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 12 s. viu. FEB. ae, K)2i.] NOTES AND QUERIES. 173 whose sore Taske Do's not diuide the Sunday from theweeke;" and the example which MB. LE COUTEUB gives of Henry V. forcibly impressing army surgeons when an appeal to the patriotism of the gilds had proved a failure, supplies another instance. Such means are absolutely without parallel in the whole history of window-making. Moreover, the St. Stephen's Chapel accounts and those for the Chapter House and St. George's Chapel at Windsor given in the late Sir William St. John Hope's 'Windsor Castle ' prove that the time expended on the work was extraordinarily short. There were three separate and distinct series of windows. The first, those for St. Stephen's Chapel, were done between June 20 and Nov. 28, 1351, i.e., in approximately six months. The second for the Chapter House, Windsor, were begun early in March, 1352, and finished before Whitsunday which in 1352 fell on May 27, that is in less than three months. The St. George's windows were begun on June 11, 1352, arid finished some time after Michaelmas, thus taking six months^ r so to do. As practically the same staff of artists was employed we may assume that the work was of the same quality throughout, and if we may judge from published drawings of fragments of the St. Stephen's glass, the work was of an elaborate character. Considering the primi- tive .nethods of cutting glass and firing it then available, it is remarkable that the work could be done in the time. The items quoted by MB. LE COUTETJB from the accounts for 1353 are for making packing cases. The glass itself, however, according to Sir William St. John Hope had been finished for some time during which it was "kept there (i.e., at Westminster) until the following March when it was sent to Windsor and set up in the chapel windows " ('Wind- sor Castle,' i. p. 143). 4. My suggestion (made with all diffi- dence) that the east window of Great Malvern Priory representing the Passion of Our Lord might possibly be a later work of Thornton's was founded upon the remark- able similarity in the details of this window to those in the St. William window at York, notably in the sleeves tight on the forearm with three buttons below, furred round the cuff and puffed above the elbow; in the chaplets of leaves with "owche " in front worn by some of the male figures, and in the thickness of the traced lines in shadow parts such as under the eyelids and under the tip of the nose. (For a minute and learned- description over one hundred fifty pages in length see the late Dr. James Fowler's paper, Yorks. Arch&ol. Journal r vol. iii.) The little figures in the canopy shafts are certainly characteristic of much of the work of the York school, but they are by no means universal and are only intro- duced where there was room for them. Thus of the hundred and five panels in the St.. William window only the five panels of donors contain figures in the she/f tings-. These figures are also to be seen in work far removed from York, e.g., at Altenberg' in Germany. JOHN A. KJSTOWLES. TERCENTENARY HANDLIST OF NEWSPAPERS. (12 S. viii. 38, 91; see vii. 480.) ONE of MB. ROLAND AUSTIN'S criticisms- of Mr. J. G. Muddiman's Handlist ' the suggestion that that he " might well have asked publicly for assistance in com piling lists " appears to a fellow-student of the newspaper not quite sound. Had Mr. Muddiman taken this course he would* surely unless his collaborators had all been" students already familiar with his main sources of information, the British Museum collections have been overwhelmed by a tremendous mass of data already under his hand, the checking and collating and sifting of which would have made his task even more laborious than, it has already been. The method he has adopted, of invit- ing collaboration after the publication of his 'Handlist,' is really the better one, as it avoids any overlapping of research, and provides only for additions which actually do supply gaps in his consecutive summary of newspaper history. No student and lover of the old newspaper can be too grateful for that summary, or for the help and stimulus of all Mr. Muddiman's work in this wide field of research. The following list slightly supplements the Handlist.' I hope, later, further to supple- ment and annotate it and particularly to ante-date many provincial papers already included by comparison with a large collec- tion in private hands, for the moment inaccessible. I am indebted to Mr. H. Tapley Soper for access to notes for an as yet unpublished history of Trewman's Exeter Flying Post. PART I. LONDON. 1743. The British Intelligencer, nr Universal' Advertiser. No. 10, May 23. (Salisbury Museum.)