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sentation of a Last Judgment in English mediaeval art, the figures of a Pope, two kings, and a monk may be noted among the saved.

At Ticehurst in Sussex are some remains of a Judgment window, circa 1460, in- cluding

" a cart filled with the damned to the number o ften : one wears a conical tiara ; another is crowned, drawn along by an apelike fiend, whilst another fiend of evil aspect assists by pushing behind ; to left of this is a group of four figures rising from the grave, one of whom is tonsured, and at whom a third devil leers." Nelson, ' Ancient Painted Glass in England,' p. 199.

Again, in the wall paintings formerly in the church of St. John-in-the-Soke, Win- chester, was one depicting the General Resurrection and Last Judgment, wherein the figures of two bishops, a king, and a queen are included, together with other figures of no indicated rank ; whilst the Wenhaston Doom panel before referred to depicts a king, a bishop, and a cardinal amongst the saved souls. In none of the above-mentioned instances is there the slightest indication that the artist intended to portray any particular personage.

There are, however, two instances wherein a mediaeval artist seems to have had some particular evildoer in his mind. The first and more noteworthy example appears in the much - restored fifteenth - century wall painting of the Last Judgment in St. Thomas's Church, Salisbury. Amongst the figures of the lost is one of a woman wearing a butterfly headdress, and clad in red, holding out a pewter pot or black-jack, and being carried or supported by a hideous demon. It is possible that this unfortunate woman represents some cheating ale-wife in the town, who, having incurred the wrath of the artists by giving them short measure, was depicted thus as a warning to similar evildoers.

The second instance is at Fairford, although not actually in the Judgment window. The four windows of the north- nave clerestory are filled with the figures of twelve notable persecutors, either of Christ or of the early Christian Church. These figures include Caiaphas, Judas Is- cariot with a bag purse, Herod with an infant impaled upon his sword, Diocletian, and Nero. The military persecutors are all clad in richly coloured robes over their armour. In the smaller tracery openings are hideous demons, two above every figure (' Fairford Church and its Celebrated Win- dows,' by H. W. Taunt).

H. C. remarks that one of the saved in the Winchester College ' Judgment ' is a bishop, and that he undoubtedly represents William of Wykeham. Certainly the face of this figure does bear a strong resemblance to the two portraits of Wykeham in the lowest part of the window ; but this resem- blance seems to be due as much to the type of face portrayed by Thomas of Oxford and his craftsmen a type clearly shown even in Betton & Evans's copy as to any- thing else. JOHN D. LE COUTEUR.

Southsea.

v. 10). (6) The lines said to be translated from Epictetus are a rendering of four Greek: iambics quoted in Epictetus's ' Enchiridion,' ch. 52 (53). That their author was Cleanthes^ the Stoic philosopher, we learn from Seneca, who gives a Latin version of them, ' Epistles,* 107, 10 sq.
 * ANTHOLOGIA GR^ECA' : EPICTETUS (12 S-

The line with which Seneca concludes is- frequently quoted,

Ducunt volentem fata, nolentem trahunt. But there is nothing corresponding to it in the Greek original as we know it.

EDWARD BENSLY.

The Greek lines inquired for by H. K. ST. J. S. will be found in the ' En- chiridion ' of Epictetus, c. 53. It seems that Epictetus attributed them to Cleanthes ; but of the six lines, the fifth and sixth are from Euripides. See No. 956 in Nauck's edition of the fragments of Euripides (Teubner, 1885). E. LITTOW.

[MB. C. B. WHEELER also thanked for reply.]

WYBORNE FAMILY OF ELMSTONE, KENT (12 S. iv. 130, 254). One Joseph Wiborne- went up to Trinity, Cambridge, from St. Paul's School in 1602. In the Trinity Registers he is entered as a scholar on the Westminster election : B.A. 1602-3 ; M.A. 1606. In the Registers of St. Paul's School it is recorded that he received a grant of 5Z. on April 15, 1602, a "benevolence" of the same sum in 1604-5, and 31. 6s. 8d. towards commencement in 1605-6. I shall be glad to receive further information concerning' him. MICHAEL F. J. MCDONNELL.

Bathurst, Gambia, British West Africa.

" JOHN ROBERTSON," A PSEUDONYMOUS NINETEENTH -CENTURY POET (12 S. iv. 185). I inquired at the above reference a.s to the authorship of ' The Prinoo of Orange in 1672,' included in Trench's ' Household Book of English Poetry,' and taken by him from a small volume published in 1859 by "John