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 14G NOTES AND QUERIES. [hs.yii.fe*. 22,1913. " Stupples " at Salisbury in Olden TiMEB.—-In her delightful book ' The Fourth Generation ' Mrs. Ross, speaking of a visit to Lecce, the " Florence of Apulia," in 1888, writes (p. 259):— "Fortunately it rained hard in the morning, which enabled us to seta Lcccese custom we should otherwise have missed. The streets all sloped towards the middle, so after a heavy shower a broad and deep stream rushes along. We stood in a church door wondering how to get across, when a man trundled up a long, broad plank, with two wheels at one end and feet at the other. Thus was the water bridged. We crossed dryfoot and found two or three of these contrivances in every street: which fstreets] I should say are broad enough for carnages to pass on either side of the wooden bridges. Perhaps this passage explains the follow- ing in Coryat's ' Crudities ' (1905), i. 235 :— "This City of Vercellis hath many faire streets through which divers rivers doe runne, with many stupples to passe over from one side of the street to the other, as in Sarisbury." G. C. Moore Smith. " Felix quem faciunt aliena tericula gautum."—In tho first volume of the present Series a correspondent asked for the sourco of this well-known line, eliciting replies (pp. 113, 155, 216) in which it was mentioned that it formed part of the motto of tho Parisian printer Felix Balligaut, and occurred in Erasmus's ' Adagia' and in ono of .Johannes Ravisius Textor's ' Dialogi.' There is, however, a much earlier instance than any of these, us it is quoted something imder halfway through tho ' De Tempore Rogis Richardi Secimdi,' attributed to Thomas Walsingham, p. 270, in Camden's edition of 'Anglica, Normannica, Hibornica, Cambrica, a voteribus scripta,' Frankfort, 1003. Edward Bensly. Aruhiei'imcoi'at, Visitations of Mon- astic Houses in Yorkshire and Else- where m 1250-93.—Tho following notes wero jotted down by me when engaged, during a fortnight in 1900, in examining the grand series of Arehiepiscopal Registers at York for a Report to the Convocation of tho Province on the records of tho pro- ceedings of that body previous to the year 1545.* Theso notes show how, during the less than half-century to which they relate, the exercise of tho visitatorial authority in tho case of non-oxemptM foundations was much moro than nominal, and they are of A short introductory summary prefixed to my rywrt is printed in Dean Kitchin's ' Rooords of the Northern Convocation,' a volume issued by the Surtees Society in 1907. interest both locally and ecclesiastically. Many other instances occur of later date in other" registers, but want of time prevented my making any further memoranda of the kind. Gloucester, St. Oswald's, 1:250, Arehbp. Giffard's Register, f. 9Gb. The charter of William Rufus, who gave the priory to the see of York, with papal bulls, is in Grenefeld's Reg., part i. f. 45b. Xew Place, 1259, Giffard's Reg., f. 9Sb. Swine, Jan., 1267/8, ibid., ff. 62, 10S AU the nuns are rebellious, so that the Prioress cannot keep order without the Archbishop's help, but she is very unfair and hasty; nothing but quarrelling and disorder. Bolton, Dec., 1267, ibid., ff.62, 143. Bolton. 1275, ibid., f. 132a, b. Resignation of Prior Richard de Bakhampton, f. 136b. Bolton, 1280, Wickwan's Reg., f. 21b. Newburgh, 1275, Giffard's Reg., I. 146. Newburgh. 1279, Wickwan's Keg., f. 12. Felley, or Falley. Notts, 1276, Giffard's Re,;., f. 142. Selby, 1279, Wickwan's Reg., f. 7b. Abbot Thomas de Qualle deprived. Kxcoranmni- eated because he fled from the Abbey on horse- back at night (f. 33b). Gisburn, 1279, ibid., f. 12. Kirkham (c. 1282?), ibid., f. 76b. Canons' closets (or lockers, "carola;") are to be opened once a year at least, and their content* exposed. York, Holy Trinity, 1293, Romanus's Reg., f. 26. The Prior excommunicated. W. D. Macrav. Bloxhani, Oxon. " Bedevil."—Tho earliest example of this word in the ' N.E.D.' comes from Sterne's ' Sentimental Journey,' 1768. It is found in the translation, " by an Eminent Hand," 1718, of ' D'Arvieux's Travels in Arabia the Desart,' a journey undertaken by order of Louis XIV. The passage occurs in the foot-note, p. 16 :— " [ A Preacher, speaking of Benge or Bang,] ciyM out, Behold that Enemy, that Demon I am talking to you of. Have a care he does not throw himself upon some of you, and bedevil him." Richard H. Thornton. Shakespeare and the Bible.—A street- car conductor, aged about 40, told me recently that ho always thought Shake- speare was a part of the Bible One of his children thought it was in the Old Testa- ment. I had heard that such a belief existed, and now record a concrete instance thereof. Albert J. Edmunds. Historical Society of Pennsylvania. Milton. (See ante, p. 21.)—There was a marriage of Jphn Milton of Maidenhead at Easthamstead, Berks, in 1661. The name also occurs in tho register in the middle of the eighteenth century. E. E. .Cope.