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 32 NOTES AND QUERIES. [io» s. iv. JULY s. toune, husbondman, Thomas Gelle of the same husbondman, John Louthe, yonger, of the same laborer, John Gelle of the same, Robert Horn blynke of the same, husbondman, Rauffe Kyrkemai of the same, husbondman, Henry Smyth of the same, smyth, and other, with gret aray witl palettes, hoburjones, bowes, arwes, axes and gleyve as men of werre and riottours, and in the saic vicary and parachones mad assaut and the crucifixi pulled don, seyng yf they went any further pro cession, that thei shulde slei them. For fere o which the sayd vicary ner parachones durst not at that tyme ne sithyn goo in procession leche as they have usyd tofore, the which is odyouse example."— feecond Series, vol. ix. p. 15. EDWARD PEACOCK. Wickentree House, Kirton-in-Liudsey. It may be of interest enough to place on record a contemporary note of " beating the bounds" in September last, at Bodmin, by the mayor and councillors. At the end of the day their boundary lay through a pool, into which the mayor threw a ball. The person who succeeded in rescuing the ball, anc running with it to the town clock, receivec five shillings. Beating the bounds happens here once every seven years ; but on this occasion only five years had elapsed since the last perambulation. EGBERT LEWIS STEELE. The following appeared in The Birmingham Daily Post of 2 June :— "An ancient ceremony was observed yesterday morning (Ascension Day) by the Lichfield Cathe- dral choristers. The choristers walked round the boundaries of the Cathedral parish, headed by the processional cross, the clergy conducting the devo- tions at the eight places where there is a record of there having been, or still is, a well. Early yester- day morning the choristers had decorated the principal residences in the Cathedral Close with freshly gathered elm boughs. As the procession entered the Cathedral at the conclusion the 'Old Hundredth hymn was sung, and the ancient custom was concluded around the font." BENJ. WALKER. Gravelly Hill, Erdington. FANSHAWE FAMILY (I0lh S. iii. 327,494).— Allow me to contradict certain statements made by W. I. R. V. The original MS. of -Lady Fanshawe's 'Memoirs' is in my posses- sion, and has never been out of the family. It is in the old contemporary binding of red leather, with Sir Richard Fanshawe's coat of arms emblazoned on the outside leather. Her signature, dated May, 1676, is inside. I have many letters and papers before me in the handwriting of both Lady Fan- shawe and Sir Richard. Certain pages have been ruthlessly torn out at the end, but this fact does not prove my original MS. " to be original in merely a limited sense." I have seen none of the papers or the MS. W. I. R.V. says he has, but years ago he possessed a, copy of a portrait of Sir R. Fanshawe with, greyhound belonging to my father. The edition about to be published of Lady Fanshawe's ' Memoirs ' will be edited by one of the most competent antiquaries of the day. There cannot be two originals of Lady Fan- shawe's * Memoirs,' and it is scarcely likely that the copy would be in possession of the family and the original offered for sale. EVELYN JOHN FANSHAWE. 132, Ebury Street. [This discussion is becoming too personal to go further, and we cannot insert any more on the subject.] 'LOVE'S LABOUR 's LOST ': ITS DATE (10th S. iii. 265, 370).—Now that MR. CLARK has kindly made it clear what his point is in his original communication (10th S. iii. 170), I will endeavour to render my explanation of it even clearer than I have succeeded in doing in the original passage in my little book, wntten in a very condensed form. In the book, at p. 38,1 plainly said that the name used ia the first play—'Love's Labour's Lost,'pub- lished in 1598—was not the "full name,1' and I added, as explanatory :— " This looks as if the use of the pen name was not finally decided upon, and was hesitating and tenta- tive, from the publication of 'Venus' in 1593 till the success of the publication of' Love's Labour's Lost* in 1598." Let me add to my explanation more fully here. The " full name " of " William Shakespeare' was invented by Bacon as early as 1693. It appears, accordingly, upon the dedication both of ' Venus and Adonis ' in 1593, and in that of 'Lucrece' in 1594. The name thus- used is clearly not that of the Stratford actor ; but it was so framed as to closely re- semble it, and yet not to be identical with it. The newly formed name had a significance of its own. It betokened " The Quirinus," Fabled to have been thrown by Romulns into' the Quirinal, where it took root and became a laurel tree. The word Quirinus itself was* derived from an old Sabine word signifying- i "spear." Thus the whole word, so framed n its first syllable, formed the word "Shake"; while its second syllable, even in those early days, as plainly added the word " spear" to ,hus created conveyed to the initiated Bacon's well - known classic distinction of >eing the great "Spear-shaker" known to ame. The meaning thus sought to be given x) the new word is corroborated by the fact hat more than thirty men, who bore the names of either distinguished members of the
 * he *' Shake " in the first. The whole word