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 NOTES AND QUERIES.

[9 th S. II. JriA- 2, '98.

possession of Dr. Stukeley in 1764? It is sup- posed to be somewhere in or about London.

E. A. LUNN.

CADOUX. I shall be most grateful if any of your correspondents can give me any information as to the family of Cadoux, especially with regard to the occurrence of the name in Shropshire. H. B. HUDSON.

SONG WANTED. Can any reader tell me where to procure a song about an Irish will, with this refrain ?

Then hurrah for my grandfather Brian ! I wish he was living, I 'm sure ; For then, don't you see, he 'd be dyiu', And faix he would leave me some more.

J. HOLLAND. 24, Gordon Street, W.C.

' THE CAUSIDICADE.' In a letter before me dated 21 June, 1743, occurs the following :

"There is a poem lately published, entitled 'The Causidicade,' which has been universally read, and afforded a great deal of diversion, as it particularly enters into the characters of the most eminent in the profession of the law."

Is anything known of this poem ?

0. L. S.

SAXE - COBURG - GOTH A. Saxe - Altenburg and Saxe-Meiningen carry on an inescutcheon the arms of Saxony (barry of ten or and sa., with a garland vert in bend) crowned. Saxe- Coburg has no crown. What is the reason ?

N. T.

ARMY LISTS. Where can the most complete series of Army Lists be seen ?

(Miss) E. E. THOYTS. Sulhamstead Park, Berks.

TELESCOPE. Is Dr. Herschel's forty-foot telescope still at Slough; and is it still in the possession of the family ? J. A. L.

Dublin.

SHEPHERD'S CHESS. How was this played? It is mentioned in 'Lorna Doone,'chap. xxxvii. I do not remember meeting with the name elsewhere. " Push-pin," in the same sentence, is mentioned both by Shakespeare andHerrick. JONATHAN BOUCHIER.

EDUCATIONAL SYSTEMS. The trust deed of our endowed schools here, dated 1825, pro- vides that the children shall be taught to "read, write, and cast accounts upon the Lancastrian plan, or Bell's system." Informa- tion concerning these systems of education will be appreciated by JOHN T. PAGE.

West Haddon, Northamptonshire.

[See 'D. N. B.' under Lancaster and Bell.]

REV. JOHN FLOWER. He was rector of Stourmouth, in Kent, 1580-99, where six of

his children were baptized, and he himself buried, 31 May, 1599. Any further particulars acceptable as to parentage, wife, &c. Was he a prebendary of St. Paul's, 1579-99?

ARTHUR HUSSEY.

Wingham, Kent.

FAR WELL PEDIGREE. I shall be greatly obliged if any one will give me the maiden name of Mary, widow of --Barber, or Barter, Esq., who married, secondly, on 25 Jan., 1605, Christopher Farwell, Esq., of Totnes, by whom she had a family ; also the maiden name of the wife of their eldest son, Chris- topher Farwell, of Totnes, who represented Dartmouth in the Long Parliament, and died 1672, aged sixty-three. The pedigree merely calls her " Madam Jane Farwell," and her burial is so entered at Totnes in 1676. As men in those days did not usually go far afield for their wives, the names required may pro- bably be found in Devonshire. The last marriage might have been a year or two before 1644, or possibly as far back as 1635. COL. MOORE, C.B. and F.S.A.

Frampton Hall, near Boston.

ST. WERNER. Who was this saint ; and what is the legend referred to in the follow- ing passage ?

" The Jews, hated for their faith, and because they held the world to such an extent in their debt, were on that festival [the Passover] entirely in the hands of their enemies, who could easily bring about their destruction by some false accusation. Not infrequently through some contrivance a dead child was secretly introduced into a Jewish house, to be afterwards found and made a pretext for attack. Great miracles were sometimes reported and be- lieved as having happened over such, a corpse, and there are cases in which the Pope canonized such supposed victims. St. Werner in this way reached his honours, to whom was dedicated the magnificent abbey at Oberwesel, now a picturesque ruin, whose carved and towering pillars and long-pointed win- dows are such a delight to the tourists who pass on pleasant summer days, and do not think of their origin."' The Jews,' by J. K. Hosmer, 1889, p. 168.

JAMES HOOPER. Norwich.

ORDER OF ST. GERMAIN. Can any reader inform me where I can obtain information concerning the Order of St. Germain, or any other Jacobite league which enrolls member ; at the present time ? STUART.

[See 8 th S. v. 127, 234 ; xii. 71.]

WITHRED, KING OF KENT. In a fifteenth- century MS. I find it stated that one of the chronicles records the journey to Rome of Wictred, Widred, or Withred (or Wyctred, Wydred, or Wythred), King of Kent (died 725). I have searched through many of the