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NOTES AND QUERIES. no s. x. JULY 25, iocs.

Such, according to local idea, is the deriva- tion of the name of an inn called "The Crooked Billet," which stood a century ago in the parish of Ash by Wrotham, Kent, on the road between Fawkham Green and Kingsdown. Some eighty years ago, how- ever, it had ceased to exist as an inn and had been converted into a couple of cottages. A woman who lived in one of them as she would say, " This parish is her native " remembers seeing there many tubs and barrels and other things, which were locally reputed to be part of the stock-in-trade of smugglers and their associates and abettors. Since then it has been all pulled down, and on the site now stand a farm - house and cottages. The name still lingers in that of the farm, which is called the Billet Farm, and in that of the hill road close by, leading up to " the vineyard field " in Ash, which is called the Billet Hill.

F. F. LAMBARDE.

CHALICE INSCRIPTION, 1645 (10 S. ix. 470). The Romans are said to have brought the vine to the shores of the Lake of Geneva, and among their settlements there were Lustriacum and Collium, now represented by the large villages of Lutry and Cully, round which excellent wine is still grown. The neighbourhood possesses a very ancient guild of vine-dressers known as " FAbbaye des Vignerons," the headquarters of which are at Vevey. It is possible that this guild may have had its headquarters at Lutry in the seventeenth century, and that this " chalice " may have belonged to it. The existence of an abbey at Lutry in 1645 is, of course, out of the question. The Bishop of Lausanne was forced to fly to Fribourg in 1536, and from that date down to the beginning of the nineteenth century Catho- licism was proscribed in Vaud.

JOHN B. WAINEWRIGHT.

CLERGY IN WIGS (10 S. viii. 149, 214; ix. 497 ; x. 16). I can remember seeing Archbishop Sumner preach in a wig, in a church in or near Eaton Square, in 1853 or 1854. JAMES CULL.

Junior Athenseum Club.

The Standard of 6 Aug., 1901, states that at the marriage of the Princess Royal with Prince Frederick William of Prussia, which took place in the Chapel Royal on 25 Jan., 1858, Dr. Sumner, Archbishop of Canter- bury, who performed the ceremony, wore for the last time the once essential wig.

HELLIER GOSSEHN-GRIMSHAWE.

Errwood Hall, Buxton.

STUFFED CHINE (10 S. x. 30). This delicacy is still prepared in North Lincoln- shire. The chine is first salted and hung like bacon. When it is to be cooked, incisions are made parallel with its sides- and down to the bone, but not quite to the ends, or it would fall in pieces. The gashes are filled with chopped herbs sage, onion r thyme, marjoram, columbine, primrose, and perhaps other herbs. The chine is then tightly wrapped in a cloth, and gently boiled or steamed for some hours, after which it is eaten cold at breakfast, farm- house tea, or supper. J. T. F. Winterton, Doncaster.

I have frequently eaten both stuffed chine and frumenty in South Notts, but neither of them, so far as I know, was considered peculiarly appropriate to sheepshearing feasts. Frumenty we ate mostly at Michael- mas, and I know a Yorkshire firm of corn merchants and millers who still present their best customers with a small bag of new wheat at that season, ostensibly for the purpose of making it. Stuffed chine was a delicacy for winter or early spring.

C. C. B.

I met with stuffed chine fifty years ago at South Kyme, Lincolnshire.

ST. SWITHIN.

WALDOCK FAMILY (10 S. ix. 508). Edmondson's ' Complete Body of Heraldry y (1780) gives Or, an " etoile " radiated sable, but makes no mention of the original grant ; hence MR. ELL may assume they were regis- tered at the College of Arms long before Edmondson's day.

BERNARD LORD M. QUILLIN.

Burke' s ' General Armory ' gives the arms of Waldock as Or, an estoile radiated sable. H. J. B. CLEMENTS.

Killadoon, Cellbridge.

[COM. LING, also refers to Burke.]

"PINK SAUCER" (10 S. ix. 486). I remember this well as an article in common use in the " sixties " of last century, when the saucers were sold, if I am not mistaken, at fourpence or fivepence each. They, in common with a good many other popular dye-stuffs, were driven out of use by the ubiquitous Judson. C. C. B.

SURREY GARDENS (10 S. ix. 490; x. 32). In the British Museum there are eight volumes of programmes, tickets, &c., from the opening to the burning in 1861.

AYEAHR.