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ST. BARTHOLOMEW'S HOSPITAL, OXFORD,

\M) XEW COLLEGE : " HOLY THURSDAY "

(11 S. x. :570). For notes on Holy Thursday

7 S. xi. 386, 475, 514 ; xii. 58. At the

tirst reference I asked when Holy Thursday

first appeared as a name for Ascension Day,

and was somewhat taken to task for my

ignorance; but it appears from the ' N.E.D.'

nee under 'Thursday') that the matter is

IK it so simple as some of my critics supposed,

and that the statement there quoted from

'/'/.< Church Quarterly Review, to the effect

that until quite recently Englishmen have

by Holy Thursday always understood one

day only, that is Ascension Day, is not true.

Its specific application to that day in England

-, however, to have been earlier than

its use to indicate what we usually call

Maundy Thursday, though this too has a

table antiquity. An assistant priest

at a church in my neighbourhood which is

noted for its " high " ritual tells me he always


 * he term in the latter sense, and this

understand, the Roman custom.

C. C. B.

MR. WAINE WRIGHT says that " at the i fc day ' Holy Thursday ' means Maundy Thursday exclusively." Surely this is quite wrong. According to the use of the Church of Kngland, as set forth in the 'Days of ig and Abstinence ' in the Prayer Book, "Holy Thursday" is Ascension Day ex- clusively. The Thursday before Easter is Maundy Thursday, and the deriva- tion of the word has been often discussed.

G. W. E. R.

GROOM OF THE STOLE (11 S. viii. 466>

,. r )l.-) ; ix. 32, 95, 157 ; x. 295, 358, 410). There

e but little if any doubt, I think, that

this functionary was originally answerable

for the- performance of the duties prescribed

'" ill-; Chamberlain in John .Russell's ' Boke

pf Nurture,' line 929 et seq., and also to the

same officer in ' The Boke of Keruyno '

which are to be consulted in ' The

Babees JJook ' (E.E.T.S.). See pp. 179, 283.

ST. SWITHI.V.

CARDIFF NEWSPAPERS (11 S. x. 389). I

' think that Cardiff had any newspaper

>t its own in 1827. The earliest Welsh

ip-T was The Cambrian, published at

ea, the first number of which appeared

n January, 1804.

Tin- number for Saturday, 10 April, 1827,

ays that UK; Assizes for Glamorgan " com-

d" at Cardiff "on Saturday last."

h" report of the proceedings is condensed

iito a paragraph of about forty lines. On

the criminal side only the nam?s of thi prisoners, their crimes, and their sentences are given. On the civil side only one case is specified an action for " crim. con." against "a medical gmtlemin.''

DAVID SALMON. Swansea.

In the files of The Cambrian, published at Swansea, which are in the Royal Institution of South Wales, dating from 1804 (the first number), under date 20 April, 1827, I find a report of the Glamorganshire Great Sessions held at Cardiff, 14 April, and if MR. KELLY will communicate with me, I shall be pleased to trace what he may desire to obtain.

ALEX. G. MOFFAT, Hon. Librarian.

Royal Institution of South Wales, Swansea.

WORDS USED IN THOMAS LODGE'S ' WITS MISERIE,' 1596 (11 S. x. 385). Codshead. Another example, also of 1596, is in Nashe's ' Epistle Dedicatorie ' to ' Have with you to Saffron-Walden ' ('Works/ ed. M'Kenrow, iii. 13) :

" His fellow i/Mt qwx. codxhtad, that in the Latine Tragedie of K. Richard critic, Ad cr/>, ad vrbx, ad vrb*, when his whole Part was no more but Vrb*, vrb*, ad arma, ad arma."

The passage is interesting as showing the English pronunciation of qui, quce, quod, at this time.

Peruchines. Perhaps " Paroissiens," prayer-books. G. C. MOORE SMITH.

Peruchine. " Parochian " (parochial ser- mon on Genesis vi. ). ' N.E.D. ; explains under 'Porrierie, 1 p. 719 (P).

Shawme = shamble (v. ). Shamble (n.): shawm (n.) : : shawme (vb.) : shamble (n.). This seems preferable to linking up under root of German Schaum, foam, froth, scum. H. H. JOHNSON.

Lather. I think this is a North-Country form of ladder. ST. SWITHIX.

"CORDWAINER" (11 S. x. 247, 296, 331, .375, 393,). The word " cordiner " I have often seen in old documents relating to the Tyne district. It is similar to the Fn-iK-h " cordonnier," and may be the phonetic rendering of the word. R- B R.

South Shields.

The Allutarii, or (Wdwainors, appear to have been associated together as a craft or mystery M early as the Conquest, in close connexion with tin- Municipality of London. The first ordinance of the Worshipful Com- pany of Corduam. rs \\as made 56 Henry III. Another ordinance for the regulation of disputes between them and the Cobblers