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NOTES AND QUERIES. [11 s. vn. FEB. s, 1913.

DATE OF ' BOOK OF HOURS.' Can any reader tell me how to find the date of a ' Book of Hours ' in my possession (French and Latin), with an inscription at end :

" Ces presentes heures a 1'usage de romaine furent achevees le xxi jour de juillet 1'an mil troiscens et huyt. Mauronius Barat mepossidet." The words italicized are written, the others are printed in Gothic. The " trois," how- ever, has been substituted, to make the book seem fourteenth century. It is a printed book, with figure margins and illu- minated capitals, and with page illustra- tions. It may be fifteenth or sixteenth century. There is a calendar, and all the pages are intact. The monogram of printer

is "AR," and his name "Antoine "

A slip of paper, cunningly inserted under a flap on a fly-leaf, bears these words : " Emptu 100Z6, 1545," which helps to " place " it in the sixteenth century. But I should like to know if there is internal evidence to be looked for. WYCKHAM.

MOONWORT OR "UNSHOE THE HORSE." Culpeper tells us that on White Down in Devonshire, near Tiverton, there were found thirty horseshoes pulled off from the feet of the Earl of Essex's horses there drawn up in a body. Many of them had been recently shod, and no one could tell the reason why the shoes dropped off. It was attributed to the presence of " moonwort." Can any reader give me other references for this belief, or in any way explain it ?

RENIRA.

MAGDALEN COLLEGE, OXFORD.- In ' Pen Sketches by a Vanished Hand,' a collection of papers by Mortimer Collins, published in 1879, vol. i. p. 87, occurs a reference to Magdalen College, Oxford, as " the College which, by statute, was the Oxford home of the Kings of England and Princes of Wales." In view of the Prince of Wales's recent entry at the College named, it would be interesting to have chapter and verse for the words " by statute." W. B. H.

CURIOUS DIVISION OF ESTATE. Several freehold properties in Greenwich, Kent, have come under my notice as being or having been held in two undivided shares, of nine-tenths and one-tenth respectively, in separate ownership. The title to the nine- tenths can in some cases be traced back to 1788, at which date the nine-tenths and the one-tenth were already separately owned. I have in mind properties in London Street and in East Street (formerly East Lane), and

I am led to believe that a considerable area, and therefore presumably an estate of some magnitude, was affected ; even now there are still some cases where the two parts have not been reunited in a common ownership. Can any reader inform me how and when the severance arose ? PELLIPAR.

MERCHANT ADVENTURERS IN HOLLAND. Can any of your readers inform me where I am likely to find a list of the Merchant Adventurers of British nationality who were domiciled at Middelburg (in Holland) be- tween the years 1600 and 1680 ?

HISTORICUS.

FRANCIS VAUGHAN. In the Cromwellian settlement of Ireland one of the Commis- sioners of Transplantation was (Col. ) Francis Vaughan, Commissioner of Revenue for the Precinct of Clonmel in 1653. Information is desired regarding the lineage, career, and issue (if any) of this Francis Vaughan.

T. T, V.

THE SEVEN OARS AT HENLEY. All who rowed for Oxford in the celebrated race of 1843, including the coxswain, have passed away. But I have seen no notice of the death of Mr. Fletcher Norton Menzies, who was described by Thomas Hughes as "a radical reformer " in the art of rowing, and to whose sudden illness just before starting (" febri furenti ipsa hora certaminis parumper succubuerat, " as is stated on the chair in the University Barge) the necessity of rowing with only seven oars was due. When and where did he die ?

E. L. H. TEW.

Upham Rectory, Hants.

SAINT SUNDAY. In a series of pre- Reformation wills belonging to some Ox- fordshire parishes recently consulted in Somerset House, I found the testators, both lay and clerical, according to the custom of the time, making bequests in money and in kind to maintain the lights before the images of the saints in their parish churches. In four of these wills, of the parishes of Charlbury (1528), Churchill (1530), Duns- tew (1532), and Bucknell (1532), among the saints specified by name as recipients of these bequests is " Saynt Sonday," or St. Sunday.

May I ask for some information concerning this saint ? So far, the books I have been able to consult do not record even the name of this particular saint.

S. SPENCER PEAROE. Combe Vicarage, Oxon.

[See 10 S. xi. 208. 275, 516.]