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note gives, under date 1518, the name as Sir William Pontifex, clerk. Mr. James Gilbart, "supervisor," was apparently his prede- cessor. A. W. HARBOTT. Forest Gate.

HOLY WELLS (9 th S. ii. 469).' Ancient and Holy Wells of Cornwall ' (1894), M. and L. Quiller-Couch joint authors, contains a tnirty-one-page preface treating upon the history of holy wells from the earliest times.

HARRY HEMS.

Fair Park, Exeter.

PATTENS (9 th S. i. 44, 336, 413, 471 ; ii. 95, 235, 334, 432, 494). There used to be a riddle, " Why is a wife like a patten ? " The answer was, " Because she is a clog." A good bishop was once asked this riddle by a subaltern, saw the obvious reply, but was too courteous to give it. A moment's thought brought him the much more suitable answer (to his mind), " Because she elevates the soul."

J. C.

LEGEND (9 th S. ii. 489). If S. will look at Lever's novel 'Jack Hinton,' chap, xxxviii., "St. Senan's Well," I think he will find the subject he asks for. O. CROMWELL.

"SABLE SHROUD" (9 th S. i. 445 : ii. 133, 231, 357, 397). Will R. B. be good enough to mention the Act of Parliament he refers to as having altered from fine to imprisonment the penalty for burying in material other than woollen ? The Act 30 Car. II. c. 3, which repealed 18 Car. II. c. 4, did not impose imprisonment, nor did the amending Act, 32 Car. II. c. 1 ; and the prohibition was removed by 54 Geo. I [I. c. 108, which repealed those Acts of 30 and 32 Car. II.

GEO. WILL. CAMPBELL.

Leamington.

ATTRIBUTES OF PRUDENCE (9 th S. ii. 467). At Nantes there is a figure of Prudence with two faces, one old and the other young. See Didron, "Ann. Archeologiques, xx. 52. Prudence is also represented on a capital of the twelfth century at Cluny (Hid., xxvii. 337). There is on the shrine of St. Peter Martyr, in the church of St. Eustorgio at Milan, a figure of Prudence. She "holds a book and has three faces" (Webb, 'Con- tinental Ecclesiology,' 1848, p. 209).

EDWARD PEACOCK.

BRASS AT ST. ALBANS (9 th S. ii. 468). Chauncy's 'Hertfordshire' notices the tomb of Sir Bertin Entwysel, Knt., who died 28 May, 1455, slain in the first battle of St. Albans fighting for the king, quoted in Nicholson's small 'Abbey of Saint Alban,

1870, p. 85, where it is added that these monuments disappeared early in this century. W. C. B.

TOLSTOI (9 th S. ii. 387, 457). I fancy the desired information should be obtainable by applying to Edward" Cazalet, Esq., the President, or to the Hon. Secretary of the Anglo-Russian Literary Society, Imperial Institute, South Kensington. It is announced as one of the main objects of the Society to promote the study or Russian by English- men, and vice versa. H. E. M.

St. Petersburg.

SPANGO (9 th S. ii. 448). There is a Spango Water in Dumfriesshire, lat. 55 27' N., long. 3 56' W. EVERARD HOME COLEMAN.

71, Brecknock Road.

BROTHERS BEARING THE SAME CHRISTIAN NAME (9 th S. i. 446 ; ii. 51, 217, 276). There is a curious case in point recorded in the parish registers here. Amongst the baptisms is the entry of John, son of John and Sarah Page, baptized 26 March, 1780. A corresponding entry also occurs on 26 March, 1781. There is no record of the death of the first John in the burial register in 1780-1, and the record of the burial of John Page, aged seventy -four, on 9 December, 1854, though doubtless referring to the second John, more nearly accords with what would have been the age of the first. JOHN T. PAGE.

West Haddon, Northamptonshire.

In the Historical MSS. Commission Report on the Duke of Somerset's papers (Fifteenth Report, App. vii., p. 144) there is mention in an award of 20 September, 1505, of " John Halkar, the eldre, and John Halker and John Halkar his sonnes." Q. V.

MR. NEILSON forgets 'The Comedy of Errors,' in which two brothers are called Antipholus, and two other brothers are called Dromio. The play turns very much on the confusion caused by the sameness of the names as well as the sameness of appearance. E. YASDLEY.

TITLES (9 th S. ii. 467). I agree with ST. SWITHIN. A great mess is made regarding titles especially those of courtesy. I came across one in the ' Autobiography of Xewraan Hall,' just published. At p. 137 we find "Lord Douglas" mentioned. The reference is to Lord Francis Douglas, who was killed on the Matter-horn. And readers of 'Nicholas Nickleby ' will remember how we find " Lord Frederick Verisopht " and " Lord Verisopht"; while Mrs. Nickleby builds a