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 12 s. ii. AUG. 19, 1916.] NOTES AND QUERIES.

On March 23, 1651/2, Thomas Hussey son and heir, and William Hussey, second son, of Thomas Hussey of Hungerford Park, Berks, were admitted students to Gray's Inn.

Giles Hungerford (fifth son of Sir Anthony Hungerford of Black Bourton, co. Oxon), afterwards Sir Giles Hungerford of Freefolk, co. Hants, and Coulston, co. Wilts, married Frances (third daughter and coheir of Sir George Croke of Waterstock, co. Oxon), relict of Richard Jervoise of Freefolk.

ALFRED T. EVERITT.

Portsmouth.

FARMERS' CANDLEMAS RIME (12 S. ii. 29, 77, 117). With reference to the paragraph,

"It is exceedingly unlucky to experience a

fine Candlemas Day, &c On the contrary, a

cloudy and rainy Candlemas Day means that winter is gone. This is not only English, but French, German, and Spanish lore,"

it may be of interest to quote the following old Neapolitan lines, which show that Italian opinion differed from the above :

Arrivati a Candelora

Dell' invernp semo fora, Ma si piove e tira vento

Dell' inverno semo drento.

N. POWLETT, Col.

HOUSE AND GARDEN SUPERSTITIONS (12 S. ii. 89, 138). 5. See 9 S. xi. 448 ; xii. 33, 234, 412. JOHN T. PAGE.

Long Itchington, Warwickshire.

THOMAS CONGREVE, M.D. (12 S. ii. 69). With reference to my query relating to Thomas Congreve, I have since discovered the following entry in ' Graduati Canta- brigienses,' 1823, p. 110, which seems to refer to him, and if it does not is a curious coincidence : " Congrave (Thomas), M.B. 1687, Sid. Coll."

The slight difference in the spelling of the

word " Congreve " is probably not worth

noting the mere substitution of a for e.

A. STANTON WHITFIELD.

High Street, Walsall.

" OlL ON TROUBLED WATERS " (12 S.

ii. 87). I see your correspondent A. F. R gives an account of the latest recorded instance of the above. In the various notes on this subject in ' N. & Q.' has mention been made of the instance of the kind related in Bede's ' Ecclesiastical History ' (iii. 15) ? The chapter in question is headed : " How Bishop Aidan foretold to certain seamen a storm that would happen, and gave them some holy oil to lay it " (A.D. 651). I wonder if this is the earliest mention of the matter.

J. WILLCOCK. Lerwick.

EDMOND DUBLEDAY (12 S. ii. 70). I much regret that I omitted to take a note of"
 * he description, if any, of this man contained

in the pamphlet which I summarized ante,. p. 25, and that I have no leisure to repair the emission by a visit to the British Museum. - [ have little doubt, however, that he is the Edmund Doubleday to whom (with one Andrew Bright) on March 30, 1604, were granted the offices of distilling herbs and sweet waters at the Palace of Whitehall and of keeping the Library there. This Edmund Doubleday subsequently became one of the- two Wardens of the Mint.

There are frequent references to him in the ' Calendars of State Papers (Domestic),.' 1603-10 and 1611-18.

JOHN B. WAINE WRIGHT..

on IBooha,

Calendar of the Charter Rolls preserved in the Public Record Office. Vol. V. 15 Edward III. to 5 Henry V., A.D. 1341-1417. (Stationery Office ,. 15*.)

THE text of this volume was prepared by Mr.. C. G. Crump and Mr. C. H. Jenkinson, assisted by Mr. A. E. Stamp, under the immediate super- vision of Sir H. C. Maxwell Lyte. It contains a General Index of persons and places, an index of counties, and one of subjects, these being the work of Mr. Maskelyne. To the text there is prefixed a list of the charters printed in full in these pages, as well as a Bibliography.

By far the greater number of the charters here given in full were granted by the kings to religious houses and churches, but we have also the Empress Maud's charter to the burgesses of Devizes, those of Richard I. to the burgesses of Bedford and the citizens of London, and one of John's to London. The most interesting and' important is the famous charter to the University of Oxford dated June 27, 1355, from the Tower of London, in which -doing the University right after the violent and fatal riot between Town and Gown on St. Scholastica's Day (Feb. 10), 1354 Edward III. gave the University control of the markets, and general jurisdiction over the city. This charter, besides its intrinsic cla im to attention, is rather a fine example of the rugged 1 and barbarous, yet neither ineffective nor un-- dignified legal Latin of the Middle Ages. There is much good detail concerning Oxford set forth in other pages of this book, and other towns whose historians and students might note it are Coventry and Canterbury to say nothing of London. A large number of village names and names of small towns appear, especially those belonging to Kent, Suffolk, and Yorkshire. We may mention hi conclusion one or two matters among many of curious interest. There is an example, under date Nov. 14, 1389, of the enhanced fine for offences committed between noon on Saturday and fore- noon on Monday (60*. and a halfpenny of gold to be paid instead of 12(2.). A charter to the citi- zens of Dublin makes mention of the poverty of