V. MARCH 10, 1906.] NOTES AND QUERIES.
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sequent information, however, seems to sho
that a rebus is intended here, and that i
was not a pedlar or tinker who benefited th
church, but a certain John Chapman.
I think that rebuses of a similar kind wer very prevalent in early days, as may be seei in many churches, such as / slip, for Islip bolt and tun, for Bolton ; and the staple an tun cut on the market cross of the town o Swaffham, in memory of Stapleton.
This manner of expressing the name by E rebus was practised both by the Greeks and Romans.
I should be glad of examples of the rebu in other churches in the United Kingdom. JAS. CURTIS, F.S.A.
COPES AND COPE-CHESTS. Has any illus trated account ever been published of th< very fine collection of copes which belongec to Archbishop Laud, and which are preservec and shown to the public with such diffi culty in the Library of St. John's College. Oxford 1 The Fellows refused to allow any of them to be shown at the recent Eccle siastical Exhibition at St. Albans.
Where, besides York Minster and Carlisle Cathedral, are mediaeval cope-chests pre- served? T. CANN HUGHES, M.A., F.S.A.
Lancaster.
" DIAMOND STATE." How old is this name for the State of Delaware ? And what is its rationale? I do not find it in 'The Century Dictionary ' nor in the new edition of Web- ster. In 1875 a Philadelphia contributor to 'N. & Q.' (5 th S. iv. 37) used it quite fami- liarly. Q. V.
SAXON KINGS : LIVING DESCENDANTS. Can the writer of the review of the Marquis de Ruvigny's 'Plantagenet Roll,' published at 10 th S. iv. 138, give full particulars of his supposed discovery of a direct descendant of Saxon kings in a village tailor? From what king, and how, is lie descended ?
Does any English family except the Huddle- stous pretend to such a descent ? or from a Saxon thane ? T. SOMERILL.
[The name Huddleston, which was borne by a tailor in Wharfedale, Yorks, was supposed to be the same as Athelstan. We forget where the in- formation appeared.]
SIR THOMAS PLAYER. The articles in the
- Dictionary of National Biography ' relating
to the two men of this name, father and son, need a little correction, arid are capable of amplification as follows : Sir Thomas Player, the elder, must have been born before 1608, and was therefore probably not the same as Thomas, son of Robert Player, of Canterbury,
who took his M.A. degree at St. Alban's Hall,
Oxford, in 1633. Sir Thomas Player, the
younger, was married to Joyce Kendall, at
Hackney, on 20 April, 1639, at which time
his father must, presurnabty, have been over
forty years of age, and was therefore born
before 1600. Sir Thomas Player, the elder,
had a brother Simon Player, a citizen and
horner of London, who predeceased him,
leaving issue, and whose will was proved in
the P. C.C. If these were not the sons of
Robert Player, of Canterbury, whence did
they spring ? Sir Thomas Player, the younger,
like his father, was of Hackney, in Middlesex,
where they are buried. A tombstone at
Hackney reads as follows :
Here lye ye Body of Sr. Thomas Player, Jun.
who dyed ye 19th of January. 1685 6,
and of Dame Joyce Player, his wife,
who dyed ye 2nd December, 1686.
Sir Thomas Player, the younger, seems to have left no issue. His will and that of his widow were proved in the Prerogative Court of Canterbury. These distinguished citizens of London bore the same arms as the Player family of Gosport and Fareham, in Hamp- shire (whose pedigree is recorded in Berry's 'Hants Genealogies'), and must have been nearly related to them, for the descendants of the Hampshire family possess as heirlooms a miniature portrait of Sir Thomas Player, the younger, as well as the ceremonial sword used by him as Chamberlain of London.
G. R. BRIGSTOCKE. Hyde, I.W.
CLASSICAL LITERATURE AS AN EDUCATIVE FORCE. I shall be glad if any of the readers of ' N. & Q.' will oblige me with the titles of any books, pamphlets, or periodical litera- ture which specially mention, indicate, or lummarize the moral, ethical, practical, or ipiritual teaching of the great classical iterature of the past, in the manner of Hillis's 'Great Books as Life Teachers.' Books written with a special purpose or catalogued under their specific teaching might suffice. Please reply direct.
J. MUIR. 57, Cambridge Mansions, Battersea Park, S. VV.
LlNDO OR LlNDOT, PORTRAIT PAINTER.
n 7 th S. ix. 267 the late REV. E. HUSSEY IDAMSON asked for information respecting 'Lindo, a Portrait Painter," some of whose vork is to be found in the halls of old North- mbrian families, but variously attributed o Lindo, Liudoe. and Lindpt. For example, t Alnwick Castle, according to local his- ories, is lk a full-length painting of Elizth , rst Duchess of Northumberland, by Lindot,
