264 
The Tau Cross (2S. i. 211.)—To the in- 
quiry of Burtensts, whether this was the dis- 
tinguishing badge of any religious order in the 
fourteenth or fifteenth century, I reply, that the 
Tau Cross is not the badge of any distinct order ; 
but is called the Cross of St. Anthony, or the 
Egyptian Cross, as it is understood to have been 
adopted by St. Anthony and his monks. It was 
used, probably, in allusion to the verses 4, and 6. 
of the ninth chapter of Ezekiel; where St. Jerom 
understands the mark to have been the letter 
Thau, which, before the time of Esdras, was 
shaped like a cross, as the Greek letter Tau and 
the Roman T, Hence the Vulgate has in these 
verses : “ Signa Thau super frontes,” and “ Super 
quem videritis Thau.” St. Anthony is often 
painted with the Tau Cross on his habit or cloak, 
which is probably what Buriensis remembers to 
have seen. F, C. H, 
Order of St. John of Jerusalem (1* S. xii. 455. ; 
9nd §, i, 197.) — Whether this order has “ really 
been re-established in this country by the autho- 
rity of the foreign branches,” as Z. inquires, I 
cannot answer ; but I know that it is assumed to 
exist by the Freemasons, and kept up in some 
sort among them, I have before me.a printed 
“Service of the Knights of the Temple and Sé. 
John of Jerusalem.” The Duke of Kent was 
Royal Grand Patron of the “ Royal and exalted 
Religious and Military Orders of H. R. D. M, 
Grand elected Masonic Knights Templars K. D. 
O. S. H. of St. Juhn of Jerusalem, Palestine, &c. 
&e. &e.” The Knights of St. John of Jerusalem 
are united in some places in England with four 
other “progressive degrees of masonic knight- 
hood,” as they are styled ; which are, the Knights 
of the Nine Elect, Knights of Kilwinning, Knights 
of the East, Sword and Eagle, and Knights of 
Rose Crucis. ¥. C. H. 
Surnames: Etymologies wanted (2°" §. i. 213.) 
— Mr. Lower will perhaps think with me that 
« Rand,” as a surname, is derived from a place so 
called (probably from Rand, near Wragby, co. 
Lincoln). One of your philological correspon- 
dents will perhaps explain the word ‘“ Rand” as 
applicable to places. Johnson describes it as a 
Dutch word, signifying a border, or seam. 
' J. Sansom. 
Tillemans the Painter (2™ S. i. 195.) — There 
is a short but very comprehensive account of both 
S. P. and P. Tillemans, in Pilkington’S Dictionary 
of Painters, p. 579. H. E. WinKinson. 
Notting Hill Square, : 
Constantia Grierson (2 S. i. 192.) — C. M.C. 
will find a few more particulars (though not all 
he asks for) respecting this lady in the 16th vol. of 
Chalners’s Biographical Dictionary, and in pages 
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