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derived his sobriquet from having served in the West Indies," but a taverner of Hoxton. If COL. PRIDEAUX had consulted the ' N.E.D.' under " pemblico," he would have seen whence the West Indian bird derived its name. When that section of the ' N.E.D.' was going through the press, Sir James (then Dr.) Murray applied to the

E resent writer for information about the ird. I regret that in the intervening four years the notes I took have got misplaced, but I was able to send at least two extracts one from Capt. John Smith's ' Generall Historie,' published in 1624, and the other from the ' Hist. Bermudaes,' of uncertain authorship, published by the Hakluyt Society in 1882. The latter was printed from the Sloane MS. in the British Museum, and Sir James gave an extract from the MS. itself. It is to the effect that the bird,

" by some Alebanters of London sent ouer hether, hath bin tearmed pimplicoe, for so they Imagine {and a little resemblance putts them in mind of a place so dearely beloued) her note articulates." Recently I have noted a still earlier allusion to the bird than that made by Smith in 1624. In a letter dated 21 Dec., 1614, the Rev. Lewis Hughes wrote :

"Here is also plenty of sea foules, at one time of the yeare, as about the middle of October, Birds which we call cahouze and Pindico.es come in." In Lefroy's ' Memorials of the Bermudas,' ii. 578.

ALBERT MATTHEWS.

Boston, U.S.

EXTRAORDINARY CONTEMPORARY ANIMALS (10 S. x. 309, 398). Unfortunately the Alaskan wonder was not described in V Intermediaire only referred to as de- scribed in the April number of Je sais tout.

W. T.

MEETS OF HOUNDS ANNOUNCED IN CHURCH (10 S. x. 468). My father, who as a young man, about 1833, hunted a good deal in Northamptonshire, often told me that in the chapel at Catesby Abbey, where service was held every Sunday afternoon, the meets of the Pytchley Hounds in the ensuing week were always published, i.e., hung up for public view in the vestry of the chapel ; and that sportsmen desirous to hunt always adjourned there for infor- mation after service was concluded.

H. C. NORRIS, Col.

SHAKESPEARE VISITORS' BOOKS (10 S. x. 429, 478). These interesting records un- fortunately are not included in the collection at the Shakespeare Memorial, Stratford- upon-Avon. They were sold by auction

with the other Hornby relics in London, by order of the then representative of the family, and were purchased, I believe, by Mr. Tregaskis of 232, High Holborn. Though pages had been considerably mutilated, the volumes were by no means devoid of in- terest, and it seems a pity they should not have been kept in the town.

W. S. BRASSINGTON. Shakespeare Memorial Library, Stratford.

SEVENTEENTH-CENTURY QUOTATIONS ( 10 S. x. 127, 270, 356).

25. Justitia una alias virtutes continet omnes is a translation of the Greek line 'Ev 6e SLKaioo-vvr) crvX\^/38rjV TTCUT' ape-ny'crriv, quoted as a proverb by Aristotle, ' Eth. Me.' 5, 15, 1129b, which occurs in Phocylides (17) and Theognis (147).

Erasmus in his ' Adagia ' (p. 434, ed. 1629) has the rendering

lustitia in se virtutem complectitur omnem. It appears as

lustitia in sese virtutes continet omnis in Polydore Vergil's ' Proverbiorum Liber ' (foL xxxviii verso, ed. 1510), where the passage from Aristotle is given in Latin.

EDWARD BENSLY. Aberystwyth.

BRIDAL STONE (10 S. x. 329, 394). I find that some very curious information regard- ing heathenish customs connected with remarkable stones may be gleaned from ' Le Folk-lore de France,' by Paul Sebillot, 1904 (see vol. i. chap. iv.). Natural blocks, artificially placed megaliths, and tombstones of saints all appear to be of service in matters connected with love, the prevention of sterility, and cure of infantile or other diseases.

I quote a few examples :

" In the north of Ille-et-Vilaine, a whole series of

large blocks have received the significant name

of ' Roches ecriantes,' because young rirls, in order to marry more quickly, climb on the summit and let themselves slide (in the dialect, eerier) to the base ; there are some of them even to which this ceremony, often repeated, has ended by giving a certain polish." P. 335.

At Saint-Kenan, Finistere, childless women nights, on the 'jument de Pierre' of St. Ronan, which is a colossal natural rock " (p. 340).
 * ' only a few years ago lay, during three consecutive

In the sixteenth century statues of St. Guerlichon were considered to have the power of bestowing children (p. 340).

Fragments of certain stones are also believed to be of use (p. 342) ; and " in Provence, in the neighbourhood of la Sainte- Baume, which has attracted a great number of