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 9 th S. II. Nov. 26, '98.]

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point of a stiletto. The design was mountec on black and autotyped. The indentation made by the stiletto caught the light anc shade and gave an effect of low relief. This was hinted at in the name given to the firsl set of " cameos " published, viz., ' The Sculptor caught Napping,' twelve illustrations to nursery rhymes. In later editions of this work black silhouettes were contrasted with the white cameos on the same page, to in- crease the decorative effect.

Mr. Bentley published two of the 'Ingoldsby Legends,' 'The Witches' Frolic ' and ' The Bag- man's Dog,' with designs in cameo, and per- mitted the autotype in the use of another legend, 'The Smuggler's Leap,' which was illustrated in like manner for private circulation.

The autotype process is distinctly the best for reproducing these cameos, but is too costly for large editions.

JANE E. COOK.

[With this communication is forwarded for the Editor's acceptance a reduced print, conveying some idea of the two processes. This the Editor thankfully acknowledges.]

PETER THE GERMAN (9 th S. ii. 168). Peter the German, King of Hungary, was the son of William of Burgundy and Gisela his wife, sister of King Stephen of Hungary, and daughter of Geysa, king of the same, and Adelheid, sister of Mieceslaus I., Duke of Poland, his wife. He married Judith, daughter of the Emperor Otho II., and had one daughter, Adelheid, wife of Albert the Victorious, Margrave of Austria. Otto Urseolo, Doge of Venice (d. 1025), married a sister of Geta or Gela (Geysa?), King of Hungary. JOHN RADCLIFFE.

ARMS WANTED (9 th S. ii. 187). The reply to the first part of W. C. B.'s query is as follows : (1) Fox of Chacombe, co. Northampton : Gules, a chevron erminois between three lions' heads erased or ; on a chief barry nebulee argent and purpure a pale azure charged with a pelican of the third, all within a bordure of the same charged with ten hurts (Anne, daughter of Michael Fox, married Walter Savage, of CJanfield, co. Oxford, 'Visit. Oxon., 1574') ; (2) Wright of East Mayne, co. Hants : Gules, a bend ermine between two martlets or; (3) Freme of Lippiat, co. Gloucester : Argent, a chevron sable ; in chief a bar engrailed gules.

With regard to the second part of the query, I can only add that without a more definite description it is almost impossible to identify the shield in question ; it might possibly have belonged to Culley, co. North-

umberland, or perhaps to Smyth, co. Bedford (1580). These, however, are merely guesses.

LONSDALE.

The arms of Freame are thus described in Eudder's 'Hist, of Gloucestershire,' Ciren- cester, 1779, p. 293 :

"Against the east wall of the chancel [Bisley] is a monument with an inscription for Thomas Freame, of Lypiat, Esq., who died in 1659, and his arms, viz., (1) Azure, a cross flory gules between eight ears of ripe wheat, stalked and pendent, proper - r (2) a fess between three birds ; and opposite to it is a handsome monument and memorial in Latin for William Freame, his son, with his effigy holding a book in his hand. He died in 1696."

See also, for the family, p. 713.

ED. MARSHALL, F.S.A.

MILL PRISON, PLYMOUTH (9 th S. ii. 308). The Berkshire Militia was quartered in these barracks in 1812, and had probably been garrisoned there in 1796 when the regiment was in that neighbourhood.

EMMA ELIZ. THOYTS.

There was a " new prison," so mentioned in 1695 ; and in the Western Antiqiiary of April- May, 1890, it is asked if its site was "the place now used as barracks at Millbay, close to the railway station." W.

This is assumed to be the place now used as barracks at Millbay, close by the railway station, referred to in an existing document, dated 1695, as " the new prison."

HARRY HEMS.

Fair Park, Exeter.

THE FIRST LORD MAYOR OF LONDON (9 th S, ii. 308). In 1354 (Thomas Legge, Mayor) King Edward III., by royal charter, granted permission to the Mayor to have gold and silver maces carried before him, and some writers consider that the appellation " Lord "' was added at this date, either complimentary or by a grant ; also that the style of Right Honourable came into use about the same period, though it is more likely it was in 1452,. when King Henry VI. called Godfrey Fielding, Mayor, to be a member of his Privy Council. The chief magistrate was styled Lord Mayor by King Charles II. in 1665.

"A Brief Chronicle of Successe of Times,' Lond., 1611, p. 575, says :

"King Richard also (at that very time) [1189] appointed a supreame Officer above the rest by the name of Maior, which worde was borrowed from Jord; a word used by the Franconians and old Saxons, their Neighbours (of whom Englishmen lave their Originall), but called Maire, as the French did their Maires of the Pallace. Thus was ,he chiefe Governor called Lord Maire or Maior, >ecause they understood not that the epethite
 * he Haebrew word Mar, and signifieth Dominus,