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-getting it in 1282 (see my * Alps in Nature and History,' 1908, pp. 128-30). Doubtless Stubbs's ' Itinerarium ' of Richard I. (Rolls Series, 1864) would help, but I cannot consult it out here.

An extremely full bibliography of all the -original sources for Richard's captivity is given on p. 325, note 1 (15 lines of small print), of G. Juritsch's ' Geschichte der Babenberger und ihrer Lander, 976-1246 ' (Innsbruck, Wagner, 1894).

W. A. B. C.

Grindelwald.

MARKSHALL AND THE HONYWOOD FAMILY (12 S. iv. 234, 263). Thomas Fuller's anec- dofce concerning the agony of Mrs. Mary Honywood's soul, quoted by F. H. S. at the former reference, supplies the material for a curious piece of literary induction. The tale is first found in the sermons of Dr. John "Stoughton of Emmanuel, published sub- sequent to his death, which occurred in 1639. Neither the name of Mrs. Hony- wood nor the locality is mentioned by Stoughton.

A Thomas Stoughton was Rector of Coggeshall, near which Markshall lies. He was deprived for Puritanism in 1607. An inference suggests that John Stoughton had heard the anecdote locally, and that he navy have been the son of Thomas Stoughton. 'This inference is strengthened by finding the record of the baptism of a John Stoughton, son of Thomas and Kathe^ine, under date Jan. 23, 1592/3, at Naughton, Suffolk. The date accords well with John Stoughton' s -entry at Emmanuel in 1607.

The last stage of the induction is supplied by a statement made by the Rev. Thomas 'Stoughton, in a preface to his works, that lie had come from Suffolk.

MARGARET WHITEBROOK.

MARKSHALL AND THE FULLER FAMILY <(12 S. v. 8). It would be very kind if MR. J. F. FULLER would tell me how Robert Vesoy of Wix Abbey, Essex, came to be buried at Markshall on March 8, 1575. "Was he in any way akin to Thos. Fuller, lord of Markshall in 1561 ? Robert Vesey died vita patris as husband of Joan, daughter of Win. Cardinall of Bromley (Essex), and son of William Vesey of Wix Abbey and fiintlesham, Suffolk. The latter had two wives the first nameless, the second Joan, daughter of Robert Cutler of Ipswich, who made her will as Joan Vesey of Hintlesham widow, on Oct. 5, 1586.

OLD EAST ANGLIAN.

ANDREW B. WRIGHT, LOCAL HISTORIAN AND ACTOR (12 S. v. 14). That Andrew B. Vright, author of ' An Essay towards the listory of Hexham,' was an actor may be accepted by MR. HODGSON as something more than a tradition. William Robb, a lexham man, on p. 16 of his ' Hexham Fifty Years Ago ' (published 1882), is clear on the point. He says :

1 There is still another amusement of our iredecessors to Which I have barely alluded in >assing. Hexham had in those early days a -heatre in which every winter the drama was more or less successfully performed. The family of the manager were the principal actors, and, rom the regularity of their visits for years to the respected by many of the townspeople. One of >hem, Mr. Andrew Wright, wrote a History of Rexham, which as a record of facts has not even yet been superseded."
 * >wn, they had become well known and highly

Confirmation of Mr. Robb's boyhood recollections will be found in The Newcastle Magazine for March, 1824, in which a review appears of Mr. Wright's then recently pub- ished work. Dating his criticism from Hexham, and exhibiting in his remarks an intimate knowledge of local conditions, the critic, in a foot-note to a statement of Mr. Wright's concerning the recreations of the nhabitants of Hexham, says :

" The author is a player ; and, We can con- fidently add, an honour to his profession."

These two extracts are conclusive as far as they go. They show that Mr. Wright was an actor and the son of an actor- manager, and that he enjoyed the esteem of the Hexham people. And though they do little to elucidate MR. HODGSON'S chief inquiry, regarding the parentage, career, and death of Mr. A. B. Wright, they may, in the absence of anything more com- prehensive, be of use to those interested in the subject. JOHN OXBERRY.

Gateshead.

"^BADULLA, CEYLON : TOMBSTONE IN- SCRIPTION (12 S. v. 37). For particulars of Sylvester Douglas Wilson and his wife see 11 S. xii. 120. The correct inscription is : " Sacred to the memory of Sophia Wilson, only daughter of the late Edmund Battersbee, Esq. of Stratford upon Avon, Warwickshire, wife of Sylvester Douglas Wilson, Esq., Assistant Resi- dent and Agent of the British Government in the Province of Ouwa. She departed this life at Badulla after a few days' illness on the morning ol the 24th May, 1817, aged 24 years."

It is given in my ' List of Inscriptions on Tombstones and Monuments in Ceylon,' a review of which appeared at 11 S. x. 259-60. A monument of rough masonry, with a