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 12 NOTES AND QUERIES. [12 s VIL JULY s, 1920. that the spear really penetrated from the right to the left side, passing through the thorax and coming out at the left. This is the opinion adopted by Prudentius in his poem on the though obscurely, at the same idea. For all this, however, the various authors alluded to, do not, as we should naturally expect, speak of six but of five wounds, thus adopting the Christian tradition as to the number. The wound inflicted on the left side appears to them of little importance, but merely a proof of the violence of the blow on the right.'"' ' The Encyclopaedia Biblica ' states that " The notion that the wound was on the left side is comparatively late. It is embodied in some of the newer crucifixes, where the wound is placed horizontally about the fifth costal inter- space ; but in most modern crucifixes, and pro- bably in all the more ancient, the wound is placed somewhat low on the right side." Mrs. Jameson's ' History of our Lord ' says : " The right hand of the Cross became the place of election, as we shall see in the position of the good thief, and in that of the Church, while the left marked that of reprobation, and was occupied by the impenitent thief and by the Synagogue. It was this, doubtless, that as a rule placed the wound in Art on the right side ; Scripture being silent as to which side was pierced." ARCHIBALD SPABKE. Because of useful ' Notes Ecclesiological and Historical,' I still treasure ' A Kalendar of the English Church, (Church Press Co., Ltd.) for 1865 which first taught me that in Catholic representations of the Crucified physical truth should be sacrificed to moral significance : " The spear wound is almost invariably repre- sented on the right side instead of the left, the right hand being in Holy Scripture and Theology always the more worthy, as indeed it is also in secular precedence " (p. 66). ST. S WITHIN. PINNOCK (12 S. iv. 243, 311). The diary of James Pinnock the younger in the British Museum (Add. MSS. 33, 316) provides a few details which supplement the information given at the latter of the above references. James Pinnock, eldest son of Thomas and Marjr Pinnock, was born Sept. 27, 1740 (old style) : left Westminster School, Oct. 26, 1758 : went into residence at Trinity Hall, Cambridge, Oct. 28, 1758 : called to the bar at Lincoln's Inn May 14, 1764 : married on April 19, 1772. The diary does not, so far as I am aware, mention his father-in-law, but gives the name of his wife's mother, Mrs. Mary Dehany. James Pinnock was sworn as Advocate General in December, 1787. At the end of the diary is a note that he died on Feb. 6, 1811, but this has beer& struck through. Thomas Pinnock, the younger, second? son of Thomas and Mary Pinnock, was bora July 25, 1745 : "rector of St. Hippol[ ].,. He[rts ?]." The diary is defective here. The diary also mentions, with several' sisters, four younger brothers : Philip b,- Oct. 26, 1747 ; m. July 15, 1789, Miss Dunn of Burnt Savanna in Westmoreland : George* b. Aug. 2, 1749, " brought up in the Navy, ?uitted the service early " ; m. March 3*. 774, Miss Grace Pinnock and had children r Dennis b. Aug. 5, 1754, educated in England? admitted an attorney -at -law before July 25, 1777 ; d. at Birmingham : Edward b. March. 22, 1757 ; drowned in the Serpentine River,. Hyde Park, March 2, 1788 ; another entry- records that he d. 1787, unm., and without issue. Unfortunately the diary gives no- indication of the school at which these four younger brothers were educated. The diary records under date April 1, 1769, the death of Cheney Hamilton, evidently a great friend of James Pinnock, possibly the Cheyne Hamil- ton, who was admitted to Westminster School in 1745, aged 12. (See 11 S. xi. 300.) Accompanying the diary is Pinnocks" account-book (Add. MSS. 33, 317) from tha day he went into residence at Cambridge until 1810, which contains the following references to his school. s. d . 28 Nov., 1758. Fruit, window mend- ing, Westr. anniversary . . . . 13 0| 2 Dec., 1758. Remainder of annivy. and wine, cfofee] house and fruit 11 34; 19 Dec., 1758. To fly to Londn. and to the Play 111$; 5 Dec., 1759. Westr: Annivery. Sup- per .. 026 Nov., 1761. Westmr. Annual Meetg abst. 026 J. B. WHITMORE. 41 Thurloe Square, S.W.7. EDWIN ATHERSTONE'S BIRTHPLACE (12' S. vi. 313). Some MS. notes in my possession- by this poet's grand-daughter imply, though they do not distinctly state, that he was born in Nottingham. He certainly belonged to a family resident there, many of whose members settled at the Cape. One of three daughters married r ' her cousin," the eldest son of John Ather- stone, Surgeon, one of the celebrated " Settlers of 1820," and he was married to her at Nottingham. Barber the artist, who married one of the Atherstone family, painted a fine portrait of the Poet which belonged to Doctor Guybom
 * Passion of Christ,' and Saint Cyprian hints,