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It was a horrible experience, however, and every incident of it is as vividly present to me to-day as it was on the day of its occurrence the roaring noise in the ears, the whirling spectrum colours gradually darkening, the leaden weight on the chest, above all the swallowing and getting nothing down, though the final melting into oblivion was easeful enough, the capacity to feel being just gone. But the. past, as I have said, gave no sign whatever. MONA.

With reference to the second query, so far unanswered, whether being frozen to death is a very painful process, I have always understood that people when exposed to intense cold are seized with extreme drowsiness, and, having succumbed to this, are frozen to death in their sleep. This is borne out by one of Tshekov's short Russia n stories in which Grigory, the turner, does not discover the death of his wife in the cart until he notices that the snow will no longer melt on her cheeks. Then again, only SL few days ago, one of the London dailies printed an account of the retreat in Serbia in which the writer, a Serbian officer, related that he had the greatest difficulty in keeping his men awake when resting and preventing them from being frozen to death.

L. L. K.

SHRINES AND RELICS OF SAFNTS (12 S. i. 70, 133). In Wilfred Holme's 'Fall and Evil Success of Rebellion,' 1537 (see 11 S. xii. 125), there is a list of saints and their relics as follows :

For one shewed me of two Roods besides the

Friers habitation In Greemvitch, which wold sweat for equal

ministration, Y* William of York (quod another) will sweat in

abundance,

To kcepe House bridge from floods

For (thanked be God) Sainct Frauncis' cowle is

spied , And St. Bride's bead, with St. Hellyn's quicking

tree,

Their girdles invented, and their faire hayres died. With their chaulk oled for the milk of our lady. Sainet Sith and Trenian's fast, with works of

idolatry, As Sainet Nicholas' chaire, and Sainet Antho rue's

bell.

With Turpine stone, and Moyses yarde so thee ; With St. Katharine's knots, and St. Anne of

Buckstones well ; And St. Wilfred Boome of Rlpon to kepe cattel

from pa me, And his needle which sinners cannot pass the

eye ;

With St. John and St. Peter's grease, for to con- serve the braine ; And St. Thomas hoode of Pomfret for migraine

and the rie ;

And St. Cuthbert's standard of Duresme to make-

their foes to flee ;

And St. Benet's bolte, and St. Swithin's bell ; And St. Patrike's staff e, and Sainet William's:

head, pardy ; And St. Cornell's home, with a thousand more to-

tell.

At Newburgh Priory near Coxwold, in Yorkshire, was " the girdle Sancti Sal- vatoris," which, as it was said, was good for those in childbirth (1536, ' L. and P.^ Henry VIII.,' x. p. 137).

St. Osyth's Well in Bishop's Stortford was- held to cure sore eyes (11 S. vi. 413).

According to Macaulay, James II. in 1686 visited the Holy Well" of St. Winifred in order to pray for an heir (Macaulay. ' History of Krigland,' vol. i. p. 742, Everyman ed.).

M. H. DODDS.

" A STRICKEN FIELD " (11 S. xii. 379, 409 r 450). This phrase is of considerable an- tiquity, being frequently used by Andrew of Wyntoun (? 1350- ? 1420) in his metrical ' Crony kil of Scotland.' In the prose * Brevis. Cronica,' which is appended to some of the copies of the ' Crony kil,' occurs the sentence :. " This battaill was striken att Bannok- burne in Scotland." The ' Brevis Cronica * ends with the death of Robert II. in 1390. HERBERT MAXWELL.

Monreith.

AUTHORIZED VERSION OF THE BIBLE (11 S, xii. 183, 266, 362, 467). The Bible of 161 1, being only a revised edition, was not entered on the Stationers' Registers, nor is there any information at present available as to the month in which it was issued. See A. W. Pollard's very valuable ' Records of the English Bible,' 1911, p. 61.

The names of those who took part in bringing out this edition of the Bible are all well known. Possibly an investigation into the lives of some of them might reveal a clue as to the exact date of issue.

A. L. HUMPHREYS.

187 Piccadilly, W.

THUNDER FAMILY (US. xii. 501; 12 S. i. 36). The following may interest the querist :

" GOLDEN WEDDING.

" STUBKS : THUNTTRR. On the 18th Jan., 1866, at Hurstpierpoint, by the Revd. Carey Borrer,. Quintin Robert, youngest son of James Stubbs, West Tisted, Hants, to Helen, second daughter of Edwin Thunder, of Brighton, and ' Wood- lands,' Hassocks. Present address, 75 High- street, Marylebone, W."

R. J. FYNMORE.

Sandgate.