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 9"- S. IV. DEC. 23, '99.] 523 NOTES AND QUERIES. denied by the Rev. Arthur Brown, who wrote a tale about them called ' The French Prisoners of War' (London, Hodder, 1894 or 1895), with plans and plates. A full account of a riot among them is given in a Norwich newspaper, the frig, 20 Oct., 1804, in the Free Library, Norwich. See the 'Life of George Borrow,' by W. Knapp, 18.99, pp. 32-4, where are notices of the French prisoners at Norwich in 179G-1804. G. B. M. BRETON CALVAKIES (9th S. iv. 398).—Besides those mentioned by MR. THOS. A. MARTIN may be named fine old calvaries at Guehenno and at Arzano, and a beautiful modern one at St. Pol-de-Leon. In the one little village, called Larapaul, upon the island of Ushant, there is a striking calvary of painted wood. It is perhaps a hundred years old. I possess two large calvaries, the figues rather over life- size, made of painted wood, and each about two hundred years old. Ipurchased them a few years ago at Brest. They had formerly stood near Du Conquet (the Land's End of France), and had just previously been dis- carded for new ones fashioned in the dark granite of the locality. Unfortunately, during the last thirty years, to my own personal knowledge, scores—yea, I fear, hundreds—of charming old calvaries have been cleared away in Brittany for new ones, the latter generally possessed of very little artistic merit. HARRY HEMS. Fair Park, Exeter. "PEOPLE OF THE RED-LETTER"(9th S. iv. 418). —Formerly the calendar in the Book of Com- mon Prayer was printed in black, with the saints' days and holidays in red ink. Dickens, in ' Bleak House' (chap, xlix.), says :— " It is the old girl's birthday; and that is the greatest holiday and reddeit-Mter day in Mr. Bagnet's calendar." Thomas Dyche, in his ' New General Eng- lish Dictionary' (London, 1754), describes a "Red Letter Man " to be "a great observer of church holidays, a Rowan Catholic." EVERARD HOME COLEMAN. 71, Brecknock Road. PRESERVATION OF SILK BANNERS (9th S. iv. 459).—I fear oil would not answer, as it would darken and discolour the silk. Picture varnish would be better ; but it would, even if laid on very thin, make the fabric shiny, hard, and brittle. I believe a coat of thin size would do, or perhaps varnish specially made for water- proofing silk. But if COL. MOORE applies to any artists' colourmen they could, no doubt, supply him at a moderate cost with the correct medium (as used by painters of flags and banners). I would specially recom- mend Reeves & Sons, Limited, 53, Moorgate Street, and 13, Charing Cross Road. I think their " Fixatif " (for fixing crayon and char- coal drawings) might answer the purpose. HERBERT B. CLAYTON. ENTWISLE FAMILY (9th S. iv. 438).— The admirably annotated 'Admission Register of the Manchester School,' which forms vol. Ixxiii. of the Chatham Society, furnishes the following information of the Entwisle family. The name of the eldest son of Thomas Entwisle was also Thomas. He married Mary Elizabeth, the eldest daughter of Christopher Harland, late of ASK bourne, Derbyshire, and went to reside at Wolfrayes, near Christchurch, Hampshire. He was there about the year 1867. Of the second son, John, no more infor- mation is given but that in 1867 he was unmarried. Arthur, the third and youngest son, pro- ceeded to Oriel College, Oxford, and was placed in the first class in " disciplines math, et phys." at the Michaelmas examination of 1835, and elected in the following year Fellow of Brazenose, graduating M.A. in 1837. He died 31 May, 1839, at the early age of twenty- six. It may possibly interest MR. MICHELL to know that the sister of these scholars, Mary, married Sir John William Lubbock, Bart. The father of these children, Thomas Ent- wisle, married Elizabeth Garnett, and both families stood high in the esteem of Man- chester. Mr. Entwisle died at the age of sixty-eight on 26 January, 1843. RICHARD LAWSON. Urmston. ' AN APOLOGY FOR CATHEDRAL SERVICE' (9th S. iv. 419).—I beg to inform MR. RICHARD LAW- SON that the author of this book was John Peace, librarian of the City Library, Bristol. I possess several privately printed pamphlets by the same writer, chiefly on cathedral matters; likewise several of his autograph letters. His charming and original nook- plate (representing the interior of a library) may still be occasionally met with. JOHN S. BUMPUS. Stoke Newington. The author of this work was Mr. John Peace, the City Librarian of Bristol, and a friend and correspondent of Wordsworth. The book was dedicated to Wordsworth "as a mark of veneration for a Poet only not divine." In the 'Memoirs of Wordsworth,' by his nephew, cd. 1851, vol. ii. p. 376, may be seen a letter from the poet to Mr. Peace,