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about six feet long. Having never seen it I can- 

 not say if these particulars are' strictly correct : I 

 heard it so desci'ibed in a recent lecture on the 

 antiquities of this town. If tradition is to be re- 

 lied on, this relic cannot be less than a thousand 

 years old. I do not know if it comes within the 

 province of this inquiry to notice the more peace- 

 ful insignia of the pastoral office. I refer to the 

 mitre and crosier of Bishop Morley in Winchester 

 Cathedral ; and others of a much older date are 

 to be seen there, which are attributed to Bishop 

 Edendon, the predecessor of Wykeham. In some 

 accounts of Winchester I have read that the battle- 

 axe of Colbrand, the Danish giant who was slain 

 in single combat there by Guy, Earl of Warwick, 

 was preserved until the reign of James I. Query, 

 what has since become of it ? 



Henky W. S. Tatlob. 

 Southampton. 



Bishops, Natives of Devon and Cornvmll (2"'* S. 

 iii. 148.218.) — I omitted to mention "Old Fuller" 

 and Prince's Worthies of Devon in the list of books 

 which I recommended to your correspondent, but 

 have since looked over my MS. History of the 

 English Episcoj^ate, and made the following notes. 

 London has produced more bishops than any 

 county besides. 



Edward Coplestone (Offwell), Llandaff, 1828. 

 Richard Courtenaj' (Powderham), Norwich, 1413. 

 Thomas Spratt (Tallatoii), Peterborough, 1684. 

 John Jewell (Berinber), Sarum, 1559. 

 Thomas V. Short (Dawlish), St. Asaph, 184G. 

 John Prideaux (Storoford), Worcester, 1641. 

 j\ugustus Short (Bickham), Adelaide, 1847. 

 W. Hart Coleridge (Thorverton), Barbadoes, 1824. 

 Francis Fulford (Great Fulford), Montreal, 1850. 

 John W. Colenso (Devonport), Natal, 1853. 

 William Greentield (Cornwall), York, 1305. 

 Baldwin (Exeter), Canterbury, 1186. 

 William Courtenay (Axminster), Canterlury, 1381. 

 John Gervase (Devon), Winton, 1262. 

 Peter Courtenay (Powderham), Winton, 1487. 

 Kichard Beadon (Pinkwortliy), Gloucester, 1789. 

 John Conj'beare (Devon), Bristol, 1750. 

 John Luxmoore (Oakhampton), Bristol, 1807. 

 John Gilbert (Plymouth), Yor'li, 1757. 

 John Stanbury (Morthow), Bangor, 1448. 

 John Arundel (Lanhere), Chichester, 1458. 

 Robert Chichester (Exeter), Exeter, 1128. 

 John Chanter (Exeter), Exeter, 1186. 

 Walter Bronscombe (Exeter), Exeter, 1258. 

 Walter de Stapledon (Annery), Exeter, 1307. 

 Thomas Brantingham (Exeter), Exeter, 1370. 

 John Arundel (Cornwall), Exeter, 1502. 

 Gervase Babington (Ottery), Exeter, 1595. 

 Nicholas Monk (Potheridge), Hereford, 1661. 



Mackenzie Walcott, M.A. 



Inn Signs painted by Ejuinent Artists (2""^ S. 

 iii. 8.) — No one has ibllowed up the suggestion 

 of your correspondent Cuthbeet Bede. As a 

 commencement I would observe that there is a 

 sign at the east end of Oxford Street, near Soho 

 Square, the reputed work of Hogarth, known as 



the " Mischief." See a description in the Illus- 

 trated London News of Dec. 13, 1856, on London 

 Signs, art. " Man Loaded with Mischief," where it 

 is said the authorship is " specified in the lease " 

 of the house. Heney W. S. Taylob. 



Southampton. 



Dr. Bongout (2"'* S. iii. 268.) — I presume I 

 have before me the portrait mentioned by J. O. 

 It has this inscription : 



« Dr. Eobt. Bongout, 177-. J. Collyer, Sculp." 

 In Wadd's NugcB Chirurgicce, or Biographical 

 Miscellany illnstrative of a Collection of Profes- 

 sionul Portraits, is the following entry : 



" Bongout, Robert, M.D. J. Collyer, sc. 1770." 

 The lettering and date differ from those of the 

 portrait before referred to, though possibly it may 

 be the same engraving. Mr. Wadd has not added 

 any illustrative note, as he probably would have 

 done had he known anything of the original of the 

 portrait. He seems to have taken Dr. B. for a 

 bona fide individual. M. N. 



NOTES ON BOOKS, ETC. 



Tlie new Number of The Quarterly Review abounds in 

 papers which are at once full of amusement and informa- 

 tion. What a pleasant one is the opening one on " Pe- 

 destrianism in Switzerland," and how sound is the advice 

 with which it concludes. The article on Mrs. Stowe's 

 Dred and "American Slavery," is one of more painful 

 interest : as is also that which succeeds it, on " Lunatic 

 Asylums." This is followed by a paper which all must 

 read with interest, on a subject which might well fill a 

 volume, instead of an article in Tlie Quarterly, namely, 

 " English Political Satires." The theme is a capital one, 

 and the writer has done it justice. The next paper, on 

 " Photography," is written with a right feeling for the 

 Art, and a sense of the short-comings of many of its fol- 

 lowers. This is followed by " Roving Life in England," 

 which forms an amusing review of Mr. Borrow ; and the 

 review winds up with two political pieces de resistance — ■ 

 one on " Persia," and the other " On the New Parliament 

 and its Work." The titles of the articles will show that 

 Tlie Quarterly maintains its character for pleasant and 

 re.adable papers. 



The followers of good patient Isaak, or rather of his 

 scholar Charles Cotton, will do well to look to a little 

 volume just published under the title of The Practical 

 Angler, or The Art of Trout Fishing more particidarly 

 applied to Clear Water, by W. C. Stewart. The writer, 

 who appears to have written his works, after the fashion 

 of Dr. Kitchener, with the rod in one hand and the pen 

 in the other, broaches some new theories, calculated to 

 startle the prejudices of the brothers of the angle. But 

 he reasons well ; and as the May-fly will now be upon the 

 waters, we advise them to give Mr. Stewart's directions a 

 fair trial. If they do, we hope they will find his promise 

 of a well-filled pannier realised to the full. 



Under the title of Modern English Literature, its 

 Blemishes and Defects, by Henry H. Breen, Esq., our 

 quondam correspondent has produced an agreeable 

 volume, which deserves perusal for its temperate and well- 



