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 194 NOTES AND QUERIES. [12 s.vm. MARCH 5, 1021. As the rioters broke open the prisons, burnt Lambeth Palace, all the Inns of Court, the Palace of the Savoy, the Priory of St. John of Jerusalem % at Clerkemvell, and numberless private dwellings, it is quite absurd to say that Wat Tyler was killed merely for having burnt the stews. Wal- "worth as Mayor held the lease of them it is true from the Bishop of Winchester as ground-landlord. The land on which the stews were built had belonged to the see of Winchester and had been so employed centuries before William of Wykeham was born, and continued to be so used down to 37 Henry VIII. See Brayley and Britton, 'History of Surrey' (London, 1850), pp. 316-7. JOHN B. WAINEWBIGHT. MAJOR -GENERAL THE HON. WILLIAM HER- BERT (12 S. viii. 109). The following is a copy of an inscription which was in the 'Cathedral at Aix-la-Chapelle in 1863, and is doubtless there still : Vir admodum reverend us DOMINUS FRANCISOUS ANTONIUS TEWIS, Archipresbyter, Per 43 Annos Parochus divae virgin is "Plebanus Aquisgranensis et Judicii Synodalis Praeses, Protonotarius Apostolicus, Principis Electoris lalatini Consiliarius. Qui vixit annos septuaginta novem, Decessit A.D. 6 Idus Julius, 1786. Nominis sui ultimus, Hoc monumentum, Abaviae suae fratri, Ponendum curavit, Henricus Howard Molyneux Herbert Comes de Carnarvon, Catharinae Elizabethae Tewis Viro honorabili Gulielmo Herbert nuptae Abnepos. <jrermaniae amans et German! sanguinis memor. (See ' N. & Q.,' 3 S. iv. 451.) Henry Howard Molyneux Herbert, who placed the above inscription in Aix Cathedral, was fourth Earl of Carnarvon, and died in 1890. He was, as the inscription states, great-great-grandson (abnepos) of Major- general the Hon. William Herbert and his wife, who was Catherine Elizabeth Tewes. -She was sister to Francis Antony Tewes, the Archpresbyter mentioned in the inscription, the Earl of Carnarvon having erected the monument " abaviae suae fratri." Major- General William Herbert died in 1757, and his will, of which I have a full abstract, was proved the same year. In it he mentions his " dear wife Catherine Elizabeth Herbert," but makes no reference to any cf her rela- tives. His widow died in 1770, administra- tion of her property being granted to her son, Charles Herbert. It would seem, from the inscription, that the Tewes family was of German origin, and records at Aix might possibly contain some particulars of the churchman's ancestry. CHARLES H. THOMPSON. WILSON, RANGER OF THE HIMALAYAS (12 S. viii. 151). For particulars of Wilson, a Yorkshireman, from Wakefield," see General (Frederick) Markham's 'Shooting in the Himalavas,' royal 8vo, 1854. R. B. NEW STYLE (1.2 S. viii. 68, 116). There are many advertisements in The Gloucester Journal of August, 1752, relating to the change in the Calendar, the earliest being in the issue of Aug. 4, when the following advertisement appeared : " Whereas a Large Fair has been annually held at Wotton-Underedge, in the County of Gloucester, on the 14th Day of September ; This is to give Notice, That, according to the Alteration of the Stile, the said Fair will, for the future, be held on the 25th Day of the same Month." On Aug. 18 it was announced that : " It may not be improper to notify to th e Public, That Barton-Fair, usually lield at ihls City on the 17th of September, will not, on account of the Alteration of the Stile, be kept till the 28th of that Month. The next issue of the paper after Sept. 1 is dated " Tuesday, September 19, 1752, New Stile" In the issue for Jan. 2, 1753, the following curious notice was inserted : To all Tender Consciences, " That are afraid of Keeping Christmas-Day according to the New Stile, This is to Certify, That the Glastonbury THORN is in as Full Blossom This Day, the 25th of December, New Stile, as it was ever known to be the 25th of December, Old Stile ; so that, I hope, for the future, no Body will doubt that the New Stile is the TRUE, tho' many have, this Year, refused to observe it. And, as it is probable that the Old may be soon forgot, I thought proper to give this Notice, for fear neither of them may be kept : And. if any Persons doubt the Truth of what is asserted, let them come away directly, and convince them- selves by ocular Demonstration." ROLAND AUSTIN. Since it has been definitely stated that the New Style was in more or less popular use before the date of the Act of Parliament, I should like to know whether evidence exists of the intercalation of the eleven days before the date (Sept. 2) named in the Act. PERSICTJS.