggar is in the act of striking him down from behind with a club. Two large black birds are flying above, indicating, I suppose, evil spirits. The panel is dated 1670, and signed H. C. G.

From personal inquiries, I think that the lake is the Zeller-See near Constance, the island being that of Reichenau, on which was a celebrated Benedictine abbey, but I am at a loss to identify the Benedictine saint. Could some reader tell me what is the legend represented in the picture ?

PIERRE TUBPIN.

Folkestone.

CRIMEAN WAR MEDAL. First Lieutenant Sir George John Young, 6th Baronet (of North Dean, Bucks), Royal Artillery, died in the Crimea, before Sebastopol, on Oct. 22, 1854.

The Crimean War Medal, with clasps "Alma" and "Sebastopol," was sent to his relatives, after his death- Where is the medal now ? The present representatives of his family do not know of its existence, and have never even heard that it was issued. J. H. LESLIE.

31 Kenwood Park Road, Sheffield.

THE KING'S PRIVATE ROADS. How were passes bearing this inscription used ? One in my cabinet of halfpenny size, in dark bronze apparently, bears on the obverse " G.R.," ensigned with a crown ; on the reverse" The King's Private Roads, 17 31," the dat e divided bv R. A. in cipher.

F. P. B.

PICTURE OF OUR LORD. I have an old pictire in profile of our Lord, painted on a wooden panel, with the following inscription underneath, in old capitals :

" This present figure is the similitude of Our Lord, IHV oure Savior, imprinted in Amirald by the predesessors of the Create Turke, and sent to our Holy Father, the Pope Innosent the VIII. at the cost of the Greate Turke, for a token for this cawse, to redeme his Brother that was takyn presoner."

A friend of mine once came across a similar picture in an old house in the Midlands, but I have never been able to find out anything about the original, and shall be very glad if some reader of ' N. & Q.' can shed any light on the matter.

G. A. ANDERSON.

" RED WIGS." In an account of an old hunting club, established in co. Limerick in the year 1734, the following words occur :

" The club prospered very well until Lords ' C.' and ' S.' were elected, who introduced hard drinking and ' red wiers,' which soon put an end to it."

Can any of your readers enlighten me as to the meaning here of " red wigs " ?

W. H. WYNDHAM-QUIN, Col. Carlton Club.

ARMS WANTED : LANCASTER : FITZ - REINFRED. 1. What were the arms of William de Lancaster, 1st Baron of Kendal, great-great-grandson in the direct male line of Ivo de Talebois, (Piantagenet) 1st Baron of Kendal, and uncle of Geoffrey Pian- tagenet ?

2. What were the arms of Gilbert Fitz~ Reinfred, who married Hawise de Lancaster* heir of William de Lancaster, 2nd Baron of Kendal, by Hawise de Stutville, temp, Henry II. ? ALFRED RANSFORD.

East Elloe, Hunstanton.

TOWER OF LONDON MOVED BY THE TIDK. I was assured by a Government official recently that the whole fabric and structure of the Tower of London moves to a scienti- fically appreciable degree by the rising and falling of the tide in the Thames, making it impossible to carry 7 out certain operations there needing delicate equilibrium.

Can one obtain confirmation, or otherwise, of this statement ?

J. LANDFEAR LUCAS.

Glendora, Hindhead, Surrey.

" LOSING LOADUM," A GAME. In Con- greve's ' Love for Love ' (Act I. sc. ii.) the hero, Valentine, exclaims to Tattle : " To converse with Scandal, is to play at Losing Loadum : you must lose a good name to him, before you can win it for yourself."

How was this game played ?

A. F. R.

WOODWARD OF ROCKS PLACE, Ross, HEREFORDSHIRE. I am anxious to obtain information about the Woodwards of Rocks Place, near Ross, whose family is believed to be extinct, and whose coat of arms in my possession is as follows : Azure, a lion rampant or ; on a chief on the sinister side, on a canton, the baronet's badge, and on the dexter side a canton or, impaling wife's arms, Azure, a fesse or between three pigeons, wings elevated, argent. Crest, on a wreath of the colours a pigeon, wings close, argent. These arms show that a