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AMPHILLIS HYDE AND CHABLES II. (11 S. i. 128). R. T. will find in Dr. Marshall's ' Visitation for Wilts J (1623), p. 13, a pedi- gree of Tichborne in which appears Amphilis, daughter of John Tichborne of Sarum, as aged one year in 1623.

The 1677 Visitation of Wiltshire is in the College of Arms, reference D. 28. I believe an index of names by F. A. Carrington appears in The Wiltshire Archaeological Magazine for 1855, vol. ii. p. 380.

Sir Thomas Phillipps also printed in folio a copy of this Visitation, but I do not know where this can be found now.

E. A. FRY.

124, Chancery Lane, W.C.

LATIN QUOTATIONS (10 S. i. 188, 297, 437 ; ii. -110, 276; ix. 37). 2. " Nescit servire virtus n (' Pedantius,* ed. G. C. Moore Smith, 1. 116). The following are earlier instances of this proverbial thought, although their expression is not identical.

The Portuguese Hieronymus Osorius in his ' De Gloria,' Lib. I., cap. vii. p. 17, ed. 1825 (1st ed., 1552), has " Virtus enim servire non potest, qu86 sola libera est " ; and Petrarch in his ' Remedia utriusque Fortunae,* Lib. II. cap. i., ad fin. : "Sola virtus fortunae legibus libera est. 1 '

With these may be compared Matthseus Gribaldus^ ' De Ratione Studendi, 1 Lib. I. cap. i. : " Veritas candorem amat, latebras odit, fucos horrescit, aditus patentes quserit, libera est, servire nescit, aliena umbra tegi non vult, n &c. (p. 6, ed. Lyons, 1544).

EDWARD BENSLY.

STEPHEN CHARLES TRIBOUDET DEMAIN- BRAY (11 S. i. 150) and some of his family are recorded on a tombstone in Northolt Churchyard, Middlesex. My abstract of the inscription runs as follows :

Altar tomb : Steph. Chas. Triboudet Demain- bray, LL.D., 20 Feb., 1782, on which day he entered into his 73rd year. Sarah his wife, died > Sept., 1823, aged 89. Their daughter Eliz. Sarah Triboudet Demainbray, died 5 Sept.,

18, aged 61. Louisa Maria Triboudet Demain- bray, died 13 Oct., 1836, aged 80. Sarah Lydia

nboudet Demainbray, died 5 March, 1844, aged 82. They lived beloved, and died lamented.

F. S. SNELL.

SPARE FAMILY (10 S. xii. 130). According to Chauncy's ' History of Herts, 1 John Walsh of Cheshunt, by his will dated 26 Oct. 16 Hen. VII., devised the Manor of St. Andrew le Mott in Cheshunt to Sir John More, Kt., John Jocelin, and Thomas Knight, and their heirs, who with Thomas Underbill, Thomas

I Spare, and Conand Clayton granted the


 * manor and other lands to Henry Stafford,

I Earl of Wiltshire. This is the only reference

in Chauncy to the uncommon surname

Spare. M. A.

ALFRED AND THE CAKES (11 S. i. 129). This story will be found in the following : ' Chronicle of John of Wallingford,' Gale, 1691, iii. 537.

Bollandus, ' Acta Sanctorum,' &c. (Paris, 1868, folio), in the ' Life of Sanctus Neotus, Confessor in Anglia,* given in vol. xxxiv. p. 338. This is the fullest account.

I believe that it is also mentioned by Asser, and that Spelman derived his version from this source. He gives it in his ' Life of Alfred the Great,* Oxford, 1678, at p. 26. The circumstances leading up to the episode are described, and he then continues :

" Pastoris autem uxorem plane fefelisse constat ex narratiuncula, quse circumfertur hujus modi.

" ' Conti^it die quodam ut rustica uxor vide- licet illius vaccarii pararet ad coquendum panes. Et ille Bex sedens sic circa focum prseparavit sibi arcum et sagittas, et alia bellorum instrumenta. Cum vero panes ad ignem positos ardentes aspexit ilia infoelix mulier f estinanter currit et amovit eos, increpans Begem invictissimum, et dicens ; heus homo I

Urere quos cernis, panes gyrare moraris, Cum nimium gaudes hos manducare calentes ? ' '

Harding's 'Chronicle,' fo. cix (p. 202, ed. Sir* Henry Ellis, 1812), refers to the King's menial occupation whilst in hiding (A.D. 878) :

In Denwolfes house thoxherd of the towne So was he then in poore and syniple aray, Where Denwolf cladde him in his owne gowne, And tender was vnto him there ahvaye ; But hys wyf e made him to laboure aye With bakyng and with bruyng wonder sore In water beryng she made him worke euer more.

JOHN HODGKIN.

The story of the burning of the cakes is to be found in Asser' s ' Life of Alfred,' where it is preceded by the following head- ing : ' ' And in the life of the holy father Neot may be read that which chanced to him in the hut of one of his cowherds."

The story may be regarded as an interpola- tion from the Annals of St. Neot, for which Archbishop Parker is responsible. Cf. Stevenson's ' Asser's Life of Alfred,' Oxford, 1904. P. G. THOMAS.^

The famous story of the cakes is derived, apparently, from the legend of St. Neot, and does not occur in the genuine work of Asser. One version strangely identifies the neatherd with Denewulf, Bishop of