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30 NOTES AND QUERIES. [12 s. VIL JULY 10, 1020. whom she had an only daughter Mary, who married, Oct. 3, 1781, Henry, 2nd Earl of Abergavenny (1785-1843) and Mary, who married (1) William Berney, Esq., of Barbadoes, and (2) Thomas Swynnerton Dyer. Doubts are expressed on these matters. Can any one give positive proofs ? J. F. CRYPTOGRAPHY. Can your readers help me to obtain any book or publication dealing with cryptography ? In two local libraries there are manu- script diaries of prominent public men belonging to the locality in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. The bulk of these is written in ordinary English of the time, but every now and again there occur a few lines written in a peculiar character which is or may be supposed to be cryptic writing, intended to conceal from ordinary readers some facts or sentiments which it might be dangerous to have set down in plain terms. W. S. B. H. CATHARINE MACAULAY AND ST. STEPHEN'S, WALBROOK. Can any one describe the statue mentioned in the following somewhat contradictory extracts, and give details of the time and circumstances of its removal ? Is it known to be still in existence, and if so, where ? ' George IIT., his Court and Family,' 1820 [by John Gait] : " Dr. Thomas Wilson, prebendary of West- minster ... .'lavished large sums upon Catherine Macaulay, the republican historian, in whose honour he was silly enough to cause a marble monument to be erected in his church at Wal- brook, though before he died he caused it to be removed, not indeed so much from a sense of the impropriety of the thing, as out of resentment to the lady, who had displeased him by her [second] marriage." Gorton's 'Biographical Dictionary,' 1828 (Catherine Macaiiley, 1731-91): " While Mrs. Macaulay was in the height of her fame, Dr. Wilson, rector of St. Stephen's, Wal- brook, conferred upon her the unprecedented honour of erecting a statue to her while living in the chancel of his church which his successor thought proper to remove." Ibid. (Dr. Thomas Wilson, 1703-84) : _ " He rendered himself chiofly memorable bv his enthusiastic patronage of the historian, Mrs. Macauley, whose statue, in the costume of the goddess of liberty, be erected in his own church." ' Dictionary of National Biography ' (Catherine Macaulay) : ' [Dr. Wilson] had placed on Sept. 8, 1777 within the altar-rails of St. Stephen's, Walbrook j, white marble statue of her by J. F. Moore, in which she was represented in. the character of istory, with a pen in her right hand, and with 'her eft arm leaning on some volumes of her " His- /ory " : and had built a vault for her remains ,o rest in, but the statue was [on her re-marriage n 1778] taken down, and the vault was sold." Ibid. (Dr. Thomas Wilson) : " Till her second marriage he was a great dmirer of Catherine Macaulay .... having erected marble statue of her, by J. P. Moore, within the Itar-rails of St. Stephen's, Walbrook, which he afterwards boarded up." W. B. H. FANNING. I shall be grateful for any nformation concerning John Fanning, a vriter of acrostics, who lived about 1850. W. G. HARDING, F.R.,Hist.Soc. Christ Church. Oxford. JACOB : EARLIEST USE AS CHRISTIAN STAME. In old records Jacob is frequently 'ouncl as an abbreviation of the Christian lame Jacobus. Was the vernacular Chris- tian name Jacob in use in medieval times, i.e., when records were kept in Latin ? If so, the translation James may not always correct. H. HAMPTON COPNALL. WILD DARRELL. Can any reader give the elate of Wild Barrel! 's trial ? I am acquainted with Lord Macaulay 's reference to his "horrible and mysterious crime " at Littlecote Hall in vol. ii. chap. 9, p. 543 of his ' History of England,' Library Edition, 1881, and with Sir Walter Scott's note in ' Rokeby,' on the subject, as well as the late Nat Gould's page in ' The Magic of Sport.' If there are any other references to this subject I should be glad to hear of them through ' N. & Q. ' or direct. FREDK. C. WHITE. 1.4 Esplanade, Lowestoft. CHRISTIAN NAME LEVARD. Memoranda dated 1623 and 1625, respecting baptisms, are signed by a clergyman, who bears the Christian name of Levard, or Leuard, or Leoard. Is anything known of such a Christian name ? Presumably it would now be Leonard. ROBERT a-ABABRELTON. 30 Killyon Road, Clapham Rise, S.W.8. THE PREFIX "RIGHT HONBLE." The use of this prefix is confined, as I understand, to Peers of Parliament and Privy Councellors. It seems to be gwen sometimes to the wives and widows of such persons. Is this prac- tice strictly correct ? MAGISTER ELEGANTIARUM.