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 9°-S. VL Nov-17.1900-1 NOTES AND QUERIES. 389 memory of the grandmother of the late Duke of Buccleuch, who died 21 Nov., 1827, and this bears the name of T. Campbell. In the same church. and against the pillar of the south side of the nave, is a stone tablet to Thomas Johnson. Can you inform me who he was? The church registers, which date back to 1552, have been searched, but throw no light upon the subject. SPENCER PERCIvAL. Gold Street, Kettering. SEAL ENGRAVER.-I have a well-cut car- nelian seal bearing, on a stormy sea. a modern ship driven before the wind. It bears also the letters L. W. G. as the initials of the engraver. Can any one tell me his name? Gao. WILL. CAMPBELL. Leamington. RAWLE.-8C&H any one give me information concerning the marriage of Isabel, daughter of John Rawle, of Lichfield, and John White, of Stanton St. John, Oxfordshire? It pro- bably took place about 1589. (Mrs.) F. B. TROUP. OH`well House, Honiton. GEO. OFFOR’S LIBRARY.-Is anything known of what became of this library? To judge by the works he mentions and quotes as owned by him in his ‘Memoir of Tyndale.’ prefixed to the 1836 edition of Tyndale's Bible, it must have been choice. F. M. [See ante, p. 84.] CCLUMRARIA, ANCIENT Dove on PICEON COTI-:s.-Where can I find any articles deal- ing with these, and where can examples be seen ? I understand there are three in North- umberland (? where); and there was one, I believe, until recently at Hatfield Broad Oak, Essex. The story is told that landowners built these on the boundary of their property, so that the birds might feed on their neigh- bours’ crops, a very commendable plan, but. as every one probably did the same, it was not such a one-sided arrangement as the plan would indicate. There was a belief, too, that if there was more than one dove-cote on an estate it would entail misfortune te the owner and his family. W. B. GERISH. Bishop’s Stortford. ARMOUR IN PoR'rRAI'rs.- The portraits of Major-General Mascarene (died 1760) and of Jeffrey, Lord Amherst (died 1797), represent them as wearing full suits of armour, though armour had been laid aside before 1650. Was It usual during the eighteenth century for military men of rank te be painted as wear- A SREPHERDS’ RING.-I have been reading a magniloqluent, and in other respects inter- esting litte book called ‘The Last of the Climbing Boys,’ by George Elson. The author and his brother, when boys, set off on their “ nomadic wanderings ”:- “To Boughton Green Fair we went next, where there was a maze called a Shepherds’ Ring, an attraction which was the origin of the fair. After learning the puzzle ourselves. we earned a. good many coppers by showing other people how to thread the mystic circle.”-P. 32. Will any Northamptonshire correspondent say if this be still in existence, describe its structure past or present, and tell if there be any survival of custom connected with it? ST. SWITHIN. W. E. FORSTER.-W. E. Forster’s statue in the Victoria Embankment Gardens shows him as wearing his watch in his right-hand waistcoast pocket. Was that a habit of the right honourable gentleman or a mistake on the part of the sculptor? W. CURZON YEo. A “ SMITHFIELD.”-ID a Welsh paper I have just read that a certain lady of benevolent instincts has ofi"ered to provide “a free library and a Smithfield ” for the town of Newtown. What is a Smithfield ? HARRY HEMS. Fair Park, Exeter. J on CIIARNCCR, FOUNDER or CALCU'r'rA.- He seems to have entered the Compan 's service in 1668. When did he go to Benga ? W. CRooxE. Langton House, Charlton Kings. - ANCIENT CARTHUSIAN MONASTERIEB IN ENGLAND AND SCOTLAND.-I am desirous of finding a plan, picture, or engraving of the monasteries as they existed when occupied by the Carthusian monks. Monasteries: Witham, Hinton. Totnes, Sheen, London, Coventry, Hull, Epworth (Axholme), Mount Grace (Yorks), Beauvale (Notts), Oakham, and Perth. May I ask the assistance of your readers? CHARLES C. THORNTON. Primrose Club, St. J ames’s. BURIAL-PLACE or WILLIAM, SCN or HENRY I. - In the grounds of a private house at Fal- mouth there is a mound surmounted by three large unhewn stones arranged in the shape of the letter II. According to alocal tradition of long standing. the body of Prince William, son of Henry I. (wrecked in the “White Ship” off Barfieur in 1120), was washed ashore at the'spot and there buried. In support of the tradition, it is asserted that the name of the ing complete armour? M. N. G. | house and estate referred to-“ Gyllyngdune ’