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NOTES AND QUERIES. [io s. x. NOV. 28,

Mercanti, and saw the figure of a beast, half pig and half sheep ; head and fore part pig, the rest woolly like a sheep." Is it there still ? Hie ET UBIQUE.

When will Bertram (as " Richard of Cirencester " ) cease to be quoted as an authority in Roman matters ? I notice that one correspondent quotes him. I was under the impression that every antiquary, at any rate, knew the book is a forgery.

R. B B.

JEFFBEY HUDSON THE DWABF (10 S. x. 390). There is an account of him in ' Hone's Year-Book ' for 1 Jan. It does not give any record of his burial, but states that " he died at the gate-house in Westminster at the age of 63." Hone gives a short account of his duel with Mr. Crofts, a young man of family. R. A. POTTS.

BANDY LEG WALK (10 S. x. 390). Bandy Leg Walk, Southwark, so named in Rocque's map of 1746, is now Great Guildford Street, running nearly due south from Sumner Street to Southwark Bridge Road.

In 1760 a place of amusement called " The Grotto," Southwark, was advertised as being " at the upper end of George's Street, the way through Bandy Leg Walk leading directly to the Gardens." It be- came " The Goldsmiths' Arms," and an illustration of it after rebuilding is given in Wilkinson's ' Londina Illustrata.' It had been consumed by fire in 1795. There may have been other Bandy Leg Walks in London or its suburbs.

PHILLP NOBMAN.

Bandy Leg Walk was in Queen Street (in the Park), Southwark, not in West- minster. According to Dodsley's ' Envi- rons,' 1761, it was so named " in ridicule " ; but where did the ridicule come in ? Was it in respect to the shape of the Walk, or to somebody's personal deformity ?

There was also a Bandy Leg Alley by Fleet Ditch, both the Walk and Alley having existed so early, at least, as the year 1721 (see W. Stow's ' Strangers' Guide ; or, Travellers' Directory,' of about that time).

J. HOLDEN MACMlCHAEL.

This thoroughfare was in Southwark. It is described in ' Old and New London ' as " a dirty lane between Maid Lane (now New Park Street) and Queen Street (now Union Street)." J. T.

Beckeuham.

This was possibly a narrow thoroughfare. When I lived in Yorkshire, in the fifties,, the accepted definition of a bandy-legged man was, " He couldn't stop a pig in an entry."

An " entry " is a passage between small houses, connecting the street with their backyards. HABBY HEMS.

SALFOBD : SALTEBSFOBD : SALTEBSGATE (10 S. x. 222, 256, 274, 297, 337, 373). It has not, I think, been noticed that certain salt wells in Worcestershire and Cheshire- were appurtenant to manors in other coun- ties, such as Shipton - under - Wychwood (Oxon) and Risborough (Bucks), and various manors in the Western counties. The route by which the produce was carried to the owners might very naturally acquire- the name of " Saltersgate " (see A. Ballard,. ' The Domesday Inquest ' [1906], viii. 182),

Q. V.

Let me add another place-name of whose- derivation there can be no question that of Sail, near Aylsham, Norfolk. The name is often incorrectly spelt Salle. It is pro- nounced " Saul " from the Anglo-Saxon sal ' = a willow. There are several trees of that species in the neighbourhood.

The church is a very fine cruciform struc- ture, and over the spandrels of the western door are carved a couple of angels having: in their hands palm branches, perhaps in- tended as slivers from the willow. A slab- in the nave is traditionally, but mythically,, said to cover the remains of Queen Anne- Boleyn, whose ghost is reputed to haunt, the spot. JOHN PICKFOBD, M. A.

PEBSIAN TRANSLATION BY SHELLEY (10 S.. x. 349). I find that the verses I quoted previously appeared in The Liberal, No. 4, 1823 (p. 370), under the heading of ' Minor- Pieces,' but without any translator's name..

A. G. POTTEB. 32, Caversham Road, N.W.

STOBKS AND COMMONWEALTHS (10 S. x.. 368). "That storks are to be found, and will only live in republicks or free states," is one of the " very many received tenets,, and commonly presumed truths," into which Sir Thomas Browne inquires in his ' Pseudo- doxia Epidemica ' (Book III. chap, xxvii. 3).. EDWABD BENSLY.

KNIPHOFIA (10 S. x. 288, 333). A cata- logue sent out by a firm of florists at Torres,. Elginshire, treats the name Kniphofia as one familiar to botanists, florists, and the general public. Though Tritona is made