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NOTES AND QUERIES. [ns. vn. FE*. 22, 1913.

" STUPPLES " AT SALISBURY IN OLDEN TIMES. 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 see a Leccese 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 dry-foot and found two or three of these contrivances in every street : which [streets] I should say are broad enough for carriages 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 clivers 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 PERICULA

CAUTUM." In the first volume of the present Series a correspondent asked for the source of this well-known line, eliciting replies (pp. 113, 155, 216) in which it was mentioned chat it formed part of the motto of the Parisian printer Felix Balligaut, and occurred in Erasmus's ' Adagia ' and in one of Johannes Ravisius "Textor's ' Dialogi.' There is, however, a much earlier instance than any of these, as it is quoted something under halfway through the ' De Tempore Regis Richardi Secundi,' attributed to Thomas Walsingham, p. 270, in Camden's edition of ' Anglica, Normannica, Hibernica, Cambrica, a veteribus scripta,' Frankfort, 1603. EDWARD BENSLY.

ARCHIEPISCOPAL VISITATIONS OP MON- ASTIC HOUSES IN YORKSHIRE AND ELSE- WHERE IN 1250-93. The following notes were jotted down by me when engaged, during a fortnight in 1900, in examining the grand series of Archiepiscopal Registers at York for a Report to the Convocation of the Province on the records of the pro- ceedings^of that body previous to the year 1545.* These notes show how, during the less than half -century to which they relate, the exercise of the visitatorial authority in the case of non-exempted foundations was much more than nominal, and they are of

report is printed in Dean Kitchin's * Records of the Northern Convocation,' a volume issued bv the Surtees Society in 1907.
 * A short introductory summary prefixed to my

interest both locally and ecclesiastically. Many other instances occur of later date in other registers, but want of time prevents I my making any further memoranda of the kind.

Gloucester, St. Oswald's, 1250, Archbp. Giffard's

Register, f. 96b.

The charter of William Rufus, who gave the priory to the see of York, with papal bulls, is in Grenef eld's Reg., part i. f. 45b. New Place, 1259, Giffard's Reg., f. 98b. Swine, Jan., 1267/8, ibid., ff. 62, 108 All 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. 186b. Bolton, 1280, VVickwan's Reg., f. 21b. Newburgh, 1275, Giffard's Reg., f. 140. Newburgh, 1279, Wickwan's Reg., f. 12. Felley, or Falley. Notts, 1276, Giffard's Reg., f. 142. Selby, 1279, Wickwan's Reg., f. 7b. Abbot Thomas de Qualle deprived. Excommuni- cated because he fled from the Abbey on horse- back at night (f. 33b). Gisburn, 1279, ibid., f. 12. Kirkham (c. J282?), ibid., f. 76b. Canons' closets (or lockers, "earolse") are to be opened once a year at least, and their content* exposed.

York, Holy Trinity, 1293, Romanus's Reg., f. 20. The Prior excommunicated.

W. D. MACRAY. Bloxham, Oxon.

" BEDEVIL." The earliest example of this word in the ' JSLE.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,] cry'd out, Behold that Enemy, that Demon I am talkinu 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 he 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.

MILTOX. (See ante, p. 21.)-r-I^here wan a marriage of John Milton of Maidenhead at Easthamstead, Berks, in 1661. The name also occurs in the register hi the middle of the eighteenth century. E. E, COPE.