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supposed ; and that the original expression was " as stupid as wedge- wood." One gathered that, wedge-wood having become a type of the superlative as regards stupidity, in that a wedge cannot be got to budge beyond a certain point, it later came to be used for any superlatively awkward condition, as in the phrase "Aw've bin clemmed [starved] wurr nor wedge-wood."

ARTHUK MAYALL.

WE must request correspondents desiring infor- mation on family matters of only private interest to affix their names and addresses to their queries, in order that the answers may be addressed to them direct.

LOWELL QUOTATION. She of the open soul and open door, With room about her hearth for all mankind.

These lines are attributed in Webster's ' Diet.' (Supplement) to Lowell. I shall be glad to know where they occur. Please answer directly to Dr. Murray, Oxford.

J. A. H. M.

MONASTIC SHEEP- FARMING. Among the muniments of Stanley Abbey, Wilts, cata- logued in the thirteenth century (MS. Harl. 6716), is mentioned a charter of Juliana, daughter of Alfred of Gatemore, concerning one virgate of land, and a house with two acres and three crofts called "Inhokes"*- and concerning pasture for three hundred sheep and ten beasts ( Wiltshire Archceol. and Nat. Hist. Mag., 1875, xv. 250). Below is an entry of " Confirmatio Roberti Malherbe militis de pastura. iii.t ovium et. x. anima- lium." Can some Wiltshire antiquary kindly say whether this and the subsequent charters of pasture for three hundred sheep in Berke- ley are mere confirmations of Juliana's grant? I am anxious to have as accurate and full particulars as possible of the extent and method of management of monastic sheep- farms at the end of the thirteenth century. Stanley happens to be one of the first chat I am investigating. ROBT. J. WHITWELL.

C.C.C., Oxford.

LAMBROOK STRADLING. Can any of your correspondents give me information respect- ing a Lambrook Stradling, of Cardiff and Bristol, about 1700? To whom was he mar-

graphical area of this term ? Some guidance as to its origin might result from knowing where it was used.
 * Has anything been done to ascertain the geo-

f An obvious misprint for iii c T

ried ? I seek also for information concerning Lambrook Lewis, about 1710 to 1730, sup- posed to be some relation to the Stpadling and Powlett families. T. P. LEWIS.

67, Paradise Street, Barrow.

" TRESSHER." In the volume for the years 1560-84 of presentments made to the Arch- deacon of Canterbury the following was made from Goodneston-next-Faversham in 1560 :

"Our Parson hath appointed his tressher to be our Reader.

" Our Parson is not resident.

"Our Reader doth not say his service in due time."

Was the " tressher " the man who threshed

the corn for the rector ? In Kent a " trush "

is a hassock for kneeling on in church, so a

maker of these might be a tressher or trusher.

ARTHUR HUSSEY.

Tankerton-on-Sea, Kent.

BYRON'S BUST BY- BARTOLINI. What be- came of the bust taken by Bartolini from Lord Byron in 1822? The following notes- (from the 'Letters and Journals,' vol. vi., ed. R. E. Prothero, John Murray, 1901) refer to this bust, whose ultimate destination is unknown :

Pisa, April 9th, 1822. To Joikn Murray.

Dear Sir, The busts wNl be sent when completed. They are already paid for, &c. Vol. vi. p. 47, letter 992.

The busts which you enquire after have been long paid for, but are not even begun. Bartolini is famous for his delays, something like yourself. P. 62, letter 1001.

Pisa, Sept. 23rd, 1822.

The bust does not turn out a very good one, though it may be like for aught I know, as it exactly resembles a superannuated Jesuit. I shall there- fore not send it as I intended : but I will send you hers, which is much better ; and you can get a copy from Thorwaldsen's. I assure you Bartolini's is dreadful, though my mind misgives me that it is hideously like. If it is I cannot be long for this world, for it overlooks seventy. P. 117, letter 1027. Genoa, Oct. 24th, 1822.

You shall have the busts, also the picture of the Countess G. I hear that both are very like her and much admired ; but West's picture of me for the New York Academy is preferred to Bartolini's bust of me done at the same time at the request of both artists, for I had resolved to sit no more for such vanities. P. 131, letter 1032.

This bust of Lord Byron was (probably) sold, according to his instructions to Charles F. Barry (p. 375), together with his other effects (1824). Inquiries as to the bust have been made of Lady Byron, Lord Lovelace, Lady Dorchester, Mr. Murray, the Magazine of Art, the Studio, and Mr. Claude Phillips, who do not know its whereabouts,