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10ᵗʰ. S. II. 13, 1904.] NOTES AND QUERIES. 129 Gentleman's Magazine? She was exhibited to the royal family, and died in 1737.

J. M. BULLOCH. 118, Pall Mall.

FRENCH NOVEL. Can any of your reader give me particulars as to authorship an< date of an old French story of society in th reign of Louis XVI., entitled *Le Chateai de Tours/ or something similar ? J. G.

PILGRIMS' WAYS. The more one work upon these old roads, the more fascinating (and the more difficult) they become. Can any reader refer me to authorities or tradi tions earlier than 1850-60, identifying anj way (apart from the London, Dover, anc Sandwich roads) as being associated with th

S'lgrimages to the shrine of St. Thomas ost of the "evidence" I can find falls back upon the Ordnance Survey; and the director of the Survey tells me that the notes of the surveyors, on which they based their lines of Pilgrims' Ways, were not preserved or published. Points of particular difficulty are :

1. What was the line from Winchester to Farnham ?

2. From St. Martha's, Guildford, to Merst ham?

3. From Gravelly Hill, above Godstone, to Pilgrim House, above Westerham 1

4. Where did the bulk of the Winchester- Canterbury pilgrims cross the Medway 1 Did any appreciable number cross at Aylesford, Snodland, or Hailing (as usually stated)? and if so, why ?

5. Did the pilgrims habitually use the piece of "Way" beyond Charing? And if so, why did they not take the road by Challock Lees, Molash, and Chilham ?

6. Does not the Pilgrims' Way, beyond Charing and Eastwell Park, run almost directly to Lymne or some ancient port eastward thereof? And did it not run so a thousand years before Becket's martyrdom ?

7. What were the objective points of the two pieces of Pilgrims' Way south east of Canterbury, by Barton Fields, Hoad Farm, Patrixbourne, and Shepherd's Close to Hedon Wood ; and by Great Bossington, Uffington Goodnestone Park, and Chillenden?

Can any readers give me reference to the Pilgrims' Way from the Eastern Counties, which came to the ferry at West Thurrock and entered Kent at Ingress Abbey ?

Can any one tell me when the London- Dover road deserted the old Watling Street way, from Strood, by Shorne Wood, Shingle- well, and Springhead, to Dartford ; and took its modern course by Gadshill, Chalk, North-

fleet, and Greenhithe? In 1675 (Ogilby) it took its present course.

Just one more question. Is the term Pilgrims' Way, or Pilgrim -Way, at all generally used as denoting a bridle-path ? At Eastwell Park, on " the " Pilgrims' Way, I met a gamekeeper who spoke of several lanes thereabout as "only a short cut or pilgrim-way " ; and I wonder whether this is the sense in which the informants of the Ordnance surveyors described the lanes south-east of Canterbury.

H. SNOWDEN WARD.

Hadlow, Kent.

WAGGONER'S WELLS. What is the origin of this place-name? It is given to a series of ponds in Hampshire, near the Surrey border, and is sometimes spelt Wakener's Wells. It is presumable that it has no con- nexion with waggon or the drivers of wag- gons. Can it have anything to do with the blower of a horn, who awakened the echo which can be heard in this valley ? In Saxon times there was a law in Kent (the twenty- eighth law of Wihtrsed) to the effect that if a stranger approached a village in any other manner than by the road he had to shout or blow a horn, otherwise he would be reckoned a thief and summarily dealt with (see G. Baldwin Brown, ' The Arts in Early England/ 1903, vol. i. p. 81). Can this be a spot where it was usual to blow a horn in this way ?

H. W. UNDERDOWN.

RULES OF CHRISTIAN LIFE. I remember that in my youth, and later, there was in every bedroom in this house, and in many i>ther houses, a framed set of rules of Christian ife. It began thus :

Christian, remember

That thou hast to-day

A God to glorify,

A soul to save, &c.

I believe it was a translation from similar ules in some foreign monastery. I should much like to get a copy, either in Latin or ~Cnglish. HENRY N. ELLACOMBE.

Bitton Vicarage, Bristol.

JOHN BUTLER, M.P. FOR SUSSEX, 1747, 1754, AND 1761. What was the date or approxi- mate date of his birth ? H. C.

BACON AND THE DRAMA OF HIS AGE. It las been asserted that Bacon spoke with ,reat disdain about the dramatic stage and heatricals of his own age (cf. Kuno Fischer's work on * Francis Bacon,' second edition, 875, p. 289). Where did Bacon pass this udgment? To quote his words would be esirable. H. KREBS.