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NOTES AND Q UERIES. [12 s. n. DEC. 30, 1916.

In one class, however, it was practically universal, as the Professor intimated that if he saw any student attending his lectures without a gown lie would not mark him present when the roll was called.

T. F. D.

The Arts students of the University of St. Andrews wear a red gown. Those be- loiuiiiur to the Faculty of [Divinity have one of black, while the medical students do not affect a gown. Andrew Lang, who was an alumnus of St. Andrews as well as of Oxford, brings in more than one literary reference to the academic dress in Arts at the former University, the best known being that of his ' Almse Matres ' :

The college of the scarlet gown. The distinctive phrase takes a heightened interest, especially to St. Andreans, f rom its probably having given R. F. Murray the title for his volume of graceful lyrics, ' The Scarlet Gown.' W. B.

"KANYETE " (12 S. ii. 468). This must be for cannette, an old French word which means a sort of silk, according to the ' Manuel d'Archeologie francaise,' by M. Camille Enlart, vol. iii., ' Le Costume,' p. 236. The so-called " Table alphabetique " gives the word (p. 546) with this definition :

"Cannette, c'est 1'objet que nous nommonsbobine etqui etait originairement un troncon de bambou. La cannette donne son nom a la soie cannette ou soie plate qui se vendait surbobine.,etalaca?me<i7Ze qui s executait avec cette soie."

We have there a valuable glossary, which I take the liberty of recommending to any student of mediaeval documents.

PlERRE TURPIN.

Folkestone.

It at once occurred to me on reading DR. FOWLER'S query that I had heard Canete used in Spain, as the name of a kind of cloth. So I referred the question to Senor F. de Arteaga, of Baskish descent, who teaches Castilian in the University of Oxford, although he was born in Barcelona, among the Catalans. He tells me that the cloth made at Canete, in the Provincia de Cuenca, is sold under the name of that town. As England at the date in question received wine from Alicante, on the south coast of Spain, it seems possible that such cloth may have reached the monks of Fountains Abbey, even if they altered its Spanish name in spelling. There was another kind of cloth called " Cadiz." The name of Laon, in

France, survives in the English " lawn."' That of Tafalla, in Navarra, where linen is still made, became dafaila = la nappe in Baskish. E. S. DODGSON.

WATCH HOUSES (12 S. ii. 9, 113, 157, 233, 315, 377).

London.

Giltspur Street, Smithfield. Now occupied by sexton of St. Sepulchre's Church ; with inscription :

WATCH HOUSE, ERECTED 1791.

' Some Old London Memorials,' by W. J. Roberts, p. 185.)

Bishopsgate Street. At corner of parish, churchyard, afterwards a tobacconist's shop..

Dublin.

14A Chatham Street. Afterwards used as police station.

Newmarket. Afterwards used as police station.

Fleet Street. Back of College Street police station.

Chancery Lane. Afterwards used as police station.

Sackville Place.

Vicar Street. Scene of tragic death of Lord Kilwarden. J. ARDAGH.

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History of the Cutlers' Company of London and of the Minor Cutlery Crafts, icith Biographical Notices of Early London Cutlers. Vol. I. From Early Times to the Year 1500. By Charles Welch (Master of the Company, 1907-8). (Printed privately for the Cutlers' Company.)

THIS fine volume embodies what has evidently been a labour of love, but must none the less have been costly both in time and pains. The earliest fact recorded concerning cutlers in London would seem to be the existence of one Adam the Cutler (there is a quaint propriety about his name), living in the parish of St. Michael in " Bassiehage," and revealed by a deed belonging to the end of the twelfth century. From this Adam onwards to the beginning of the sixteenth century and beyond there is not a London cutler of whom so much as the name has come down to us who does not find a place here. The biographical details thus carefully collected are derived in great part from sales or leases of property ; in considerable part from wills ; and again, though in lesser proportion, from records of judicial proceedings and other systems of public administration. No individual history emerges as of special interest and im- portance, if considered apart from the Mistery ;, but we discover the cutlers of some three centuries as a worthy and prosperous body of men. They cherish jealously the reputation of their craft,-