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 12 S. IV. FEB., 1918.]

NOTES AND QUERIES.

seems to have lived in the early part of the fifteenth century, and who propounded two methods of constructing them. The Greek text of his treatise was published by S. Guenther in ' Vermischte Untersuchungen zur Geschichte der mathematischen Wissen- schaften ' (Leipzig, 1876), chap. iv. pp. 195- 212. Critical notes were given by A. Eberhard in the journal Hermes, xi. 434. Moschopulus states that he wrote his treatise at the suggestion of Nicolaus Rhabda (surnamed Artabasdes) of Smyrna, which is a clue to the date of writing.

With regard to the date of Mrs. Diirer's death, unless evidence is forthcoming from some other quarter, the figures in her husband's magic square are inadmissible, as they can be twisted into many other dates. I accept 1514 as the probable date of the picture, but nothing else. With 15 and 14 in the centre at the bottom, 16 and 13 would naturally drop into the two corners at the top, and consequently 3 and 2 into the two centre cells on top, and 4 and 1 into the two corners at the bottom. I do not say there is no other solution with 15 and 14 placed where they are, but I have so far not yet been able to find in one which the two corners do not add up to 17, and the two centres to 5. Mr. Dudeney of The Strand Magazine might try his ingenuity.

L. L. K.

PHILIP WESTCOTT, PORTRAIT PAINTER ( 12 S. iii. 385). The portrait of W. Fairbairn by Westeott is probably in the family of the Rev. W. F. La Trobe Bateman, Rector of Ascot. C. E. H. E.

ARMS ox OLD SEAL (12 S. iii. 478). The arms in question, viz.,Arg.,a cross engr. per pale gu. and sa., are almost certainly those of Brooke, though I am not quite positive as to which branch of the family they should be assigned.

Brooke of Gattesford, co. York, bears Arg., a cross engrailed per pale gu. and sa., a crescent for difference. Brooke of Norton Priory, co. Chester, and Brooke of Mere in the same county, bear Or, a cross engr. per pale gu. and sa.

The crest of all these three families is a badger (or brock) ppr., and none of them has the motto " Ut amnis vita labitur."

But Fairbairn in his ' Crests of Great Britain and Ireland ' gives this motto as that of Brooks, co. Bedford, so the arms may possibly be those of the same family, though I cannot find any confirmation of this surmise in either Burke or Berry (' Encyclo- paedia Heraldica '). N. E. TOKE.

The arms as to which M.D. (2) inquires,. Argent, a cross engrailed per pale gules and sable, are (with a crescent for difference) in the Inner Temple Hall, as being those of " David Brooke, Lector Autumn, 1534." These arms, with the crescent, are given in Berry as those of Brooke (Gattesford, Yorkshire). WILLIAM BARNARD.

In William Newton's ' Display of Heraldry ' (1846) the arms of the Brooke family are given as follows : " Or, a cross engrailed, parted per pale gules and sable" The motto*" Ut amnis vita labitur " is also that of the Brooke family, a punning motto, as it may be seen.

It is very probable that a collateral branch of the family changed the original tincture of the field* for purposes of distinction ; though which of the two, or or argent, is the original, I cannot say. J. C. BYRNE.

18 Ribblesdale Road, Hornsey, N.8.

These are the arms and motto of Brooks of Flitwick Manor, co. Bedford, who bore for crest : on a mural crown an otter propeiv The pun in the motto is obvious.

S. A. GRTJNDY-NEWMAN.

Walsall.

The arms described by M.D. (2) are those of Brooke, co. Chester. M.D. (3).

[J. F. F. of Dublin supports Brooks of Bedford, E. L.-W. and E. R. also thanked for replies.]

REPRESENTATIONS OF THE BLESSEI> TRLNITY (12 S. iii. 168, 231, 307). In the church of Plympton St. Mary, Devon, is a carving of the Trinity, the Father holding the crucifix between His knees, a Dove afc top of the cross (see Stabb, ' Devon Churches, 1 vol. iii. p. 78).

Mrs. Jamieson says that this device, known as the Italian Trinity, was popular from the twelfth to the seventeenth century ; but Mr. Stabb has seen only one other in Devon at Ashburton. E. L.-W.

' AN ADIEU TO THE TURF ' : 4TH EARL or ABINGDON (12 S. iv. 16). Willoughby 4th Earl of Abingdon, was educated at Westminster School under Nicoll and Mark- ham. He was admitted in June, 1750, aged ten ; and matriculated at Oxford University from Magdalen, Jan. 29, 175D. Markham succeeded Nicoll as head master in 1753. G. F. R, B.

ROBERT DODD, MARINE PAINTER (12 S. iii. 507). See the ' D.N.B.' for full details of his life and 'work. V. L. OLIVER.

Sunninghill, Berks.