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 i2&viiLAHBLSS.i.] NOTES AND QUERIES. 325 all the appliances and designs * belonging to my work." Robert Preston, the glass- painter, and Thomas Inglish had both been apprentices with Inglish' s father. Preston was free of the city in 1465, so that he would be about fifteen years senior to Thomas and approximately thirty-six years of age in 1480 when the elder Inglish died, leaving the business to Thomas. He named Preston co-executor and residuary legatee with his (William Inglish's) wife, so that Preston benefited considerably under the terms of his late master's will. It would seem that after the elder Inglish's death Thomas Inglish and Robert Preston carried on the business in partnership, or at any rate in such close connexion during the long period of twenty-three years as to practically amount to the same thing, f When he died in 1503, Preston bequeathed a large portion of his tools as well as a quantity of glass to Thomas Inglish (vide account of Robert Preston to follow) and also presents of money and valuables " To omnibus instruments et picturis opelle mee pertinentibus." t The question whether business partnerships in the modern sense of the term existed in medie- val times seems never to have been thoroughly investigated. We find John Prudde, of West- minster, King's Glazier, taking contracts, within the space of a very few years,, and supplying windows for Fromond's Chantry at Winchester, Eton College Chapel and Hall, Greenwich Palace, the Beauchamp Chapel at Warwick, and else- where, some of these contracts dealing with over a thousand feet of glass. There must have been some system whereby, when one glass- painter in a town obtained a large order, such as, for example, the whole of the windows for one church, he gave out the work to be done amongst the rest of the craft, and there can be but little doubt that frequently, in the case of extensive work, though the ostensible contractor might lie a single individual, the real contractor was a ring of glass-painters in the town. In the Windsor Castle accounts for 1365-6 there is an item of the payment for "375 feet of white glass painted with the King's arms bought of Henry Stathern and partners " (et nodi* Md.s). (Sir William St. John Hope, ' Windsor lo/ i., pp. 194 and 209.) Specific instances of business partneiships amongst glass-painters PIC provided by the windows of King's College, Cambridge, which were done (with the exception oi' the glass executed by Barnard Flower previous to his death) by a partnership of four artists or the co-operation of four firms on the one hand and of two on the other. In 1562-3 two glass- painters, William Ely the and Miles Jugg. agreed to execute the windows of Trinity College, Cambridge, in partnership. (Willis and Clark ' Arc hit. Hist, of the Univ. of Cambridge,' vol. ii., pp. 571-572.) Sir John Ynglyshe, chanon in Brydlyngton." At what period Thomas Inglish died is not known, but, as stated above, it was subse- quent to the death of Preston in 1503. JOHN A. KNOWLES. HUNTINGDONSHIRE SCHOOL MAGAZINES. THE career of ' N. & Q.' is a long and honourable one. The range of subjects dealt with by its learned contributors is a very extensive one. I was therefore rather surprised to find in 1916, when I searched its indexes, no sample list given of school magazines for any county. Magazines pub- lished by schools for their boys are quite worth our careful study, and lists of any schools issuing such ephemerides would be useful for reference. Students and others who are interested in the later history of their county cai often obtain information from their contents not otherwise to be had. By the year 1720 there were over 1,600 schools established in this country. Addison describes the charity schools as " the glory of the age." I have found no magazines published by any of these early schools : and it was perhaps not until the beginning of the next century that a few schools com- menced to publish magazines. By the middle of that period they became more popular. I may mention a small number of those I have casually glanced through of various counties : The Leodiensian (Leeds Grammar School), 1828 ; The Eton School Magazine, No. 1, 1848 ; The Scholar (Preston), 1850 ; The Uppingham School i Magazine, vol. vii. 1869 ; The JV 'ormcensian, 1873 ; The Harrovian, 1878 ; The Eagle (Bedford), 1881. Some of the colleges also published a magazine : The Eagle, St. John's College, No. 1, 1858. The Oxford and Cambridge Magazine, conducted by Members of the two Universities, 1856, contains Rossetti's ' Blessed Damozel ' and notable pieces by William Morris and Sir E. Burne- Jones ; it reached the highest summit of excellence of these periodicals. Many other titles are scattered about in catalogues and various bibliographies, and no full and precise list for any county has escaped my notice. I am therefore rather reluctant to give, ' even in a small way, a list for a county most familiar to me and nearly the i smallest of our shires.
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