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authority for it being " the Acts of the Martyrdom, written shortly after the event." Werner was a boy of fourteen, whom certain Jews of Oberwesel murdered at the Passover of 1 287. They concealed the body in a pit, but a strange light revealed the spot. Mr. Baring-Gould adds, in a note, that there is no evidence for the alleged canonization by Martin V. in 1430, though a "processus" was drawn up. C. S. W.

In Husenbeth's 'Emblems of Saints,' Dr. Jessopp's third edition (1882), we read that St. Werner was a peasant boy martyred by the Jews, A.D. 1285, and that in some ancient representations of him he is shown carrying a hod. Oddly, Dr. Owen, in 'Sanctorale Catholicum,' does not notice him.

HARRY HEMS.

Fair Park, Exeter.

This saint is honoured in the Catholic Church on the 19th of April. See the ' Acta Sanctorum' for this day. In France he is usually called St. Vernier. H. GAIDOZ.

22, Rue Servandoni, Paris.

For a mention of " the boy Wernher, pricked to death with needles, worshipped as a martyr at Bacharach, 1432," see Milman's ' History of the Jews,' iii. 225, 11.

EDWARD H. MARSHALL, M.A.

Hastings.

The festival of this boy saint occurs on 19 April. See the list of saints in Potthast's 'Bibliotheca Historica Medii ^Evi.' There is not a biography of him in Butler's ' Lives of the Saints,' but it is pretty certain that MR. HOOPER will find an account of him in the ' Acta Sanctorum.' EDWARD PEACOCK.

FROBISHER FAMILY (9 th S. i. 508). If MR. PIGOTT will refer to 6 th S. iii. 311, he will find a reply of mine to a query similar to his, and giving nearly all the information and references he requires about the Frobishers. I then wrote, " Hopkinson's pedigree bringing them from Chirk, in North Wales, is rather improbable,'' and I think so still. (See Harl. MS. 4630, f. 190.) There is no necessity to go to Wales, for the name occurs in the Poll Tax for Yorkshire, 1379, at Stanley, in Wakefield parish (Matilda Forbuschour iiij' 1 ), though not at Altof ts ; and I added, " Perhaps the original furbishour of armour from whom this family had its name lived and plied his craft in that very town," i.e., Wakefield. Flower's 'Visitation of Yorkshire,' 1563 containing the Frobisher pedigree, but nothing about Chirk in it has sim ,/ >en printed by the Harleian Society. T *&^-.liest will at York

is that of Oliver Furbyshour, chaplain, dated 1455, to be buried in Wakefield Church ; and the next that of John " Frobyser " of Altof tes, one of the king's coroners for the co. York, dated 20 Sept., 1542, proved 20 April, 1543.

A. S. ELLIS. Westminster.

JOHN LOUDOUN, GLASGOW COLLEGE (9 th S. i. 328, 436). I have a reference (mislaid at this moment) picked from Chalmers under either Brown or Sloan, at any rate from an account of some old English-speaking "Irish" worthy recorded there wherein the fact is incidentally mentioned that Loudoun was an " Irishman " whose personality had been the main cause of first attracting the mind of the ambitious Ulster student to the college at Glasgow. C.

REV. MR. MARRIOT (9 th S. i. 249). The Rev. Randolph Marriott was rector of Darfield, Yorks (having been presented to the living in 1732 by the Hon. John Finch), till his death in 1782. A monumental tablet to his memory is on the wall north of the altar with this inscription :

In Memory of Randolph Marriott, D.D., fifty years Rector of this

Parish, who died 6th of May, 1782, aged 82,

And of Lady Diana his wife

(daughter of Basil, fifth Earl of Denbigh),

who died 29th of March, 1758, aged 49.

Their remains are deposited in a vault

contiguous to the north side of this wall.

During a happy marriage of 25 years

they had fourteen children,

seven of whom surviving

joyn in offering this testimony of respect

to their justly revered parents.

The Darfield registers will, of course, give some particulars of his family, and some further information may be gained from Burke's ' Royal Families and Royal Descents ' (London, 1851), vol. ii. Pedigree XX. I also notice that the monument says that the Lady Diana was daughter of the fifth earl of Denbigh, where MR. MASON, in his query, has/owr^A. Dr. Marriott rebuilt the rectory of Darfield at, I believe, his own cost. Whether the Rev. Mr. Marriot who died in 1732 was connected with the rector of Darfield or not I cannot say. F. J. LANE.

Humberstone Vicarage, Grimsby.

" DEWY-FEATHERED " (9 th S. ii. 7). The refreshing effects of dew on slumbering vege- tation are manifest, and have been recognized from early days. The phenomena are sug- gestive of some of the most striking examples of Scripture imagery. The Psalmist (e.g., Psalm cxxxiii. 3) asserts that the communion