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NOTES AND QUERIES. [12 s. VL- JAN., 1920.

LEPER'S WINDOWS : Low SIDE WINDOW. It is stated by some authorities that the

,term Leper's Window is a misnomer, as it is asserted that no leper would have been allowed to come near enough to a church

.either to look through or communicate with a priest within the building by means of the windows described above. These openings are also named, I believe, Low Side Win- dows. There is said to be a Leper's Window in Elsdon Church, Northumberland.

I shall be glad of information on the matter. F. W.

' IN ALBIS.' What is the meaning of these words ? They occur in Bisset's MS. ' Rolment of Courtis,' where he writes :

" And the said actis imprented be the said Lekprevik war coffc fra him in albis unbound be unaquhill maister James Makgill."

Do they mean ' White Paper,' i.e., printed .on one side only ?

P. J. HAMILTON-GRIERSON.

' PHILOCHRISTUS ' : ECCE HOMO.' Can any one give me any information as to the author and origin of the book called ' Philo- christus : Memoirs of a Disciple of the Lord,' and of the author of ' Ecce Homo,' to whom it is dedicated ? J. S.

THOMAS PAGABD (PACKARD, PACKEB) entered Winchester College, aged 11, from London, in 1538, whence he proceeded to New College, Oxford, where he was Fellow from 1547 to 1553. He received the first tonsure in London in December, 1553, in which year he also took the degree of B.C.L. and became vicar of Laughton, Sussex. He obtained the rectory of Ripe, Sussex, in 1555/6, and the prebend of Bargham in the Cathedral of Chichester in 1558, becoming about the same time rural dean of South Mailing, Pagham, and Terring. He was deprived of all his preferments in 1560.

Any further particulars about him would be welcome. JOHN B. WAINEWRIGHT.

JOHN ELMS, D.D. Could any reader satisfy my curiosity as to who was the Rev. John Ellis, D.D., at one time vicar of St. Catherine, Dublin, author of a book called 'The Knowledge of Divine Things from Revelation not from* Reason or Nature,' third edition, 1811, when the author is referred to as " the late John Ellis, D.D." The above-named book is probably the ablest " brief " ever published in behalf of the hopeless philosophical position known as Hutchinsonianism, which darkened the counsel of so many good men

in the Church of England at the end of the eighteenth and beginning of the nineteenth centuries. " Have you Ellis's great work, ' On Knowledge of Divine Things ' ? " asks Van Mildert (afterwards Bishop) in 1806 (see ' Memoir of Joshua Watson,' vol. i. 69), showing that he was basing|his Hutchin- sonianism in his Boyle lectures on Ellis's book. T. LLECHID JONES.

THEOLOGICAL MS.: IDENTIFICATION WAN- TED. I have come across in an old book a sheet of MS., in a hand of the latter half of the sixteenth century, containing a kind of summary of the contents of some theological work of at least about 400 pp. It runs thus :

" God's providence and predestination ex- plained." Pp. 20, 21,22.

" Why some were ordayned to salvation and some to damr,a iou." P. 96.

" That the elect cannot finally perish." P. 373.

" Why some believe and are obedient, and other some remain' unfaithfurand disobedient." Pp. 82 and 107.

"God worketh both in His elect and in the reprobate, but in divers manners." P. 118.

''Acceptance of persons defyned, that God re- specteth not persons." P. 83.

" The grace of God onely made the difference betwene Jacob and Esau." P. 136.

'' God doth not plague His people, only by suffer- ing them to be plagued by the wicked." P. 314.

" Who obey God and who not." P. 319.

" God will not the death of a sinner explained." P. 394.

I should be grateful if some reader of ' N. & Q.' can identify the theological work thus summarised. PENARTH.

TUNSTALL. I should be glad to obtain information showing the connection between the families of Tunstall of Thurland Castle (Lancashire) and Parks. Mary Tunstall married Robert Parks of Liverpool towards the end of the eighteenth century. Is there any Tunstall pedigree extant which shows this marriage ? H. WILBERFORCE-BELL.

21 Park Crescent, Oxford.

WALVEIN FAMILY. Can any one furnish any information re this family, which I believe to be of Irish origin ? A Walvein was thrown by a mob from a window of the Hotel de Ville at Ypres about 1297 and killed. Circa 1329 John Walvein was chief magistrate of Bruges. At the latter end of the eighteenth century a Walvein was military Governor of Bruges and a favourite counsellor of Joseph II., brother of Marie Antoinette, but owing to revolts in Flanders caused by persecution of Catholics he was forced to take^refuge at Marseilles, where he