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 us. vii. MAY n, 1913.] NOTES AND QUERIES.

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>. 202, where it is pointed out that the form " Si vis pacem, para bellum," is not ancient. ' In such cases as this it would be useful to record the earliest ascertainable instances in renaissance or mediaeval literature.

EDWABD BENSLY.

[M. H. GOUDCHAUX who refers to King's ' Clas- sical and Foreign Quotations,' Bartlett's 'Familiar Quotations,' and similar French works, none of which gives the original source also thanked for reply.]

DIED IN HIS COFFIN (11 S. vi. 468 ; vii. 96, 134, 156, 214, 298). About 1860, or a little later, there died at Anstruther, Fifeshire, an elderly man who had kept his coffin in a room of his house for many years. It was

C"usely decorated with sea-shells, and a mirror on the inside of the lid. The owner's neighbours were all familiar with it, and they considered it one of the curiosities of the place, of which to tell visitors from a distance. Some of them were on terms of sufficient intimacy to warrant their taking friends to see the man and his odd possession, and they always received a hearty welcome.

Akin to this subject is the following stanza from the lyric ' Upon the Image of Death,' by Robert Southwell (1562-95) : Continually at rny bed's head

An hearse doth hang, which doth me tell That I ere morning may be dead,

Though now I feel myself full well : But yet, alas 1 for all this I Have little mind that I must die.

THOMAS BAYNE,

BENETT OF BALDOCK (10 S. ix. 228, 333, 395; x, 191, 393). It seems clear that the father of Leonard Benett of Baldock was Richard Benette of the adjoining parish of Clothall. His will, dated 6 April, 1545, was proved 16 April, 1545, in the Archdeaconry 'Court of Huntingdon (registered vol. vii. 165 in the Peterborough District Registry) ; in it the testator mentions his wife Elizabeth, his sons Leonard and John, and his five daughters. The younger son, John Benett, was probably ancestor of the Benetts of
 * Stanstead, co. Herts. Anne, wife of Robert

Benett, Bishop of Hereford, was buried at Whitbourne, co. Hereford, 11 Sept., 1616. Letters of administration were granted to the Bishop in P.C.C., 20 Aug., 1617, shortly .before his death, Thomas Benett, " of

Worte ' gives the Vegetius passage and the line of Publilius Syrus, and refers to Otto. In his 10th edition he quotes a less appropriate line of Publilius, some passages from other authors which contain a different thought, and the words of DionChrysostom.
 * Biichmann in the 20th edition of 'Gefliigelte

Cornbury park," turns out to be of Stan- stead (formerly servant to Lord Danby of Cornbury) ; his will was proved in P.C.C., 7 Nov., 1645. G. R. BRIGSTOCKE.

SALT-MINES (US. vii. 330). Salt-works at Northwich and Nantwich are said to have existed prior to the Roman invasion, when, Camden states, the former town was called by the Britons Hdlath or Hellah Du, meaning the black salt town, and the latter Halen Gwyn, the white salt town.

Droitwich, which was also a town of the ancient Britons, is called by Richard of Cirencester Salince, a name common to all places where there were salt-works.

A religious reverence was paid to salt, and Tacitus says it was considered "that such places nearest approached to Heaven, and that the prayers of men were never so favour- ably received by the gods from any others." In 816 Kenulph, King of Mercia, gave the salt-works at Droitwich to Worcester Church.

CONSTANCE RUSSELL. Swallowfield Park, Reading.

Your correspondent will find a partial answer to his second question on pp. 309-28 of ' The Ancient British, Roman, and Saxon Antiquities and Folk-Lore of Worcester- shire,' by Jabez Allies, F.S.A. (second edition, 1852). A. C. C.

TOLLING ON GOOD FRIDAY (11 S, vii. 330). It certainly was a custom to toll the church bell on Good Friday at some country churches, beginning about 3 o'clock in the afternoon. The tolling lasted about an hour, but the intervals were nob of a minute's duration. If I remember rightly, this was the custom at Horsley in Derby- shire. THOS, RATCLIFFE. Worksop.

The thirty-three strokes are symbolical of the age of our Lord, and 3 o'clock the hour when He gave up the ghost. Tyack, in his ' Book about Bells,' states that a nuffled peal is rung at 3 o'clock at Caistor in Lincolnshire; -and at Aisthorpe and else- where it is usual to toll a knell at that hour.

W. B GERISH.

" A WYVEBN PABT-PER-PALE ADDRESSED "

(US. vii. 228, 294). Does not " addressed " tiere mean that the wyvern is erect on its bail in a rampant attitude ? The ' New English Dictionary ' gives " erected, raised," as obsolete meanings of " addressed." It is interesting to note that the landlord's arms are a variation of those of Howe (Or, a
 * esse between three wolves' heads sable) as