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am not so able to do it. I am very sorry that she has so good an excuse. May the Lord heal her, or grant her His presence which is better than health.

I remember my cousin, the less, with much

affection. May God bless her. and my friend ,

with each of yours, known and unknown.

I shall rejoice to hear, that you have received good and comfortable tidings, and remain, my dear cousin, Your truly affectionate, etc.

JOHN E. B. MAYOR. Cambridge.

( To be continued. )

CAWOOD FAMILY. Hugh Cawood appears to have been a member of the Mercers' Company and to have resided in the parish of St. Thomas the Apostle in the City of London. He died in 1497, his will having been proved on 5 July of that year. It is registered in the Prerogative Court of Canter- bury. Is anything further known of him? He seems to have come of a good old family, which in early times lived in Yorkshire, owning considerable property at a place of the same name (Cawood) within a few miles of Selby.

In 1280 the Chase of Cawood was granted to Geoffrey de Neville (Lancashire and Cheshire Antiquarian^ Society Transactions, vol. xix. p. 19, quoting Baines's * Hist, of Lancashire,' vol. v. p. 544). In 1336, how- ever, John de Cawod held land in this district, for on the Patent Rolls there is a licence granted at Stirling on 1 November for John, son of David de Cawod, to grant in tail to John, son of John, son of David de Cawod, and Margaret, daughter of William de Hathelsaye, a messuage, 60 acres of land and 4 acres of meadow and 2 acres of pasture in Cawod, held in chief, with reversion to the grantor and his heirs (10 Ed. III. p. 2, m. 19, Calendar of Patent Rolls, Ed. III., 1334 to 1338,' p. 329).

In 1364 (38 Ed. III.) Robert de Cawode was a seller of wheat in the City of London (Riley's * Memorials, 3 p. 317).

On 15 Sept., 1384 (8 Richard II.), Thomas Cawode, of Coventry, takes an apprentice ('Coventry Charters and Muniments,' p. 82, F. 2).

In 1419 William Cawod, Canon Residen- tiary of York and Ripon, left his Psalter with the gloss of Cassiodorus, that it might be chained before the stalls of the Prebendaries of Thorp and Stanewyges in the church of Ripon, to remain perpetually for the use of the ministers of the church ('Test. Ebor.,' Surt. Soc., i. 396; see also 'Old Yorkshire,' edited by William Smith, New Series, 1889). His will is dated 3 Feb., 1419, and was proved

on 23 March following. Some particulars are- given of him in ' Test. Ebor.,' vol. ii. p. 395.

On 3 May, 1438 (16 Hen. VI.), there is a record of an agreement between William Eston, son and heir of John Eston, of Over- burnham, in the Isle of "Axiholme," ancf Robert Cawode, Prior of the Charterhouse in the said Isle (P.R.O., 'Calendar of Ancient Deeds,' vol. iii. D 1284).

In 1452 William Duffield, Canon Residen- tiary of York, left by his will to William Cawodd, his godson, a book called 'Lira- super Psalterium ' for his life, and after his death to be chained in the common library of the Collegiate Church of Beverley or Southwell ('Test. Ebor.,' iii. 128, quoted in Old Yorkshire,' edited by William Smith, New Series, 1889).

Probably the best-known member of the- family of Cawood is John Cawood, who was Queen's Printer in the time of Philip and Mary. Dugdale has preserved the inscription- from his tomb, which was in Old St. Paul's. Some account is given of him in Trans- actions of the Bibliographical Society, 1896-8,. p. 158. Walter Thornbury ('Old and New London,' vol. i. p. 232) mentions that a> portrait of him which was formerly in Stationers' Hall was destroyed in the Great Fire ; he also relates that this same John Cawood seems to have been specially munificent in his donations to the Stationers' Company, for he gave two new stained-glass windows to the hall ; also a hearse-cover, of cloth and gold, powdered with blue velvet and bordered with black velvet, embroidered and stained with blue, yellow, red, and green, besides considerable plate.

In an old account roll of the Duke of Northumberland, preserved at Syon House, and covering the period between the last of February, 1591, and 1 March. 1594, there is an entry of a payment to " Mr. Cawood, the> bookbinder, and William Browne, the mercer,. 41J. 17s. 6d" (Sixth Rep. Hist. MSS. Com.,, p. 227a).

Under date 8 March, 1600, there is among the Marquis of Salisbury's papers a letter from T. Cawood to Sir Robert Cecil (ibid.y. p. 264a). H. W. UNDERDOWN.

PIN WITCHERY. Pins were used largely in the folk-lore of years ago. It was not at all an unusual thing to witch (^bewitch) a person in the Derbyshire villages amongst which I lived more than fifty years ago, and this was done in various ways. A common one was that of sticking pins into the living bodies of toads, and I can well remember one instance when I saw this done by an old