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NOTES AND QUERIES. 



[No. 151. 



opal-like appearance. Should the collodion then 

 appear very turbid, a small ]iortion of spirits of 

 ■wine may be added. The addition of s[)irits of 

 wine increases its sensitiveness, but much dimi- 

 nishes its tenacity, and, I think, the smoothness of 

 the future development of the picture. 



All who have practised with the collodion have 

 found much difficulty from peculiar comet-like 

 spots much injurinj; the effect of the pictures, 

 Avhich I have determined by the agency of pola- 

 rized light to have been small crystals of nitrate 

 of potash; and since getting rid of the nitrate of 

 potash, I have never been troubled with these 

 blemishes. 



Many months since, in conjunction with my 

 friend Mr. W. Brown, I tried the iodide of am- 

 monia in various forms; and during the past 

 •week, the Count Montizon has communicated to 

 me a collodion which he has used consisting of 

 four grains of the iodide of ammonia, two drachms 

 of spirits of wine, and one ounce of ordinary col- 

 lodion. Although these ammoniated collodions 

 appear to have a very rapid action, their results 

 are uneven, and very unsatisfactory, and the whole 

 tone of the picture never possesses the agreeable 

 tint which results from the use of the iodide of 

 silver. Hugh W. Diamond. 



[The length to which Dr. Diamond's vahiable com- 

 munication extends, compels us to postpone the con- 

 thiuation until next week.] 



3RtptfeS ta ^titor caucn'c^. 



Scottish Monumental Brasses (Vol. vi , p. 167.). 

 — The small mural brass at Glasgow Cathedral 

 exhibits the figure of a knight kneeling before a 

 manifestation of divine glory, accompanied by an 

 inscription with tlie date 1605, and indicates the 

 resting-place of various barons of the family of 

 Stuart of Minto (now represented by Lord 

 Blantyre), with " thair Vyffis, Bairnes, nnd Bro- 

 therin." A few other examples of Scottish monu- 

 mental brasses and matrices will be found at p. 649. 

 of Dr. Daniel Wilson's able work on The Archa>n- 

 lagy and Prehistoric Annals of Scotland. E. N. 



Wolsey'and his Portraits (Vol. vi., p. 149.). — 

 It is, I think, doubtful whether any authority can 

 be found for the statement that Cardinal Wolsey 

 had but one eye, though it has been often said so, 

 and in print. A biographer, writing in 1823 

 (Howard, Wolsey and his Times, p, 9.), reports 

 thus: 



" The Cardinal was in person tall and comely, and 

 very graceful in his carriage ; with the single defect of 

 having his right eye blemished by disease from cir- 

 cumstances supposed not very creditable to him." 



But here again there is no authority given. 

 Mr. Howard proceeds : 



" And from whence his portraits, as well as his statue 

 over Christ Church portal, Oxford, are all represented 

 in profile." 



This author, therefore, assumes that all the por- 

 traits of Wolsey exhibit his left eye only; and he 

 adds the following note : 



" Of these portraits the two most authentic are in 

 the College of Physicians, London, and at Christ 

 Church, Oxford." 



Now upon inspecting both these pictures, I find 

 the former displays the right eye, and not the left, 

 wliile the latter exhibits the left eye, and not the 

 right. T. Walesby. 



Waterloo Place. 



Heraldic Queries (Vol. vi., p. 171.).— No. IT. 

 Gardiner or Godfrey ? Gardiner of ToUesbury, 

 CO. Essex, and Godfrey of Bedfordshire and Dart- 

 ford, CO. Kent, both bear Ar. a griffin segreant sa. 

 The crest of the former family is a griffin pass, re- 

 guard, sa. 



No. 13. Probably Tod. The following blazon 

 occurs in Burke's General Armory : " Todd. Ar. 

 iifesse chequy of the first and sa. between three 

 foxes' heads couped gu. Crest, a fox's head, as in 

 the arms." Tod is the Scotch for /ox. 



No. 24. Az. three arrows or, carried br the 

 name of Grandorge. E. N. 



Harvesting on Sundays (Vol. vi., p. 199.). — The 

 following extract from the Injunctions of Queen 

 Elizabeth, 1559, § 20., is symptomatic of the state 

 of feeling with regard to this practice at the period 

 of the Reformation : 



"... Yet notwithstanding, all parsons, vicars, and 

 curates, shall teach and declare unto their parishioners, 

 that they may, with a safe and quiet conscience, after 

 their common prayer, in the time of harvest, labour 

 upon the holy and festival days, and save that tiling 

 which God hath sent : and if for any scrupulosity or 

 grudge of conscience, men should superstitiously a'>)stain 

 from working upon those days, that then they should 

 grievously offend and displease God." 



Of course it is open to dispute, whether Sundays 

 are included in the phrase "holy and festival 

 days." C. H. 



In Cornwall the custom has always prevailed in 

 wet and catching weather, which is by no means 

 uncommon there. Money Is not paid for the work 

 done, but, a supper given to the men. 



What divines say, I know not. A. Holt White. 



Scotch Psalms (Vol. vi., p. 200.). — If your cor- 

 respondent will refer to Archdeacon Cotton's 

 Editions of the Bible and Parts thereof, in English, 

 from the Year 1505 to 1850, printed a few months 

 "since at the Oxford University Press,^ he will find 

 a copious account of all the versions of the 

 Psalms and the various editions. 



Rous's translation was first printed, In a very 



