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NOTES AND QUERIES. [io s. x. JULY 11, im

manorial privilege." What is the meaning of " thurcet " ? In Letter xxvi. the word in the same context is spelt " thurset." Is it a misprint for thew, an old law term, which is rendered in the * Promptorium ' by " collistrigium " ? A. L. MAYHEW.

Oxford.

MRS. BREMAR'S LADIES' SCHOOL, BLACK- HEATH HILL. I have a silver medal, dated 1794, presented to Mile. Owen. On the obverse is a lady, representing Minerva, pointing out to a young girl a temple at the top of a steepish hill. Does any one know anything of that school ? E. O.

" THE PROTECTOR'S HEAD," INN SIGN. I once read an old novel ; the title I cannot remember, but the time in which the cha- racters nourished was the middle of the seventeenth century. An inn is mentioned therein whose sign was " The Protector's Head." Are any such signs known to have been in existence during the rule of Oliver Cromwell ? ASTARTE.

MILTON AND CHRIST'S COLLEGE, CAM- BRIDGE. I have read somewhere that Milton was "vomited" out of his college. Can any one give me the reference ?

STAPLETON MARTIN.

The Firs, Norton, Worcester.

" MESCHIANZA." In a biography of ' Re- becca Franks,' by Max J. Kohler, A.M., LL.B., New York, 1894, the following passage occurs :

"The 'Meechianza was a gorgeous fete given to General Howe before his departure from Phila- delphia in 1778, and at which Major Andre was a presiding genius."

Whatsis the origin of the word " Mes- chianza" ? ISRAEL SOLOMONS.

" COCK-FOSTER." The Athenceum of 30 May, p. 663, has some interesting refer- ences to " cockpit."

cocker," has " one who breeds or trains game-cocks"; " d. fig. to foster, indulge (an appetite, idea, hope, evil, &c.)" ; also ' N.E.D.' has " Cock-master. One who rears game-cocks." Holden's 'Directory,' dated 1805, has London, " West farmer and cock-foster, Endfield-chace." Does the word " cock-foster " appear in any glossary ?
 * N.E.D.,' in connexion with the word

PETER QUIVEL, BISHOP OP EXETER. In his Report on the MSS. of the Bishop of Exeter published last year (' Report on MSS. in Various Collections/ vol. iv. p. '18, Hist.

MSS. Comm.) Mr. R. L. Poole refers to an appropriation by Bishop Peter of Exeter of the church of Wydecombe to the Dean and Chapter, dated 3 Feb., 1283/4 ; and in a note states, regarding the bishop's surname, that " the spelling in the Register [f. xxv.) is unmistakably Quinel."

In the same gentleman's Report on the MSS. of the Dean and Chapter of Exeter (ibid., p. 50) mention is made of a grant of about the year 1160, by Probushomo son of Segar, to two saddlers, Richard and William, of land in St. Martin's Street, one of the witnesses being Alfred Quinel, con- cerning whose name a note is appended stating that " both here and in No. 49 the name is clearly Quinel, not Quiuel," No. 49 being the record of a grant dated 12 March, 1263, by John of Henleg' to Richard de Boscoarso (probably Brentwood), of a shop " in magno vico Exonie," and a tenement between that shop and the wall by which the churchyard of St. Peter is enclosed, and which extends from the chapel of SS. Simon and Jude westward to the house of John Quinel, chaplain of St. Peter the Little, eastward (ibid., 69).

As regards the two latter persons, their name may or may not have been Quinel, as Mr. Poole reads it ; but with regard to Bishop Peter, his name has for many years been written Quivel, Quivil, or Quivell, as in Jenkins's 'Hist. Exeter,' ed. 2 (1841), p. 249. Seeing how difficult it usually is to distinguish a written u from an n in early MSS., those interested in the Devonshire diocese would doubtless be glad of some information as to the nature of the distinc- tion in the case under consideration which enables Mr. Poole to state with absolute certainty that the familiar Quivil is to give place to the unfamiliar Quinel.

JAMES DALLAS.

VIGO BAY, 1702-19. Can any one inform me as to the best authorities to consult with regard to the English regiments engaged, and their lists of killed and wounded, at the actions at Vigo Bay, viz., in 1702, under Sir George Rooke, and in 1719, under, I think, General Stanhope ? R. M.

STTJFFED CHINE. In which of the English counties is the comestible known as " stuffed chine" prepared? Is it restricted to the shires, where the Danes settled in great numbers ? A Leicestershire lady tells me that it and frumerty are eaten at sheep- shearing suppers in Leicestershire, or were while old customs were kept up. N. U.