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served was that of Middlesex, for the County Courts of that county are, by the Act which extends the jurisdiction of the Middlesex County Court to execution against the per- son, distributed according to hundreds, the deputies sitting in courts appointed for such hundred. As to the duties of a hundred, it was liable for damage occasioned to property by riotous or tumultuous assemblies ot the people by action, the process in which is served upon the high constable : if the plaintiff recovers damages, the sheriff, on receipt of the writ of execution, makes put a warrant to the treasurer of the county, direct- ing him to pay the amount; and he also reimburses the high constable for his ex- penses. See Tomlins's 'Law Diet., 1838, v. ' Hundred. 3 J. HOLDEN MACMICHAEL.

CHAUCERIANA (10 th S. i. 121, 174).-Please let me add that the reference to Dante, 'Inf ,' v. 120, as being a possible source for Chaucer's line as to how " Pite renneth sone in Dentil herte," was kindly communicated to me by Mr. W. F. Smith, Fellow of St. John's College, Cambridge, who is well known as an authority on Rabelais.

WALTER W. SKEAT.

GUIDE TO MANOR ROLLS (10 th S. i. 169). Having obtained transcripts of Elizabethan Manor Rolls of Ottery St. Mary, I found myself in the same difficulty as that men- tioned by YGREC. Vinogradoff 's ' Villainage in England ' throws some light on the subject. A comparison of other rolls is a great help. Perhaps YGREC would like to arrange to see my transcripts. I should be glad to hear from him on the subject.

(Mrs.) ROSE-TROUP.

Ottery St. Mary.

A. C. SWINBURNE (10 th S. i. 49). The quotation is the first stanza of the poem 'A Word for the Country ' in ' A Midsummer Holiday,' published by Chatto & Windus, 1884. ' H. K. ST. J. S.

COURT POSTS UNDER STUART KINGS (10 th S. i. 107, 173). I am much obliged to MR. MAcMlCHAEL for information respecting above. Can he or any other reader inform me what rank of life the holders of these posts would occupy 1 SUSSEX.

COLLECTORS (10 th S. i. 148). F. O. Beggi had a non-armorial book-plate contain- ing his monogram, but otherwise anonymous. Upon the back of one copy I have seen was written " Dr. Beggi." I imagine that he flourished in the first half of last century, and it may afford your correspondent a clue

to note that the ' Medical Directory ' for 1848 states that Francesco Crazio Beggi, M.D., Modena, 1830, Assist.-Surg. Apoth. "at the late St. John's Hosp.," was then residing at 2, Marylebone Street, Piccadilly. Before the next issue of the ' Directory ' he had " gone away and left no address."

GEO. C. PEACHEY. Brightwalton, Wantage.

RECORDS OF MONASTERY OF MOUNT GRACE LE EBOR' (10 th S. i. 149). See 8 th S. ix. 22, 133, and Lawton's 'Religious Houses of York- shire,' 1853, pp. C8, 69, and references there.

W. C. B.

May I refer COL. SURTEES to Speed and Dugdale and similar works, also to Graves's ' History of Cleveland ' 1 COL. SURTEES seems to doubt that these ruins were formerly a Carthusian priory, but history tells us that the site was chosen as having "been par- ticularly adapted to the rigid order of the Carthusians." The yearly revenue of the priory at the time of the Dissolution was- 3821. 5*. lid. according to Speed, and 323. 2s. Wd. as reported by Dugdale. It was founded by Thomas de Holland, Duke of Surrey, in the time of Richard II.

CHAS. F. FORSHAW, LL.D., F.R.Hist.S.

Baltimore House, Bradford.

WILLIAM HARTLEY (10 th S. i. 87, 156). MISTLETOE is mistaken in his belief (ante,. p. 156) that the late vicar of Exton-cum- Horn was the son of Dr. Hartley. The Rev. Salter St. George John Hartley was, accord- ing to the Harrow School Register, son of Lieut.-Col. J. Hartley, the Old Downs, Hart- ley, Dartford, Kent. We were contemporaries at the school and at Oxford, where he was a. Scholar of St. John's College.

A. R. BAYLEY.

FOSCARINUS (10 th S. i. 127). It is possible Foscarinus Turtliffe was named after either Michele Foscarini, Venetian historian, b. 1632, d. 1692, or Marco Foscarini, b. 1696, Doge 1762, d. 1763. JOHN B. WAINEWRIGHT.

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