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 ii s. iv. DEC. 2, MIL] NOTES AND QUERIES.

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Item deliueryd to Masteres Kellet vpon a bill

for bordwages singned hande

[by] my said lordes xliiijs. ~x.d. ob.

Item deliueryd ffor my lord seruauntes at the court at Greynwighe [Greenwich] on Wednisday the xv te day of May our expenses ther vjs. viijdL

Item deliueryd to John Jenkes by my lordes commandment that he layd doun for my lord xxd.

Item deliueryd for pynner dost* for wri tinge the copey of the lat Erie of Northumberland wil iiijdL

Item deliueryd ffor bordwages at Kelletz from the xix to day off May vnto y e xxvj day of the same monthe and in revardes to my lord concell and other his commaundmentes as doth aper in a bill

singned with my lord hand

vZ. viijs.

Wyndishour [Windsor] by my said lord as apperythi by a bill therof maid and examyned by my lordL whervnto he hath set to his own haund the

day af orsaid

xlZ. vijs.

Papers,' vol. xii. pt. i. p may explain his attempts

Item deliueryd to Robert Tenaunt the xxvii* day of May in revard by my lordes comaund- ment xs.

Item deliueryd to Edward Clefford the same day at Chelsowe [Chelsea ?] to my lord to play at kardes xs.

Item deliueryd to my lord him self at York Place to play at clekef thre fortypensj of gold xis. iijd. and in whit money xiis. xxiijs. iijd. Item deliueryd the same day to the master off Savoy ffor sertayne playt to him laid in pleghe by my said lord x7.

f. 9 b.]

Mensis Maij Item deliueryd ffor a lod off hay the xxix te day off May to my lordis hors xs.

Item deliueryd to Sir Thomas Wardrope for sertayn Rayment of my said lordes being laid to plegh xvijs.

Item deliueryd to the said Sir Thomas Ward- rope ffor a ring and other sertayn stouf of my lord laid vnto pleghe vpon a tokyn of a paire of blake bedes sent to me fro my said lord the last day of May xijZ.

Item deliueryd John W T arzion hoshier the same day ffor iiij pair of hous to my lord xxvjs. viijd. Mensis Junij Item deliueryd to Sir Thomas Parke the secunde day of Junij by my lordes comandment for kater expenses to my lordes houshold xxL

Item deliueryd ffro the xxvj' day of May ffor bordwages and other expenses and deliueryes by my lordes comaundment vnto y e secund day of Junij as aperyth by a bill singned with my lordes haunde iiijZ. viijs. ii]d.

Item deliueryd ffor my lord ffrom Monday the iiij day of Junij vnto y e xj day of the same month ffor rewardes expenses and houshold nessessarijs as apperyth by a bill examyned and singned with

It appears from this that Aske was in 1527 in the service of the Earl of North- umberland (Henry, sixth Earl, known as "The Unthrifty"); we know that his brother Christopher was later in that of the Earl of Cumberland ( ' Letters and

545). This to persuade

the Earl to join the Pilgrimage of Grace and the care for the Earl's safety which induced him, on his obstinate refusal, to send him to York, lest popular resent- ment should lead to his death; see E. B. de Fonblanque, 'Annals of the House of Percy,' i. 453-6. Since 1527, the date of the above account, was the year of his admission into Gray's Inn, it is possible that le came up to London about that time with he Earl.

The facts above recorded do not, it is rue, add much to our knowledge of Aske's rivate life ; but even a little light in the ase of so interesting a figure is welcome, n conclusion, I may call attention to the MS. from which I have obtained the infor- nation. As already mentioned, some of its contents were published by Phillipps, but -hese form only a small portion of the whole,, and many interesting items remain.

H. I. B

my lordes own hande

xxx?. xvijs.

Item deliueryd for my lord ffrom the xj day of Junij vnto the xiiij day of the same month for forane expenses and revardes and Jowels bought at

suggests an article rather than a personal name A friend suggests "penner's dust," i.e., something like sand for blotting. I am not sure whether this is too far-fetched. The reading is certain.
 * Obscure to me. The preceding " for '

t " Gleek " ; see ' N.E.D.' The earliest in stance there is 1533. Whether " cleke " is { variant form or a mere misspelling I do not know it is not in the ' N.E.D.'

t Half-angels. The angel, originally wort] 6s. 8d., had been raised by Henry VIII. in 1526 to 7s. 6d. (Wriothesley's ' Chronicle of England, Cainden Society, 1875, vol. i. p. 15)

DICKENS AND THE INSCRIBED STONE.

PICKWICK' was first published in 1836-7, and it contains the amusing story of the mysterious stone which caused so much- interest and confusion among the learned Society who examined it. But years before occurred in real life a stone story, so remark- ably similar that it might have been the prototype of the Dickens fiction.

During the academic year 1779-80 a stone, bearing Roman characters, was discovered in the lime quarries near Paris, called Bellevue. It was a square stone, and the characters were separate, having no apparent connexion with each other. The members of the Academy of Inscriptions of Paris assembled to consider the matter. The secretary was ordered to request permission of the Govern- ment for this antique stone to be given them. Louis XVI. graciously signed an order to that effect, and the stone was transported at no little expense to the Louvre. It wair- received, says a contemporary, with all due 1 -