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HYDON'S BALL, SURREY. The Nations Trust is at present trying to secure funds to purchase, for public use and enjoyment, a small elevation between these heights and Godalming known as Hydon's Ball, about ninety-two acres in extent. There is a local rime concerning it, which runs as follows : On Hydon's top there is a cup, And in that cup there is a drop ; Take up the cup and drink the drop, And place the cup on Hydon's top. Is anything known as to the origin of the name of this place, or to what the lines refer ? J. LANDFEAR LUCAS.

Glendora, Hindhead, Surrey.

JOHN WARD. Is anything known, about this composer of madrigals beyond what is given in the * D.N.B.' and the authorities mentioned there ? Particulars of birth, death, and parentage would be welcomed.

E. A. FRY. 227, Strand, W.C.

DOMESTIC COOKING WITH LIME. In The London Literary Gazette (31 Jan., 1835) will be found a description of such a demonstra- tion at the Adelaide Street Gallery (the present premises of Gatti's Restaurant), Strand, W.C. :

" The most novel matter was a lecture by Mr Maughan, on an apparatus for cooking withoui fire. The experiment was shown with a tin box in the centre of which was a drawer, where beef steaks and eggs were deposited. In the com partments, above and below, lime was placed, and slacked with water. The usual process took place, heat was disengaged, and the victuals were perfectly dressed, without receiving any peculiar flavour or taste from the means employed. It is obvious that an invention of this kind may be conveniently applied under many domestic cir- cumstances, where fire or boiling water could be dispensed with ; such as heating tea-urns, warming beds, &c,, &c., independently of bachelor

dinnering, without care or trouble. The opera- tion took about half-an-hour."

Were any lime-cooking stoves subse- quently placed upon the English market ? ANDREW DE TERNANT. 36, Somerleyton Road, JBrixton, S.W.

BIOGRAPHICAL INFORMATION WANTED. I should be glad to obtain any information concerning the following Old Westminsters :

(1) Henry Clarerit, admitted 1719, aged 10.

(2) Esme Clarke, admitted 1738, aged 10.

(3) Henry George James Clark, admitted 1772. (4) Richard Brown Clark, admitted 1788. (5) Skinner Dyke Clarke, admitted 1811. (6) George Bertie Clay and William Clay, who graduated B.A. at Cambridge from St. John's College in 1823 and 1824 respectively. G. F. R. B.

JOHN PAULEY entered Winchester College in 1535, aged 12, from St. Michael, Crooked Lane, London, and was Fellow of New College 1543-7, LL.D., and Hostiarius of Winchester College. Kirby, who calls him Panley (at p. 120), gives precisely the same account of the after-career of Thomas Pawley, who entered Winchester College from London, aged 11, in the preceding year. The Bursar of Winchester College kindly tells me that John Pauley was pro- bably Usher of Winchester College from 1547/8 to 1549. Thomas Pawley does not appear ever to have been Usher.

Sander, in his list of Doctors of Civil and Canon Law who either had died in prison or were still in prison or living in exile, mentions D. Joannes Fauleus. He was at Louvain about 1575 (Knox, ' Douay Diaries,' 3. 309). At what University did he take lis LL.D. degree, and when ? ROBERT PAYNE entered Winchester Col- and was Fellow of New College 1549-59, VI. A. 1555, and Rector of Saham Toney, Norfolk, 1558, where he was succeeded fter deprivation in 1563. His name occurs n Sander's list. However, William Ap lice, who entered Winchester College in 1537, aged 11, and was Fellow of New College 1549-59, is also said to have become Rector of Saham Toney in 1558. What is the explanation of this ? A list of priests dated 20 Jan., 1593, mentions among old priests Robert Payne alias Father Mychaell, and says he was supposed then to be in Lancashire (S.P. Dom. Add. Eliz., xxxii. 64). RALPH PYKERYNG entered Winchester College in 1523 from Chark in Titchfield, Hants, no age being given. He was Fellow of New College 1532-5, and left ad servitium. Is he the person who was Rector of Shustoke
 * e in 1541, aged 11, from Westminster,

and Lower Whitacre, Warwickshire, in 1547, and Vicar of Maxstoke, Warwickshire, 1559 ? This Ralph Pyckeringe was succeeded after deprivation at Lower Whitacre in 1562, and at Shustoke in 1563. When was he suc- 3eeded at Maxstoke ? All three places are lear Birmingham.

PETER RUSSELL entered Winchester Col-

ege in 1540, aged 10, from " Woolverton,

Hants," i.e. probably Wolverton, Berkshire,

and is said to have been Fellow of New

"ollege 1549-52, and Vicar of Crondall,

rlants. He was, however, still Fellow of

New College in May, 1554, when he was

ordained sub -deacon in London. At what

period was he Vicar of Crondall ? When did

le cease to be Fellow of New College ?

JOHN B. WAINE WRIGHT.