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NOTES AND QUERIES. [ii s. x. DEC. 19, 191*.

His sister is Miss H. C. Foxcroft, the well- known historian.

Bibliography. Hinton (or, more cor- rectly, Hen ton) Charterhouse being a mon- astic foundation, nearly all writers have devoted their attention to the history of the place as a Carthusian monastery. Carthusian houses were not numerous in England, and of the few that there were, two were in Somerset Witham and Hinton.

Mr. E. D. Foxcroft contributed ' Notes on Hinton Charterhouse ' to Som. Arch. Soc. Proceedings, 1895. This article has a ground plan and two illustrations of the interior. A yet fuller account, by the same writer, is in the Bath Natural History and Ant. Field Club, vol. vii. (1893). The Som. Arch. Soc. Proceedings, 1911, pp. 73-83, should also be consulted. The Society visited the neighbourhood in that year (1911). Miss H. C. Foxcroft wrote upon the Duke of Monmouth's taking refuge in the district in 1685. This paper contains many references to Hinton and the neigh- bourhood, and it is a most important contribution to historical knowledge. Five charters of Hinton (under ' Henton ') are given in Dugdale, vol. vi. Miss E. Margaret Thompson's ' The Somerset Carthusians,' pp. 203-366 (John Hodges, 1895), is by far the fullest and best account of Hinton. See also Archbold's ' Somerset Religious Houses,' 1892. Miss Thompson points out (p. 255) an absurd mistake made by Collin- son with reference to a figure connected with Hinton, but now in a neighbouring church. A book likely to be overlooked is Bowles (W. L.) and Nichols's (J. G.) " Annals and Ant. of Lacock Abbey. . . .including Notices of the Monasteries of Bradenstoke, Hinton, and Farley. London, 1835."

Harleian MSS. 6965, ff. 104-5, and 6966, ff. 170-72, are important. Lists of Carthusian libraries are scarce, but in P.R.O. Ecclesiastical Documents, Ex- chequer K.R., No. 4/8, is a list of books sent from Charterhouse, London, to Hinton Charterhouse. See Somerset and Dorset Notes and Querizs, vol. viii., 1903, p. 216. The best notes upon the library at Hinton are in Thomas Webb Williams's ' Somerset Mediaeval Libraries,' 1897, pp. 99-100. See also ' Valor Ecelesiasticus,' vol. i. pp. 156 et seq., and Brewer's ' State Papers, Henry VIII.' The Rev. Thomas Spencer, Perpetual Curate of Hinton Charterhouse, wrote numerous books and papers upon the place, but dealing chiefly with economic or controversial questions. I have a note that in 1890 the Rev. Henry Gee wrote

from The Hostel, St. John's Hall, High- bury, N. :

" I am collecting all the materials that I can find for a complete sketch of Hinton Abbey or Henton Priory, as it ought to be called (no Charterhouse is designated an Abbey). I should be extremely obliged by any information that would help me, &c. HENKY GEE."

Miss Thompson's book, published five years later, would have well supplied this want. A. L. HUMPHBEYS. 187, Piccadilly, W.

THE ITALIAN GOAT : ITS COLOUR (11 S. x. 449). Is not the passage which V. R. quotes (Hor., ' Odes,' IV. iv.) pretty " clear to scholars " already, and the epithet fulvus applicable (" obviously " or otherwise) to the lion ? Certainly Lucretius thought so, for he writes of " Corpora fulva leonum." And is fulvus ever applied to caper or caprea in the classics ? The vitulus in ' Odes,' IV. iv. 60, is an animal of quite different colour. But surely, looking at the passage critically, there can be little doubt that " fulvse matris abubere | lamlacte depulsum " expresses one idea in the poet's mind : " The lion's whelp fresh from his mother's dugs, just weaned."' If V. R. will put a comma at intenta, for which I would plead, he will read the passage as I do, and as I have always thought to be its generally recognized interpretation, even at the cost of his leaving the " colour of the Italian goat " unaffected by it. May I refer him to Lord Ravensworth's rendering (about the best of the many metrical versions of the ' Odes ') ?

Or as a kid in pastures green

Browsing intent, hath haply seen A whelp of the grim lion's brood, Weaned from his tawny dam, and all athirst for blood.

S. R. C. Precincts, Canterbury.

In answer to your correspondent's query as to whether the epithet fulvce refers to caprea or leo, I cannot find any note on the subject either in Macleane's or Orelli's Horace ; and Conington in his translation of the Fourth Ode of the Fourth Book ignores the epithet altogether. Theodore Martin in his translation says, " Or like the lion's whelp but now | Weaned from his tawny mother's side." Horace Grant in his translation says, "Or as a lion hunger prest | Weaned from the tawny mother's breast." Smart translates in Bonn's edition the lines, " Makes the young lion but just weaned from, his tawny dam." In the marginal translation in the Delphin Edition