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is a legend, originating perhaps in the above representations, that St. Nicolas raised to life three children who had been slain, cut up, and pickled in a tub. This story is briefly related by Baring-Gould, but without a reference. It is given at considerable length in Brady's ' Clavis Calendaria,' second edition, 1812-13, vol. ii. pp. 306-8, as from " an Italian author, who, for the edification of the Papists,

Siblished this saint's life iL the year 1645." ere, however, only two children are men- tioned. I want to know who the " Italian author " was, and where the story of the boys in the pickle-tub first appears. J. T. F. Durham.

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ETCHINGS AND ENGRAVINGS. (9 th S. x. 288.)

RICHARD DIGHTON, who etched the prints in the possession of MR. CREED, was a son of Robert Dighton, who died at his house in Spring Gardens in 1814. MR. CREED'S series is not complete, arid I do not know of any complete catalogue of portraits etched by the Dighton family, although a great many have from time to time been enumerated in 'N. & Q.' I give below, for the sake of convenient refer- ence, as perfect a list as I can compile of papers contributed to this journal on the subject, many of which are imperfectly indexed. I would therefore suggest that MR. CREED'S query be indexed under the name of Dighton, as the present heading is a little vague. Robert Dighton had another son, named Dennis (born 1792, died 1827), who acquired some reputation as a painter of battle pieces. When living with his father in Spring Gardens, he executed a few portraits, of which some have considerable merit. A sketch of John Bellingham, the murderer of Mr. Perceval, taken at the Sessions House, Old Bailey, 15 May, 1812, is probably the best existing likeness of that unfortunate man.

The value of these prints is, to a great extent, dependent on their condition, but, speaking generally, it is not high. Since I began this note, I have seen two of them advertised in a bookseller's catalogue at 8s. Gd. each, and some others at 5s. 1 have a collection of seventy-six, chiefly executed by the elder Dighton, and bound up by a contemporary collector in old .red morocco, for which I think I gave four guineas about fifteen years ago. I have also several of the loose prints, together with a few drawings. The series etched by Richard

Dighton was also issued in a reduced form, in which the figures were about 4 in. high. These were printed four or five on a sheet, and the sheets were then mounted on linen and pasted together, so as to form a long roll. Being used for the adornment of smok- ing-rooms, &c., these rolls have now become very scarce. One in my possession contains fifty-three portraits, most of which are repre- sented in MR. CREED'S list.

W. F. PRIDEAUX.

[3 rd S. iv. 410 ; vi. 187 ; vii. 119, 188; ix. 451, 522; i. 13, 70, 99, 180, 413, 519; 4* S. vii. 418 ; 5 th S. iii. 387, 452 ; iv. 178 ; 6 th S. x. 467 ; 7 th S. ii. 108, 237 ; xi. 508; xii. 75.]

In the Senior Common Room of Pembroke College, Oxon, is a curious little portrait in

Eastels by Richard Dighton, of Cheltenham. b represents Mr. Stubbs Wightwick (1794- 1858), who, though educated at Trinity, was akin to Richard Wightwick, B.D., co-founder of Pembroke. The college also possesses a

Bjrtrait in oils, by f Henry Howard, R.A., of r. John Smyth, Master of Pembroke from 1796 until his death in 1809, which is said to have been painted from the caricature of the same gentleman by Robert Dighton entitled 'A View taken at Oxford,' "drawn, etch'd & pub'd by Dighton, Jan., 1808." The only mention I can discover of the younger Dighton in the * D.N.B.' is the statement, in the account of his father, that whereas the elder signed his productions with his surname only, or at most with the initial R prefixed, Richard, on the contrary, in- variably made use of both his names.

A. R. BAYLEY.

I have one of this series, or of an earlier lot, entitled 'A General View of Richmond, Taken from Sussex,' representing, I presume, the third Duke of Richmond, who was Master General of the Ordnance at the time. The picture is inscribed as "Drawn, Etch'd & Pub'd by Dighton. Char* Cross. Jan? 20 th . 1804." E. E. STREET.

I.O.U. (5 th S. v. 89; 9 th S. v. 475; vi. 14, 74, 276, 336, 456 ; x. 228). A. R. C. will find further information as to I.O.U.s at the above references, in the 'N.E.D.,' and in the law reports from which some of the ' Dictionary's ' quotations are taken. As he does not follow the usual laudable practice of your contributors of giving the source from which he derives his document, 1 supply the defect. It will be found at p. 67 of Mr. Joseph Jacobs's ' Jews in Angevin England ' (Nutt, 1893), and is a translation of a docu- ment among the ' Accounts, <kc., of the King's