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 ii s. xii. OCT. 23, 1915 ] NOTES AND QUERIES.

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LONDON, SATURDAY, OCTOBER 23, 1915.

CONTENTS. No. 304.

VOTES : The Winchester Hall-book of 1406-7. 3l3-Thom\s Sutton and the Charterhouse. 315 Swallow Street Chapel, 316 Dating by a King's Reign after his Death Ivy Bridge An Early Allusion to C N. & Q.' Epitaph " Epicosraecalosoiuatist," 317 Vavasour Family Jacob and Esau Hohenzollern=" High Toll " " The Bloody Shirt," 318.

QUERIES: Sir Henry Killigrew, knighted 1625, 318- General Sir Robert Wilson Celtic and Coptic Monasticism John Murhall Churchill ' Red Gauntlet ' : Richard Mendham, 319 t. Johnston Dr. William Hayward Mayoral Sword-Rests Regalia of the Corporation of Cashel John D^tlton MSS. Samuel Richardson Authors' Names Wanted Author of Verses on Bonaparte Author of Quotation Wanted Prussian Blue, 320 Early Wireless Messages Mawman " I don't think " " Lienin "Book on Laurel House, Lowton Lissauer's 1 The Hymn of Hate ' " When Morse caught his mare " John Mayor Mr. Savory, Mrs. Billington's Trustee, 321.

HEPLIES: A Fleetwood Miscellany, 321 Words in Bishop Douglas's ' Eneados,' 323 Napoleon's Bequest to Can ti lion A Tale of the Battle of Worcester, 324 The Fabric of Cathedrals Etruscan Surgical Instruments, 325 Heraldry of Lichfield Cathedral Cap t. James King Bissextus, 326 " Humanity's Saviour " Southampton Pronunciation of "Gladiolus." 327 Ancient Isle of Wight Port, 328 Novalis Sheffield: Griffith: Hunt: ole : Cox History of England with Riming Verses Knopwood's Diary "Hey for Cavaliers," 3-29 Book- worms St. Michael's Mount Punctuation : its Import- ance" Boche" Cat Queries" Plain," 330.

NOTES ON BOOKS : The Oxford Dictionary 1 Archzeo-

logia Mlia.na.' Books concerned with the First Half of the Fifteenth

Century. Notices to Correspondents.

THE WINCHESTER HALL-BOOK

OF 1406-7. (See ante, p. 293.)

I WILL now attempt to show what part the Hall-book of 1406-7 can be made to play in the solution of a vexatious problem of chronology which is presented by the College Register of Scholars. But to do that satis- factorily I must first say something about the Register itself.

As was stated in my article in 11 S. xi., this Register is at the outset a compilation brought down to date about the year 1425. Leach (' History,' p. 131) has adduced good reasons for inferring that the compiler was Robert Heete, who had become Fellow of the College in February, 1421/2 ; and to those reasons, which turned on matters of handwriting and on the special ornamenta- tion given in the Register to the record of Heete's admission as a Scholar, I can now add a new reason of a somewhat different character.

Heete so it appears from the Account- rolls (under ' Feoda ' ) held the office of Notary to the College in and after 1423 until his death on 27 Feb., 1432/3, and in return for the annual fee of 6*. 8d. which was attached to the office, one of his duties was to keep a Register of the Fellows and Scholars such as rubric 8 of the Statutes contemplated. Thanks to an item in the Account-roll of 14245 (under ' custus scaccarii '), we know that a Register was, in fact, being made in that year, and it may fairly be assumed that this was our Register of Scholars, now a book containing within a modern cover 120 leaves of old parchment. The item runs :

" In x xij iB [i.e., duodenis] pellium pargamini emptis pro Begistro fiendo, precio xij e ijs. vjd., xxv*."

When the Scholars took possession, on 28 March, 1394 (17 R. II.), of what have now become their ancient buildings, detur oblivioni seems to have been the maxim applied to the previous history of the com- munity. So Heete, starting the Register with a list of the seventy Scholars who took part in that " primus ingressus," gave to the list the scarcely accurate heading, ' Nomina Scolarium a principio fundacionis huius Collegii.' His next list is headed, ' Nomina Scolarium admissorum a r.r. Ricardi secundi xviii ' (which year began on 22 June, 1394); and that form of heading, limited to a statement of the regnal year, was used by him for all his later lists. Since Heete's days his work has been in the hands of several annotators, one of whom (as I judge from the writing) was Thomas Larke, the Elizabethan Fellow whose epitaph graces our Cloisters with its " dulcis alauda mihi." But it was probably an earlier annotator who set to work systematically to augment Heete's headings by adding to the regnal year, in Roman figures, what he conceived to be the corresponding year of our Lord.* Kirby in his ' Scholars ' adopted this anno- tator' s dates.

The Hall-book for 1424-5 enables us to be sure that Heete's list for 3 H. VI. was correctly headed by him, and also correctly annotated as belonging to 1424 : it is a list of the Scholars who came in during the currency of that Hall-book and under the Election held in September, 1424. But in the interval between the list for 18 R. II. and that for 3 H. VI. Heete and .his anno- tator had each of them made mistakes with

Huntingford) added dates in Arabic figures.
 * A much later annotator (probably Warden