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NOTES AND QUERIES.

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LONDON, SATURDAY, JUNE 2U, 1916.

CONTENTS.-No. 26.

NOTES : Henry VI. and Winchester College, 501 William Toldervy and the Word-Books, 503 James the Novelist's 'Fisherman of Scarphout' "O heata solitude, O sola beatitude" Torn Jones and his Sword, 506 Anagram "Hickory" as an Adjective ' The Last Chronicle of Barset ' : an Inconsistency, 507.

QUERIES .'Parliamentary Election for Queensferry Dis- trict of Burghs, 507 William Ames. M. A. -Dickens Family : Portsmouth Residences" How not to doit," 508 -Halps : Stevens : Kenrick Fact or Fancy ? 509 Largest Bag of Game fora Day's Shooting" Loke " Robert Burd Gabriel, D.D. Rev. Joseph Rann "Three a penny colonels " Author of Quotation Wanted Correct Designation of War Minister- ' Once a Week,' 510.

BEPLIES: Harlington, Middlesex, 510 Hymn-Tune ' Presburg ' Cardinal Newman : Bust at Oxford, 513 Playing Cards Sixty Years Ago Penge as a Place-Name, 514 Colour-Printing Mid-Nineteenth Century St. George Mumming Play The Lumber Troop, Fetter Lane 'Wanted a Governess,' 515 Richard Wilson, M.P. " Bevere." 516 " Man is immortal till his work is done" Anne Clifford, Countess of Dorset, Pembroke and Mont- gomery Wellington at Brighton and Rottingdean " Honest Injun," 517 Robert Southey Parishes in Two Counties Sussex Windmills, 518 Anecdotes of Monkeys " Entire," 519.

NOTES ON BOOKS : 'The First Editions of the Writings of Thomas Hardy and their Values ' ' York Pewterers' ' Manual of Gloucestershire Literature : Biographical Supplement.'

Books on Ireland and Irish Literature. Notices to Correspondents.

HENRY VI. AND WINCHESTER COLLEGE.

(See ante, p. 481.)

The Fifth Visit (U48J9).

" Item, idem illustrissimus princeps Anno domini millesimo cccc mo xlviii Et anno regni eiusdem Regis xxyii in festo Sancti Wolstani Episcopi interfuit in hoc Collegio utrisque vesperis die dominica, sed non misse quia exhibuit presenciam Buam in ecclesia cathedrali sancti Swithuni in missa prope intronizacionem Reverendi patris et domini Domini Willelmi Waynflete Episcopi Wynton. nuper magistri informatoris scolarium huius Collegii : In crastino vero in die lune in festo sanctorum Fabiani et Sebastiani martirum Idem metuendissimus dominus interfuit alte misse predictorum sanctorum in hoc collegio, quo die dedit huic Collegio unum calicem de auro : Et xM. in auro pro uno pari fiolarum ordinandarum de eodem auro. Et ultra ex sua magna gracia dedit [liiis. iiiid. pro una piejtancia habenda inter socios et scolares in festo puriflcacionis beate marie extunc proximo [jsequente]. Et obtulit xiiis. mid." (The \vords here put within brackets have been inked in again by a later hand, to remedy the tfading of the original.)

The occasion of this visit was Waynflete' s enthronement, which occurred, according to our author, on St. Wulfstan's Day, being a Sunday, in 1448, 27 H. VI. St. Wulfstan's Day is Jan. 1 9, and fell on a Sunday in 1 448. under the old style whereby the year ended on March 24 : in other words, our author means Jan. 19, 1448/9, which was in fact a Sunday and in 27 H. VI. In the ' D.N.B.' life of Waynflete (Ix. 85, 86) his enthronement seems to be assigned to Jan. 19, 1447/8 (which was a Saturday), but our author's date, as just explained, is clearly the correct one ; for the following entries are in the College Account-roll of 1448-9 :

" Et in exenniis datis Domino Episcopo Winton tempore Installacionis sue xix die mensis Januarii, ut in precio x agnellorum ii xii is caponum et xii copulis cuniculorum cum viiis. iiiirf. pro diversis victualibus pro eodem et domino Rege providen- dis, xxxviis. viid. Et in exenniis datis Domino Regi tempore eiusdem installacionis, ut in precio ii edorum [kids], ii Phesauntes, xii Partarychis et xvii pullis, ixs. viid. ob. Et in jantaculo dato Prepositis Eton, et Cantebrig., Johanni Saye, Haydocke et aliis venientibus cum eis in Aula Custodis una cum expensis factis circa dominum Episcopum Bathon. et magistrum W. Saye pernoctantes et expectantes per iii dies et noctes in Collegio et alios venientes cum eis ut in Fru- mento Brasio et aliis victualibus et focalibus pro cameris eorumdem, et pro expensis factis circa diversos generosos de domo Regis scilicet Ouedale, Warbelyngton et alios ja.ntantes in Collegio eodem tempore Installacionis Episcopi, iinli. xiiiidJ. ob. Et in datis Johanni Payne pro laboribus suis habitis in ecclesia in presencia domini Regis, cum vid. datis pro cerotecis [gloves] datis Henrico Abyndon pro consimilibus laboribus eodem tempore Installacionis Episcopi, iis. ud." ' Custus necessarii,' &c., 1448-9.

John Saye, who is mentioned in the fore- going record, became Speaker of the House of Commons in February, 1448/9 (' Rot. Parl.,' v. 141-2). For his career see the ' D.N.B.,' 1. 387.

The chalice which the King gave on Jan. 20, and the cruets which were the outcome of his further gift of 10Z., are described in the inventory. The cruets bore two Latin hexameters which one can hardly read without a smile :

" Item i Calix de Auro ponderans xx unc. troie cum ii Fiolis de Auro ponderantibus xiii unc. iii quartron. di. id. q. troie, prec. unc. diet. fiol. cum factura xxxs. : sumrna xxK. xviiis. : uterque ex dono xpianissimi principis Regis Anglie Henrici VI". In quibus Fiolis sculpuntur versus. Rex erat istarum dator H. sextus fiolarum' cum fiolis calicem dedit ob xpi genetricem. Et Calix valet
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The cruets were bought of John Wynne, the London goldsmith who was mentioned in my previous article, and 7Z., the balance