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a fragment torn from a copy of * Poor Robin's Almanac,' but of what year it is impossible to tell except by collation with a perfect copy. The edition of 1688 contains a parody of the Church of England calendar, in which the names of regicides and other persons occur who were obnoxious to the popular sentiment of the time. The "Ransborough" in the present fragment is, there cannot be a doubt, a misspelling of the surname of Col. Thomas Rainborowe, a noteworthy officer both on sea and land, and a man prominent among the independent section of the army, who was killed at Doncaster, by a body of desperate men from the Royalist garrison in Pontefract Castle, on 29 October, 1648. Whether the deed was done in revenge for the execution of Lucas and Lisle on the surrender of Col- chester, or whether it arose out of a desire to make Rainborowe a prisoner for the purpose of exchanging him for the Royalist leader Sir Marmaduke Langdale, who was a captive at the time in Nottingham Castle, will pro- bably ever remain a matter of doubt. It was regarded by the Parliamentarians not as legitimate warfare, but as murder.

EDWARD PEACOCK.

Kirton-in-Lindsey.

NORWICH COURT ROLLS (10 th S. iv. 489). Mr. Walter Rye's 'Short Calendar of the Deeds relating to Norwich enrolled in the Court Rolls of that City, 1285-1306,' was published by the Norfolk and Norwich Archaeological Society in 1903.

EDWARD M. BORRAJO.

The Library, Guildhall, E.G.

ARCHBISHOP KEMPE (10 th S. iv. 348, 434). COL. PRIDEAUX refers to a paper on the memorials of persons buried in the church of All Hallows, Barking, by Messrs. Corner and Nichols, in the Transactions of the London and Middlesex Archaeological Society (1862), ii. 245. As I am not able to see those Transactions, will COL. PRIDEAUX kindly inform me if Archbishop Kempe had any special connexion and if so, what with All Hallows, Barking ? G. LAYCOCK BROWN.

Edinbro Cottage, Heworth, York.

J. PITTS, PRINTER (10 th S. iv. 469). This may be the "Mr. Pitts" whose character is given by Dunton in his 'Life and Errors.' See Nichols's edition, 1818, vol. i. p. 233.

WM. H. FEET.

CHURCH SPOONS (10 th S. iv. 468). In Lee's 'Directorium Anglicanum' directions are given that a perforated spoon should always be kept on the credence in order to remove a fly or spider which might fall into the

chalice after consecration. In such a con- tingency the insect should be " warily taken," then, "washed between the fingers, and should then be burnt, and the ablution, together with the burnt ashes, must be put in the piscina." I know the spoons well- there were several in a lot of old family plate which was divided amongst us many years ago and always heard them described as " mulberry spoons," being intended, as 1 was told, to sprinkle each fruit with a little sugar, and then take it up on tho spiked end.

E. E. STREET.

Chichester.

I possess a spoon like the one described. The bowl is pierced, and it ends in a spike. It is about five and a half inches in length. There is a half-obliterated "lion "mark, but no date-letter. I have heard this called a mulberry spoon. You sift the sugar on the mulberry by the bowl, impale it on the spike, and lift it to the mouth. I do not think there was ever anything ecclesiastical about it : an engraved crest precludes this idea. Are such spoons common in churches'? If it was to catch flies, why is the bowl pierced ? To kill a fly with the spike would be no easy task. G. F. BLANDFORD.

48, Wimpole Street,

The spoons as described are, according to a housewife who showed me a valued specimen, mulberry spoons. How they came to form part of church plate I cannot say.

H. P. L.

"SMITH" IN LATIN (10 th S. iv. 409, 457). "Smith in Latin 1 ' is not uncommon in its original form as a modern English name. There are two well-known actors on- the London stage who bear it, Miss Beryl Faber and Mrs. Leslie Faber, while in the seven times. RUDOLPH DE CORDOVA.
 * Post Office London Directory' it occurs-

LOOPING THE LOOP : FLYING OR CENTRI- FUGAL RAILWAY : WHIRL OF DEATH (10 th S. iv. 65, 176, 333, 416, 474). I have a copy of the original handbill of the Centrifugal Rail- way, which is identical with that given by MR. ALECK ABRAHAMS at 9 th S. xi. 337, ex- cept that the show is stated, with greater precision, to be held " at Dubourg's Exhibition of Wax-Work, Great Windmill Street, Hay- market." At the top of the bill is a cut of the railway, showing a car containing a passenger commencing the descent at one end, another head downwards at the top of the " Vertical Circle," and a third at the other end having just finished the ascent. I think MR. THOMAS WHITE has hit on the usual pronunciation Centrifugal. In the early