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of the East Angles to those of the bishop.
And this very circumstance marks the great
antiquity of the silver mace which is carried
before the dean and canons, on which are
embossed the ancient arms of the bishopric
with those of the deanery. Cantelupe was
appointed Chancellor of England under
Henry III. in 1265. Many are the interest-
ing actions recorded of him in Mr. S. Baring-
Gould's 'Lives of the Saints' (2 Oct.). It is
somewhat surprising that no account of this
great man is to be found in Newman's ' Lives
of the English Saints'; but a full account
will be found in the ' Dictionary of National
Biography,' not, however, under either
- Thomas' or 'Hereford,' but under 'Cante-
lupe.' He died at Civita Vecchia on his return to England from Home. His attend- ants separated his flesh from the bones, burying the former with pomp at Monte Eiascone, and bringing the latter back to England. His bones were translated to a more magnificent tomb in 1287. It is asserted by the Jesuits of St. Omer that they are in possession of an arm of St. Thomas. The paternal coat of arms of Cantelupe, con- tinued by the Bishops of Hereford to the present time, is Gules, three leopards' heads reversed, jessant as many fleurs-de-lis or.
J. HOLDEN MACMlCHAEL. 161, Hammersmith Road.
Dr. Robert Owen, in 'Sanctorale Catho- licum,' under the heading of " October 2 : A.D. 1282 " (p. 396), says :
" At Hereford in England, this is the Feast of S. Thomas de Cantilupe, Bishop and Confessor. He is the Patron of Montefiascone in Italy :
At faire Mount flascon still the memory shall be
Of holy Thomas there most reverently interr'd. Drayton, ' Poly-Olbion,' Song xxiv.
- " All the bishops of Hereford since his time, in
honour of him, doo beare his coate of armes as the coate of their See viz., G. 3 leopards, ieasant 3 Flowerdeluces 0.' Godwin, * De Prsesulibus Angliae.' "
HARRY HEMS.
Fair Park, Exeter.
COL. MALET will find an account of St. Thomas of Hereford in Stanton's * Meno- logy of England and Wales,' and also in Alban Butler's ' Lives of the Saints,' under 2 October. EDWARD PEACOCK.
Wickentree House, Kirton-in-Lindsey.
"GET A WIGGLE ON " (10 th S. ii. 28, 153). It may interest your querist to know that this "dreadful phrase" is used by motor-men and conductors (guards) on American street-cars (tramway-cars) when they wish to accelerate the speed of a person who is dilatory or too deliberate in boarding a car. The phrase is
used more frequently in addressing women
than in addressing men, because men are
quicker in their gait and occasion less delay.
The phrase, as used by motor-men and con-
ductors, is vulgar and in every way offensive.
Any one addressing a woman thus, "Madam,
come ! quick ! get a wiggle on ! " should be
regarded as having insulted the woman, and
should be dealt with accordingly.
FREDERIC ROWLAND MARVIN. 537, Western Av., Albany, N.Y.
JERSEY WHEEL (10 th S. ii. 208). I possess a Jersey wheel, and shall be happy to send MR. THOS. RATCLIFFE a photograph of it if he will communicate with me. These wheels were formerly used for spinning wool in the largest of our Channel Islands, hence the name. CHAS. F. FORSHAW, LL.D.
Bradford.
'Jersey Spinners' formed the subject of two long articles in 4 th S. xii. 127, 193, by which it appears that the island of Jersey was formerly famous for the manufacture of woollen goods, u Jersey " being still a common name for a woollen shirt. The 'Imperial Dictionary ' describes a " Jersey " to be the finest of wool separated from the rest. Might not, therefore, a " Jersey wheel " have been used in the process 1
EVERARD HOME COLEMAN. 71, Brecknock Road.
Probably this is a spinning-wheel used before the introduction of machinery, when the great manufacture of the Isle of Jersey, as well as of Guernsey, was the working up of native wool. The word "Jersey" is still synonymous for the finest kind of wool, the great staple article of manufacture in the island having been that of worsted stockings which were made of the best wools grown there. J. HOLDEN MACMICHAEL.
GRAHAM (10 th S. ii. 149). I would advise MR. W. M. GRAHAM EASTON to write to the Registrar and Superintendent of Records, India Office, Whitehall. I found out all I wanted to know about my own relatives who belonged to the H.E.I.Co. M.A.OxoN.
JOANNES v. JOHANNES (10 th S. ii. 189). With due respect to the Registrar of the University of Oxford, I think my friend MR. PICKFORD, if he wishes to latinize his name, will do wisely if he employs the form Johannes. In Greek, which has no symbol for a medial aspirate, Joannes is the only possible form, but as a representative of the Hebrew Yokhanan, Johannes is surely pre- ferable. The aspirate, which is really a
