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FOUNTAINS ABBEY ACCOUNTS. In copying and editing a book of Bursars' accounts, and a memorandum book, I have met with the following words which I am unable to ex- plain, and I should welcome any help in then- elucidation. Kanyete has lately been satisfactorily explained, in reply to my query. There remain the following :

Epheds (sent before). C. 1454. Memorandum that Job. Ketilwell asks allowance for "6 kye

withdrawn a meyr takyn for tax ortys

(scraps of fodder) wantynge Item for epheds a

jere xiijs. iiijd.," &c. Can it be connected with heeaf-hod, the home or homestead ? Or with heft, an accustomed pasture, fig. a dwelling, domicile? E.D.D. '

Gogyh, 1456-7 and 1457-8. " Communitati Ciuitatis Ebor pro gogyle." (Possibly something to be found in Drake s 'Eboracum ' or in Davies's ' York Records,' to neither of which works shall I have access for some time.)

Pecun. stoc\ 1455. "Et (liberauit) Will'mo \Vyrrell pro Bowttyng-cloth et in pecun' stoc' xijd."

Pvlvis pestilencice, 1457-8. " In puluere pesti- lencise, xiijd."

Pvlvis vitalis, 1457-8. " In puluere vitali d'no Abbati et vna Medicina, iis."

Other medicines, and various delicacies' were provided for the Abbot about this same time. I might find out about the two powders if I could get to a library. Will some one help an old correspondent ?

J. T. F. Winterton,' Lines.

LEGEND OF THE MAGI. Where is to be found a legend 'which tells how one of the Magi, bearing three gems to the infant Christ, gave them away in charity during his journey, but was consoled by a divine vision ? Can any one state the main in- cidents ? ALIQUIS.

OLD FLEMISH BURIAL-GROUND, LONDON. Would some reader give information as to the old Flemish burial-ground formerly on the site of the present London Bridge rail- way station, or thereabouts ? H. A. H.

ADMIRALS HOOD. Can any of your readers help me in unravelling the intricacies of the Admirals Hood ? of whom I have found no fewer than four in the eighteenth century, viz., Samuel, Viscount Hood (1724-1816); Alexander, Viscount Bridport (1727-1814); Alexander (1758-1798); and Samuel (1762- 1814). The point I want to determine is the parentage of the two last named, and the relationship (if any) between them and the two Viscounts; the latter I understand are brothers. M. CRAIG.

Widecombe, 22 Taylor Road, Wallineton.

AUTHOR OF QUOTATION WANTED. In a leader on Jan. 29. 1917, The Morning Post quotes :

See the silent smithy where,

On the noiseless anvils laid, Day by day and year by year,

Souls of men are forged and made.

I should be glad to know the name " of the young poet, a scholar and an athlete, who fell at the Battle of the Somme, and paid this tribute to schoolmasters."

DE V. PA YEN-PAYNE.

LUKE HODGES, M.P., was elected a mem- ber for Bristol in January, 1645/6. I should be glad to learn the date and place of his death. G. F. R. B.

GILBERT AND SULLIVAN : GILBERT ME- MORIAL. The memorial tablet to Sir Wil- liam Gilbert on the wall of the Victoria Embankment, near Charing Cross Railway Bridge, contains these words :

His foe was folly, and his weapon wit. Will some one kindly give the authorship of this crisp summary of -the brilliant librettist who died so gallantly a few years ago ? T. F. H.

" A RING, A RING OF ROSES." Is it pos- sible 'that this game is of very high antiquity ? A traditional German game begins with words of the same significance, " Ringele, Ringele, Rosenkranz." May it be held that they have both evolved from some common source, and have been passed down from generation to generation since before the English arrived in Britain ? If not, has a German game reached England in com- paratively modern times, or vice versa ?

One or two others of our games have German versions, and the custom of taking round a horse-like image or horse's head at the mid-winter festival, once common in Eastern England, has, or had, a parallel in a district of North Germany. G. W.

JONAS HANWAY, 1712-1786, TRAVELLER AND PHILANTHROPIST. Is anything known of the immediate followers of Jonas Hanway, said to have been the first man who made a practice of using an umbrella while walking in the streets of London ? I am told that there were three well-known names forming the first group to follow his example, in- cluding my great-grandfather Charles Price, afterwards Sir Charles Price, 1st Baronet, of Spring Grove, Richmond, who was born January, 1748, and died 1818. He is the only one of the three of whom I have a record, but the exact date of his taking up