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Some Notes on a Bill. Sixteen stanzas. The Author (London), July 1, 1891. An autobiographical fragment, with foot-notes.

Song of the White Man (A). Three stanzas. The Friend (Bloemtontein), April 2, 1900. Reprinted, with a note, in Mr. Julian Ralph's 'War's Brighter Side ' (Pearson).

South Africa. Six stanzas. Standard (London), July 27, 1906. Written on the anniversary of Majuba Hill. Not to be confused with a poem similarly entitled in * The Five Nations.'

Things and the Man. Five stanzas, with a quota- tion from Genesis xxxii. 5. Published in Current Literature (America), October, 1904.

Vampire (The). Three stanzas, with three re- frains. In the Catalogue of the Tenth Summer Exhibition at the New Gallery, 1894. Reprinted in The Comet, May, 1897 (London). Written to accompany a picture with the same title painted by the author's cousin Philip Burne- Jones.

W. ARTHUR YOUNG. (To be continued.)

MONTREAL PLAYBILL ON SATIN, 1842. I have a playbill, printed on pink satin, of a performance which took place in the Theatre Royal, Montreal, on 3 Deo., 1842. "The Garrison Gentlemen Amateurs " presented " the favorite Dramatic Piece entitled * The Sentinel,' " after which " The Amateurs [sic] Highland Light Infantry " performed " the Laughable Farce of No Song, no Supper." The" performers included Major Denny, Hon. A. Chichester, Capt. Cuming, Dr. Whitelaw, and Mrs. Gibb ; also H. Dogh- erty, Thos. Rose, J. Sutherland, John Whitelaw. R. McQuarrie, L. Smith, and Mrs. Thompson and Mrs. Donaldson. The band was under the direction of Mr. Maffre.

If there is any museum or dramatic club in Montreal to which it would be acceptable, I shall be happy to hand it over.

W. E. WILSON.

Riverview, Hawick, Roxburghshire.

A LITTLE-KNOWN CROSS-LEGGED EFFIGY. Preserved in the chapel at Rothley Temple, near Leicester, is a sadly mutilated and worn cross-legged effigy. So weathered and damaged is it that only the outlines of the figure are left. There are no indications of a face, the arms are broken off, there is just sufficient of the lower limbs to show it was originally cross-legged. There is not the sli-ht ( <t trace of armour or habiliments left. Over the head there was apparently a small canopy. As Rothley Temple formerly belonged to the Knights Templars, we may safely assume this to be the effigial monument of a member of their Order.

The earliest records I can find of this effigy are when both Nichols and Throsby,

the historians, mention it as being on the- north side of the churchyard at Rothley, in the year 1790.

Nichols in his larger ' History of Leicester- shire,' published 1804, pleads for the return of so interesting a monument to the interior of the church.

In 1841 J. S. Hardy ('Literary Remains of J. Stockdale Hardy,F.S.A.'), records that this effigy was some years since removed into the chancel of the church.

During the year 1878 Rothley Church was- extensively restored, and I should think this effigy was removed to the chapel at Rothley Temple, with some broken ala- baster altar-tombs (inscribed) which also lie there. Mr. F. Merttens, who is now lord of the manor, tells me he found this; effigy among a heap of broken tablet stones- in a corner of the old chapel.

HARRY QUILTER.

49, Asfordby Street, Leicester.

" TIRIKKIS.'" This word occurs in Skelton- in two passages, in both of which it seems^ to apply to some instrument used in astro- nomical research.:

Where I saw Janus, with his double chere, Makynge his almanak for the new yere ; He turnyd his tirikkis, his volvell ran fast.

'Garlande of Laurell,' 1515-18.

Tholomye and Haly were cunning and wise

In the volvell, in the quadrant, and in the-

astrolaby .... Som trete of thevr tiryJcis, som, of astrology.

' Speke, Parrot,' 137-9.

No help is to be found in Dyce's notes.. The word is not recorded in ' N.E.D.' at least, not in this form. But I would sug- gest that Skelton's word is a plural form of " theoric," the name of a mechanical device theoretically representing astronomical phe- nomena, for which term three quotations are given in ' N.E.D.' (s.v. ' Theoric,' sb., 3).

In Chaucer's ' Astrolabe ' the word theorik occurs in the sense of a theoretical treatise or discourse ; see Prologue. 3.

A. L. MAYHEW.

Oxford.

EASTER EGGS. Payment of eggs at Easter by serf -tenants to the lord of the manor, as part of the rent of their copyholds, has long been on record. Tithe of eggs is possibly a hitherto unnoted feature in ancient practice, and at Debden in Essex is said, in 1620,. to have been subject to a special parish " custom," or usage. John Palmer of Debden, brought into the Archdeacon of Colchester's Court for non-payment of tithe, asserted that he had paid in full all