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STANHOPE (12 S. v. 152). 3. Edwin Stanhope, aged 13 in 1742, might be the same as Edwin Francis Stanhope of St. Maryle- bone, bachelor, married by special licence at St. George's, Hanover Square, on Aug. 9, 1753, to Lady Catherine Lyon, widow.

4. Langdale Stanhope's parentage would seem to be wrongly described by G. F. R. B. He was the son of John Stanhope of Grimston, co. Yorks (d. 1704), by Judith, clau. of Langdale Sunderland of Aketon. He died s. p. See Hunter's Familise (Harl. Soc.) iii. 988. It is almost inconceivable that there should have been two men of this uncommon name of the same generation.

G. R. Y. R.

BIBLIOGRAPHY OF EPITAPHS (12 S. v. 68. 129, 161, 192). To previous works should be added :

A Collection of Epitaphs in the Ceme- teries and Churches of S. Pancras, Middlesex. By Frederick Tcague Gansich. 1872.

These epitaphs relate to Highgate Ceme- tery, and to the churchyard of Holy Trinity, Gray's Inn Road only.

Mr. Cansioh was a relative of Dr. Engall, a homoeopathic practitioner of Euston Square, who survived him, I think, until about 1890. Mr. Cansich left unpublished a collection of Hornsey epitaphs, in which Dr. Engall was interested ; sufficiently so to arrange my presence during part of the transcription. If the collection still exists, it should be published. The seventeenth century regis- ters of Hornsey are defective. J. C. W.

FUND FOR PRESERVING MEMORIALS OF THE DEAD IN IRELAND (12 S. v. 183). Many of the printed reports of this society are in the library of the Society of Genealogists, 5 Bloomsbury Square, and many of them have been indexed in their Consolidated Index. The late Col. P. D. Vigors was the moving spirit in, these invaluable efforts to save fast -decaying inscriptions.

GEORGE SHERWOOD.

There is a set of the Journal of the Associa- tion for the Preservation of the Memorials of the Dead, Ireland, from vol. ii. 1892, in the library of the Victoria and Albert Museum.

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FOLK-LORE : RED HAIR (12 S. ii. 128, 196, 239, 379 ; v. 194). Rosalind does not say that Orlando's hair is red. She says it " is of the dissembling colour," and she means that it is a mixture dissembling both red and brown it is neither one or the other. Celia says it is " something browner

than Judas's," and in the next line that she speaks terms it chestnut. Judas's hair is a yellowish red, and in the sunlight chestnut hair glints the Judas colour.

W. H. PINCHBECK.

BLUECOAT SCHOOLS (12 S. v. 126, 158). Have not 1hese schools differences in their costume, which should distinguish the boys of one school from those of another ? 1 When I was staying at Eastbourne six ori seven years ago, I saw a Bluecoat boy whose stockings proclaimed that he did not belong to Christ's Hospital, the colour being brownish instead of yellow. He told me 1 that he came from Wolverhampton. Some years previously, whilst waiting for a train at Malvern, I noticed on the platform a boy wearing a blue coat (not so long as the well-known garment) over corduroy trousers (not breeches) a most incongruous com-1 bination. I was told that he belonged to a Bluecoat School, but have forgotten its : locality ; I think some small town not far away.

In ' The Queen's Empire.' published many ; years ago by Cassell & Co., there was a photograph of the boys and girls of the Liverpool Bluecoat School at prayers ; but the scale was too small to show details of dress.

It would be interesting to know if any of the provincial schools included in their original costume the long yellow petticoat formerly worn at Christ's Hospital (cp. 11 S. viii. 477, sub ' Charles Lamb's Mrs. S - ').

G. H. WHITE.

23 Weigh ton Road, Anerle>, S.E.

There was a Bluecoat School for twelve boys, who received a free education and clothing, at Bromsgrove School in Worcester- shire. These boys had a separate elementary master, and were taught in an outhouse attached to the Grammar School. I believe they were abolished about the year 1869, when Dr. Blore w r as headmaster.

W. G. D. FLETCHER.

Oxon Vicarage, Shrewsbury.

An unusual origin is narrated in a work printed at Ashby-de-la-Zouch in 1852. I give it in abbreviated form :

" Mr. Isaac Dawson, the founder of the Blue- Coat Charity, \vas the son of Mr. John Dawson, who lived in the principal street in Ashby. The story is that Mr. Dawson, when on his journey to York, was stopped and bound by three highway- men, whom he afterwards succeeded in discover- ing. They were convicted and executed for the offence, and under the law then existing Mr. Dawson became entitled to receive the sum (40Z.)