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In ' Essex's Journal ' (1773), published by the Camb. Antiq. Soc.. it is said on p. 41, in the account of Antwerp Cathedral Church, that " in the chapel of the Circumcision there is a window on the left side of the Altar in which is a portrait of Henry y e seventh of England in stain'd Glass." I think this worth noting with the others.

R. B R.

REFERENCE WANTED (12 S. iii. 189). The passage for which MR. G. A. HIGHT has been searching is in ' David Copperfield.' about one-third through chap, xxiii., p. 210 in the " Charles Dickens " edition. Miss Betsey Trotwood is the speaker. Her words are : " It would be no pleasure to a London tradesman to sell anything which was what he pretended it was." The scene is at supper in a private hotel in Lincoln's Inn Fields. She has just expressed doubts as to the steak being beef, and flatly declined to believe that the fowl can have come out of the country. EDWARD BENSLY.

EDWARD JOHN COBBETT (12 S. iii. 301, 399) Boase says of this artist that " he is probably dead " This is so : he died at Winchmore Hill, London, N., in 1899. His birth-date is April 20, 1815.

ARCHIBALD SPARKE.

THE REMOVAL OF MEMORIALS IN WEST- MINSTER ABBEY (12 S. ii. 189, 237). I have delayed sending this communication in the hope that one of your correspondents learned in the subject, such as the author of ' Westminster Abbey and the King's Craftsmen,' would reply. As that has not been done, I should like to add my testimony to that of SIR WILLOUGHBY MAYCOCK, whose reply is chiefly in justification, or at all events explanation, of removals. I am not such a constant visitor to the Abbey as I was some ten years ago, when I lived in Clifford's Inn. Then I hardly ever went in without seeing Mr. G. T. Sherborn directing some new arrangement. After a time my practice was to go straight to the Sir Francis Vere tomb, to see whether it had been removed to some other position. That it might be in a better place there can be no doubt, But of late years the alterations have been so few in the chapels that I had forgotten all about these frequent changes.

I should like to add that the Poets' Corner door, as to which I wrote at 8 S. x. 92 (in 1896), has long since been re- opened ; also that any of your readers

who take an interest in the marvellous Abbey a wonder we have never yet, with all our advantages, been able to equal an now see a most curious sight in Edward the Confessor's tomb, which is entirely hidden, by sandbags.

Much as I deprecate making old things new in such a place, I think the renewal of the armorial bearings in Henry VII. 's Chapel is a wonderful improvement, though at present the flags have been removed. I was unable to find out the total cost. I was reckoning it at 10,000/., but was told that must be under the amount, as the gold in one flag alone in the south-west corner cost 300Z.

We English are very much prone to see more in foreign places than our own, but I- have never abroad seen a " corner " to equal that of the surroundings here, with the Clock Tower, the Houses of Parliament, Westminster Hall, St. Margaret's Church, and the Westminster Guildhall, to say nothing of that palatial pile modestly called " The India Office " and the Wesleyan Memorial Hall close by.

RALPH THOMAS.

30 Narbonne Avenue, Clapham Common.

FLETCHER FAMILY (12 S. iii. 384). As to Thomas Fletcher, the Winchester Usher (1701-13), who was born at Avington near Winchester (not Abington) in 1666, and who died in 1713 (not 1707), and his three sons, Thomas, Philip, and William, who all obtained preferment in Ireland (where Thomas became Bishop first of Dromore and afterwards of Kildare, and Philip and William were successive Deans of Kildare), see my note at 9 S. vii. 226, which supplies answers to some of F. H. S.'s questions. H. C.

NEW MILK AS A CURE FOR SWOLLEN LEGS (12 S. iii. 273). Dr. R. H. Elliot, ' Some Eccentricities of Indian Ophthalmic "Practice,' in The British Journal of Oph- thalmology, 1917, i. 76, says :

" Human milk, especially when squirted into the eye straight from the breast, has a high reputation for healing power, and possibly has something to recommend it."

ROCKINGHAM.

Boston, Mass.

INDIAN MOUNDS, U.S.A. (12 S. iii. 90, 154, 372). There is a short account of some of the animal mounds of Wisconsin and Ohio, with three illustrations, in ' The White Horses of the West of England,' by the Rev. W. C. Plenderleath, M.A., second edition, 1892, pp. 45-7. W. B. H.