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to dye their teeth black, and for the men of lower classes to keep their fore-scalp shaven. According to Kikuoka, ' Kindai Sejidanki," 1734, torn. v. chap. xix. :

" This mode of shaving made its first appearance under the constableship of H6J6 Yasutoki (1225-42). Theretofore all Japanese, without refer- ence to birth, used to blacken their teeth and let all the hair grow. Thus it was not easy to distinguish between the nobles and the sub- ordinates, so -a veto was pronounced against the latter's tooth-blackening. This caused the people's body to stagnate with bad humours, making them frequently suffer from toothache, to countervail which evil the shaving of the fore- scalp became customarily resorted to."

Historical investigations prove this state- ment to be entirely false, a much more reasonable opinion ascribing the usage to the then war-worn soldiers' desire to keep their head cool and without aching under the ever-oppressing helmet. After all, it is manifest that many old Japanese held the shaving of the fore-scalp a capital pre- servative against the aching of the head or teeth. KUMAGUSU MINAKATA.

Tanabe, Kii, Japan.

STAINED GLASS : ITS IMPORTATION FOR- BIDDEN (12 S. iii. 446). If the importation was forbidden by Act of Parliament in 1483, the Act must either have been repealed, or have fallen into desuetude, very soon. Mr. A. J. de H. Bushnell in his work upon stained-glass windows, writing of Renaissance glass, 1500-1550, says : " Most of the fine Renaissance glass in England is of foreign origin." He gives instances of this, and states that the east window of St. Margaret's, Westminster (" the finest window in any church in London "), is said to have been ordered in 1499, and finished at Dort, in Holland, in 1504. See ' Storied Windows ' (Blackwood & Sons, Edinburgh and London, 1914). T. F. D.

Two Acts were passed in 1483 prohibiting the importation of various articles, the references being 1 Richard III. cc. 10 and. 12. They were both repealed by 3 George IV. c. 41, s. 2. G. PROSSER.

ROLLS OF LORDS LIEUTENANT (12 S. iii. 385, 455). In 1868 Mr. J. M. Davenport, then Clerk of the Peace for the county of Oxford, printed in an octavo volume of 80 pages lists of the Lords Lieutenant and High Sheriffs of Oxfordshire from 1086 to 1868 The list of Lords Lieutenant, how- ever, begins with Charles Brandon, Duke of Suffolk, appointed in 1545. I do not know whether the book was ever published. My copy has only a half-title, without date or

place of publication or printer's or pub' lisher's name. I paid Is. Qd. for my copy, probably to a second-hand bookseller.

JOHN R. MAGRATH. Queen's College, Oxford.

In the eighteenth century the names of Lords Lieutenant were often given in yearly publications such as ' The Royal Kalendar -, or Complete and Correct Annual Register/ also ' Rider's British Merlin ' and Beatson'a ' Political Index.' I have a copy here of ' The Royal Kalendar ' for 1778 (bought at a stall in the outside market at Lausanne in 1911), and also a copy of ' Rider's Merlin ' (1824). Full lists, under counties, are given in each of these. I shall be glad to send extracts to any one who desires them^ Permanent address, Col. H. Southam, Loxley House, Maybury Hill, Woking.

H. SOUTHAM.

Cardiff.

ARMS OF ENGLAND WITH FRANCE ANCIENT (12 S. iii. 419). These arms reading Quar- terly, 1 and 4, Gules, three lions passant gardant, for England ; 2 and 3, Azure, three fleurs-de-lis or, for France are to be found depicted in the fourth of eight shields on the panels of the pulpit of Home Church, Devon, in the old vicarage of which (now rebuilt ) Charles Kingsley was born.

It will be of interest to know if this i* the third occurrence of these arms referred to by MR. A. G. KEALY, because, owing to the arms of Hugh Oldham, Bishop of Exeter (1504-19), having been recognized in the fifth shield, the pulpit is attributed to that period. It should be mentioned that the arms of Oldham were Sable, a chevron or between three owls proper ; on a chief of the second three roses gules. The owls, as painted by the herald, are impossible, resembling, from the horizontal position of the body, and the shape of the head and bill, the shoveller duck or sheldrake. This may have been an error of the artist, as the sheldrake heads, in the same position. with chevron, formed the arms of Edmund Lacy, Bishop of Exeter (142C-55).

The church of Home was granted by Philip de Columbers, Knt., and Alienora his wife, and confirmed by Bishop Grandisson (1327-69) on May 20, 1329, to the master and brethren of the Hospital of St. John the Baptist, Exeter, and John de Blather- wike was appointed Vicar.

The date (circa 1350) given by MR. KEALY for the south porch of Church Brampton Church, Northants, in which the stone shield with the above arms is found, is.