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the Church, " of a most extraordinary kind," De Blainville concludes:

"Have we not sufficient Reason to expect to see this wonderful Heroa, already raised above St. Lewis, and compared to Lewis the Great, in a few Years canonized in due Form, and placed in Heaven among the Saints of the first Mag- nitude ? "

Macpherson, 'Original Papers,' vol. i., pp. 596 sqq. says that when James II. was buried .in the English Benedictine Church of St. Edmund in the Faubourg St.. Jacques, Paris, miracles are reported to have been wrought there by his intercession. Was his canonization ever seriously considered at Rome ? JOHN B, WAINE WRIGHT.

FOLK-LORE : THREE KNOCKS A SIGN or DEATH. It was and perhaps still is a common superstition in Derbyshire that there are always to be heard three knocks in a house when a death is near at hand, or the knocks foretell the death of any one who is then lying sick in the house. I have known persons afraid to stay by a bedside after hearing such knocks which are not attributed to the ''death tick or watch." THOS. RATCLIFFE.

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We must request correspondents desiring in- formation on family matters of only private interest to affix their names and addresses to their queries, in order that answers may be sent to them direct.

STRATTON GARLIC AND TEWKESBURY MUSTARD. Carew Q602) says that the Stratton inhabitants " reape large benefit . . . .from their Garlick (the Countryman's Triacle), which they sent not only into Cornwall, but many ether shires besides." Peter Muncly (1639) remarks: "Stratton .....Noted to have the best garlicke in all those parts." And Cruttwell, writing in 180.1, notes: "Stratton has long been celebrated for its. .. .garlic." Mr. C. D. Kingdon informs me that the garlic now found in abundance in the neighbourhood of Stratton is the wild variety. When did its cultivation as an article of commerce cease, and is anything known of the firms that produced it ?

, In the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries Tewkesbury was the chief seat of mustard manufacture in England. Tewkesbury mus- tard is mentioned by Shakespeare (1597) in his ' Henry IV.' ; by Fynes Morison ( 1 605-

] 7) ; in a short survey of twenty-six counties, MS. Lansd. 213 (1634) ; and by Peter Mundy (1639). The method of making it into balls is described by Bennett in his ' History of Tewkesbury.' Its pungency gave rise to the proverb, current up to 1830 at least, " He looks as if he lived on Tewkesbury Mustard." Durham mustard appears to* have superseded the Tewkesbury variety about 1720. Is anything known of the Tewkesbury manufacturers, the time when they nourished and the exact date when thfc manufacture became extinct ?

Bennett says that in his day, c. 1830, the industry could have been easily revived, as abundance of mustard like that cultivated at Durham was then growing wild. Is this- still the case ?

Mundy speaks of the Tewkesbury mustard balls as a variety of the condiment, with which he was hitherto unacquainted, and he considered them overrated. Whence would he have procured " the ordinary sort " (presumably 'the seed crushed and separated, from the husk) to which he was accustomed ?

L. M. ANSTEY.

THOMAS RICHARD AVERY, OF BOSCASTLE,, NORTH CORNWALL, stated in Maclean's tised at Forrabury in 1785. Any particu- lars of his life, times and lineage would be valued, especially any means of tracing his portrait and the Cornish newspapers that reported his lawsuits, or any sources illustrat- ing local contemporary history and manners in Boscastle, Bodmin, Delabole and Port Isaac from 1785-1858. Replies may be gent direct.
 * History of Trigg Minor ' to have been bap-

M. P. WlLLCOCKS. 35 Pennsylvania Road, Exeter.

BENEDICT ARNOLD'S BURIAL PLACE. Can any reader locate the place of B. Arnold's grave '''. In the European Magazine, June, 1801, there is an entry " On the 14th inst. at Gloster Place, Brigadier Gen. Arnold, who was taken much notice of in the American War." Possibly The Gentleman's Maga- zine of that date may be more explicit, or less discreet ; but it only says that he was- buried at Brompton. The Registers of the Brompton Parish Church do not yield any solution and those < f St. Marylebone, St. George's, Hanover Square, St. Mary Abbots,. Kensington, and Chelsea are equally silent. Possibly if the burial place of Mrs. B. Arnold (his wife) could be ascertained, the myster might be solved. L. G. R.