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" GOUBD " OB " GOOBD," BUILDING TERM.

I have recently encountered this word in West Cornwall on some tendering for stonewalling, the prices given being so much a " gourd." From inquiry I find that by this term is meant a run of 9 feet by 5 feet high ; but a few miles off the measurement varies. The word is new to me, and I do not find it in the ' E.D.D.' YGBEC.

CONSPIRATORS OF 1562. There seems nothing to add to the excellent account of Arthur and Edmund Pole in the ' D.N.B.,' except that it would seem that they were arrested at " The Dolphin Inn," which was apparently close to St. Olave's steps on the south side of London Bridge, and not, as is there stated, " near the Tower."

As to the other four conspirators arrested with them, (1) Anthony Fortescue has been the subject of much interesting and erudite discussion at 9 S. vii. 327, 435 ; viii. 73, 449 ; ix. 53. He probably died in the Tower. (2) Of Humphrey Berwick I can discover nothing. (3) and (4) Anthony Spencer and Richard Bingham were liberated from the Tower 3 May, 1567 (Dasent, ' Acts of the Privy Council,' vii. 351).

Each of the two astrologers and wizards who had gone abroad 10 October, 1562, four days before their fellow-conspirators were captured, is described in the indictment as " late of London, gentleman." It seems probable, however, that the conspirator Edward Cosyn is to be identified with Edward Cussen, clerk, a fugitive, who possessed the manor of Eyrtforde alias Eyrthford in Bedfordshire, and is men- tioned in the Appendix to the 38th Report of the Deputy Keeper of the Public Records at p. 10, and in Strype's ' Annals,' II. ii. 597. Presumably he died abroad.

John Prestall, the other astrologer, seems to have been inveigled into England in the early part of 1572. An indictment was drawn up against him in that year, but he was not brought to trial, though he was committed to the King's Bench, whence he was liberated on bail in 1574. It appears from the Appendix to the 38th Report at

LI 2, and from Strype, II. ii. 596, that had been possessed of lands in Surrey. He was attainted in 1578 or 1579, and was in the Tower from before 11 October, 1578, down to 22 July, 1588, when he was liberated. He seems to have been living in London, practising sorcery, in 1591. His pretence to be

" next heir to the Poles, who are next in blood to the Queen, whereof one is dead, and the other in

Spain, who is next heir to the crown, and whom the Queen once promised to make kn.^wn as heir apparent,"

was all nonsense. Is it known when he died and who his parents were ? (See Dasent, op. cit., viii., x., xi., xii. ; the Calendars of State Papers ; and Cath. Rec. Soc., ii. and iii.) JOHN B. WAINEWBIGHT.

WE must request correspondents desiring in- formation on family matters of only private interest to. affix their names and addresses to their queries, in order that answers may be sent to them direct.

"TEBTIUM QUID." I shall be glad of any information as to the original use of this phrase. I have been greatly surprised to find that no example of it has been sent to us before 1826, and still more to find that this is also the earliest date in ' The Stan- ford Dictionary of Anglicised Words and Phrases.' There is, indeed, something similar in Coleridge's Friend of 1809-10, where he says, " The baleful product or tertium aliquid of this union retarded the civilization of Europe for centuries " ; but these seem to be the earliest examples yet found. Some metaphysicians appear to have used it to indicate a supposed something that is neither subjective nor objective, or different from both mind and matter, and it may perhaps have arisen in a Latin treatise on metaphysics. I am informed that a current statement attributing the phrase to Pythagoras is an error. The Latin version of Iambi ichus has, not tertium quid, but tertia res. I hope that some reader of *N. & Q.' can furnish earlier examples, and can help us in tracking tertium quid to its fontem et originem. J. A. H. MURRAY. Oxford.

c CASABIANCA.' When and where was this poem first printed ? In his notice of Mrs. Hemans in the 'D.N.B.,' Mr. C. W. Sutton says that " in the second edition of the * Forest Sanctuary,' 1829, ' Casabianca ' first appeared." This, however, is a mis- bake, as it was printed at p. 129 vol. i. of Mrs. Hemans's ' Poems,' published at Boston in 1826. ALBERT MATTHEWS.

Boston, U.S.

JOHN OP COSINGTON. Cosington is the name of a village in Lincolnshire. Do you know a family of this name, and especially John of Cosington, who lived during the fourteenth century ?

EDME DE LAURME. Soignies.