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to interfere with the prerogatives of the ancient Universities of Oxford and Cam- bridge. This power of the bishops to grant licences existed until the year 1785. Natur- ally, many of these licences are in existence. In addition, Henry VIII. granted to the Archbishop of Canterbury in 1531 powers to confer degrees in Divinity, Medicine, and Arts. These degrees were known as " Lam- beth Degrees," and the holders of them wore the same robes as those who held the same degrees from the University of which the Archbishop himself was a member. The Archbishop surrendered his right to confer the M.D. upon the passing of the Medical Act of 1858, but in the old medical directories the affix " M.D. Lamb." is oc- casionally met with.

S. D. CUPPINGDALE, M.D.

The following extract is taken from C. H. Cooper's ' Annals of Cambridge,' vol. i. pp. 293-4:

" In the Parliament which assembled on the 4th of February [1511/12], an act was passed prohibiting, under the penalty of 51. per month, any person to practise physic or surgery in or within seven miles of London, unless approved by the Bishop of London, or the Dean of St. Paul's, and four doctors of physic, or expert surgeons, or in any other part of England, unless approved by the bishop of the diocese, or his yicar-general. There was, however, added a proviso, that the act nor [sic] any thing therein contained, should not be prejudicial to the Universities of Oxford and Cambridge, or either of them, or any privileges granted to them."

The reference given by Cooper is stat. 3 Hen. VIII. c. 11.

At 9 S. v. 475, under the heading '-In- stallation of a Midwife,' there was a query, apropos of Yorick's paying " the fees of the ordinary's license " in ' Tristram Shandy,' as to the origin and nature of the ecclesias- tical control of midwives. In the course of the next two volumes there were many communications on this subject, and some of these touched on the general question of the licensing of medical practitioners by ecclesiastical authorities.

EDWARD BENSLY.

PICTURE FRAMES (12 S. iv. 11). Here is a list of articles on picture frames :

' Frames at the National Gallery.' Architect, May 7, 1915.

' Picture Frames.' Journal Society of Arts, vol. xlvii. p. 595.

' Art in Picture Frames.' Artist (N. Y.), vol. xxxi. p. 26.

' Picture Frames.' Art Journal, vol. vii. p. 55.

' Designs in Picture Frames.' Studio (Internat.) vol. xxx. p. 12.

ABCHIBALD SPARKE.

JOHN PEPYS OF SALISBURY COURT (12 S. iii. 474). FAKENHAM'S communication would have been of greater interest if we j had been told who this John Pepys was and if his place in the pedigree had been, indicated.

I venture to think that the writer is wrong in assuming that the forename of " Cozen Pepys of Salisbury Court " was John ; more probably it wa"s Edward. Edward Pepys, of Broomthorpe and the Middle Temple (who married Elizabeth, - daughter of John Walpole), was, it would seem from an entry in the register of bap- tisms of St. Bride's, Fleet Street,, living in that parish in 1655.

He had a son Edward, who was both born and baptized in the parish, as appears from the following entry :

" 1655. Edward, son of Edward Pepis EsqT wife Elizabeth was borne the same day and baptised alsoe, the 14th of July."

Edward Pepys, the father, was brother to Mrs. Jane Turner (the wife of Serjeant John Turner, and cousin to Samuel), and from passages in the ' Diary ' seems to have lived with the Serjeant and his wife ; and in their house he died, and from it was buried. They lived in Salisbury Court.

I have recently been enabled to make research in a new field and been able to clear up some difficulties in the Pepys genealogy. This may see the light " after the War," but I may say that, shortly before his death, I called the attention of Mr. H. B. Wheatley to the above facts, and he, after examina- tion, expressed himself as being in accord with my views. W. H. WHITE AR.

Chiswick.

TANKARDS WITH MEDALS INSERTED (12 S. iii. 445, 483, 520 ; iv. 23). In the majority of instances where old coins and medals are found inserted in antique silver pieces examination reveals the fact that these additions are of comparatively modern application. It is occasionally a practice amongst silversmiths of to-day to insert in modern articles coins of the period of the old silver specimens they have reproduced ; as, for instance, a Queen Anne shilling in- the front panel of an octagon slide-bottom tea-caddy, a Charles I. five-shilling piece in the base of a small tazza, a James II. coin in the bottom of a cupping-bowl, &c.

Punch -ladles without coins and with circular plain bowls were made in the time of George I., those with a shaped and fluted double-lipped bowl during the George II. period. Wood handles, very delicately