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Colombo, on 4th May, 1845 ; 6. Bishop Gobat, 

 5th July, 1846 ; 7 & 8. Bishops Smith of Victoria, 

 and Anderson of Rupert's Land, on 29th May, 

 1849; 9. Bishop Fulford of Montreal, 25th July, 

 1850; and 10. Bishop Harding of Bombay, on 

 12th August, 1851. The dates are, I believe, 

 correct, but if not, of course I should like the mis- 

 takes to be pointed out. I also desiderate the date 

 of Bishop Binney's (of Nova Scotia) consecration, 

 in March or April, 1851, with names of his con- 

 secrators ; and finally, the place of Bishop Lons- 

 dale's (of Lichfield) consecration, on 3rd De- 

 cember, 1843. If these data are supplied, the 

 lacuna; in my supplemental list of English conse- 

 crations, from the lleformation to the present day, 

 ■will be complete. A. S. A. 



Punjaub. 



A nunting Table. — What is it? The word 

 occurs in a quotation from Dr. Newman in the 

 Irish Ecclesiastical Journal for December, 1852, 

 describing a modern English church. I suppose 

 I shall be saubbed for not giving the passage; but 

 my copy of the journal has vanished. A. A. D. 



John Pictones. — Is anything known of John 

 Pictones, or Pyctones, a person mentioned in a 

 MS. as having taught languages to Queen Eliza- 

 beth when she was young ? C. R. M. 



Gospel Place. — In a definition of the bound- 

 aries of Bordesley Abbey, dated 1645, given in 

 Nash's Worcestershire, there frequently occurs 

 the term " Gospel place," thus : 



" And so to a Cross or Gospel Place near to Brown's 

 cottage, and from thence to a Gospel Place under a 

 tree near to a mill . . . thence to the old Gospel 

 Place oak that standeth on the common." 



I have heard that at each one of these " Gospel 

 places " there was kept up a mound on which it 

 was usual to rest a corpse on its way to the 

 churchyard, during which time some portion of 

 the gospel was read. Can any of your corre- 

 spondents say if such a practice was observed in 

 any other part of the country, its origin, its in- 

 tention, and the period of its discontinuance? 

 And if not, can give any other explanation of the 

 term ? G R. 



York Mint. — Can any of your correspondents 

 inform me of the names of the officers of the local 

 mint at York, instituted about 1696 ? O. O. O. 



Chipchase of Chipchase. — I should be glad to 

 learn if any pedigree exists of the ancient family 

 of Chipchase, or De Chipches (as the name is spelt 

 in pleadings and deeds of the fourteenth century). 

 A family bearing that name appears to have occu- 

 pied or dwelt near the " Turris de Chipches," co. 

 Northumberland, so early as Edward I. ; at which 

 time the manor of Prudhoe, of which Chipchase is 



a member, was held by the Umfravilles. The fact 

 of the principal charges in the armorial bearings 

 of both families being similar, seems to have led 

 to the suggestion that the Chipchases were cadets 

 of the former ; but this opinion is without suffi- 

 cient foundation. A. G. W. 



Newspapers. — Which is the oldest newspaper, 

 town or country, daily or weekly, now published? 

 The Lincoln, Rutland, and Stamford Mercury 

 (weekly), published at Stamford, is the oldest 

 paper I am acquainted with. The paper for the 

 21st January, 1853, is numbered "Vol. 158. 

 No. 8231." This gives the year 1695 as the com- 

 mencement of the paper. Perhaps other readers 

 of " N. & Q." will follow up this interesting sub- 

 ject. Vide Vol. ii., p. 375., and Vol. iii., pp. 164. 

 and 248. L. L. L. 



On alleged historical Facts. — 



" During the troubles in the reign of Charles I., a 

 country girl came up to London in search of a place 

 as a servant-maid ; but not succeeding, she applied her- 

 self to carrying out beer from a brewhouse, and was 

 one of those then called ' tub- women.' The brewer 

 observing a well-looking girl in this low occupation, 

 took her into his family as a servant, and, after a little 

 while, she behaving herself with so much prudence and 

 decorum, he married her ; but he died when she was yet 

 a young woman, and left her a large fortune. The busi- 

 ness of the brewery was dropped, and the young woman 

 was recommended to Mr. Hyde, as a gentleman of skill 

 in the law, to settle her affairs. Hyde (who was after- 

 wards the great Earl of Clarendon), finding the widow's 

 fortune very considerable, married her. Of this mar- 

 riage there was no other issue than a daughter, who 

 was afterwards the wife of James II., and mother of 

 Mary and Anne, queens of England." — A'ews/>aper 

 Paragraph. 



What truth is there in the foregoing statement ; 

 and if in any degree true, what further is known 

 of the fortunate " tub-woman ?" Is her existence 

 ignored in the Hyde pedigree ? J. B. 



Costume of Spanish Physicians. — I have been 

 informed that the Spanish physicians for a veyy 

 considerable period, and even until about forty 

 years ago, wore a dress peculiar to their profession. 

 Can any of your readers inform me where I can 

 find a representation or a description of this dress ; 

 and also whether it would be the one worn by a 

 Flemish physician residing in Spain about the 

 middle of the sixteenth century ? Z. 



Genoveva. — Can any of your readers inform me 

 what history or legend is illustrated by a fine en- 

 graving in line, by Felsing after Steinbriick (size 

 13X11 inches), which has no other clue to its sub- 

 ject than the word Genoveva, in the lower border. 

 It represents a beautiful maiden, with a sleeping 

 child in her lap, at the foot of a beech-tree iu 



