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 10 s. vii. MAY 25, loo:.] NOTES AND QUERIES.

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" THE PEDLARS' REST" (10 S. vii. 266). The description of this packman's rest anc pedlar's counter suggests a resemblance to the porters' rests that existed until recent times in certain parts of London. I car recall those at Mile End Gate, Piccadilly the north end of the Old Bailey, St. Paul's Churchyard, and Islington (near Camden passage). There was some newspaper dis cussion about the proposed removal of the one in Piccadilly ; but whether it stil remains, or has succumbed to the march of improvements, I cannot at preseni recollect. ALECK ABRAHAMS.

39, Hillmarton Road, N.

RELIGIOUS HOUSES OF SUSSEX (10 S. vi 449 ; vii. 134, 294). There were two small "houses situated in the parish of Lyminster near Arundel : (1) the Austin Priory of De Calceto, sometimes called Pynham or Pyneham, situated at the foot of the hill which bounds the Arun valley eastward at this point, and so called because of the causeway or causey which conducted the high road thence to Arundel ; (2) the Nunnery of Levemenstre or Nonnemenstre, a cell of the Benedictine Abbey of Alman- esches, in Normandy. This house shared the fate of the other alien priories, and was suppressed in 1414. No remains of the buildings here are now to be seen, but it is 'thought that they stood on the south side of Lyminster Churchyard. A small portion of the De Calceto walls may be seen close to the Arundel railway station, incorporated in a farm-house.

As regards the remains in general of the religious houses in this county, they vary from extensive ruins, as at Bayham and Lewes, to the mere indication of the original site, as shown by the wall forming the western boundary of the upper end of Wyke Lane, which previously enclosed part of the Dominican priory situated outside Eastgate, Chichester. The Franciscan chapel at 'Chichester still stands in Priory Park, though the monastic buildings have long since dis- appeared.

Bp. Rede's Register includes in one of the ordination lists (1405) a monk whose title is .granted by the Prior of Southwick ; but a little examination made it clear that this was not a newly discovered house near Shore- ham, but the Augustinian Priory near Port- chester, Hants. Southwick had once a close connexion with De Calceto. See Bp. Praty's Register (Sussex Record Society), p. 139.

The county possessed other religious Jiouses in the remote ages, such as Selsey,

recorded by Bede as the foundation of St. Wilfrid ; St. Peter's, Chichester, and an ancient nunnery there, both destroyed while the see was still at Selsey. Others changed their character, e.g., St. Nicholas's, Arundel, an alien priory of the Benedictine Abbey of Seez, was refounded in 1386 as a collegiate church.

It may be remarked, finally, that the Priory of Hardham was more commonly known, well into the fifteenth century, as Heryngham. CECIL DEEDES.

Chichester.

See the recently published second volume of ' Sussex ' in the ' Victoria History of the Counties of England.' L. L. K.

I can supply a full list of these, whether abbey, greater priory, or lesser priory not only of Sussex, but also of any of our counties. Perhaps the querist or MR. W. NORMAN may like to communicate with me direct. JOHN A. RANDOLPH.

128, Alexandra Road, Wimbledon, S.W.

" MOKE," A DONKEY : NICKNAMES OF THE ARMY SERVICE CORPS (10 S. vii. 68, 115, 257). I belonged to the L.T.C. in 1855 ; it was then known as the " London Thieving Company." From the Land Trans- port Corps it was changed to the Military- Train depot, Horfield Barracks, Bristol, on 1 Jan., 1857. It was then turned into "Murdering Thieves" and "Muck Tum- blers." Afterwards it became the Army Service Corps. Can MR. PIERPOINT tell me of the nickname of this corps, as I have failed to obtain it ? Every regiment has its nickname. I first wrote to you on this subject thirty or forty years ago.

" Moke," for donkey, was known in London in 1851, when I first went there to the Exhibition in Hyde Park.

RICHARD HEMMING. Arclwick.

POLL-BOOKS (10 S. vii. 349). The earliest printed book of this kind that I have ever seen bears the following title :

A Copy of the Poll for a Knight of the Shire For February, 1723.
 * he County of Lincoln, Taken at Lincoln the 12 th of

Sir Nevile Hickman, Baronet, \ Candidates. Robert Viner, Esq., )

It has not the name of either printer or publisher, nor is there anything to indicate ho caused it to be printed. It has occurred o me as probable that a few copies may lave been struck off by order of the successful candidate (Robert Viner) for presents to his leading supporters. The pamphlet is evi-