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says most, if not all, of the prayers in the mas with the hands open. B. D. MOSELEY.

Burslem.

" THE SIGNS OF THE FIFTEEN LAST DAYS OF THE WORLD." I believe I saw in a glass case in the Archbishop's Museum at Cologne, some years ago, a rather small black-letter Englisl book open at the above subject, with the line "As Jerome wrote from bokes of Jowis. I should be glad to be referred to the saic book, or to anything on the subject, parti cularly in English, Latin, or Hebrew, or tc any pictorial or sculptured representations o it besides the window in All Saints', North Street, York, and a triptych in the Frauen kirche at Oberwesel on the Rhine.

J. T. F. Durham.

FRENCH PRISONERS. In the year 1813 a number of French prisoners of war were interred at Valley Field, in Scotland. Was this a suburb or district near some large town? Information as to precise locality wanted. J. T. THORP.

Regent Road, Leicester.

SAMUEL ASKE. I shall be greatly obliged for any assistance in tracing the ancestry of Samuel Aske, of Dublin, who died in 1684. His daughter Anne Aske married, 25 Jan.. 1686, Joseph Boardman, of Edenderry, King's County. WM. JACKSON PIGOTT.

Dundrum, co. Down.

ANCIENT DOGS. Will any reader kindly inform me what breed of dog is known to have existed in Devonshire in the most ancient times, or where I can obtain the necessary information? W. W. CONNETT.

Knottingley, Yorks.

t AN OLD CLOCK. In a Somersetshire vicarage is an old clock probably about two hundred years old. The name of the maker, engraved upon its face, is " Tobias Fletcher, Barnsley." Is anything known of this artificer? HARRY HEMS.

Fair Park, Exeter.

[The name of Tobias Fletcher does not appear in Mr. Britten's ' Old Clocks and Watches and their Makers.']

" RACKSTROW'S OLD MAN." Who was Rack- strow, who exhibited what appears to have been a waxwork figure of an old man in 1763? H. T. B.

FAGGOTS FOR BURNING HERETICS. It is stated in the Catholic Times for 2 February that " a church in London still possesses an income originally given to it for the purpose

of buying faggots for burning heretics." Can any reader of ' N. & Q.' tell me if this is the case, and, if so, the name of the church ?

FREDERICK T. HIBGAME.

SPANISH AMBASSADOR. Walpole writes to Mann on 9 April, 1764 (Cunningham's ed., vol. iv. p. 218): "I tell you you will be bankrupt ; you will lie above ground in a velvet coffin, like the Spanish Ambassador's in Westminster Abbey ! " Which ambassador is here spoken of ? H. T. B.

ARTHUR PLANTAGENET, VISCOUNT L'IsLE. Where could I find mention of the servants or retinue of Arthur Plantagenet ? Burke's 'Extinct Peerage' says he was "created

Viscount LTsle 26 April, 1533 In the

24th of Henry VIII. Lord L'Isle was con- stituted Lieutenant of Calais He died

3 March, 1541." M. ELLEN POOLE.

Alsager, Cheshire.

DOWNMAN PORTRAIT. John Downman, on a portrait which he executed in 1782 of Henry T. Ward, wrote as follows: "I also drew his beautiful wife and her sister, Miss Hucks, and brother thrice." It was Down- man's custom to make repeats of this kind for various members of the family, and all the nine above named should still be in existence ; but the whereabouts of only two is known, namely, two of the brother William. Can any of your readers assist me in my search for them ? They are, like Downman's portraits, on paper slightly tinted in colour, and would probably be entitled Mrs. Eleanor Ward and Miss Doro- thea B. Hucks. MARCUS B. HUISH.

JOHN BOTONER. I shall be glad to have any particulars of John Botoner, a citizen of Coventry in 1381 A.D. Was he related to the Drothers Thomas arid William Botoner, who 3uilt the steeple of St. Michael's Church, Coventry: and, if so, what was the relation- ship? H. W. U.

BOHUN : PLUGENET. Where shall I find the nost full and reliable pedigree of the Bohun amily, Earls of Hereford ? The few which I lave examined differ from each other in the earlier descents.

I should also like to know where to look apart from Dugdale) for a good account of he Plugenet family of Kilpeck. G. H. R.

WIRE-STRUNG IRISH HARP. A harp on vhich is carved "Made by John Kelly for he Rev. Charles Bun worth, Baltdaniel, 1734," >assed to Mr. Bunworth's great-grandson, Crofton Croker, and is illustrated in