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 12 s. vm. JUNE is, 1921.] NOTES AND QUERIES. 487 of his craffte to lerne by ; and sauderynge ; yrnes, a par moldes [for casting lead calmes], j one payr clampis [for holding the two j sides of the mould, which was hinged and j opened like a book, together] and di my gosers [grozing irons for chipping the glass to shape] lesse and more, one par scherys, wt xx glorynge nayles [glazing nails, but frequently called closing nails in old accounts, employed to hold the strips of lead e gainst the glass whilst other pieces of glass were being fitted]. The residew of my tooles to be devydytt evynly betwyx my pren- tesses." Robert Begge was free of the city in 1504, the year after Robert Preston's death, so that he would be twenty years of age on the death of his master, and as he was evidently his favourite apprentice we may assume he succeeded to the business, j Robert Begge was in turn succeeded by his | son William Begge (free 1529), so that there is an unbroken succession in design and practice, and most probably of the uninterrupted continuance of one business from the time of John Chamber the elder (free 1400) until a hundred and thirty j years afterwards. Additional evidence in confirmation of this view is provided by the fact that the figure of St. Christopher and | the Child Christ in the east window of All j Saints' Church, North Street, and the same subject in the north-east window of St. Michael-le-Belfrey Church, York, are | facsimiles of each other. The former is believed to be a work of John Chamber j the younger, and to have been painted I about the year 1448 ; the latter dates about ninety years later, when the church was rebuilt, and is probably a work of Robert Begge or his son William, so that the cartoon from which these two subjects were painted must have been handed down and in continuous use for nearly a hundred years. Robert Preston made his will (Reg. Test, vi. 7 la, printed in * Test. Ebor.,' Surtees Soc., vol. iv., p. 216) on July 24, 1503. Proved Aug. 2 seq. He was buried in the porch of St. Helen's Church in Stonegate. JOHN A. KNOWLES. books and so forth, as well as works such as the ' Biblia Pauperum ' and similar books containing woodcuts which were to a great extent either " cribbed " from, or copied entirely by, glass- painters. There are two editions of "the" ' Biblia Pauperum' with German text, dated 1470 and 1475 respectively, whilst another with text in Latin is believed to be as early as 1420. " ORGY." Is it too late to protest, in the interest of pure English, against the increasingly frequent use of the term " orgy " ? There is no more justification for it than there would be for speaking of " an oat." It is true that TO opyiov appears once as a noun in the singular in Lucian's ' Syrian Goddess,' a work written in the Ionic dialect ; but our word " orgies " comes to us through the French from the Latin plural orgia, and I fancy no decent dictionary would give it in any other form. Monreith. HEKBEBT MAXWELL. SIB JOHN COPE, K.B. A few years ago I asked in the columns of ' N". & Q.' for a portrait of this celebrated General, whose career as an officer was marred by the stampede of Dragoon horses at the Battle of Preston Pans. I have now had the privilege of seeing a very fine portrait of the General with a tiny inset in the distance of the battle of Dettingen, where he won the Red Ribbon of the Bath. He wears a breastplate under his blue uniform coat, evidently the uniform of the " Blues," in which regiment he then was, and beside him on the table is a knight's helmet. He wears a short grey wig over his own hair. As he was third son he was born about 1690. No regimental history is able to give his parentage, birth or any details, and as he was connected with so many regiments I think this short note will be of interest. E. E. COPE. MISTRANSLATION IN DICKENS. A French rendering of the title of one of Mr. H. G. Wells's works has recently agitated the literary dovecotes of our land ; here is a translation of a French phrase by Dickens which will occasion no controversy from its undoubted inaccuracy. In one of his ' Reprinted Pieces ' (ed. 1892), headed ' Our French Watering-Place,' this passage occurs : He (M. Loyal) is a little fanciful in his language, smilingly observing of Madame Loyal, when she is absent at Vespers, that she is " gone to hep salvation" allee a son saint. It so happens there was nothing " fanciful " at all in M. Loyal's language in its connexion with " salut" for the word here meant not " salvation " but the office of Bene- diction, which is known and spoken of as such in French-speaking countries, Dickens was evidently unaware of this technical signification of the word. " Ves- pers " was nearer to it than " salvation."