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back again. The committee decided to reply that they could not consent to his lordship's request, as they considered Canterbury was the proper place for the chair. It was statea that Mr. Cocks John- stone purchased the chair from a former sexton of the church at Bishop's Stanford, who had rescued it from the hands of some masons engaged in renovating the church, and who were about to burn it for fuel."

JOHN T. PAGE. West Haddon, Northamptonshire.

This is a somewhat primitive oak chair, that was turned out of a parish church in the diocese of Hereford, and is now in the museum at Canterbury. Some people say it is the chair used by St. Augustine when he met the British bishops.

ARTHUR HUSSEY.

Tankerton-on-Sea, Kent.

FETTIPLACE (10 th S. i. 329, 396). If DR. FORSHAW will consult (as I have done at the British Museum) Kelly's ' Directory for Berk- shire ' for the year 1803 (under title ' Bray,' at p. 42), he will read as follows :

"Ockwell Manor House. Now [1903] the resi- dence of Edward A. Barry, Esq. An extremely fine timber-framed mansion, erected in reign of Edward IV., and enlarged in 1899 by present owner, W. H. Grenfell, Esq., J.P., M.P. (of Taplow Court), who is the lord of the manor (and other manors)."

I accurately recollect that in my punting days forty-five or fifty years ago I stayed a night at the "George "Inn, Bray, for the express purpose of seeing the house. I had the belief that it was marked in my Ordnance map, but cannot now find it. Anyway I certainly walked there, and from either Maidenhead or Taplow station.

EDWARD P. WOLFERSTAN.

Ockwells Manor a most interesting his- toric building is situate near Bray and Maidenhead. Some illustrations of it will be found in Nash's ' Mansions,' Jesse's ' Favourite Haunts,' or in Country Life for 2 April.

R. B.

Upton.

Ockwells or Ockholt Manor was held by the Fettiplaces temp. Henry VIII. There is a view of it in Lysons's 'Berks,' p. 247, with two plates of the stained-glass windows of the banqueting hall with heraldic designs. The house, it is believed, was erected by a Norreys in the reign of Henry VI.

R. J. FYNMORE.

Sandgate, Kent.

Chauncy, in his ' Historical Antiquities of Herts,' mentions a Fettiplace. Sir Thomas Soames, Sheriff of the City of London 1589, married Anne, the sister of John Stone, by

whom he had four sons and other children ; he- died leaving the manor of Berkesdon, Throck- ing, Herts, 1619, to his son Stephen, who- married Elizabeth, daughter of Thomas Playter, of Satterley, Suffolk, by whom he had two sons and three daughters, one of whom (Mary) married Edward Fettiplace, of Kingston, Berks (vol. i. p. 238).

M.A.OxoN.

TICKLING TROUT (9 th S. xii. 505 ; 10 th S. i. 154, 274, 375). I can assure MR. RATCLIFFE that when trout are lying in " holds" such as our characteristic trout-streams usually offer, the heads of the fish will be found in any direction ; for instance, if a rat- hole lies right athwart the direction of the stream's current, then the trout harbouring in it will be lying in the same direction head first up the hole. It is true that trout seem to like (or, at least, not to object to) the "tickling"; but to the "grabbing with both hands 1 ' they would show a decided, and in most cases an effectual dislike. Shakespeare uses the phrase " tickling for trout" metaphorically.

YORKSHIREMAN.

"LUTHER'S DISTICH" (10 th S. i. 409). I have little doubt that the famous

Wer nicht liebt Wein, Weib, Gesang, Er bleibt ein Narr sein Leben lang,

is meant. G. KRUEGER,

Berlin.

As the discoverer of the original diary of Samuel Teedon, the Olney schoolmaster and " guide, philosopher, and friend " of the poet Cowper, after it had been missing since about 1835, and as its owner for at least twenty years, and having in 1890 copiously annotated my transcript for publication, I add what my MS. contains in allusion to the entry in question. I find, upon reference, that I explain "Luther's distich" to mean probably the superscription on Lucas Cra- nach's portrait of Luther, painted in 1532, viz., " In silentio et spe erit fortitvdo vestra."

E. C. is quite right as the incorrectness of T. Wright's edition of the diary for the Cowper Society in 1902, which contains at least 700 errors (!) the first twenty-three pages, their many hundreds of errata in the printer's rough proofs having been, corrected by me (con amore\ being the only portion comparatively free from the like. Mr. Wright had invited me to join him in the editorship, with my name in the first place ; but I declined to do so, as unworthy of my reputation, within the limits and upon the lines laid down by him, and with a printer unused to book-work. I, however, at Mr. Wright's request, assisted him in