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NOTES AND QUERIES. 



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cated with the garden. Here, however, men had been 

 posted, and all ways of retreat cut off. Fortunately, or 

 rather providentially, the door of one of the corridors, on 

 being swung open, exactly covered that which led to the 

 confessor's rooms. It remained open all the time the re- 

 volutionary ruffians were making their search, and they 

 never knew what it concealed." 



John Williams. 

 Amo's Court. 



©uertei. 



ANCIENT STAINED GLASS FROM COLOGNE. 



In a MS. (penes me), the Diary of Edward 

 Spencer Curlinjj, Esq., who was a Vice-consul, or 

 in some other official capacity upon the Continent, 

 between 1827 and 1837, I find an account of some 

 ancient stained glass transmitted by him from 

 Cologne, which seems singularly enough to have 

 gone " a-begging," and its ultimate fate involved 

 in some obscurity. Thirty years ago there could 

 not have been the rage for renovation of churches, 

 or the setting up of painted windows therein, 

 otherwise Mr. Curling's purchase would have been 

 at a premium. I quote the extract in question, 

 as probably some one may be yet living who can 

 give account of these presumed relics of the re- 

 nowned Albert Durer : — 



" The splendid glass here described was, in 1827, the 

 property of M.leChanoine Linden of Cologne, and minutely 

 examined then whilst in the crypt of one of the churches, 

 and during the time of service when and where the 

 worthy Canon was officiating over head. The following 

 year (in 1828) he had sold the glass to M. Dussel, a 

 glazier near the Cathedral, of whom it was purchased by 

 John Curling, of Offley Moles, near Hitchen, intended for 

 the church there, for about 150/. (in square feet about 

 240) ; was to have been taken at prime cost, and duty by 

 subscription. Owing, however, to influential Quakers of 

 the place objecting to Popish subjects being introduced 

 into a Christian church, the subscriptions ceased and the 

 glass returned to London, where it was exhibited at the 

 Egyptian Hall and Charing Cross, and seen by many 

 Noblemen, Artists, and Antiquaries, all of whom gave the 

 strongest opinion of its beauty and rarity, and of its 

 being a genuine work of Albert Durer; yet no purchaser 

 came forward, and after remaining for several years in 

 the packages it came in, the glass was sold only for what 

 it cost to a dealer at Shrewsbury or Leicester.*" There is 

 no question it would now be worth at least 1000/., be- 

 cause none whatever can be procured on the Continent of 

 similar antiquity and beauty. Almost every frame had 

 legends in Latin in the borders, and the design, drawing, 

 and colors were of the most original and splendid charac- 

 ter, which is not overrated in the printed extracts ; and 

 it would have been bought for St. George's (new) church 

 at Ramsgate, but the figures and subjects were too wide 

 and large for the mullions of the east window to admit 

 without cutting them. 



" E. S. C, Deal, 1848." 



In another portion of the said journal he gives 

 the form, height, and width of the twenty-four 

 frames, together with the subjects, &c. And is 



* In another part of the Diary, Shrewsbury or Lich- 

 JUld is given as the locality of the dealer. 



mentioned as " from the convent of Albertus, at 

 Altenberg, near the Sept Montague." The first 

 cost appears from a memorandum to have been 

 145/., and bought by John Curling for 162Z. A 

 reference is also given to the Gentleman's Maga- 

 zine respecting it. Where may I find this ? 



Ithuriel^ 



WESTON FAMILY, CO. DORSET. 



lam desirous of obtaining some particulars of this 

 family, respecting one of whom, Sir Wm. Weston, 

 Lord Chief Justice in Ireland, temp. EHz., Mr. C. 

 J. Robinson inquired in "N. & Q." (2"* S. v. 359.) 

 In 2°"* S. vii. 485., in reference to his previous 

 inquiry, Mr. Robinson stated the above to have 

 been " buried at Callow Weston, Gillingham, co. 

 Dorset," and that " his monumental inscription is 

 given in Hutchins' Dorset^ It is that of Thomas, 

 " Sonne and heire to Sir W'".," which will be 

 found in Hutchins, " in perpetual! memory " of 

 whom an undated monument still exists in the 

 N. E, corner of the " Thornhill " aisle in Stal- 

 bridge Church, of which parish Calewe, or Stal- 

 bridge- Weston, as it is now called, is a tithing, 

 distant from it about a mile and a half N. W., and 

 about ten from Gillingham. Who was " Ann," 

 wife of the above Thomas, recorded (by name 

 only), on the monument referred to? whose arms, 

 with those of Weston, on separate shields, adorn 

 the pediment, viz., sable, a cross engrailed, or *, 

 quartered with (Uvedale (?)) arg. a cross nioline 

 gules — the other shield has Weston only — arg. a 

 chevron engr. per pale az. and gu. in chief, 2 roses 

 dexter of second sinister of the last. Calewe 

 Weston was the seat of the Weston family from 

 an early period, but I have been unable to trace 

 any remains of a manorial residence in the place 

 still bearing their name.f Where was Sir William 

 Weston buried ? Near the above monument is a 

 plain altar tomb, suggested to have been erected 

 to mark the spot. It is described by Hutchins, 

 but contains no inscription or date, and may more 

 probably belong to one of the Thornhill family — 

 perhaps the builder of the " fayre chapell " re- 

 corded by Leland (vide Hutchins) as lying bu- 

 ried there " on the S. Syde of the quier." I shall 

 be glad of any information relative to the above 

 family, the account of whom, as given in Hutchins, 

 is capable of extension ; and additional particulars, 

 however scanty, will, I know, be welcome to the 

 enterprising firm who are about reprinting the 

 valuable work of Hutchins. The family became 



* These are the arms of Peyton (or Ufford), but I have 

 been unable to trace any alliance with this family. 



■}• There is, or was, I am informed, before Lord West- 

 minster's improvements, a chimney and mantel-piece of 

 very ancient architecture in a cottage at S. Weston, now- 

 occupied by a labourer, which may once have belonged 

 to a house of larger dimensions. 



