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NOTES AND QUERIES.

[12S. IV. FEB., 1918.

JEBUSALEM : THE HOLY SEPULCHRE. Can some one tell me of a book about Palestine which contains a picture of the interior of our Lord's Holy Sepulchre ? So far as I know, photographs of it are not to be obtained, but I remember that many years ago I saw a view of it in some work, the name of which I cannot recall. Thus when, some time back, I had the privilege of going to the Holy Land, the sacred cave seemed familiar to me on entering it.

J. FRANK BUXTON.

Oxford.

PALESTINE CANAL. Where is any account given of the Palestine (Jordan) Canal from Acre, via the Kishon river-valley, to the Jordan, and from the Dead Sea southwards to the Gulf of Akabah, proposed some fifty years ago ? H. E. BELCHER.

West Bridgford, Notts.

MASONIC HERALDRY. I should be glad if some of your readers who are versed in the science of heraldry would give their opinion on a point which has recently cropped up in a provincial city concerning a coat of arms on the regalia of a Masonic lodge. This lodge was founded a few years ago, and the second son of a well-known local armigerous family was elected Master. On the medallion attached to the chain of office were placed the family arms of the Master with a crescent for difference. It is contended that, although this coat was strictly correct at the time the medallion was made, it is not so now. and that the cadency mark should be removed. The founder of the lodge has passed away, and there is now no second son of the family.

Apart from the question whether it is legal or proper for a corporate body to use the arms of a family or of an individual, the point raised seems to me to be one of some interest. CURIOSUS II.

PUBLIC-HOUSES WITH NAMES CONNECTED WITH THE WAR. A public -house has been opened at Portsmouth with the name " The Heroes of Jutland." I shall be glad to hear of any cases of a similar kind.

F. M. M.

DR. GEORGE WALKER or LONDONDERRY : HIS DESCENDANTS. Second Lieut. John Walker of the marines lost his arm in a naval action, Dec. 20, 1709. He received the royal bounty of a year's pay, but had to sell his commission to pay the expenses of his illness. A further ?um of 50Z. seems to have been given him by Queen Anne, but she

refused him half-pay as he had received the value of his commission. On the accession of George I. Walker was granted the half -pay of adjutant of Dormer's Regiment and also that of a first lieutenant of W ills' s Foot-, both on the Irish Establishment, although he was resident in England. He stated in a petition that his father, grandfather, and two uncles fell in one engagement in the defence of Londonderry. He received this generous treatment from the lung's Government at the time when Lord Gal way was making a strong effort to obtain a further exercise of the royal bounty for Mr. John Walker, son of the Bishop. Were they related, and how ? 42 Portland Terrace, Winchester.
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YOUNG. I should be glad of any in- formation concerning the following names :

(1) Benjamin Young, who graduated B.A. at Cambridge from Trinity College in 1679.

(2) Francis Young, admitted to West- minster School in 1729, aged 11. (3) George Young, who graduated B.A. at Cambridge from Trinity College, 1640. (4) Joseph Young, scholar of Trinity College, Cambridge, 1663. (5) Joseph Young, admitted to West- minster School in 1720, aged 11. (6) Thomas Henry Young, admitted to Westminster School in 1818, aged 12. G. F. R. B.

"RAPEHOUSE." In an Act Book of the Chamber of Exeter (vol. xi. p. 8) is the entry under Sept. 22, 1663 :

" Whereas there is great e neede of a work- house in this cittie, and that w oh is att p'sent appointed is not sufficient, and Mr. Win. Sanford, a member of this house, doth freelie offer to p'cure worke there for [Psome] persons whom the kep' of that house cannot as yet set on worke

[it is] Agreed that Mr. S. may have lib'tie

to make choice of one roome in the s'd house for a Rapehouse for the purposes [? aforesaid]."

In the Act Book is the following entry under Aug. 25 in the same year (fol. 4) :

" A workehouse : It is this day agreede that p'te of the Bridewell or Workhouse in gouldsmyth- streete be allowed and prepared for raping oficood, being conceived a verie necessarie ymploy mt to keepe unorderlie people att worke and labour."

It would seem, therefore, that the term " rapehouse " (a compound which I do not find in the ' N.E.D.') referred to this in- dustry, which was, inferentially, a commonly recognized one at the time. Can any reader explain its exact nature, or the objects to which such labour was applied ?

The ' N.E.D.' gives the verb " rape "

(obsolete except in modern S.W. dialect =

to scratch), from French rdper, to rasp,

j with quotations from Barrough, ' Meth.