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12 S. VIII. FEB. 26, 1921.] NOTES AND QUERIES. 171 ^circumstances of the case the effect of filing a bill would be well worth the trial. And I have -accordingly altered that originally drawn by me on behalf of Mrs. Susanna Gordon as Plain tiff and made M.r. and Mrs. Plees Plaintiffs in the proposed Suit in her stead. I have also intro- dxiced the Annuitants and Legatee under Mrs. Susanna Gordon's Will as parties Defendants therein, because Miss Williams, being an Infant, she cannot disclaim, and must therefore be made a Party, &c., &c." Other names occurring in the Opinions are those of Mrs. Williams, Mr. Barnes, and the .aforesaid Mr. and Mrs. Short. The will of a Mrs. Susanna Gordon, of New Milman Street, St. Pancras, widow and .relict of Alexander Gordon, late of Charter- house Square, was proved in 1834. Amongst those mentioned in it are her sons (Richard Osborne, John Rolfe, and George), a de- ceased daughter (Mrs. Mary Ann Bickler), and two surviving daughters (ILaisanna Rolfe Gordon, and Mrs. Hannah 7> /ie Rowett). It seems likely that the R Mr. (William Gordon) Plees 's mother was born a Gordon (? Janet). Any further information will be of interest. F. GORDON ROE. Arts Club, 40 Dover Street, W. FIELDSON FAMILY. I should be much obliged for any information regarding the surname of Fieldson. The family came originally from the city of Lincoln, England. I have been told that it is a corruption of Fielding, Fieldsend, or one of the many ^variations of the name Field, all of which are found fairly frequently. R. L. FIELDSON 74 Hutchison Street, Montreal, Canada. SIR SIMON LE BLANO, Justice of the King's Bench ; who died unmarried Apr. 15, 1816, was the second son of Thomas Le Blanc of Charterhouse Square, London. I should be glad to obtain the date of his birth, or baptism, and the maiden name of lii.s mother, concerning whom the 'Diet. Nat. Biog. x (xxxii. 330) says nothing . G. F. R, B. "PERFIDE ALBION." In a quotation book I find the expression " Perfide Angle- terre " attributed to Bossuet, but who first -called England "Perfide Albion " ? G. A. ANDERSON. Woldingham. SCOTTISH EMIGRANTS AFTER CULLODEN. I have a small illustration of a gold badge with Prince Charles Edward Stuart on it, and the paper from which it was taken says it formerly belonged to an old Scottish family, who migrated to Ireland soon after the battle of Culloden. Does any one know the name of that family ? and if there are any descendants living ? (Mrs.) C. STEPHEN. Wootton Cottage, Lincoln. OLD ANGLO-INDIAN SONGS. Can any one inform me who wrote the following songs, well known to all Anglo-Indians : ' The Buffalo Battery,' and 'Wrap me up in my old stable jacket.' I would also be obliged if some one could give me the words in full. H. E. RUDKIN, Major. Brewery House, Wallingford, Berks. JOHN THORNTON OF COVENTRY, AND THE GREAT EAST WINDOW OF YORK MINSTER. (12 S. vii. 481 ; viii. 52.) MR. JOHN D. LE COUTEUR'S thoughtful and considered criticism of my note on John Thornton, merits an equally careful reply, which I now give. 1. In the absence of any direct evidence, MR. LE COUTEUR, in contending that John Thornton was more probably a practitioner in a school of glass-painting situated at Coventry than, as I suggested, at Notting- ham, is just as likely to be correct as I. The fact that there was a John Coventre working on the St. George's Chapel windows in 1352-3, and a John Thornton of Coventry executing the great east window of York Minster in 1405-8, certainly points to the fact that there were, at any rate, one or more glass-painters there. Bat that Coven- try cannot have been of importance as a school of design is shown by the fact that forty years after Thornton came to York, when we should naturally expect the Coventry school, if it existed at all, to have grown both in numbers and in skill, the order for the windows of the Beauchamp Chapel at Warwick, not many miles away, was not placed there but in Westminster. The reasons for preferring Nottingham as a more probable centre for a school of glass-painting in the Midlands are firstly, that window-making is not only an art but a manufacture, in which the raw material, lead and glass, is heavy stuff. When roads were few and bad, the chief method of transport for heavy goods was by water. Moreover, most of the glass had to be