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as the grave was being filled, each stepped solemnly forward and cast his pipe " amang the mools." Can any of your readers explain the significance of this custom ?

J. W. SHAND-HARVEY. Castle Semple, N.B.

WOLLASTON ARMS. Beneath most portraits of William Wollaston, author of ' The Keligion of Nature Delineated,' who died in 1724, his arms are given as those of Wollaston, bearing in pretence a shield with (presumably) the ^.rms of his wife, Catharine Charlton, who is thus indicated as daughter and heiress of an armigerous father. The arms are, or appear to be, Azure, on, a chevron between three sheldrakes or, three mullets sable pierced. In the memoir of Mr. Wollaston it is stated that

"'he married Mrs. Catharine Charlton, one of the daughters of Mr. Nicholas Charlton, an eminent citizen of London, a fine woman, with a good fortune and a most excellent character." Can any of your readers say whether her father was entitled to bear these arms, or whether it was a mere fancy of her husband thus to bear them in pretence ?

ARTHUR W. HUTTON.

" PIG-A-BACK." In an amusing account of undertakers' men enjoying themselves, in the People of 2 October, was the following :

"I knew one eccentric undertaker who, when he -arrived home from any particular big function in the funeral line, used to always insist on his wife .giving him a pig-a-back round the shop."

Is there any authority for this form pig-a- back ? Webster has pickback, pickpack, pick- aback, and pickapack. I had always thought the third of these was the legitimate form ; .but the derivation is not clear to me.

JAMES HOOPER. Norwich.

KENDRICK FAMILY OF WHITECHAPEL, co. MIDDLESEX. I shall be greatly obliged to Any correspondent who can give me par- ticulars, no matter how small, regarding this iamily. I believe they are a Huguenot family, and that they settled in Bethnal Green in 1685 or thereabouts, after the Kevocation of the Edict of Nantes. John Kendrick, silk-thrower, of Whitechapel, whose will was proved in the P.C.C. 23 December, 1758, mentions a son James, a grandson John, and a daughter Elizabeth. To the first-mentioned he leaves lands in Cheshunt, co. Herts, and also property in Shoreditch. I shall be glad to have any proof showing that they are descended from a Huguenot source. C. H. C.

South Hackney.

THE CHURCH (?) AT SILCHESTER. (9 th S. ii. 101, 158, 277.)

I AM sorry that, owing to absence from home and other causes, MR. BADDELEY'S note on this building has remained so long un- answered.

MR. BADDELEY rejects the idea of the building being a church owing to its central position in the city, and argues : " The most natural conclusion, therefore, is that it was simply the Court of Justice." MR. BAD- DELEY is evidently unacquainted with the plan of Calleva so far as it has been exca- vated, or he would not have overlooked what is there patent enough, that the courts of justice for the city were already provided for in the tribunes at opposite ends of the great basilica, a building 270 feet long, which stood within a stone's throw of the little church (as I prefer to call it). Besides these, there are two apsidal and other halls among the build- ings surrounding the forum, which, from their position, were probably used for civil pur-

Eoses. Why, then, should so small a building e wanted for another "court of justice hard by? A reference to the plans of the buildings published in Archaeologia (vol. liii. pi. xli.) will show what a diminutive struc- ture the church is by comparison with those I have mentioned.

MR. BADDELEY further objects to the absence (1) of Christian emblems, and (2) of a baptistery. Seeing that the Silchester building is now reduced to its foundations and mosaic floor, where does he expect such emblems to be found ? Hardly on the floor. Yet a very little ingenuity will convert the central portion of the finer mosaic panel in the apse into a group of four crosses. I do not, however, wish to press this point myself. With regard to a baptistery, it is true that there are no apparent traces of such a build- ing; but I am inclined to ask MR. BADDELEY if he thinks so small a church (its total length from out to out is only 42 feet) had a bap- tistery attached to it. At any rate, there is a well just beyond the apse whence to draw the water. One feature MR. BADDELEY appears to have overlooked, the base of the labrum or laver to the east of the building ; but perhaps he will say, despite its accom- panying catch-pit, that here was a pedestal for an image.

As to the building being merely a civil basilica, can MR. BADDELEY refer us to any examples of similar plan and so small a size, with aisles, narthex, quasi-transepts, and an