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NOTES AND QUERIES, [us. vm. NOV. 29, 1013.

MB. F. MAD AN of the Bodleian says: "I understand that in 1868 it was moved to the Public Record Office/'

I may now hope that, with these correc- tions, my paper is as near perfection as it is possible to bring it.

The portion of the Bishop's Register for 1338-42 was restored to Durham from the Bodleian by decree of Convocation on 15 Nov., 1810 ('Annals of Bodl. Library,' 2nd ed., p. 291). It was in a volume of Bishop Kellawe's Register for 1311-10. Is it to be found in that volume still ? Dean Kitchin's account speaks of the only portion now existing as being for the years 1343-4. I have given the story of the transmission of the Bodleian fragment in the ' Annals,' as above.

In the same year in which Mr. Thomas published his excellent edition of the ' Philo- biblon ' he printed privately fifty copies of a pamphlet of twelve pages, which he entitled ' Was Richard de Bury an Im- postor ?' In this he favoured the ascription of the authorship of Bury's book to Robert Holkot, and quotes a passage from Adam de Murimuth's Chronicle, which represents the Bishop as a man of no great learning, but of great vanity,- who collected books in a spirit of ostentation. His extravagance ended in his dying in extreme poverty, and all his movable goods were carried off by those around him, insomuch that there was nothing left to enshroud his corpse but the shirt of a servant. Five great carts were filled with his books. In this depreciatory estimate of his character Murimuth seems, however, to stand alone.

W. D. MACRAY.

KNIGHT'S CAP WORN UNDERNEATH HEL- MET (US. viii. 329, 377). Thanking your correspondent IDA M. ROPER for her kind reply to my question, may I further ask it the following account of what was found on the skull of a body exhumed, viz., " an envelope which appeared to have fitted the head very closely, and had been tisd or buckled under the chin by straps, parts of which remained,

may be considered to be a description of the same article of dress as that which she styles " a thick woollen ' coif " ?

R. C. BOSTOCK.

The covering for the head worn by a knight of the thirteenth century underneath his helmet in battle consisted of a skull-cap of quilted leather known as the " capuchin." Over this skull-cap was worn a hood of chain- mail known as the " camail." This hood,

in its turn, was occasionally covered by the steel bascinet or " chapel de fer " ; whilst in battle the knight added his weighty helm, or " heaume."

The works of Meyrick and Demmin should, I think, supply MR. BOSTOCK with further particulars. CARL T. WALKER.

Mottingham, Kent.

THE HAYMARKET THEATRE IN THE SEVEN- TIES (US. viii. 370). The following list of plays produced at the Haymarket Theatre will be helpful as to dates for reference to- Press notices: In 1876, 'Anne Boleyn ' (Tom Taylor), 5 Feb. ; ' Dan'l Druce, Blacksmith' (W. S. Gilbert), 11 Sept.; ' L'Etrangere ' (English version), 3 June. In 1877, * Fame ' (C. M. Rae), 7 April ; ' Brass ' (G. F. Rowe), 13 April ; ' The Garden Party ' (J. M. Morton), 3 Aug. ; ' Engaged ' (W. S. Gilbert), 3 Oct. In 1878, * The Crushed Tragedian ' (H. J. Byron), 11 May; 'The Hornet's Nest" (H. J. Byron), 17 June ; ' Conscience Money ' (H. J. Byron), 16 Sept. ; ' The Crisis ' ( J. Albery), 2 Dec. ; ' The Hen- witchers ' (P. Fitzgerald), 2 Dec. The above performances are not commented upon in Clement Scott's ' The Drama of Yesterday and To-day,' although previous and later productions are. There are notices of the Imperial Theatre, iinder the manage- ment of Miss Marie Litton, including Samuel Phelps's^last appearance.

ANTHONY MARSH, CLOCKMAKER, LONDON (11 S. viii. 348). The above carried on his business " at ye dial," opposite the Bank of England, and was a member of the Clock- makers' Company (1724). Mr. F. J. Britten in his work on Clockmakers has no further record respecting him. TOM JONES.

THE PILGRIM FATHERS : JOHN ALDEN (US. viii. 306, 376). For over a century New Englanders have distinguished between those who founded the Plymouth Colony in 1620, and those who organized the Massachusetts Bay Colony in 1630, by calling the former Pilgrim Fathers and the latter Puritans. For this distinction see 10 S. xi. Ill, and the ' N.E.D.' under ' Pilgrim Fathers.' For a decade the Plymouth Colony was im- portant ; it then declined. After 1643 it was of little significance, and it disappeared altogether in May, 1692, when it was incor- porated in the Massachusetts Bay Province. Americans are apt to use exaggerated language in regard to the early settle- s ; but I do not think that any writer, whether American or English, would be rash enough