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vieres. What was the original spelling p the name ? The name of Travers is found i: Domesday Book. In England, in the Middl Ages, there were the names of Maltraver and De Travers ; and in the Pipe Rolls, in ; list of Norman knights in Ireland, is th name of De Trivers. In France there ar two places known as St. Trivier. The name of Travers, Trivers, and Trevers are doubt less of the same origin. There is a familj named Trivess, and another named Trevis in this country, closely related, and eacl tracing descent from a Travers. The nam< of Travers flourished in the North of Eng land, and the r in the second syllable was omitted, or was altered to s, in the case o one or more members who wended their way southwards. MEDIEVAL.

DUCHESS OF GLOUCESTER AND DUKE OF SUFFOLK. Can any reader give me some further information about a minstrel's song c. 1441 or 1450, concerning the Duchess o Gloucester, in which, I believe, the Duke o: Suffolk is described as a fox?

WINIFRED LEE.

The University, Birmingham.

POPE AND GERMAN LITERATURE. Can any reader give me evidence of German poets in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries being influenced by Pope 1 There is a striking coincidence between a poem of Ruckert, trans- lated by Archbishop Trench, ii. 49 (1885 edition), and Pope's 'Essay on Man,' iii. Zlsqq. Has this been remarked before ? Please reply direct. (Rev.) CARLETON GREENE.

Great Barford, St. Neots.

"HANGED, DRAWN, AND QUARTERED." What is the exact meaning, and what is the history, of this form of punishment ?

KAPPA.

[See ' Drawing, Hanging, and Quartering,' 7 th S. xi. 502, and the many references in the Sixth Series there quoted ; xii. 129 ; also under ' Decapitation for High Treason,' 8 th S. vii. 27, 97, 170, and ' Execu- tions at Tyburn and Elsewhere,' 9 th S. ii. 164, 301 vii. 121, 210, 242, 282, 310.]

SALISBURY CADE, son of Philip Cade, of Greenwich, Kent, was admitted to West- minster School, 27 January, 1777, and became a King's Scholar in 1779. I should be glad to know the exact dates of his birth and death. He is said to have died in Jamaica.

G. F. R. B.

SOUL AC ABBEY. A friend wishes to know whether any printed history of the former abbey of Soulac in France, somewhere near Bordeaux, exists. The abbey, I am told, was completely washed away by the sea many centuries ago. L. L. K. '

TEA AS A MEAL. (8 lh S. ix. 387 ; x. 244 ; 9 th S. xii. 351 ;

10 th S. i. 176 )

IN a letter from Barbara, wife of Samuel Kerrich, D.D., vicar of Dersingham, and rector of Wolferton and of West Newton, Norfolk, to her sister, Elizabeth Postle- thwayt, at Denton Rectory, in the same county, I find a reference to afternoon tea as a meal. I give the letter in full on account of the interesting allusions to smallpox, which so long and so direfully ravaged that part of East Anglia :

April 24, 1744.

DEAR SISTER, I am going to write a letter to you, w eh I believe will be all confusion, between the desire I have of seeing you, & of showing you my dear little girl, & y e fear I have of her Health. Mrs. Grigson is just come home from seeing her Friends at Norwich, & Attleborough, & brought such dismal Accounts of Sickness every where, y' have discon- cert'd all our Schemes. She says at Norwich in particular there is a very bad fever & measles besides y e Small-pox & y* so bad y* she left Mr. Grigson at Attleborough & only went to Norwich herself, he having never had y e small pox, & in y e country Towns she pass'd through, people Airing themselves y* look'd very fresh got up of y c small pox, & in one Place no less than three Feather-Beds lay'd in a yard close by y* Road side, where it was known y e small pox had very lately been, that she says she has been in continual fear, we observ'd y e Bill of Mortality, either last week or y e week before was increased 26 in one week at Norwich, it is very sickly hereabouts too, at Lynn there is an exceeding sad fever & very Mortal.

When you see my Cosine Johnson you will be able to give us a true & I hope a better account Torn Norwich, every body here discourage us very much, we have been at Mr. Grigsons this afternoon, <fe there was more Company, and we were talking of our journey, & one of y e Ladies said if we had lalf a dozen Children she thought we might venture ,o carry one abroad this sickly Season, but as it was, she thought it wou'd not bear any dispute. Filly was with us & as merry as a Cricket crowing
 * laughing & looking of every body & every

?hing, you wou'd be surpriz'd to see how she rejoice at Tea things, not y* she '1 drink much, but she love

put her hands among them, & See y e Tea 'our'd out, but if she hears any body turn over y c eaves of a Book she is ready to fly off ones Lap, here's nothing please her, nor quiet her if she be rying so soon as giving her a Book to turn over y e eaves w oh she will do herself very prettily. I hank God she has fine Health, & I wish you cou'd ee her, I have got all her short coats made & six ew white Frocks, thinking we sheu'd have set out bis week, but we must stay till we hear y e country s more healthful!. I cant say I am right well lyself, but shall be glad to hear that you are, & m Dear Sister very affectionately yours

BARBARA KERRICH.

"Tilly" was Matilda, then only child of muel and Barbara Kerrich. She was born

1 October, 1742, and died 22 October, 1823.