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not add * many returns of the season.' She resides with her youngest daughter, Mrs. McLean, who, although about sixty-five years of age, is an outworker on the Ardgowan estate. Mrs. McEwan can now read without the aid of spectacles, the use of which she discarded about ten years ago. She is rather deaf, but has all her other faculties, and assists in the work of the house while her daughter is at work. Her husband, who died when over eighty years of age, was a native of Glendarnel, and at the time of their marriage and till his death was employed in the powder-mills. Mrs. McEwan's grandmother was one hundred and three years of age when she died, and her great-grandmother one hundred and five years. Mrs. McEwan is in excellent health, and from her appearance may even break the latter record. Her family [have] resided in the Glenlean district of Argyllshire for the past five hundred years."

ROBERT F. GARDINER. 252, Langside Road, Glasgow.

[We fancy instances of the kind are fairly common.]

A BOTANICAL CHRISTENING. The January number of the St. Mark's Parish Magazine, & monthly record of the church thus named in Coburg Road, Camber well, contains the fol- lowing notice of a baptism which is perhaps unique in its way: "Dec. 3: Violet Rose May Ivy Stocking." " May " is a popular name for the hawthorn ; so that four plant-names have been given to this sprig of humanity with an ill-matched surname, prevented itself from being botanical by the final syllable. I en- close a f ragmen toi the publication containing the notice. F. ADAMS.

WE must request correspondents desiring infor- mation on family matters of only private interest to affix their names and addresses to their queries, in order that the answers may be addressed to them direct.

VAN DER MEULEN AND HUCHTENBURG. Can any of your readers suggest the date and subject of a gallery picture said to be by Van der Meulen, representing the siege of a town fortified by walls and ditches, and apparently lying not far from the seacoast? Numerous cavalry and infantry support the siege. The scene is probably Flemish. Is it known for whom another gallery picture representing the siege of Namur by Huchtenburg was painted % Portraits of William III. and Lord Churchill on horseback appear in the fore- ground. H.

HERALDIC. The assistance of your readers is solicited in identifying some coats of arms found on an ancient leather cover

in the vestry of Sweffling Church, Suffolk. The difficulty consists in the tinctures not being indicated in the tooling on the leather. Further, the coats are somewhat common ones, and, differenced by tinctures, are borne by several families. Still the combination of five coats or quarterings may enable some of your readers to identify the family to which they belong, and thus assist in assign- ing an approximate date to the leather cover. The arms may be those of a priory or some ecclesiastic. Sweffling is near Saxinundham, and the locality may assist in determining the question. 1. A lion rampant. 2. A chevron between three mullets. 3. A cross fleury. 4. A bend dexter. 5. Three pikes impaling the same. Each of these on a separate shield. 1 and 2 are repeated on the cover, indicating that they are the dominant arms. J. H. RIVETT-CARNAC.

Schloss Wildeck, Switzerland.

VELMATIUS AND HIS ' CHRISTEID.' Can any reader suggest the reason why this work was placed on the ' Index Librorum Prohibi- torum ' in the year 1603? The poem, a com- position of about eight thousand lines in Latin hexameters, is one of the precursors of ' Para- dise Lost.' I know little about Velmatius, and cannot tell whether my edition of his work (Venice, 1538) is the editio princeps or not. RICHARD H. THORNTON.

Portland, Oregon.

[So far as we know, yours is the first and only edition.]

CHARLES BARBANDT (OR BARBANT), organist to the Bavarian Embassy, London, in 1764. Is anything known of his life and works beyond what is to be found in 'D.N.B.'and Gillow's * Bibliographical Dictionary of Eng- lish Catholics'? S. G. OULD.

THE DRESDEN AMEN. Will any one oblige me with its history? S. G. OULD.

"THE EVERLASTING GOSPEL." Where can I find an account of the alleged reception of the golden plates containing the " Everlasting Gospel " by the monk Cyril from an angel ? The vast amount of literature on this Gospel, in connexion with the life of John of Parma and Joachim, which is available, does not tell the story of Cyril. W. A. L.

Hackensack, New Jersey, U.S.

[Concerning what is called in ' Le Roman de la Rose' "the gospel perdurable," otherwise the "Euangelium Eternum sive Euangelium Spiritus Sancti, it may be worth while to consult Skeat's ' Chaucer,' i. 447, note on line 7102, and Southey's ' Book of the Church,' chap. xi. It is not pretended that you will find there what you seek.]