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NOTES AND QUERIES. [io s. i. FEB. 20, 190*.

amount of ingenuity will turn bladum, which means "corn," into a querne or hand-mill, and ME. MACMICHAEL may therefore abandon the belief that " Querne " (a very late form, by-the-by) alludes to the sign of a miller or baker.

As regards St. Mary Axe, no one disputes the fact that in the seventeenth and eigh- teenth centuries the sign of the "Axe" was a comparatively common one, and Axe Yard and Axe Alley were very possibly named after it. But this fact is very slightly relevant to the point at issue. In order to bring conviction to my mind, MR. MAC- MICHAEL must show that this sign existed at the date of the compilation of the Rotuli Hundredorum, and must also give some explanation of the anomalous form "apud Axe." It is rash to argue about thirteenth- century facts from seventeenth-century data. This being the case, I am afraid I can hardly admit the potentiality of MR. MACMICHAEL'S hypotheses, while I think there is some pre- sumptive proof of mine. My suggestion, at all events, fits in with the Latin descriptions of the church, while analogies may be found in the case of St. John's and St. Stephen's, Walbrook. W. F. PRIDEAUX.

Ajaccio.

" GOING THE ROUND" : " ROUNDHOUSE" (10 th S. i. 9, 76). The conjecture that going the round (usually plural) had its origin in the watchman's rounds is correct. It is interest- ing to note that there is in German a similar expression, die Eunde gehen (thun). This was borrowed from the French faire la ronde about the time of the Thirty Years' War, and first had reference to the watchman's going his roimds. In the United States a rounds- man is a policeman who inspects other police- men on their beats.

CHARLES BUNDY WILSON.

State University of Iowa, Iowa City.

CARVED STONE (10 th S. i. 109). It is im- possible to know what the stone may be from the description given. If MRS. HUNTLEY will send me a photograph, good rubbing, or accurate drawing, I may be able to express some opinion about it.

(Dr.) J. T. FOWLER, F.S.A.

Durham.

RELICS OF ST. GREGORY THE GREAT (10 th S. i. 106). The sentence MR, WAINEWRIGHT quotes from my reply to MRS. CLINTON'S query is almost verbatim from Gregorovius ('Tombs of the Popes,' p. 17, Eng. trans., 1903), who says : " In the year 729 his re- mains were transferred to the interior of the basilica, where Gregory IV. erected an altar

in his honour. His tomb has perished, and his marble effigy in the Vatican crypt was never a part of the original monument, but served merely as a decoration of the Ciborium of Innocent VIII." MR. WAINEWRIGHT may be glad to know of the ' Tombs ' volume, which costs only a few shillings.

C. S. WARD.

SIR HENRY CHAUNCY (10 th S. i. 66). A catalogue of the sale by auction of the effects of Charles Chauncy, M.D., F.R.S., and Nathaniel Chauncy, issued in 1790, is in the Corporation Library, Guildhall. It is divided into four parts, and contains : 1. A list of antique marble figures, busts, and bronzes ; 2. A catalogue of their libraries ; 3. Their collection of natural history ; 4. An account of their prints, drawings, and miniatures. Prices and purchasers' names are appended in MS. Articles respecting this family have also appeared in 1 st S. ix. ; 5 th S. viii., ix. ; 6 th S. iii., xi. EVERARD HOME COLEMAN.

71, Brecknock Road.

FROST AND ITS FORMS (10 th S. i. 67, 116). It may be well to note under the above heading that lightning sometimes, though I understand but rarely, produces frondlike patterns, such as are frequently seen on window-panes after a hard frost.

On Sunday, 22 August, 1897, a severe thunderstorm occurred over this town. A house was struck, and among other damage done therein, a chimney-piece was broken and a mirror standing thereon shivered into many fragments. On the board behind the glass, at three of the corners fernlike patterns were imprinted. The force which produced these pictures did not act in the same way in the fourth corner, where nothing definite was to be seen. The likeness to the fronds of the common bracken was so exact that several persons drew my attention to it, asking for an explanation, which it was not in my power to give. I was at the time anxious that photographs should be taken, but this, I think, was not done.

EDWARD PEACOCK.

Kirton -i n-Lindsey.

RIGHT HON. E. SOUTHWELL (10 th S. i. 8, 56). I have before me Thorpe's catalogues for 1827-8, 1829-30, 1831, and 1836, but cannot identify the diary inquired for. In the latest catalogue an addition of some forty pages consists almost entirely of letters and State Papers from the Southwell collection, a most important supplement to the 1834-5 cata- logue mentioned by MR. COLEMAN.

ALECK ABRAHAMS.

39, Hillraarton Road, N.