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Brokers, Clerks at the Bank, &c. A Table, for the Benefit of those who live in the Country, shewing the Days and Hours of transferring the differen Stocks and Annuities, and the Time of paying the Dividends: Also, a new Table of Interest, calcu lated at 5 per Cent., for the Use of the presen Proprietors of India Bonds. To which is added ar Appendix, giving a full Account of Banking and o the Sinking Fund ; and a new Table which exhibit at one View the intrinsic Value per Cent, of the several public Funds, and the Proportion they bea to each other, and what Proportion such Purchase bears to the Value of Landed Estates and Life Annuities.

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About these Newcastle booksellers it may be interesting to some collector if I add that T. Slack was the founder of the Newcastle Chronicle, and that J. (Joseph) Barber was the great-grandfather of Joseph Barber Light foot, Bishop of Durham from 1879 to 1889. RICHARD WELFORD.

BUNNEY (10 th S. i. 489 ; ii. 13). Bunny is the name of a parish in Nottinghamshire. I have lately heard that rabbits are so numerous in Bunny Park, that when it was the scene of a military encampment those little animals ran over the bodies of the men sleeping in the tents, and their burrows added something to the dangers of the campaign. I hasten to say that I do not believe that this fact gives any etymological clue ; neither do I regard with favour the teaching of an epitaph which is, or was, in York Minster, though my incredulity may be misplaced :

Haec senis Edmundi Bunne est quern cernis imago, A quo Bunnjei villula nomen habet,

Drake, p. 509 ; Gent, p. 108. In English the gentleman's surname was Bunny, and he was at some time rector of Bolton Percy. ST. SWITHIN.

Dr. Joyce, in his * Irish Place-names,' gives bun the bottom or end of anything. It is very often applied to the end, that is the mouth, of a river, as in Bunnyconnellan, Bunnynubber. Perhaps the children's name for a rabbit, bunny, is derived from the burrows or holes from which it emerges, as I have heard children call it both bunny-rabbit and bunny-puss. A local name for snapdragon is bunny-mouth. RED CROSS.

Brading, I.W.

WINCHESTER COLLEGE VISITATION, 1559 (10 th S. ii. 45). The Act of Uniformity (1 Eliz. c. 2) came into force on 24 June, 1559, and we know something of what there- upon happened at Winchester from at least two sources.

1. On 27 June, Bishop Quadra wrote to the King of Spain a letter containing this statement :

"The news is that in the neighbourhood of Winchester they have refused to receive the church service book, which is the office which these heretics have made up, and the clergy of the diocese have assembled to discuss what they should do. No mass was being said, whereat the congre- gations were very disturbed." ' Calendar of Spanish State Papers, Eliz., 1558-67,' p. 79.

2. Further particulars are supplied by a letter which the Marquis of Winchester sent to Sir William Cecil on 30 June (' St. P., Dom., Eliz.,' vol. iv. No. 72; 'Calendar, 1547-80,' p. 133). The original letter begins thus :

" After my right hearty commendations this friday mornynge I sent you my son St. John's letter sent me from Hampshire with other writings made by the Dean and Canons of the Cathedrall church and from the Warden and Fellows of the new College and from the M r of Seintcrosse, Whereby it appeareth they leave their services and enter no new, by cause it is against their conscience as it appeareth by their writings; wheryn order must be taken with letters."

The rest of this letter shows the Marquis's desire that the matter should be dealt with by the Privy Council early in the following week. Unfortunately the register of the acts of the Council between 12 May, 1559, and 28 May, 1562, is missing. (See 'The Acts,' N.S. vol. vii. p. 104.) It seems likely enough, however, that the Council took action, in consequence of which some of the cathe- dral and college authorities, including Warden Stempe, were committed to the Tower of London, and that he and others obtained their release on 25 July, as recorded in Machyn's l Diary,' by promises to obey the Act of Uniformity. If this be what really lappened, their imprisonment was not the work (as MR. WAINEWRIGHT suggests) of the commissioners appointed in the summer of 1559 to visit the dioceses of Canterbury, Rochester, Chichester, and Winchester. These commissioners were apparently appointed under the Act of Supremacy (1 Eliz., c. 1), but the exact date of the appointment has eluded research (see Dixon's ' History of the .hurch of England,' v. 128, 129). MR. WAINEWRIGHT, however, has, at any rate, wrought to light a little -known fact, as Stempe's imprisonment is not mentioned either in Mr. Kirby's 'Annals' or in Mr. Leach's ' History ' of the college ; and it is