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NOTES AND QUERIES. [io s. vm. AUG. 3, 1907.

of the Most High, Mighty, and Ever-glorious Empresse Elizabeth,' dedicated to James I., undated, but with 1625 on the binding. (I cannot find this edition in the British Museum. )

The book contains 727 pages, and upon every one of these pages I find 95 per cent of the e's, 30 or 40 per cent of the a's, and a few other letters apparently touched up with pen and ink (a process which the original printing does not require, as it is good enough). If this is pen and ink, it must be the work of either a " fool or a cipher."

I should be very much obliged if any of your readers who have this edition would examine it, and see whether their copies have these peculiar touchings-up.

W. MURPHY-GRIMSHAW.

109, Cromwell Road, S.W.

VICTOR HUGO : REFERENCE WANTED. Where do the following lines come from ? Soyez comme un oiseau Pose" pour un instant Sur un rameau trop frele, Qui sent ployer la branche, Et qui chant pourtant, Sachant qu'il a des ailes.

They are by Victor Hugo, but exact reference to some available edition is desired.

Boss.

COFFINS AND SHROUDS. I shall be greatly obliged if any one will put me in the way of obtaining information as to when the use of wooden coffins instead of shrouds became fairly general for burial.

ARTHUR NEWSHOLME.

Health Department, Town Hall, Brighton.

COL. HOWE. Can any of your readers give me information, genealogical or other- wise, as to a Col. Howe who commanded the Light Infantry * at the famous battle of Quebec -(1759), when General Wolfe was killed ? By what means is it possible also to find out whether he was subsequently Constable of the Tower, or in some officia position there ? P E CLARK

Aldeburgh, Suffolk.

[Col. Howe was younger brother of the cele brated Admiral Howe, and afterwards became fifth Viscount Howe. There is a pretty full account o him m the ' D.N.B. ]

" INCACHED." Ralph Fitch, in describing the natives of Cochin as he saw them ir 1589, says: "The king goeth incached as they do all." What does incached mean The ' N.E.D.' does not record such a word DONALD FERGUSON.

SIR GEORGE MONOUX. (10 S. viii. 10.)

ALTHOUGH this worthy is frequently styled ' Sir " in early lists of mayors, &c., he never was in reality knighted. There is nothing remarkable in his being so styled, however, laving regard to the fact that the humblest hantry-priest was accorded this honourable >refix, as is well known.

Youngest son of John Monoux of Stan- 'ord, Worcester, gent., he was draper ; Alderman of Bassishaw Ward ; Sheriff 1509-10; Lord Mayor 1514-15; M.P. for he City 1523 ; re-elected Mayor in latter fear, but refused to serve, and was fined L,OOOZ. ; discharged and fine remitted in L524, he in gratitude making over to the Corporation his brewhouse (called " Gold- ngs "), situate near the Bridge House in Southwark ; resigned his aldermanry in 1541; died 1543 (his wife "Dame Ann" laving predeceased him by nearly half a entury, she dying in 1500) ; buried at Walthamstow.

According to Stow, Monoux " re-edified the decayed parish church of Waltonstow, or Walthamstow," and " founded there a free school, and almshouses for thirteen almspeople," also making " a causeway of timber over the marshes from Walthamstow to Lock Bridge, &c." His lengthy petition to be excused serving the office of Mayor a second time, with the deliberations of the civic authorities thereupon, is set out in Mr. Deputy Baddeley's ' Aldermen of Cripplegate Ward,' pp. 188-9.

By his will, dated 4 June, 1541, proved 28 March, 1544 (P.C.C. 3 Pynnyng), he bequeathed to his cousin William Monoux, a boy of eight, second son of Thomas Monoux, late of Walthamstow, three several leases of properties specified. The first of these is stated to be held of the parsonage at Walthamstow ; the second is described as " a certeyne grounde called sainte Johnes grounde " in Walthamstow and Chingford ; the third consisting of lands and tenements situated in Lombard Street and Cornhill, " wherof the principall tenement is cauled the popes hedd, otherwise cauled the busshoppes hedd." He also left to the same William four tenements in Southwark, the chief tenement being called the ' ' CastelT '; with remainder of the whole to legatee's sister Anne, also a minor ; and further remainder in case of decease to Richard