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NOTES AND QUERIES.

[9 th S. II. OCT. 15, '98.

tian Library, Florence, are some exquisite illuminations of the signs. Daily Chronicle, 24 March, 1893.

156. Bas-relief figures of the signs are to be seen in the Chapel of the Sacrament in the church of San Francesco at Rimini. 1471. Archceologia, liii. 198. _ 157. In the S. K. M. are twelve large circular medallions, in Delia Robbia ware, each bearing one sign. 1465.

158. Sculptured on the arch of the central doorway of Cremona Cathedral, completed 1491. Murray, ' Northern Italy,' 1847, p. 217. It was used by Count von Hammer Purgstall in a treatise on Mithraic mysteries. 'Diet. Arch.'

159. There is a zodiacal capital in the ducal palace at Venice. Sixteenth century. Ruskin, ii. 352-62. Diet. Arch.'

160. A plan of the zodiac by Christopher Columbus is preserved in the library of Seville Cathedral. He died 1506. Lady Herbert, 'Impressions of Spain in 1866.'

161. The signs are worked in mosaics, after designs by Raphael in 1516, in the Chigi Chapel in San Maria del Popolo, Rome. Fac- similes in coloured paper are in the S. K. M.

162. Round the metal face of a table astro- logical clock, formerly possessed by Queen Bona Sforza, wife of Sigismund of Poland. 1525. In the possession of the Society of Antiquaries. In Archceologia, 1852, xxxiv. 16.

163. Engraved round the front of the cir- cular steel target of the Emperor Charles V. 1550. Cancer is represented as a lobster. In Skelton, ' Meyrick's Ancient Armour,' pt. iii. pi. 53.

164. Engraved round the circular box of a table clock. 1560. Virgo is seated on a unicorn. Archceologia, xxxiv.

165. On the base of a seven - branched bronze lampstand in Milan Cathedral. 1562. A cast of it is in the S. K. M. In Didron, 1 An. Arch.,' xiii.

166. Benvenuto Cellini designed and exe- cuted for Federico Ginori a gold figure of Atlas bearing a crystal globe, on which the zodiac was exquisitely cut on a field of lapis lazuli. Nugent, 'Autobiography of Ben- venuto Cellini,' 1828, p. 101.

167. The signs are beautifully engraved on a richly sculptured vase of precious metal by Benvenuto Cellini (d. 1571). Lady Morgan, ' Italy,' i. 170.

168. Round the face of a clock on the campanile of a church in Cremona. 1594. Murray, 218. In ' Diet. Arch.,' ii. 6, pi. 1.

169. With the meridian traced by Cassini on the pavement of San Petronio, Bologna. He died 1712, Morgan, ' Italy,' ii. 8.

170. The symbols of the signs are engraved in relief on a ring. ? Italian. King, i. 377.

171. The cipher emblems of the signs are found on a precisely similar ring to No. 134. 1 1talian. King, i. 377.

172. In the church of Santa Maria ovvero Napqli. A large plate of it is in Montorio, ' Zodiaco di Maria ovvero Napoli,' 1715, by Gervaroni.

173. Sculptured on the stones of the pec- toral of a full-sized marble statue of Aaron, on the right of the altar in the church in the Piazza Bianchi, Genoa. Wilson, ' Lights and Shadows of Northern Mythology,' 1881, p. 215. A. B. G.

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SIR JAMES STRANGEWAYS, SPEAKER IN 1461. The writer of his biographical notice in the 'D.N.B.' adopts the statement of Man- ning in his ' Lives of the Speakers,' that the James Strangeways who was buried in the abbey church of St. Mary Overy in 1516 was the Speaker of the House of Commons in 1461. This is scarcely possible. Sir James Strangeways was M.P. for Yorkshire in 1448-9, 1460, and 1461, in which last Parliament he occupied the chair. He was also Sheriff of Yorkshire in 1445-6 (already then a knight), 1452-3, and 1468-9. If he survived until 1516 he would be extremely aged. We do not know the year of his birth, but his father, the justice of the Common Pleas, was a serjeant-at- law as early as 1411. I am inclined to think that the Sir James Strangeways who died in 1516 was the Sir James who received knight- hood "at Hoton feld" from the Duke of Gloucester on 22 August, 1481, and was the son of Sir Richard Strangeways who died 13 April, 1488, and grandson of the Speaker. At his father's death he was twenty-eight years old, so he must have been knighted early. The date of the Speaker's death does not seem to be known. It is by no means cer- tain as stated in the ' D.N.B.' that his son predeceased him. The Sir James Strange- ways who received from Henry VII. the grant of the manor of Dighton in 1485 is more likely to have been the grandson, who also would be the knight of the body to Henry VIII. in 1514, and Sheriff of York- shire in 1492-3 and 1508-9. It must be observed that the James Strangeways of 3t. Mary Overy, South wark, whose will was proved in January, 1516/17, is described as " esquire " only. (See ' Wills proved in P.C.C.,' [ndex Library, vol. ii. 507.). W. D. PINK. Leigh, Lancashire.

HANGING IN CHAINS. The following, which appeared in the Daily Neivs of 13 Sep-