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NOTES AND QUERIES.

[128. III. Nov., 1917.

"" subscription for Widows and [sic] of men lost in St. George, &c., &c.," to which the .chaplain subscribed II.

The following letter from Capt. Hoste will prove of interest, as from it we learn that the Rev. W. J. Yonge left the Bacchante at his -own request :

H.M.S. Bacchante,

Lissa, July 15th, 1813.
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The Beverend W. Johnstone Yonge Chaplain of His Majesty's Ship under my Command, having requested me to apply to you for permission to retire from the Service, I take the present oppor- tunity of making known to you his wishes. I have the honor to be Sir

Your Obedient

humble Servant

To W. HOSTE, Captain.

T. F. Freemantle Bsqre. Rear Admiral of

the White &c. &c. &c.

The letter is in the Public Record Office, Adm. 1 /427, No. 297.

E. H. FAIRBROTHER.

In F. H. S.'s interesting reply, in the first column of p. 453, for " Dolingnon " read Dolignon, and for " W. J." read J. W. I knew Mr. J. W. Dolignon well in Guernsey more than sixty years ago. He ministered then at a proprietary chapel in the island, to which he had come for his wife's health. 'The printed Oxford class-list of 1836 corro- borates my memory.

JOHN R. MAGRATH.

Queen's College, Oxford.

BARBARA VLLLIERS, DUCHESS OF CI<EVE- LAND, 1640-1709 (12 S. iii. 448). An original portrait of this lady by Sir Peter Lely has for many years been, and still is, on view at Hampton Court Palace. It is one of a series, commissioned by the Duchess of York and painted by Lely c. 1665, known as " The Beauties of Charles II. 's Court." Of late years they have all been shown together on the walls of the room known as " The King's Bed-Chamber" at that palace, "than which " to quote Mr. Ernest Law's words in his ' History,' ii. 246 " no more appro- priate place could have been chosen."

ALAN STEWART.

Mr. Thomas Seccombe's entertaining life of the duchess in the ' D.N.B.' should be consulted. In enumerating the finest of her three-quarter-length portraits by or after Lely he mentions that the National Portrait Gallery has a replica of the one at Ditchley, in mourning for Castlemaine the husband to whom, as Swinburne has reminded us,

she was, if hardly a crown, at least a coronet and another of her portrait at Savernake as St. Catherine of Alexandria. " She was specially fond," Mr. Seccombe remarks, " of posing as a saint or mourner : the portrait of her in weeds at the National Portrait Gallery was for many years supposed to represent Rachel, Lady Russell."

EDWARD BENSLY.

LADY MARY GREY, alias KEYS : CHRIS- TOPHER CHEWTE, CHOWT, OR CHUTE (12 S. iii. 448). If the will of Lady Mary Grey was not signed, as is suggested, there was in fact no will which could be proved, and she died intestate. Under those circumstances one of her next of kin would be entitled to letters of administration of her personal estate, and failing an application by any of the next of kin, then any creditor would be entitled to a grant. Possibly Christopher Chowt had advanced money to Lady Mary Grey, and had thus become a creditor.

G. PROSSER.

DR. BATESON ON COLENSO (12 S. iii. 449). The biography of Bishop Colenso is shortly narrated in " College Histories (Cambridge)," ' St. John's,' where Prof. J. E. B. Mayor's description of the indignation aroused over the sermon preached by Dr. G. A. Selwyn, Bishop of Lichfield, is set out, and will afford W. the information he desires.

STAPLETON MARTIN.

The Firs, Norton, Worcester.

JEWESS AND HER HAIR (12 S. iii. 446). This practice is but a local variation of an old Hebrew custom imported into Europe from the East which compels both men and women to go covered. For ages there has existed a controversy between the two wings of Hebrew legalism with regard to the precise meaning to be attached to the specific ordinances mentioned in Shobbos 118b and Megillah 28a. To meet the hairsplitting case, later local Rabbis directed the men to wear hats or caps always, and the women wigs or " sheitels." Englishmen please themselves in the matter.

M. L. R. B.

CUTTING OFF THE HAIR AS A PRESERVA- TIVE AGAINST HEADACHE (12 S. iii. 250, 307). It is a very common practice of the Japanese to shave clean the head or clip the hair very short as a remedy or preventive for headache.

Down to the years 1870 and 1871 re- spectively it was a long-established usage in Japan for the noblemen about the throne