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NOTES AND QUERIES. [io* s. HI. MARCH 25, HOB.

Forms of Bidding Prayer, with Introduction ,nd Notes,' by Henry Octavius Coxe (Oxford, Parker, 1840). Q. V.

The Rev. F. G. Lee, in his 'Glossary of Liturgical and Ecclesiastical Terras,' 1877, says it is " a form of prayer ordered to be used by authority of the fiftieth canon of the Heformed Church of England, before all sermons which are preached apart from, and independent of, the daily service or Holy Communion." See also 2 nd S. xi. 153 ; 3 rd S. vii. 152, 391. EVERARD HOME COLEMAN.

71, Brecknock Road.

[W. C. B., MR. F. A. RUSSELL, and L. R. M. S. also thanked for replies.]

HOLBORN (10 th S. ii. 308, 392, 457, 493 ; iii. 56). In making some notes on 'Roderick Random' for a Prague professor lately, I oame across the once famous or infamous " Hockley-in-the-Hole," marshy ground in proximity to the Fleet River (vide 4 History of ClerkenwelP).

FRANCIS P. MARCHANT.

Streatham Common.

BACON OR USHER ? (10 th S. ii. 407, 471 ; iii. 94, 155.) In answer to MR. WILSON'S inquiry as to the authorship of Bacon's epitaph in St Michael's Church, St. Albans, its attribu- tion to Sir Henry Wotton is due to the remark of John Aubrey in his description of Bacon's tomb : " Underneath is this inscrip- tion, which they say was made by his friend Sir Henry Wotton " (Aubrey's ' Brief Lives,' Oxford, 1898, vol. i. p. 76). Prof. Gardiner ascribes this epitaph to Wotton (' History,' vol. vi. p. 121), probably on Aubrey's authority. L. P. S.

May I ask MR. WILSON to give his reason for believing that the inscription on Bacon's monument in St. Michael's Church, St. Albans, was written by Sir Thomas Meautys 1 As this is the first time I have seen such a statement made, I am naturally curious to learn its genesis.

I have searched every book I can lay hands on in my own library containing any refer- ence to the monument, and in each and all Sir Thomas Meautys is credited with erecting the monument, and Sir Henry Wotton with writing the inscription. JOHN T. PAGE.

West Haddon, Northamptonshire.

HERIOT (10 th S. iii. 142). In 1659 Roger Kenion, of Peele, co. Lancaster, gent., leased to Thomas Hornby, of Goosnargh, tailor, a cottage and two closes at Goosnargh, for the life of the said Thomas, and of Thomas and Edmund his sons, and the survivor of them,

the rent to be 2s. a year, one day boon- shearing in harvest (or (5d. instead), one boon- hen on St. Thomas's Day (or Gd. instead), and 20s. "in lieu of an herriott" on the death of every tenant. In some of the Yorkshire manors the heir of a tenant on succeeding has to pay an heriot on his admission, and is said to " heriot " the estate, and the copy of the court-roll is called the " heriot copy." Thus, in the manor of Wakefield, in 25 Charles II., Francis Nevile, Esq., son and next heir of Sandford Nevile, Esq., "harriotts" all the copyhold lands which late were his father's ; and in 29 Charles II. Jonathan, son and heir of John Bever, receives his " heriot admission " to his father's lands at New Mil n Dam, in the graveship of Sandal. Again, in 1 Queen Anne, Maurice Kaye, son and heir of John Kaye, deceased, obtains his " heriot copy " respecting houses and shops in Wake- field. In the manor of Temple Newsam, 1737, Robert Hopkinson obtains a similar "heriot copy " of his deceased father's copyhold lands in Hal ton. In 1752, in the manor of Wake- field, Elizabeth and Mary, daughters and heirs of the above-named Robert Hopkinson, gave to the lord a fine of ll. 14s. lO^d. for "licence of herriotiug " their father's lands. I give these instances from original docu- ments. Doubtless the custom still holds.

W. C. B.

THEATRE-BUILDING (10 th S. ii. 328, 432). There is a copy of Chiaramonte's book in the Konigliche Bibliothek at Berlin, press-mark Ny. 10128. A general catalogue of all the Prussian libraries is being prepared, and meanwhile the Geschaftsstelle des Gesamt- katalogs, Berlin N.W. 7, Dorotheenstr. 5, answers, for a nominal charge, inquiries as to the whereabouts of books in these col- lections. With the above exception neither of the books sought for is at any of the Prussian libraries, nor, as I am informed in answer to direct inquiries, at the great libraries of Munich (Universitatsbibliothek, Hofbibliothek) and Darmstadt (Hofbiblio- thek). L. R. M. STRACHAN.

Heidelberg, Germany.

ANCHORITES' DENS (10 th S. iii. 128). There is a good example of one of these dens between the grand old Norman church of St. John the Baptist and the river Dee, at Chester. It is called locally "The Ancho- rite's Cell," and was probably an outbuilding of the adjoining church. It is built on the sandstone rock at a considerable height, and originally the river probably washed to the foot of the rock. There is a curious legend that King Harold was not killed at the