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be confused with Sir W. Besant's Sir William Stokker, 1493 (' Cal. of Mayors and Sheriffs '), or Wm. Stocker, Mayor of Winchester 1493 ('Calendar of the Patent Rolls').

G. M. PEET. Manor House, Fenstanton, St. Ives, Hunts.

NOVIOMAGUS. I should be glad of any references to Noviomagus. Was there not an article in The Athenaeum by the late Mr. Wright (1892 ? 1902 ?) identifying Noviomagus with Keston, Kent ? i J. C.

[At 6 S. v. 488 the following editorial note was appended to a query by the REV. A. L. MAYHEW concerning the Noviomagians : " The Novioma- gians are a club consisting of Fellows of the Society of Antiquaries exclusively. They dine together once a month, from December to April, and they are supposed to be in search of the site of the ancient city of Noviomagus, the Noiomagos, we believe, of Ptolemy. Some say that the site sought after is that of the Noviomago of the Ancient Itinerary, which city was in Kent, if it was not in Sussex. Others say that the club is seeking for Noviomagno Civitas, which was in Surrey. The Kentish site seems to be the favourite of the Noviomagians, who continue to dine without ceasing to doubt." We cannot trace Mr. Wright's article in the years named.]

THE WORD " SYMBOL." Will any readers of ' N. & Q.' kindly give : ( 1 ) any references to the use of the word " symbol " in the early Fathers or any Christian writers, apart from Tertullian, St. Cyprian, and St. Augustine, and before the year 400; (2) in- formation as to the origin of " Traditio Symboli " and " Redditio Symboli," giving dates and other particulars of the earliest use of the same ; (3) information as to any recently discovered traces of Credal forms prior to A.D. 400 ? W. O. B.

Oxford.

PHILIP WESTCOTT, PORTRAIT PAINTER. Exact details are sought of this painter, especially when and where he was born, his parentage, and where he was buried.

Where are any of the following works of his, shown in the Royal Academy in the years indicated ?

1. William Fairbairn, C.E. (1849).

2. Mrs. Fender of Bredbury Hall (1856).

3. Dr. Langton (1857).

4. Miss Biddell (1857).

5. Mrs. Edward Birley (1859).

6. Edmund Birley (1859).

7. Stephen Heelis (1859).*

8. Master Henry Collison (1860).

9. John Sedgwick (1861).

10. Lady Morison (1861).

11. H. tindal Atkinson (1861).

Please reply direct.

T. CANN HUGHES, M.A., F.S.A.

78 Church Street, Lancaster.

' THE SHOOTING PARTY, RANTON ABBEY. ' I wish to ascertain anything that is known about a coloured engraving with the above title. It is from a painting by Francis Grant, A.R.A., and was engraved by W. H. Simmons, and published by Graves & Walmisley. There is no date on my copy. I believe it is one of a set of four. Who are the shooters, and what was the occasion ? Ranton Abbey in Staffordshire now belongs, I believe, to Lord Lichfield.

R, S. B.

[The painter became later Sir Francis Grant' and President of the Royal Academy. The picture was included in the Academy exhibition of 1841, and Mr. Algernon Graves, in vol. iii. of his ' Royal Academy of Arts," supplies the follow- ing particulars : " 492, Party at Ranton Abbey, the shooting lodge of the Earl of Lichfield, containing portraits of the Earl of Sefton, the Earl of Uxbridge, the Earl of Lichfield, Viscount Melbourne, Viscount Anson, and Lord Lichfield's keepers."]

ROLLS OF LORDS LIEUTENANT. Where can I see a complete list of the Lords Lieutenant of any county, from the institu- tion of the office in, I think, 1553 ?

Walsall.

S. A. GRUNDY-NEWMAN.

COURT ROLLS OP WHLPPINGHAM, ISLE OF WIGHT. I am anxious to search the court rolls of the manor of Whippingham for the seventeenth century and the early part of the eighteenth, and shall be much obliged if any reader can tell me where they are to be found, as they are not in the hands of the steward of the manor. The property now belongs to His Majesty.

RlCHD. HOLWORTHY. 93/4 Chancery Lane, W.C.2.

BLOOMSBURY IN 1840. I shall be glad to be referred to authorities describing the part of Bloomsbury between Great Russell Street, Tottenham Court Road, and New Oxford Street as it existed before 1844. I have Clinch's ' United Parishes of Bloomsbury and St. Giles,' but that does not supply what I want. H. A. H.

CREST ON SCOTTISH CAKE-DISH. I have an old Scottish cake - dish bearing the Edinburgh hall-mark, 1712 (silver). It has as a crest, evidently coex*al with the date of manufacture, an earl's coronet over the letter B, in a shield, and the motto " Remember :) underneath. Can any one tell me what family this stands for ? I have the ' Scottish Peerage ' and Burke, but nowhere can I find the motto.

BLAIR COCHRANE.

Oakleigh, St. JohuVPark, Ryde, I.W.