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 io"> s. iv. NOV. 11,1905.] NOTES AND QUERIES. 397 very natural expression ; it was also one which its alliterative form would readily tend to keep current, whenever it was used. J. A. H. MURRAY. In the Egerton MS. play ' The Tragedy o; Richard II.' (Act I.), which may be as late as 1630, the passage concerning Bushy, Bagot and Green appears as follows :— Woodstock. Shall cankers eate the fruite That planting and good husbandry hath norisht? Oreene: Baggott: Cankora ! York: Anmdell: I, cankours, catterpillers. A. R. BAYLEY. The term "caterpiller" is mentioned in one of the Civil War tracts printed in the Appendix to Fenton's 'Pembrokeshire' in connexion with the Civil War in Wales, 1643-4. The tract states :— " The country inhabitants came in and presented their service to the colonel, whereupon was placed a garrison in Haverfordwest, and the whole country freed from the caterpillers or cavaliers, saving Tenby and Carew Castle." Caterpillar would appear to have been a word not only in general use, but must also have been pretty widespread, seeing that it is found in so remote a district as Pembroke- shire. Q. H. W. CUSTOM OF THRAVES (10th S. iv. 350).—The custom appears to have been known not as " Thraves," but as " Peter-corn." The follow- ing is from ' Cowel's Interpreter,' 1710, s.v. 'Peter-Corn':— "Rex Athelstanua concessit Deo et beato Petro Ebor, et colideis, prsedictia de qualibet Caruca arante in Episcopatu Eboraci unam Travam bladi, Anno Domini 936, quse usque in prsesentem diem dicitur Peter Corn. Ex Reg. S. Leonard! Ebor. in Iiiill. Cottoniana, fol. 5, a. concessiones travarum vocat. Peter-Corn per totum Archiepiscopatum £bor. quas imprimis Ethelstanus quondam Rex Anglice concessit Deo et beato Petro et colideis apud Eboracum. Reg. S. Leonard! Ebor. Cotton. Nero. D. 3. f. 59. Contentio inter Magistram et Fratres Hospitalis S. Leonard! Ebor. et conventum <Je Malton super trabia camearur.i vocat. Peter- Corn in craatino S. Botulfi, 1266.—Collect. Roir. Dodsworth, vol. 78, p. 212, MS." J. HOLDEN MAcMlCHAEL. Has MR. ANDREWS referred to 3rl1 S. iv. 290, 383, Nares's 'Glossary,1 Halliwell's 'Dic- tionary of Archaic and Provincial Words,' or "Wright's ' Dictionary of Obsolete and Pro- vincial English' for the information he re- quires? EVERARD HOME COLEMAN. 71, Brecknock Road. CLUB CUP (10th S. iv. 327).—In the Club »nd Society case in the Willett Collection, IJrighton Museum, No. 587 is described in the catalogue as a " model in the form of an open hand and heart, coloured earthenware The emblem of the Odd Fellows." In the Notes on the Willett Collection' by H Housman, published by Smith, Brighton, 1893, attention is called at p. 94 to a " figure of an open hand in white china with a red heart in the palm, an interesting relic of bygone days, for this is the sign which the Fleet Parsons used to put in their windows to show that marriages were performed — we cannot say solemnized — within. Beckenham. SUICIDES BURIED IN THE OPEN FlELDS (10th S. iv. 346).-It is probable that the writer of the passage which COL. FISH- WICK quotes from 'The Alphabet of Tales' did not mean to indicate that the body was not buried near cross-roads, but that these roads ran through the unenclosed lands of the parish. Before the time of the great enclosures of the eighteenth century cross- roads in the open country were very com- mon. I can identify several of these near which suicides are known to have been buried. EDWARD PEACOCK. Wickentree House, Kirton-in-Lindsey. EVANS : SYMONDS : HERING : GARDEN (10th S. iv. 328).—I suggest that the Thomas Garden for whom your correspondent is looking is Thomas Gordon, Consul-General for the States of Holland at Leith. He was the son of Alexander Gordon, collector of cess at Aberdeen, and grandson of Sir James Gordon, fifth baronet of Lesmoir. Thomas took an immense interest in fishery ques- tions, and wrote ' General Remarks on the British Fisheries,' 1784. I gave many par- ticulars of this book (which is rare) and its writer in the Aberdeen Free Press of 7 and 13 October, 1904. A fuller account of Thomas will appear in the second volume of 'The House of Gordon,' which the New Spalding •Hub, Aberdeen, has in the press. J. M. BULLOCH. The matters referred to in the letters would issist the identification of their writers Except for a knowledge of Upcott's probable correspondents, not even the following meagre suggestions would be possible Edward Evans.—Probably the printseller of 1, Great Queen Street, with whom Upcott lad many transactions, both as a buyer and seller. Vide Evans's catalogue offering Frostiana ' and ' Historic Memorials of the London Theatres,' &c. Thomas Symonds.—John Britton had some correspondence with an antiquary of this name, who wrote to him from Bath and