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NOTES AND QUERIES, m s. vm. s^. 20, 1911. —Can any reader of 'N. & Q.' tell me where I can find a story about two brothers, one of whom was called the Khoja Hussein, and succeeded by means of a trick in defrauding his brother of a large part of his inheritance?

—What does this expression mean, and where does it come from?

 —I have been told that there is a tribe in India among whom it is the custom to roast mica, and then take it in the form of pills mixed with other ingredients. Can any correspondent confirm this or give any authority for such a statement? If it is true, can any one tell me the other ingredients of the pill? Is the custom known in any other country?

CLEMENTINA JOHANNES SOBIESKI DOUG- LASS. A tombstone has lately been put up in Finsthwaite Churchyard to the memory of this lady, who died at Newby Bridge in 1771. I should be much obliged if you or any readers of ' N. & Q.' could supply any information concerning her, or put me in the way of finding it out.

ARTHUR J. HUMPHRIS.

3, Keynsham Parade, Cheltenham.

CHECKENDON. I should be glad to know of any old deeds, court rolls, or other records relating to Checkendon, co. Oxon, of the sixteenth century. P. D. M.

" SPADE OAK " FARM, BOURNE END, BUCKS. What is the origin of this name ?

(Rev.) S. SLADEN. 63, Eidgmount Gardens, W. C.

BOOKS ON LONDON : GREAT CHART. I

wish to obtain full particulars of Wood's

' Views in London ' and Britton's ' Picture

of London ' ; also of any literature concerning

Great Chart church and village, Kent.

J. ARDAGH.

" TRAILB ASTON." I seem to remember a recent and efficiently documented article on this word, but cannot now find it. If one of your readers can refer me to it, I shall be much in his debt. Q. V.

HERALDIC. On a buttress of the tower of Upper Heyford Church, Oxon, is a shield of arms : crossed batons or bourdons upon a saltire. The batons have a slight turn inward at the foot.

The manor was held in the thirteenth century by Warin Fitz Gerold, Chamberlain

to King John, and afterwards came to the family of De Lisle. To what family do the arms belong? FREDERIC TURNER.

Fro me, Somerset.

THE SECOND FOLIO OF THE SHAKE-

SPEARE PLAYS, 1632.

(11 S. viii. 141, 196.)

DR. MAGRATH'S letter at the second refer- ence is extremely valuable. He tells us that there is now, and there has been for seventy years, in the Library of Queen's College, Oxford, a copy of the 1632 Second Folio, with the imprint " Tho. Cotes for Robert Allot,' 1 and " starre-ypointed " in the Epitaph. COL. PRIDEAUX also sends a very valuable letter (ante, p. 196). He is quite right about the term " different editions " being incorrect, but I purposely made use of that expression in order not to puzzle owners of 1C32 folios. With the facsimile which I am presenting to the thousand principal libraries of the world I enclose a description of the page in which I use the correct term " imprint variants."

COL. PRIDEAUX and DR. MAG RATH agree with the other experts that the printing and paper of the inserted leaf are contemporary. COL. PRIDEAUX describes it as a

"cancel leaf printed after the book had been

placed on sale issued to purchasers in the same

way as cancel leaves are occasionally issued at the present day."

I am, however, myself fully satisfied that, from its extreme rarity, and from the fact that " starre - ypointing " remained un- corrected in the Third Folio of the plays. 1663-4, the cancel leaf could only have been issued to those to whom Bacon's secrets were entrusted. COL. PRIDEAUX correctly says " ypointing " is ungram- matical. Now that their eyes are opened, grammarians everywhere are, I think, begin- ning to perceive that it is absolutely impos- sible that the learned and accurate Milton could have " accidentally " made a gram- matical blunder so absurd as " ypointing." COL. PRTDEAUX, who evidently hardly realizes the extraordinary value and im- portance of the very rare page, then pro- ceeds, I think incorrectly, to say that " ypointed " is rather meaningless.

As a matter of .fact it reveals to us and it was intended to reveal to us -the name of the real author of the plays to whom Milton addressed his Epitaph.