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patrimony of the Fitzwilliams, and was within the bounds of King Edward the Con- fessor's great domain of Wakefield before the Conquest, but the landholders therein are not named in Domesday Book. It was in all probability Godric's father " Chetelber " who was holding a manor in Worsborough of Ilbert de Laci in 1086 (Domesday Book), presumed to be Rockley in that parish, which we find. afterwards in the possession of Robert, a younger son of William fitz Godric (see Hunter's ' S. Yorks.,' ii. 283). Ketelbert, as I wrote in Yorks Archceol. Journal (vii. 128), was probably a son of an elder Godric, who had been a great land- holder hereabouts in the days of Edward the Confessor. So if any one of this family had been that king's cousin, it would have been the elder Godric. A. S. EULIS.

Westminster.

AUTHOB or QUOTATION WANTED (11 S. v. 209).

" Sed quae est ista quaeso, fratres mei carissimi, tarn pretiosa Margarita, pro qua uniyersa dare debemus, &c .... Nonne haec religio sancta, pura et immaculata, in qua homo vivit purius, cadit rarins, surgit velocius, incedit cautius, irroratur frequentius, quiescit securius, moritur fiducius, purgatur citius, prsemiatur copiosius." ' Homily on S. Matt. xiii. Simile est regnum.'

Cf. St. Bernard, Benedictine ed., Paris, 1690, vol. ii. 770 ; St. Bernard, Gaume ed., Paris, 1839, vol. v. 1536 ; St. Bernard, ' Patr. Lat.,' Migne ed., Paris, 1862, vol. clxxxiv. 1131.

It will be seen that the words found in the editions quoted differ slightly from those given by MB. LANE COOPEB, and it will be noticed that while the Homily is included among the works of St. Bernard, in each edition is this note : " Tribuitur communiter Bernardo, quamquam nee illius esse videatur. Deest apud Horstium." S.T.P.

FBENCH GBAMMABS BEFORE 1750 (11 S. v. 110, 216). Your correspondent will find a full account of early French grammars in Thurot's ' De la Prononciation Francaise depuis le Commencement du XVI e Siecle, d'apres les Temoignages des Grammairiens,' Paris, Imprimerie Nationale, 2 vols., 1881, and a still more complete list in Stengel's ' Chronologisch.es Verzeichnis franzosischer Grammatiken vom Ende des 14. bis zum Ausgange des 18. Jahrhunderts nebst Angabe der bish r ermittelten Fundorte derselben,' Oppeln, Eugen Franck's Buchhandlung, 1890.

Some few additional grammars have been variously noted more recently, e.g., by Luick, ' Zur Aussprache des Franzosischen

im XVII. Jahrhundert,' in ' Bausteine zur romanischen Philologie,' Halle, Niemeyer, 1905.

Stengel's book contains no fewer than 625 items in all, b. tween the years 1400 and 1800, 4 of which belong to the fifteenth century, 38 to the sixteenth, 187 to the seventeenth : a huge mass of material, it must be admitted,, but still probably capable of further enlarge- ment. Philologists would welcome infor- mation concerning any French grammars not recorded by Stengel, especially such as. appeared before 1700. F. J. CUBTIS.

Frankfurt-am-Main.

WHITTINGTON AND HIS CAT (11 S. iv. 503,, 522 ; v. 75, 274). The ' Luh-tu-tsih-king,' a collection of Buddhist birth stories rendered into Chinese by the Indian mis- sionary Kang-tsang-hwui (d. A.D. 280), has- the-following tale a much-simplified variant of the life of the Rat-Money-Broker, given by me at 1 1 S. iv. 504, from another Buddhist work translated some four centuries later :

" In years remotely gone by, there lived a matchless millionaire, to whom all people used to- betake themselves for relief, as he was universally known for his unbounded liberality. Now a sort of his friend came to lose all his money through, dissoluteness. Full of pity, the millionaire gave- the youth one thousand pieces of gold as a means to reassume his position in society. But the- youth persisted in his misconduct and extrava- gance ; five times his benefactor gave him the same sum, and as many times he lost it. When, the youth came in for help for the sixth time, the millionaire pointed at a rat's carcass that lay on a dunghill beyond the gate, and remarked that a sagacious man could put himself in the way of prosperity even with that dead rat as his only funds. It happened that there was a beggar outside who overheard his words and was strongly persuaded it was so. He picked up the rat, roasted it with a good seasoning, and sold it for twopence. With this trifling money he began to deal in vegetables, and became opulent eventually. One day at his leisurely ease, he bethought himself of the origination of his own wealth and comfort in the millionaire's wise saying, and deemed it fit to tender him a ceremonious thanksgiving. So he caused a silver stand to be made, put on it a rat wrought in gold, whose inside was stuffed with numerous jewels, and adorned the set with chaplets of sumptuous gems. He took them r together with a legion of dainties, to the mil- lionaire's house, and presented them as a token of his endless gratitude. The recipient wa* exceedingly glad, wedded him to his daughter,, and made him his heir, for he considered him aa a very model of human sagaciousness.' Tom. iii. fol. 13-14 of the Japanese Oobaku reprint, issued in the seventeenth century.

Now that, at p. 75, H. I. B. has kindly called my attention to Herodotus for an Egyptian tradition closely similar to the- Chinese story of aid given by rats, that bit