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Carthusian monastery of Parkminster, over the outer gateway of which are carved the arms and the motto mentioned by Helyot, with the addition of seven stars. It is but just to add that when these ladies discovered this " coincidence," namely, that they were making use of the exclusive cognizance of the Carthusians, they very creditably relin- quished it, and adopted other arms.

B. W.

"BRIDGE" : ITS DERIVATION (10 th S. i. 189, 250, 297). Sir Horace Rumbold, describing St. Petersburg society about 1869, says :

" The men, of course, had the resource of the Yacht Club, with high play for those who cared for, and could, or could not, afford it at ieralasch, a Russian form of whist, which 1 take to be the parent of the now so popular game of bridge."- ' Recollections of a Diplomatist,' 1902, vol. ii. p. 260.

WILLIAM GEORGE BLACK.

FLESH AND SHAMBLE MEATS (10 fch S. i. G8, 293). In connexion with this query, the following, though riot a reply, may be of interest. An old Devonian servant, now nearly eighty years of age, in describing his early days on a farm, said, " Us didn't have no shammel mate ! " that is, no meat killed in the shambles, but only the home-killed pig in its various forms.

In the number of the Somerset and Dorset Notes and Queries for March is the text of a play acted by Christmas mummers in West Dorset. On p. 18 are these lines : Don't tell I about the cock, goose, capon, and swan, That 's not the diet for an honest old husbandman. Let I have a good old rusty piece of bacon, a peck of (pickled?) pork and a douse (?) always in my house, and a good hard crust of bread and cheese once now and then, That 's the diet for an honest old husbandman. (Mrs.) ROSE-TROUP.

"SCOLE INN," NORFOLK (10 th S. i. 248, 313). I have the engraving published in the Imperial Magazine, 1762, and there it is called ' ' Schoale or Scale Inn ." Has the name any connexion with the word scale, so com- mon in place-names of the Lake District, such as Portinscale, Seascale, Scale Hill, Scale Inn .and Waterfall inEnnerdale, and many others ? None of the explanations of the place-names seems to explain the meaning of this word.

A. H. ARKLE.

That the Scole Inn means the inn at Scole. PROF. SKEAT may be certainly assured. I have many times been inside that great inn, in " the pleasant village and parish of Scole two miles from Diss," as the ' Norfolk Direc- tory has it. The ' Directory ' of 1883 states tnat the bed and the costly sign were

" destroyed above 100 years ago." There is a fine engraving of the sign in the Norwich Castle Museum, and there is a full descrip tion of it in the second volume of the ' Papers of the Norfolk and Norwich Archaeological Society ' (p. 217). The proper title of this celebrated tavern is the "White Hart," and it has still a fine oak staircase and a few remaining picturesque features, carvings, &c. In 'Domesday Book' the village stands as Osrnundestuna, and it is sometimes called Osmundiston now, though the shorter Scole has almost superseded the ancient name. In the Rev. G. Munford's work entitled ' An Attempt to ascertain the True Derivations of the Names of Towns and Villages, and of Rivers, c., of the County of Norfolk,' 1870 (p. 165), it is stated that the place is " com- monly known as Scole, according to Blome- field from Scoles, which was a hamlet to Osmundiston in Ed ward the Third's time, but the local name Scole came into use at too late a period to warrant our looking for a very early origin."

I greatly doubt if PROF. SKEAT'S ready reference to ' Promptoriuin Parvulorum ' supplies the correct derivation. There is a poor locality in Norwich known as Scole's Green, named, I believe, after some former landowner in the neighbourhood.

I take leave to think that the mediseval- joke theory is anything but obvious.

JAMES HOOPER.

Norwich.

DAMAGE TO CORN (10 th S. i. 283). The following anecdote of S. Herve, given in Alfred Le Grand's 'Les Vies des Saints de la Bretagne Armorique' (pp. 235, 236), is a propos :

"Le Saint, par sesprieres, obtint une fraische

fontaine dans ce champ, lequel appartenoit a un honneste personnage, nomme Innoco : le Saint le fit appeller.et, luyayantfait sgavoir la volontede Dieu, le supplia de fuy donner un quartier de ce champ pour y edifier un petit Monastere pour soy et ses Moynes. ' Ouy bien (dit Innoco) tnais vous ne dites pas que mou bled est encore tout vert, et par ainsi, ce que vous en couperez & cette heure sera perdu ; patientez un peu jusques a 1'Aoust prochain. Non, non (dit saint Herve) il n'en ira pas ainsi : car tout autant de bled que je vous couperay maintenant, autant vous en rendray-je de sec et meur au temps de la moisson.' A cela il s'accorda, et tous commencerent a arracher du bled, lequel ils lierent par faisceaux et gerbes, et les mirent k part, et Dieu les favorisa telle- ment qu'au temps de la moisson ces gerbes qui avoient est cueillies toutes vertes non seulement devinrent meures, mais outre s'enflerent et multi- plierent tellement, que d'une on en fit deux."

Another Breton instance worth repeating occurs in Anatole Le Braz's ' Au Pays des