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NOTES AND QUERIES. [ns.m. APRIL 8,1011.

Felo signifies that he was, no doubt, a rascel ; but there were some honest millers even in the days of Chaucer.

WALTER W. SKEAT.

Mouner is always equivalent to "miller.' To an agreement (14 Edward I.) between the citizens of Norwich and the woad merchants of Corbie and Amiens, Nicholas, Peter, and Ralph le Mouner are three of the parties. Each of their seals, still attached to the original document, contains in some form the canting device of a mill-rine.

FRANK W. HALDINSTEIN.

Norwich.

[A. C. and PROF. E. WEEKLEY also thanked for replies.]

THOMAS JENNER OF ASCOT (11 S. iii. 209). Thomas Jenner was the representative of a family which from the reign of Charles I. had held the appointment at Windsor of builder to the Crown. He was appointed in 1821, by the Duke of York and the Marquis of Cornwallis, Clerk of the Course at Ascot, and he retained this position until 1837, when changes were made in the manage- ment, and he retired. He was succeeded by my grandfather Mr. William Hibburd, who was Clerk of the Course and Secretary to the Trustees 1837-50. E. W. HIBBURD.

Ascot, Crouch End, N.

[MR. WILLOUGHBY MAYCOCK also thanked for reply.]

' GUIDE FOR THE PENITENT ' (11 S. iii. 88). I have myself been able to get on the track of the author of this work, but only to some extent. Pusey in his tract ' The Church of England leaves her Children JFree,' &c., mentions it as being due either to Taylor or to Bp. Duppa. This was, I suppose, Brian Duppa (b. 1588), sometime Dean of Ch. Ch., and successively Bishop of Chichester, Salisbury, and Winchester. E. M. Fox.

The author of the ' Guide for the Penitent ' was Brian Duppa, Bishop of Salisbury, afterwards of Winchester. The book ap- peared as an independent publication in 1660. See Watt's ' Bibliotheca Britannica ' under Brian Duppa. S. S.

ROEITES OF CALVERTON (11 S. iii. 9, 194). While thanking MR. J. HOLDEN MACMICHAEL for his reply, I may say that I am familiar with the testimony of local, historical, and topographical writers, none of whom treat the subject in what would now be considered a comprehensive sense. I had hoped to learn of some non-local chronicler who had

dealt with the history of the movement from a detached standpoint, but have not thus far been successful. However, since my query appeared I have gleaned many entertaining particulars from contemporary newspapers and controversial pamphlets, which I hope to publish in the near future.

A. STAPLETON. Nottingham.

HOLWELL FAMILY : J. PIGOTT : J. POWER (11 S. ii. 528 ; iii. 74, 111, 192). The date of John Pigott's commission as ensign in the 39th Regiment was 5 January, 1750, and as captain 6 May, 1772.

John Power's commission as ensign in the same regiment was dated 16 December, 1752.

W. S.

" TEAPOY " : " CELLARETTE " : " GARDE- VIN" (11 S. iii. 149, 194). " Teapoy " is a term well understood in ceramics. One sees it constantly in the sale catalogues of china nowadays.

A teapoy is a bottle of porcelain or pottery used for holding tea in the old days, and is generally of square form, with a lid of the same material as the receptacle. I. have two in my collection one of early Staffordshire pottery,' the other of Berlin porcelain and they do not differ much in shape. An excellent example is figured, under this specific name, in Prof. Church's ' English Earthenware,' plate 41. It is of salt glazed earthenware, and has on the front a stamped representation of the tea plant, with an inscription " Cia or Te Herb," and on the reverse " Herb Tea." See also Freeth's ' Old English Pottery,' p. 15.

Whatever the etymology of the word may be, there can be no doubt what a " teapoy " is, in England at all events.

E. T. B.

I have always understood that a " tea- poy " was an earthenware canister, and that the piece of furniture into which it fitted was a " teapoy stand." I have seen the word spelt and I believe correctly " tea- puoy," but cannot give the reference.

J. T. Smith in ' Nollekens and his Times,' 1828, vol. ii. p. 243, mentions " Banks the cellaret-maker." AITCHO.

Is not " cellarette " a simile for " garde- vin " ? I have a piece of furniture which used to be called a " gardevin," probably about a hundred years old. It is a small mahogany box, with an arched lid, having inside six divisions for decanters. It stands