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NOTES AND QUERIES. 1 12 8. vi. JUNE 19, 19-20.

ir> great departure from their details, the means employed (even the instrument of the poisoned ring) have their foundation in literal facts."

I shall be obliged for any reliable infor- mation, which will identify Mons. Dale- bard, and, if possible, Lucretia Clavering. The supposition that the latter is meant for Mrs. Wainwright I can hardly think probable.

Lord Lytton certainly adds " that he has no authority to suppose that the criminals knew each other in real life."

FREDERICK CHARLES WHITE.

14 Esplanade, Lowestoft.

THE CRUCIFIXION IN ART : THE SPEAR- WOUND. In modern plaster casts by the best Italian workmen, the spear-wound in the figure of Christ is to be found on the left side ; but in all the old Masters now exhibited at the National Gallery both in pictures of the Crucifixion and of St. Francis the wound is on the right side. These are mostly dated from c. 1420-1500. There are no examples of the reverse, and where the left side only is visible there is no wound mark. Why this difference ?

WALTER E. GAWTHORP.

16 Long Acre, W.C.2.

" OUIDA " IN PERIODICAL LITERATURE. In a pencilled note to a statement that none of Ouida's novels appeared in periodical publications, it is recorded that Colburn's New Monthly Maaazine contained some of her novels. Can this be verified by one of your readers who happens to live near where this publication is available ?

ARCHIBALD SPARKE.

WILLIAM WIGHTWICK. What is " the parentage of William Wightwick of New Bond Street (d. 1884, aged 76, will proved P.C.C., 1884), whose daughter Emma m. George Du Maurier in 1862 ? He was in partnership with one John Augustus Brooks, and as this latter had a second cousin, Humphrey Wightwick of Henley-on-Thames (d. 1807, will proved P.C.C., 1807), only son of William W., of Burford, co. Oxon, and Elizabeth Brooks of Upton, co. Oxon, I had hoped to have proved a relationship, but have not succeeded. Humphrey W. appear: to have had no children. William W. of Burford had a brother John of 24 Ludgate Street, a liveryman. Painter Stainers Co. whose name appears in the London Directory 1780-1807. I have not found his will.

E.*ST. JOHN BROOKS. Cleredon, Grove Eoad, S itton. J

JESUIT C.OLLEGES IN ENGLAND. A com-

mmity of Welsh Jesuit fathers flourished at

.he Cwm in Llanrothal parish, five miles

distant from Pontrilas, Herefordshire, who

are stated to have issued tracts in Welsh,

nformation as to which would oblige. In


 * he particular locality specified there was

ounded one of three English Jesuit colleges

flourishing in 1 660, The College Sancti Navarri,

and knowledge as to how long it flourished

s desired. Where were the other two

dndred buildings simultaneously existent ?

ANEURIN WILLIAMS.

FROGS AND TOADS IN HERALDRY. 'harles Dickens in All the Year Round, Aug. 1, 1874, says the early kings of France lad three frogs on their banners and armour. [ see the ' Encyclopaedia Britannica ' also mentions (under Heraldry) three toads on a joat o/ arms for Botreaux from an old French word signifying a small toad. What is the origin of this charge ? Are there other instances of it 't D. W. Y.

ittplus.

OLD STAINED GLASS

(12 S. vi. 188, 231, 281).

I. IN reply to MR. DODSON'S further in- quiries re the lost Winchester glass, I think he will find that my original statement was quite correct. Dr. Williams was never Warden of Winchester College. He was headmaster of Winchester until the end of 1835, and in 1840 became Warden of New College. He died in 1860.

The W T arden of Winchester College at the time that the glass from New College was given to Bradford Peverell Church was Robert Speckott Barter.

2. Although not a member of any of the learned Societies named by MR. DODSON perhaps I may be permitted to reply to his second question. The statement that there is Winchester glass at Ludlow appears to have originated with Archdeacon Lloyd, a former rector of St. Mary's Church, Shrews- bury. In his book on the history of the latter church, he^ states that a window contains

" two figures copied with considerable success from old glass in the chancel of Ludlow parish church which was brought early in the last century from Winchester, when Messrs. Betton & Evans of Shrewsbury were engaged in filling with modern glass many windows in the Cathedral