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NOTES AND QUERIES.

(12 S. IV. DEC., 1918.

not be assumed that John Lyon's marriage was a childless one.

I have it on the authority of a Harrow School official that the original slab in which the brass effigies of the founder and his wife were set contains also the matrix of the brass of a child ; and the Oxford Architectural Society's ' Manual for the Study of Monu- mental Brasses ' (1848) refers to the lost effigy of a child. Had this child survived his or her father, John Lyon's testamentary dispositions might have been vastly different. Louis R. LETTS.

[This is the last communication we received from our regretted contributor. See post, p. 344.]

A VISION OF THE WORLD -WAR IN 1819 (11 S. xi. 171, 238). Lord Alfred Douglas, in an interesting letter (too long to quote in its entirety) printed in The Universe of Nov. 29, 1918, cites the ' Voix Prophetiques ' by the Abbe J. M. Curique, published in Paris in 1870 by Victor Palmes, as an authority for the story told at the first reference, the Dominican's name being given as Korzeniecki, a friar of Wilna.

JOHN B. WAINEWRIGHT.

in. 35 (12 S. iv. 299). Dante has been portrayed with long ears ; but if the opinion of Theobald (Shake- speare's editor) and that of " Scriblerus " (Smedley) are considered worthy of notice, the following may be interesting. Theobald says d propos of these lines :

" I think I may venture to affirm, all the copyists are mistaken here.... and I wondered how an error so manifest could escape accurate persons. I dare "assert it proceeds originally from the inadvertency of some transcriber whose head ran on the pillory mentioned two lines before.

Tota armenta acquumtur.

A very little sagacity will restore to us the true sense of the poet thus :

By his broad shoulders known and length of years. See how easy a change of one single letter. That Mr. Settle was old, is most certain, but he was (happily) a stranger to the pillory."

This note is partly by Theobald and partly by Scriblerus. CONSTANCE RUSSELL.

Swallowfield Park, Beading.

HENCHMAN, HINCHMAN, OR HITCHMAN (3 S. iii. 150 ; 12 S. ii. 270, 338 ; iii. Ill ; iv. 24, 304). As I knew the late Mr. Wm. Hensman (Mayor of Northampton, 1857-8) well, I may, perhaps, be allowed to add that his death took place at his beautiful country residence, Flint Hill, Wimvick, Northamptonshire, on Jan. 3, 1909, in his 98th year. He had passed his 97th birth- day on Sept. 7, 1908. Although he suffered

greatly from rheumatism and was very deaf, and latterly partially blind, he retained his full mental faculties to the end. He was the last survivor of thirteen brothers and sisters. JOHN T. PAGE.

Long Itchington, Warwickshire.

BATCH " (12 S. iv. 273). In Bath- easton, Somerset, there is a lane diverging from the main road to the upper part of the village and church, which was always known as " The Batch " fifty years ago ; but whether it still bears that name, or what may be the derivation of it, I cannot say.

Halliwell in his ' Dictionary of Archaic and Provincial Words ' gives as a third use of the word : " An open space by the road- side ; a sandbank, or patch of ground lying near a river ; a mound (West)."

C. R. MOORE.

The Hollies, Ellesmere.

I remember noticing in the parish registers of Batheaston the death of a woman " xipon ye Batch," but I do not recall the name of the woman or the date. The registers have been transcribed and typed by the Rev. C. W. Shickle. GEOFFREY STRUTT.

The Bath Club, W.I.

I have heard the expression " living on the Batch " applied to two different rows of cottages in this village. The cottages in each case are built on a higher pavement than is usual. M. N. O.

Keynsham, Somerset.

DUKE OF SUFFOLK'S HEAD (12 S. iv. 299). I am surprised to read MR. H. G. GILLES- PIE'S explicit statement that the authorities at St. Botolph's, Aldgate, know nothing about this gruesome relic. I think it is no doubt the fact that when the parish of Holy Trinity, Minories, was united to that of St. Botolph the decapitated head was transferred thither with other belongings of the submerged parish.

So recently as Nov. 18 last The Daily Chronicle published an article by Mr. George R. Sims entitled ' America in London," in which the following occurs :

" At St. Botolph's itself the strangest of all historical relics is preserved. This is the head of the Duke of Suffolk, the father of Lady Jane Grey. It was brought to Holy Trinity after the duke's execution at the Tower, and when I examined this rather gruesome relic a few days ago I found the features still well marked, but the skin had become a bright yellow, from the tan in which it had been preserved when it was lying in the vaults of Holy Trinity. Some of the teeth still remain in the jaws, and the neck shows the two blows of the executioner the first which