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 426 NOTES AND QUERIES. [9th s. iv. NOV. is. -99. graduated in 1799. He had been one of les detenus at Verdun, acting as chaplain, and had many stories to tell of the cruelty with which they were treated. Mr. Maude was a member of the ancient family of the Maudes of Kendal, and was much respected and be- loved in college. Though he held no college office, every undergraduate touched his cap to him. He died in 1852. He gave the fine large folio Prayer Books now in use in the fellows' seats in the chapel, so that two might use them at the same time as brethren. JOHN PICKFORD, M.A. Newbourne Rectory, Woodbridge. To a similar inquiry in some local ' Notes and Queries' the following references were given:—Bright's 'History of England,' p. 1241; Chambers's ' France and its devolutions,' p. 233; Alison's 'History of Europe' (1836), vol. v. p. 114; Chas. Knight's 'Hist, of Eng- land,' vol. iv. p. 70; Thiers's ' Hist, of the Consulate and Empire' (Hohn, 1861), p. 467. CAHHIER. In Henry Cockton's novel 'The Sisters,' first published in the Illustrated London News about 1845, with illustrations by Kenny Meadows, there is a graphic account of the treatment of English prisoners at Verdun in the time of our later wars with Napoleon. This account, in part of which the Emperor figures personally, approaches the scandalous, if not the libellous. But, of course, in those days, and earlier—and also later—nothing was too bad for the "Ogre of Europe." J. W. M. GIBBS. Will D. J. kindly send his address to me ? (Rev.) W. TUCKWELL. Waltham Rectory, Grimsby. SHAGREEN (9th S. iv. 68,115,171, 310, 352).— I am afraid I must maintain that " the art of staining ivory knife-handles a permanent green is also lost." Perhaps I should have stated that I meant the dark rich green one sees in the handles of knives and forks made towards the end of the last century and in the earlier years of this. In modern imitations the colour flies. The beautiful " Scheele's green " (arsenitc of copper) men- tioned by your correspondent is, unfortun- ately, not the tint dear to the eye of the virtuoso. ANDREW W. TUER. The Leadenhall Press, E.G. CHURCHES WASHED AWAY BY THE SEA (9th S. iv. 249, 330).—CANON ISAAC TAYLOR in his interesting list of churches which have been destroyed by encroachments of the sea states that two churches have disappeared at Wal- ton-on-the-Naze in Essex. Morant mentions only one church. Will your correspondent kindly say where the other was situated ? and if at the same time he will give the date as nearly as possible when he saw the coffins sticking out of the cliff he will confer a favour on one who takes a great interest in the history of the place. THOS. BIRD. Roniford. The following remarkable instance of a number of churches, all in one city, being destroyed is worth citing. The reference is to Dunwich, Suffolk :— " It is recorded that at one time there were upwards of fifty religious foundations in the city, including churches, chapels, priories, hospitals, &c. Of its numerous parish churches not one now remains. In Sir Henry Spelman's time the founda- tions of several of the churches and outlines of the churchyards were still visible, viz., those of St. Michael, St. Mary, St. Martin, St. John, St. Peter, and St. Nicholas. The church of All Saints re- mained longest, but is now a roofless building, and its churchyard will soon be swept away piece- nical by the sea. It was rebuilt at some distance inland in 1826. In the time of Camden the borough was regarded as ruinous, for lie says :—' Now, by a private pique of Nature (which hath set no bounds to the incursions of the sea), the greatest part of it is swept away by the violence of the waves and it lyes now in solitude and desolation.'" The quotation is from Dr. Hume's 'Ancient Meols,' 1863, p. 382. ARTHUR MAYALL. The church and village of Shipden on the Norfolk coast were washed away by the sea some time near the end of the fourteenth century. . JOHN T. PAGE. West Haddon, Northamptonshire. THE AUTHORSHIP OF ' THE RED, WHITE, AND BLUE' (9th S. iv. 164, 231, 312, 338).—Is T. A. O. quite certain that " J. C. J. misses the point," and that his own assumption is correct, that the words of this song " were an adapta- tion from the 'Columbia' of the United States " ? I would refer him to a previous con- tribution of mine on the subject which appeared in 8th S. xii. 251 ; and the point has not yet been attempted to be answered. It had been said that 'The Red, White, and Blue'song was written in and about the United States, and that " Columbia was easily made Britan- nia there was no trouble in the adapta- tion." I then asked, " Was there not ? " and instanced the first four lines as most fre- quently sung :— Britannia, the pride of the ocean, The home of the brave and the free, The land of a Briton's devotion, What land can compare unto thcet And answers are still awaited to the ques- tions, "By what stretch of poetic licence could Columbia ever have been called ' the