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Accounts " to be found in the Public Record Office. Under this heading in Mr. Scargill- Bird's ' Guide to the Public Records,' pp. 246-9 (Wyman & Sons, price 7s.), are et forth the various Account Books, Rolls, &c., now remaining in the Exchequer and Chancery records. The dates of appointment of these officers would probably be found in the records known as Signet Office Bills or Warrants.

The names of members of the Privy Council could, no doubt, be obtained by search Among the documents relating to the Privy Council Office, also kept at the P.R.O.

If F. B. would go to the P.R.O. and state his wants to any of the courteous officers of that institution, I am sure he would be put on the proper track to obtain the desired information.

I should like to supplement my remarks by saying that there are many manuscript lists of officers in the Household and Privy Council of Queen Elizabeth in the British Museum. A list is given in Sims' s 'Manual for the Genealogist,' pp. 329-30. If F. B. has not access to this work, which is now out of print, I can supply him with the references. E. A. FRY.

124, Chancery Lane, W.C.

DUNBAR AND HENRYSON (10 S. X. 226). -

There is nothing new in Mr. Quiller-Couch's version of Dunbar's reference to Henryson in the * Lament for the Deth of the Makkaris.' It is the reading in Ramsay's ' Evergreen ' Lord Hailes's ' Ancient Scottish Poems,'

each of which in its own way represents Bannatyne's MS. of 1568. It is the more intelligible of the rival forms of the allusion, ior which reason probably it was preferred by the late Prof. Nichol when he made his extracts from Dunbar for Mr. Ward's 'English Poets,' just as it has once more been selected by Mr. Quiller-Couch for use in his popular volume. Dr. Laing, presumably editing from the version printed by Chepman anc My liar in 1508, has the reading :

In Dunfermline he has done roune Good Maister Robert Henry soun,

the explanation of which has puzzled com- mentators, although it is usually taken to denote that Death has whispered to the poet and called him away. With this sense compare the familiar expression " to round one in the ear." The more popular text,

In Dunfermline he has tane Broun With Maister Robert Henrysoun,

is open, as has been said, to the objection that there is no local record of a poet namec

3rown. Still, he may have lived and been mown to Dunbar, passing afterwards into oblivion like others mentioned in the Lament.' But for Dunbar's tribute nothing would be known of the poetical merits of Heryot, Sir Mungo Lockhart of the Lee, and " gentle Stobo." THOMAS BAYNE.

CHRYSTAL MAGNA : MAYLOR GRANGE (10 S. x. 89). Maylor Hundred = a detached part of S.E. Flint, called Maeler Saesnag, contain- ing the parishes of Hanmer, Hope, Overton, and Worthenbury, and parts of Bangor, Doddleston, Ellesmere, Erbistock, Llanar- mon, Malpas, Threapwood, and Wrexham (Sharpe's ' British Gazetteer,' 1852).

Christleton, a parish in the Hundred of Lower Broxton, N.W. Cheshire, ibid.

Delamere Forest is in Mid-Cheshire.

J. HOLDEN MACMlCHAEL.

" CADEY " (10 S. x. 147, 198). I recollect the slang word " cadey " well in the years 188085. Possibly the word may be derived from cadow=a, covering, cloak, or quilt. I think that I may have heard it sung in 1885, in the song quoted by MR. PAGE. It ended with

Between you and me, I think you '11 agree By Jove I look up to dick,

the last line riming with the second line quoted in the query

And a penny I gave for my stick. It was certainly sung in Ireland before 1887, but it had been previously popular in Eng- land. W. H. GRATTAN FLOOD. Enniscorthy.

CONSTABLES AND LIEUTENANTS OF THE TOWER OF LONDON (10 S. ix. 61, 161, 243, 390, 490; x. 70, 118, 213). " Synnerton " for Swynnerton is purely a mistake made in a type-written transcript of my MS., and overlooked by me in proof.

W. L. RUTTON.

ALPHONSO : HAAKON (10 S. vi. 25 ; x. 234). I am obliged to MR. ALEX. RUSSELL for correcting my statement that the name of Hakon seems to have been kept up in the Orkney and Shetland Isles from the time of the Saint-Earl Magnus's half-brother who bore it. I wrote from memory, but I fancy it was from some foot-note in one of the editions of the ' Heimskringla.'

Miss Yonge (' Christian Names,' ii. 320) wrote, " Hacon still lingers among the fishermen of the Orkneys." There is the Scotch surname of " Aiken."

A. S. ELLIS.