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NOTES AND QUERIES. [10* S. I. MARCH 26, 1904.

not unusual in Sussex, before the Reforma- tion, to endow plots of land, the rental of which went to provide either the bread for the Eucharist or the "pain benit " distributed after Mass, and such lands were called " Holy Bread Lands,' 1 the rent being sometimes referred to as "Holebreds" (Siiss. Arch. Coll., xliv. p. 151 and note). May the name Shul- brede be derived from this practice, Shut or Sile being equivalent to Seele = holy, blessed 1 C. STRACHEY.

CAMDEN ON SURNAMES : MUSSELWHITE. I should be much obliged for the reference in Camden's ' Britannia ' to the place where he states that there are few villages in Normandy which are not the origin of English surnames.

What is the meaning of the name Mussel- white, common in parts of South Wilts ? It is interchangeable with Mussell, families calling themselves by both names. Mussell seems, from its termination ell, Norman- French ; Musselwhite, from its termination, seems English. G. HILL.

Harnham Vicarage, Salisbury.

COPPER COINS AND TOKENS. What is the best way to clean these ? F. M. J.

GERMAN QUOTATION. " Ohne Phosphor kein Gedanke." Can any of your readers inform me about the origin of this phrase ? I believe I came across it years ago in Goethe's works. H. C. G.

FEUDAL SYSTEM. When an owner in fee held by tenure of knight service under a tenant in capite the position of the two parties is clear, but this is not so when a third person intervenes. Thus it is often the case tnat a knight's fee is held by the tenant in fee under a mesne tenant, and he (the latter) holds under a tenant in capite, and I should like to discover what are the privi- leges and burdens which this mesne tenant enjoyed and had to bear. B. R.

WILTON NUNNERY. The Benedictine Abbey of Wilton, near Marlborough, Wilts, was sur- rendered some time between 1537 and 1540, and granted to the Earl of Pembroke. What evidence is there that it was restored under Queen Mary, as stated by Scott (note A to ' Rob Roy ') ? JOHN B. WAINEWRIGHT.

CROUCH THE MUSICAL COMPOSER. Can any reader of 'N. & Q.' tell me whether Crouch wrote any other music beside his well-known setting to 'Kathleen Mavour- neen,' by which he seems to be alone re- membered ? He was born in Wiltshire ; left England for the States in 1849; served in

the Confederate army in the American Civil War ; afterwards settled in Maryland, and finally died in his eighty-ninth year at Portland, Maine, U.S. A contemporary states that the heirs of his creditors have now received 11s. 9d. in the pound owing to the increased value of land in Pentonville, where his property was situated. It would be interesting to know whether he is com- memorated in any way in his native land. FREDERICK T. HIBGAME.

1, Rodney Place, Clifton, Bristol.

[F. Nicholls Crouch wrote many other songs. There are references to him 9 th S. vii. 430 ; viii. 349.]

LATIN LINES. I should be glad to have a translation of the following. The words border one side of an allegorical diagram or chart of Christian doctrine drawn in the twelfth century by a Flemish hand (see Strong's ' Catalogue of Letters, &c., at Welbeck,' p. 9) :

He regis nate sunt mentis sed locate Per quas irrores nos Christe tuendo sorores O felix anima que non descendit ad ima Ut facie celi pociatur luce fideli Virgineus cetus perdulci carmine letus Gaudet in eternum regem speculando supernum Hoc nobis dona sanctorum Christe corona. Sedibus etherneis quo sociemur eis. Amen.

J. FOSTER, D.C.L. Tathwell, Louth, Lines.

" SCOLE INN," NORFOLK. (See 1 st S. i. 245, 283, 323.) In an old print by Kirby, 1746, of the sign of the above inn, built in the year 1655, and costing 1,0511., the following note occurs :

" It is called ' Schoale Inn ' from its being twenty miles from the City of Norwich, Ipswich, Bury St. Edmunds, and Thetford."

Can any of your readers give any meaning of the note under the title of the print?

C. E. LEMAN.

DAHURIA. Where is this botanical "extra- British distribution," mentioned from time to time in Hooker's ' Student's Flora of the British Islands ' ? C. S. WARD.

" DISCE PATI." Can any reader of 'N. & Q.' throw light on the origin of this maxim ? It is the motto of the Duncan family (Earls of Camperdown), but the present head of the family states that he is unaware of its origin. I have found it inscribed in a monastic MS. volume, and signed by a person known to have been living in 1487. C. STRACHEY.

MINIATURE OF ISAAC NEWTON.! possess a miniature of Sir Isaac Newton, in a frame set with rose diamonds, on the back of which is engraved "The gift of the Associates of