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26 April, 1842 (No. 9331), for preparing canvas for covering roofs or for use as floorcloth. He is described in the patent as of " Wey- mouth Street in the County of Middlesex, gentleman."

Claridge was the first to introduce asphalte pavement into England, but he was not the inventor, except in the restricted legal sense of that word. R. B. P.

RlVER NOT FLOWING ON THE SABBATH (9 th S.

xi. 508). Izaac Walton says, " Josephus, that learned Jew, tells us of a river in Judea that runs swiftly all the six days of the week, and stands still and rests all their Sabbath." This may be a clue for K. P. D. E. to follow up. E. MARSTON.

NEWSPAPER CUTTINGS CHANGING COLOUR (9 th S. xi. 89, 217, 297, 491). Of late years I have generally used starch for mounting photographs or for sticking newspaper cuttings into my scrapbooks. It is pleasant to spread and clean withal, and thus far the effect produced is all that could be desired ; but, of course, Father Time may have a laugh against me one of these days, and my heirs and assigns may wish that I had employed something more robustly adhesive.

ST. SWITHIN.

LADY HESTER STANHOPE (9 th S. xi. 466). I have in my possession a copy of the ' Life and Letters of Lady Hester Stanhope,' by the late Duchess of Cleveland (her niece), London, 1897, from which it appears that her eldest brother, then Lord Mahon, escaped from semi-imprisonment in his father's house at Chevening, about the year 1800, and went to Germany " in order to be placed at a foreign universityatErlangen "; there the Margravine of Brandenburg Baireuth took him into her favour. Lord Mahon returned to England in 1803. H.

LONG MELFORD CHURCH, SUFFOLK (9 th S. xi. 367, 472). The church of the Holy Trinity, Long Melford, is well known to me, as I have paid many pilgrimages to it* and spent long hours within its walls. The replies to CROM- WELL'S query make no mention of a book by E. Lauriston Conder, entitled ' Church of the Holy Trinity, Long Melford, Suffolk : a Monograph ' (London, Dryden Press, 1887). This book contains a fine series of archi- tectural drawings.

There is some magnificent fifteenth- century painted glass preserved in the east and two west windows of this church. A description of the figures will be found in an article by C. Baily, read at the evening meetings of the

London and Middlesex Archaeological Society, 1871. There are also two exceptionally fine brasses to ladies of the Clopton family, c. 1480. They wear the butterfly headdress, and are robed in heraldic kirtles and mantles. These are mentioned and described in Boutell, Haines, and other books on monumental brasses. In Neale and Le Keux, 'Views of Collegiate and Parochial Churches,' Melford Church is described, and an interesting list of the utensils and furniture belonging to the church in 1529 is reprinted.

Within the last two or three years the brick tower, date 1725, has been replaced by a noble structure worthy of the building. Unfortunately, for want of funds, it lacks completion. Q. MONTAGU BENTON.

157, Chesterton Road, Cambridge.

CARDINALS (9 th S. xi. 490). Richelieu was created a cardinal priest on 5 September, 1622, and Mazarin attained the same rank on 10 December, 1641, but in neither case is the title known (see Cristofori, 'Storia dei Cardinali di Santa Romana Chiesa,' Roma, 1888, p. 270). The ' Biographic Universelle,' xxviii. p. 3, and the 'Nouvelle Biographic Generale,' xxxiv. 563, give the date of Mazarin's elevation to the cardinalate as 16 December. If he ever received sacred orders, which is doubtful, it must have been late in life (Intermediaire des Chercheurs it Curieuoc, xii. 359, 408, 429). Antonelli became cardinal deacon of the title of Sta. Agata alia Suburra on 14 June, 1847 (Cristofori, p. 234). He is said in the * Annual Register ' for 1876, p. 210, to have been ordained priest, but no date is given.

JOHN B. WAINEWRIGHT.

Antonelli was not a priest. It is well to bear in mind that a cardinal is not neces- sarily an ecclesiastic, but is a prince of the Roman (Pontifical) Court. THOS. WHITE.

BALLADS AND METHODISM (9 th S. xi. 442). Some years ago one of the innumerable sects in Dublin, acting on the dictum of one of the Wesleys " that the Devil should not have all the good music," began to publish hymns set to public airs : the thing took for a time, till unfortunately a hymn beginning,

How sweet to spend the evening hour, was published set to the very popular air ' Carolan's Receipt for Drinking.' This, how- ever, was too much ; the multitude went into convulsions of laughter, and the publication ceased. K. J. J.

CARSON (9 th S. xi. 488). John Maxwell, of co. Tyrone, gent., was married in St. Peter's Church, Dublin, 12 February, 1728, to Rosanna