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 246 NOTES AND QUERIES. [io» s. iv. SEW. 23,1905. Lord with much ado pacified by the sages of the University." The College records take no notice of this riot; but on 12 August Godstow received leave of absence for a year, and at the next election his Fellowship was vacant. Lord Norreys, son of Anne Boleyn's alleged lover, was father of a family of famous soldiers, two of whom — afterwards Sir Henry and Sir Thomas Norreys—had matriculated at Magdalen in 1571, being seventeen and fifteen years old respectively. William Pilsworth, sometime Demy and contemporary of Godstow, died Bishop of Kildare. Richard Ferrant or Farrant, Demy in 1578, was probably son of the famous composer of the same names. A Demy of the same year, William Sterrell, appears to have acted, in after life, under many feigned names as a Government spy. A Demy of 1589, Anthony Green way, called also Anthony Tilney, and Father Anthony after becoming a Jesuit, entered the School when •eleven years old, and remained in the College (so he tells us) for nine. About the year 1614, or earlier, new rooms •were added above the School building for the use of Magdalen Hall, then in a very flourishing condition. About this time the redoubtable Harry Marten, the regicide, a native of Oxford, was—according to Wood —being "instructed in grammar learning in Oxon" before becoming "a gentleman- commoner of University College." Was he at Magdalen School 1 From the last-men- tioned year until 1617 Francis White, M.A., of Magdalen Hall, formerly Demy, and later vicar of Ashbury, was Master of the School. Heylyn, in his 'Diary,' mentions that White composed one or more plays, which were acted in the President's lodgings. We may suppose his "little eyases" would assist in the production of their pedagogue's pieces : " Since we be turn'd cracks," says Mercury to Cupid in 'Cynthia's Revels,' "let's study to be like cracks; practise their language and behaviours, and not with a dead imitation: act freely, carelessly, and capriciously, as if our veins ran with quicksilver, and not utter a phrase, but what shall come forth steep'd in the very brine of conceit, and sparkle like salt in fire." For sixteen years from 1632 one John Hyde was usher of M.C.S. He was probably third son of Sir George Hyde, of Denchworth, and had been a contemporary at Magdalen Hall of his celebrated kinsman Edward Hyde, afterwards Earl of Clarendon. In 1633 Henry Chittie, a former Demy, bequeathed his books to the College, some of which were (To be continued.) " KABAFUTOED."—It is worth while to put on record an early instance of the use of this coined word. "Kabafutoed" will, no doubt, obtain a vogue if only on account of its historical allusiveness. Part of a leader in The North China Daily News for 22 July runs:— " It may be taken for granted that Saghalien will be completely kabafutoed,and Vladivostock entirely surrounded, before the serious discussion of the terms of peace begins." While on this subject I should like to pro- test against a belief I have noticed in your columns that 'Hobson-Jobson'is a reference work for all Eastern parlance of the English stamp. There could hardly be a greater mistake. When we consider that, besides India, there are Burmah, Penang and Singapore, Hongkong and Shanghai, to say nothing of Japan, and the protean and macaronic jargon used, but seldom understood, by the passen- gers on board the P. & O. liners, it will be readily understood that the man who acts on the supposition that Yule and Burnell hare cast their mantle over all the East is invit- ing philological trouble. DCJH AH Coo. Hongkew. "TEST MATCH."—The following statement was made by Mr. P. F. Warner in his weekly cricket column in The Westminster Gazette of 19 August:— " Until the year 1894 no one had ever heard of a ' Test' match, but during the memorable tour of A. E. Stoddart's team in Australia in the winter of that year the word was first coined, and ever since that time we have been accustomed thus to speak of an England r. Australia match." It is interesting, of course, to note that Mr. Warner " captained " the team which went to Australia last year, and is thus an authority on the subject. . CLIFTON ROBBINS. FROST AND DONCASTER RACES. — It is an old saying hereabout that "Frost hangs to the tail of the last horse which runs at Don- caster." With the end of the Doucaster race week the summer is considered to be quite gone, and the frosty season begins. THOS. RATCLIFFB. Worksop. GENEALOGICAL RESEARCH.—It is only by long practical experience that one learns the value of small clues. As an illustration of this, many do not note if the executor w»s sworn or affirmed in the probate act. If the latter, it denotes a Quaker; and, in the case of an executor being a near relative of the testator, it makes it worth while to search the grand Quaker Registers at Devonshire House. Wills of the members of the Society
 * 1) iven to the School. A. R. BAYLKY.