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NOTES AND QUERIES, pi* s. ix. APRIL, 1902.

the supplementary volumes of the 'Dic- tionary of National Biography,' in which the epitaph printed in Camden's 'Remaines, 1614, p. 377 (and also, for the reason already given, in 1605), is once more gravely applieo to the second Sir Henry, who died " March 18, 1627," according to the writer. Your esteemed correspondent MR. PERCY SIMPSON gives the following year as the date. It is a matter dealing with the " Old " and the " New Style," I take it, so the latter state- ment is no doubt correct. If reference had been made to this series of 'N. & Q.' the repetition of the ludicrous blunder regarding the epitaph would have been avoided, for in this one thing at least MR. SIMPSON and myself agreed, that the lines could not have been written in 1614 (not to speak of 1605) in commemoration of a man who ended his career in 1628. Apart from this mistake, one regrets that the sketch is so meagre and un- satisfactory, especially so far as the elder Sir Henry Goodyer is concerned.

JOHN T. CURRY.

THE MITRE (9 th S. viii. 324, 493, 531 ; ix. 174). John Sharp, who succeeded Thomas Lamplugh as Archbishop of York in 1691, is also represented in a mitre on his monument in the Ladye Chapel of York Minster. He died in 1713. An engraving of the tomb will be found in Drake, p. 468. The effigy, of the lively kind, has supported itself in a very uncomfortable semi- recumbent position on its elbow for well-nigh two centuries. Looking at it, one remembers a striking passage in Mr. George Gilbert Scott's 'History of English Church Architecture ' touching " the resurrection of effigies." Let me have the pleasure of repeating it :

"In the earliest monumental figures the hands are crossed upon the breast, and the attitude is that of death-like rest. Then, though this quiet slumber is still unruffled, there are signs as of a half- consciousness, and the hands are joined in prayer. The knight reposing upon his tomb becomes aware of his lady lying by his side, and, half in tender- ness, half in sleep, he lays his hand in hers. But the hour of waking is at hand, the stony figures turn upon their sides, they raise themselves slowly upon an elbow, and gaze, still somewhat drowsily, about them. Ere long they rise, now fully awakened, and pose upon their knees in prayer ; soon, grown weary of the pious posture, they seat themselves in curule chairs, with a cold sic sedebat. At the last, clad in toga, or in breeches, as the case may be, they stand erect upon their feet, and marshal armies or harangue senates, in all the affected realism of the stage." P. 166, foot-note.

ST. SWITHIN.

STAUNTON, WORCESTERSHIRE (9 th S. viii. 383, 510 ; ix. 11, 92, 110, 170, 217). The only correspondent who has been able to locate

this parish is SIR CHARLES DILKE. It is eight miles north of Gloucester. Although once, according to Nash, it was granted a charter to hold a market every Wednesday through- out the year, and a fair during the week after St. James's Day, the authorities since have succeeded in making it lost and un- known. Roman remains have been found here, and the church is partly Saxon. The Whittingtons held the manor for some time, but the manor house would appear to have been built by a family whose arms are over the door viz., a lion rampant between crosses fitchy. The doorway is Norman. Gazebrook attributes the arms to De Haute- ville.

One Hawkinus de Hawville was King John's falconer when that monarch hunted at Gloucester, and the question arises whether this was not his residence, being in the Chase of Cors and near unto the Malvern Chase. The arms on a monument in the church are those of the Whittingtons, St. Lowes, Hor- tons, and Stauntons.

I believe that residents in this forgotten parish were disqualified from the office of coroner for Worcestershire because of their distance from Worcester and this fact is recorded of Roger de Staunton, 1316. Wil- liam Whittington married the heiress of John de Staunton, 1399, and held the manor under Roger Mortimer, Earl of March. Any in- formation would be greatly valued.

J. G. HAWKINS.

QUEEN CUNEGUNDA (9 th S. ix. 189). Lut- burg might be an abbreviation of Lutzem- burgum i.e., Luxemburgum, the birthplace of Queen Cunegunda, whose burial-place was, however, Bamberg. H. K.

PORTRAITS OF FEMALE FIGHTERS (9 th S. ix. 68, 156). In the list of female warriors given at the first reference I do not see the name of Mrs. Christian Davies. The second edition of the ' Life and Adventures ' of this British amazon was published on 25 September, 1741 (Daily Advertiser of that date). This Mrs. Davies served as a foot soldier and dragoon in several campaigns under King William and the Duke of Marlborough. She was made a pensioner of Chelsea College by Queen Anne, and so continued till her death. Pos- sibly it contained a portrait for frontis- piece. There is a steel-plate portrait of the

hevalierd'Eon in the New Wonderful Maga- zine, vol. ii. J. HOLDEN MACMICHAEL.

Wimbledon Park Road.

If my memory does not play me false, there

s, in one of the cases in the Castle Museum

at Lewes, a painting of Phcebe Hassel on