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Queries.
We must request correspondents desiring information on family matters of only private interest to affix their names and addresses to their queries in order that answers may be sent to them direct.
Dr. Gideon A. Mantell, F.R.S.—The portrait of this distinguished geologist, by Masquerier, hangs in the rooms of the Royal Society, but I cannot trace a bust of him by Edward M. Richardson, exhibited at the Royal Academy in 1855, three years after Dr. Mantell's death. It is desired to place a profile portrait plaque on the house in Lewes in which he lived whilst making his remarkable discoveries in the Sussex Weald, and for this the bust is essential.
Richardson exhibited 45 pieces of sculpture between 1829 and 1866—28 of them in the R.A. Sidney Spokes.
4, Portland Place, W.I.
BARON GRANT. When and where did the
lines about Baron Grant originally appear ?
In * The Romance of Madame Tussaud's '
they are given as follows :
Kings can titles give, but honour can't,
So title without honour's but a barren Grant.
I have heard them quoted differently : -
Honours a King can give, honour he can't,
Honours without honour are a Baron Grant.
Can anyone give the correct version ?
G. L.
BEAUCHAMP; MOSELEY : WOODHAM (WoD-
HAM).' Can any reader give me a description
of the arms of these three families ?
An heiress of a Beauchamp in Essex
married a Dawnay in King Stephen's reign.
A Moseley heiress of Co. York manied a
Dawnay in or about the year 1644, and
heiresses of the Whitworth family, quartering
Woodham or Wodham of Durham, married
a Legard, an heiress of which family also
married a Dawnay.
ARTHUR F. G. LEVESON GOWER.
Society of Antiquaries, Burlington House.
SONG-BOOK BY TOBIAS HUME. Can any
reader locate a book of songs entitled
- First Part of Ayres French Polish and
Others,' composed by Tobias Hume, and published in London by John Windet in 1605 ? I am doing a piece of graduate work at the University of Pennsylvania on the Life and Works of Tobias Hume, and this book would be of vast service to me. I should be perfectly willing to buy the book .if I could only procure it. (Miss) MARIE C. F. LEHMUTH. ST. JOHN THE ALMONER. Can anyone i kindly give me more information of this
saint than is already contained in Mackey's
| 'Lexicon of Freemasonry.' He has been canonized by both the Greek and Roman Churches bis festival among the former occurring on Nov. 11 and among the latter on Jan. 23. He was a son of the King of Cyprus in the sixth century. He gave up all chances to the throne to go to Jerusalem in order to assist the knights and pilgrims visiting the Holy Sepulchre. He does not appear to be recognized as a saint by the I English Church. ROY GARART.. Royal Artillery Mess, Kowloon, Hong-Kong. [The account quoted by our correspondent j hardly seems correct. The* father of St. John j the Almoner was Epiphanius, Governor (not I King) of Cyprus. John was born at Amathus, | in Cyprus, c. 550, and died there 616. As a young man he married and had children ; having lost his wife and children he entered the religious life. His course was determined by a vision of his youth in which he saw an olive -crowned i maiden who told him that she was Compassion, | eldest daughter of the Great King. He therefore | gave himself to works of benevolence, and when, ! at the request of the Alexandrians, he was made | Patriarch of Alexandria by the Emperor Heraclius, | he used all the powers and opportunities of his position for the relief of the unfortunate. Many stories are told of his indefatigable charity. He reorganized the system of weights and j measures in the interests of the poor, and | set himself strenuously against official corrup- ! tion. When the Persians sacked Jerusalem in ! 614, John sent supplies to the Christian refugees. The Persians occupied Alexandria, whereupon j the Patriarch was forced to flee to his native ! city, where he died. His body was taken suc- I cessively to Constantinople, Ofen, Toll and Pres- ' burg Cathedral, where it now lies. The authorities i for his Life are Simeon Metaphrastes and Leontius, Bishop of Neapolis in Cyprus. Leontius's work professes to be merely supplementary to a Life of St. John (now lost) by Joannes and Sophronius. We have it in the Latin translation made by Anastasius the Librarian. As to St. John the Almoner having been the original patron of the Knights Hospitallers, this seems to be a mistake grounded upon the erection of an altar to him in the Hospital at Jerusalem, the patron of the Order being St. John Baptist. Our correspondent may be interested to know that a thirteenth-century MS. at Trinity College, Cambridge given to the College by Thomas Neville (Master 1592; d. 1614) contains a trans- lation of Leontius's Life of St. John the Almoner into French verse.] LAUNCHING OF SHIPS. Is this done stern foremost for mechanical reasons, or is there any tradition or custom to account for it ? ROY GARART. Royal Artillery Mess, Kowloon, Hong-Kong.
