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part of the Duchy of Lancaster, and extends into several counties and over the principal part of the Hundred of Herulingford, with some other places also within this county."

I am greatly obliged to MR. HOLDEN MACMICHAEL for his reference to the Wood- mote Court, but I fear it does not help me to understand how the Honour of Tutbury came to have power to hold a court for the recovery of small debts within the Hundred of Hemlingford, when the hundred possessed a court of its own capable of performing that service. Have any records of the Duchy of Lancaster been published which would be likely to throw any light on the matter ?

BENJ. WALKER.

Erdington.

MANITOBA (10 th S. i. 206). Some years ago a young friend who had settled out in this region told me, during one of his visits home, that the correct pronunciation was to accen- tuate the penultimate, and that laying the stress on the final was due only to the theo- rizing of some learned persons who did not know the locality. E. E. STREET.

PENRITH (10 th S. i. 29, 97, 156). Penrith was so long ago as June, 1898, deprived of the honour persistently given to it as having once been the name-place of a bishop. At the date mentioned Mr. George Watson, now of Bournemouth, contributed to the Penrith Observer a long article, the result of much research, in which he proved conclusively that there never was a Bishop of Penrith. So far as can be traced, it was in Sir Daniel Fleming's 'Description of the County of Cumberland ' (printed so recently as 1889 by the local antiquarian society, 218 years after it was written) that the error was first made. Writing of Penrith, he remarked, "The church is a beautiful edifice, and had the honour of a Suffragan Bishop." Such an authority as the gossiping Rydal historian would be taken as conclusive on most things, but in this of Penrith's ecclesiastical greatness he was un- questionably wrong. Unfortunately later comers, who "cribbed" from the writings of their predecessors without taking the trouble to find out what was right and what was wrong, perpetuated the error. The greatest einner in this respect was T. Cox, who, in his ' Cumberland,' wrote : " Penrith Church is a handsome and spacious edifice, sufficient for the reception of the inhabitants for God's worship, and was in King Henry VIII.'s time honoured with the title of a Suffragan Bishop." Then 'Crockford's Clerical Directory' has long continued the error by the entry, "1537, John Bird, Bishop of Penrith," in the list

of Bishops Suffragan. Mr. Watson, by an admirable collation of names, dates, and facts, proved beyond the possibility of a doubt that though John Bird was really a Suffragan Bishop, it was of Pentruth, in the diocese of Llandaff, as he filled this office from 1527 to 1539, when he became Bishop of Bangor. The naming of Suffragan Bishops has occasioned trouble in our own time, for so recently as 1888, when the Bishop of Ripon was given a Suffragan, it was decided to take the title of Penrith, on the supposition that the Cumberland town was the place meant by the 1534 Act. Bishop Goodwin stopped that by getting. an amended Act passed, giving power for a Suffragan to take his title from any place in his own diocese, and we get a modern Bishop of Richmond instead of* Suffragan Bishop of Penrith.

A quotation in 'N. fc Q.,' 2 nd S. ii. 1, from ' The Book of the British Hierarchy,' reads, "John Byrd, consecrated June 24 to Penrith by the Primate and Bishops of Rochester and St. Asaph ; translated to Bangor 1539, and Chester August 5th, 1541 (Llandaff)." These names would alone show .that it was not the Penrith in Cumberland that was meant.

D. SCOTT.

Penrith.

PENN'S ' FRUITS OF SOLITUDE' (10 th S. i. 190). It seems to have been a very general belief that the inhabitants of Lapland were noted for witchcraft. Charles Kingsley in 4 Hereward the Wake ' says, " Torf rida's nurse was a Lapp woman, skilled in all the sor- ceries for which the Lapps were famed throughout the North." HELGA.

[Nor uglier follow the night-hag, when, call'd In secret, riding through the air she conies, Lured with the smell of infant blood, to dance With Lapland witches, while the labouring moon Eclipses at their charms.

Milton, ' Par. Lost,' book ii. 11. 662-6.]

AUTHORS OF QUOTATIONS (10 th S. i. 168, 217).

To set as sets the morning star, which goes, &c. Lucis is right in his reference, somewhat dubiously given, to Pollok's ' Course of Time,' book v. The passage occurs on p. 180 of the sixth edition, 1829, and begins : They set, &c.

C. LAWRENCE FORD.

" HANGED, DRAWN, AND QUARTERED " (10 th S. i. 209). For an account of the carrying out of the high treason sentences after the Civil War of 1745-6, see Robert Chambers's ' History of the Rebellion ' in the above years. The first edition was issued in " Constable's