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and published at Oxford, in 1852. Has th text of this ' Vita ' been collated with other on the same subject, and published ?
 * Catalogus ' drawn up by Mr. H. O. Coxe

E. S. DODGSON.

The friar with the unconvincing surnami " Aleohot " is probably Robert of Holco <d. 1349), Dominican, and Doctor of Theo logy at Oxford (see ' D.N.B.'). In fifteenth century books the name is rendered in severa different ways, as Holgot, Holkoth, &c.

H. W. D.

THE " STRAWBERRY HILL " CATALOGUE '(10 S. vii. 461). In his interesting article MR. MERRITT does not give the title-pages or the dimensions of the various catalogues In his possession. By a coincidence, on the morning that I received my copy o % * N. & Q.' I also received the Second-Hanc Book Catalogue of Mr. William Dunlop, o: Oeorge IV. Bridge, Edinburgh. Having just perused MR. MERRITT'S notes on his catalogues, I had my attention arrested by the following entry in Mr. Dunlop's list :

" Walpole (Horace). Catalogue of the Classic Con- tents of Strawberry Hill. Collected by Horace Walpole; sold by auction 25 April, 1842, by Mr. George Robins ; portrait ^ of Walpole on India paper, 4to, original boards."

Perhaps MR. MERRITT may like to know of this. F. A. RUSSELL.

4, Nelgarde Road, Catford, S.E.

" TREATS " : " MULLERS " (10 S. vi. 310). According to my copy of Markham's " Farewell to Husbandry,' 1638, Chambers 's It says at p. 145 : " He shall make ready his collars, hames, treats, halters, muttens, and plough- gears."
 * Book of Days ' and H. P. L. are in error.

Wright's ' Dialect Dictionary ' says that treat, treet, also written teat, is the second quality of bran, the first being called '" sharps," and the coarsest " chizzel." It also describes mullen or mullin as the head- gear of a horse, the bridle of a carthorse, the headstall of a carthorse. A mullin bridle is a bridle with blinkers used for carthorses. JOHN RADCLIFFE.

Does not treats mean traces, Fr. traits ? Jamieson's ' Scottish Dictionary ' gives tread widdie as a " short iron chain terminating at each end like the letter s, connecting the swingle- tree to a harrow " (widdie = rope) ; also mollet-brydil, as a bridle having a curb, and mollat, the bit of a bridle. It is possible these terms were introduced into England .during the Stuart period. N. W. HILLS

Philadelphia.

"RIME" v. "RHYME" (10 S. v. 469, 514; vi. 52, 90, 132, 192, 233, 332, 391). I believe it is a rule of procedure, not only of the House of Commons, but also of all other disCussive and discursive bodies, that no one should be allowed to speak twice to the same motion or amendment. But surely, if it should happen that what a

Eerson has said on the first occasion should ave been absolutely forgotten by sub- sequent speakers, it would be justifiable for the first speaker again to intervene.

And so in the above discussion upon " Rime " v. " Rhyme." Only a very few years ago I ventured to rais an objection to the alteration, by the Editor of ' N. & Q.,' of ray spelling of the word rhyme to rime, when Prof. Skeat and early literature, as here, were brought in to crush me. And, apparently, so effectually was this done that neither SENEX, nor anybody else, seems to be aware that this question has been raised before. I would ask the Editor kindly to supply the reference, as all my earlier volumes of N. & Q.' have already been sent to England for' safety's sake ; and then, if I might be allowed in these circumstances to have a second small say, I should like to offer a tremulous support to the position taken up by SENEX, though I have no intention of getting between the upper and the nether millstone in a controversy so much beyond me.

But is the reference (in an editorial note at the first reference) to Coleridge as an authority against that position altogether a happy one ? Surely, if that author's rendering of the word rime be accepted, why should we not accept the rest of his spelling, and call it " The Rime of the Auncyent Marinere,' as I think 1 it will be found to be n the earliest editions of that poem ? But -endering appear it has always seemed hat Coleridge intended by it a reference to, >r a play upon, the surroundings of the ' bright-eyed mariner " :
 * o my boyish fancy so strange did the

The ice was here, the ice was there, The ice was all around.

And in no other connexion can I ever think )f rime than as hoar-frost.

But my object was more, when I first vrote on this subject and it is so solely jn this occasion to protest against the yranny of Mr. Editor, in an old-established periodical like ' N. & Q.' "a medium of ntercommunication for literary men and eneral readers," in which we all feel as if we ad a vested interest seeking, in a false