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FAZAKERLEY : MEANING OF NAME (12 S. i. 288, 395, 489). Sephton, in his ' Handbook of Lancashire Place-Names,' says :

" Henry de Fasakerlegh is mentioned in an Assize Roll of 1276 (Record Society, vol. xlvii. p. 136). Similarly, Fasacrelegh in the names of persons in 1376 (Kecord Society, vol. xlvi.). Fasacre and Fasarlegh occur in 1323 (Record Society, vol. xli.). "

Johnston, in his ' The Place-Names of England and Wales,' says :

" Fazakerley 1277 Fasakerlegh, 1376 Fasacralegh. Looks as if O.E. fas secer-l^ah, 'border of the open-country .meadow,' fr. fas, ftes, 'border, fringe,' and secer, acer, 'open plain, field,' mod. 'acre.' There is no name in ' Onomastieon Anglo- Saxonicum ' [by W. G. Searle] that would suggest Fazaker-."

ARCHIBALD SPARKE.

[J. C. H. thanked for reply.]

FACT OR FANCY? (12 S. i. 509; ii. 17). 1. In addition to the sentence quoted from the 'N.E.D.,' Coke said that "everyone may assemble his friends and neighbours to defend his house against violence,' ' for " domus sua cuique est tutissimum refugium,"

But the whole point of the great commen- tator is that when the Law has a right of entry it is no longer the former owner's to the full extent (5 'Rep.' 91 b, repeated 3 'Inst.' 162, c. 73). This, of course, is good law to-day.

2. I am well acquainted with the case of a great (young) sufferer from asthma who, in removing from clay to gravel, was at once cured. H. C N.

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Clo*e Polls of the Reign of Henri/ III. preserved in the Public Record Office. A.D. 1242-7. (H.M. Stationery Office, 17-s. 6(/.)

THE first volume of these Close Rolls (1227-31) was published in 1902. Mr. E. G. Atkinson has pre- pared the text of this volume, and Mr. R. F. Isaacson has made the Index. The documents are printed in Latin.

It will be remembered that in 1242 Henry was in Gascony. His mother and stepfather had drawn him into the coalition of a group of rebellious French peers against Louis IX.. The coalition went down, after comparatively feeble resistance, before the vigour and capable generalship of Louis, and, reading here the orders for costly preparation to be made for Henry's return, one imagines that outward mag- nificence made the best part of it. The five years covered by this volume are perhaps thought of by students of the reign chiefly as years in which dis- contents and the causes of subsequent disturbance were brewing more or leas below the surface. This volume, however, illustrates the reigji rather from the social and religious point of view than from

the political. Henry, we know, copied St. Louis- in the munificence of his gifts to shrines and churches, and in the lavishness of his charity- Here are numberless orders many of them im- patiently pressing to Edward, son of Odo, the kings goldsmith, for all kinds of jewel-work costly vessels for churches, reliquaries, orna- ments for shrines, and so forth, mostly to be ready tor some great festival of the Church. Interesting,, too, are the orders for robes and suits of state, and for hangings; and here we have preserved the name of an embroideress one evidently well known, Mabilia de Sancto Edmundo who was ordered, upon the return of the king, to make a vexillum, or standard, for Westminster, " de uno

bono samitto rubeo bene brudatum auro sicut

mud melius sciverit providere cum una imagine de Sancta Maria et alia de Sancto Johanne," for Westminster Abbey, and whom we find still unpaid in July, 1244.

A very interesting study of Westminster during this period might be put together from these pages ; for not only have we countless details of goldsmiths' work take, for instance, the golden ring with a fine sapphire and an inscription (" queni faciet Magister Henricus versificator talem continentem senten-

ciam ") which was to be put on the hand of an

arm made in honour of St. Thomas the Apoatle not only have we these, but also no less numerous details concerning works on the palace, and on the fabric of the abbey, with mention of a great number of their most interesting features. Another group- of documents worth noting is that concerning: Windsor.

Among the persons whose story receives some illustration here we mav note John Balliol and Devorgilla, Simon de Montfort and Eleanor his wife, and the de Lacys : there is a single mention of Emmelineas widow of Hugh de Lacy, and she occurs four times as wife of Stephen de Longespee.

Another line of most useful information is fur- nished by the frequent documents concerned with the Jews. Many names of Jews occur, and the series as a whole contributes something worth haying to one of the most important and character- istic problems of the thirteenth century, in which, again, comparison with France is instructive.

The Index now and again leaves something to be desired. One omission which struck us is that of the name of Sench'a of Provence, a lady of sufficient importance to be noted upon her coming into Eng- land. Her name should have been given, too, under Countess of Cornwall.

Ancient Axtronomy in Eyimt and its Significance.

By Frederick J. Dick. (Point Loma, the Aryan

Theosophical Press.)

THIS brochure in No. 7 of the " Papers of the School of Antiquity University Extension Series." It would not, in the ordinary course of thing*, come- within our scope ; but we should like to inquire in what sense the words " University Extension " are to be taken. As used in England they have a quite- definite meaning, and the word University refers to a number of bodies recognized under that name by the State. To what " University," and by what authority instituted and chartered, does this "School of Antiquity" belong? Its teachings, as the name of the press from which this paper issue* might lead us to expect, are grounded UJHMI the disquisitions of Madame Blavatsky.