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 ii s. XIL OCT. 16, 1915.] NOTES AND QUERIES.

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LONDON, SATURDAY, OCTOBER 16, 1915.

CONTENTS. No. 303.

NOTES: The Winchester Hall-book of 1406-7, 293 -John Angell, the Literary Feltmaker, 295 Inscriptions in St. Mary's Churchyard, Lambeth, 296 Addenda to Statues of Martyrs Stinging Nettles, Bee-Stings, and Rheumatism, 298 Military Courts Martial The Hawk Privateer Bible Folk-Lore An Irish Archbishop and King, 299.

QUERIES : ' The Recusant Poets 'European Journal of Washington Irving Author of Quotation Wanted Henry Fielding The F.ffect of Opening a Coffin Roehampton and Sir Walter Scott, 300 Knights made at the Coro- nation of Queen Anne Boleyn Songs Wanted Robert Nelson the Nonjuror Johannes Sarabucus John de Warren, Earl Baudake Pears and Nettles French " of Stratford-atte-Bowe," 301 Unicorn's Horn at the Tower of London Authors' Names Wanted " Dray alias Broker, Somerset " Bewick's Early Woodblocks ' Hymn of Hate 'Cliveden House E. A. Poe ' Norman People,' 302 Charles Marsh-Nottingham Freeholders, 303.

REPLIES : Arthur Young, 303 Scott as a Cornet of Hussars' The Cloister and the Hearth 'Luke Robinson, 304 _ Willett Family of Gloucestershire War and the Poets Arms in Hathersage Church' Dame Wiggins of Lee ' " Die yEgyptiaca " : " Hora ^Egyptiaca," 305 Scotch Court of Session Alice Holt Forest Phos- phorescent Birds John Davenport Skull and Iron Nail A Phantom Parliament, 306 Mrs. Samuel Fopte Some Americanisms, 307 Patterson Family The Site of the Bear Garden Bookworms, 308 " Sancte Jaco a Com- postel "Sir John Maxwell of Terregles Stephen Roniat, 309 Wedding Ring and " Left-Handed " Marriage The Split Infinitive Translation of Verlaine ' The Morning Chronicle' Ugo Bassi. 310 St. Andrew Verses by James Smith Bishop Elphinstone's Badge, 311.

NOTES ON BOOKS: 'The Church Bells of Sussex' on Military Curios.'
 * Almanacks for Students of English History ' ' Chats

Notices to Correspondents.

THE WINCHESTER HALL-BOOK OF 1406-7.

IN a former article which related to the book for 1401-2 (11 S. xi. 393, 415, 426), I en- deavoured to explain the object and cha- racter of our College Hall-books, and it is unnecessary here to repeat what was there said.

The book which comes next in the collec- tion after that for 1401-2 is, in its present state, imperfect, for it ends abruptly with the 6th week of the 4th quarter. Its parchment cover bears for title " Nomina eommorantium in Collegio Anno Octavo continentur in Hoc Volumine," and now comprises forty-four leaves " A viij H." being written, but seemingly not by the original scribe, at the top of the opening page. Throughout the book its contents agree in matters of detail with the Bursars' Account-roll for 1406-7, which runs (so its

heading states) from Michaelmas 7 H. IV.' the last day of that regnal year ; and it is possible to name the Saturday upon which the book was started. As in the roll, so also in the book, while the 2nd and 3rd quarters each contain the normal 13 weeks, the 1st contains only 12; and it appears from the roll, under quarterly statements concern- ing feast-day pittances, that Christmas came in the 2nd quarter, St. John the Baptist's Day in the 3rd, and SS. Peter and Paul's in the 4th, which contains as many as 14 weeks. Given these data, one learns, after making the necessary calculations, that the book was started on Saturday, 2 Oct., 1406. As an instance of how the book and the roll agree in detail, it may be mentioned that, according to the roll, Thomas Romsey was paid as Headmaster up to Easter, 1407, and was then succeeded by John Pole. Easter fell that year on 27 March. According to the book there was, throughout the period which it covers, only one week in which " Magister Scole " was at all absent, and that week was the 1st of the 3rd quarter, the week which began on Saturday, 26 March. In that week " Magister Scole " is marked " di," which (as explained in my former article) indicates absence for half a week ; and here it also indicates the point at which Romsey left and his place was taken by Pole within the next few days. In the 6th week of the same quarter, Romsey, who lived to become Headmaster again in 1414, was dining as a guest at the high table, while his clerk dined " cum sociis," i.e., with the junior Fellows, who sat at the top end of one of the side tables (see the Statutes, rubric 14).

Here, in connexion with the arrangement of the tables, I should like to quote an early description of the Hall itself. It comes from an Inventory of 9 H. V (1422), and has not, I believe, yet appeared in print :

" Aula Item ibidem remanet una aularis cum suo banker' dupplicat' cum panno lineo et ij costerez de worstede palys alb' et virid' Item xx crochettes pro eisdem pendendis Item una aularis antiqua facta de ij costerez de worstede operata et inbroudata cum diversis feris efc grossis animalibus Item iiij quysshones [cushions] antique de tapestry werkis Item iij tabule pro alta mensa de una secta quarum una est in aula custodis cum iij trestallis pro eisdem Item iiij scabella facta de estrychbord pro alta mensa Item iiij tabule mensales dormauntez cum iiij formulis longis et quorespondentibus eisdem ex utraque parte aule cum una parva formula apposita eisdem ex parte aule sinistra Item una longa tabula in medio aule cum ij trestallis et ij formulis longis ex utraque parte Item ij plankes que solebant iacere coram ostio panetrie quarum altera iacet in scola Item ij