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NOTES AND QUERIES. [12 s. v. JULY, 1919.

Double,' R. S. Hichens's 'Flames,' Steven- sou's ' Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde,' and ' The Transformation of Hanna Stubbs,' whose author's name I have forgotten.

N. W. HILL.

BIBLIOGRAPHY or EPITAPHS (12 S. v. 68, 129, 161). I append a further list of publications on above subject from books in my possession :

The History and Antiquities of Windsor. By Joseph Pote. Eton : Printed by Joseph Pote, Bookseller. MDCCXLIX. This work contains six full-page illustrations of monuments to noted .persons buried in St. George's Chapel ; amongst them one to Edward, Earl of Lincoln, Lord High Admiral in the reign of Queen Elizabeth, died Jan. 16, 1584.

Remarks on English Churches and Sepulchral Memorials. By J. H. Markland, F.R.S. and S.A. Oxford : John Henry Parker ; C. F. & J. Riving- ton, London ; Simms & Son, Pocock, and Collings, Bath, MDCCCLXIII.

The North Devon Hand Book. By the Rev. George Tugwell, M.A. Oxon, Rector of Bath wick. Published 1857. London : Simpkin, Marshall & Co. Ilfracombe : W. Stewart, Gazette and Arrival List Office.

Memorials of Westcot Barton, Oxon. By Rev. Fenner Marshall, M.A., Lord of the Manor. London : John Russell Smith, 36 Soho Square.

Historical Notes on the Church of Saint Cuth- bert in Wells. By Thomas Serel. Wells : J. M. Atkins, Journal Office, High Street ; and E. M. Beauchamp, Market Place. 1875.

History of the Parish Church of Saint Michael and All Angels, Chipping Lambourn. By John Footman, M.A. London : Elliot Stock, 62 Pater- noster Row, B.C. 1894.

History and Antiquities of the Newport Pagnell Hundreds. Compiled, printed and published by Oliver Ratcliff, Cowper Press, Olney, Bucks.

1900. Another excellent and most instructive

work which should be more widely known.

Littleover and its Church. By A. B. Scott. Printed by Bemrose & Sons, London and Derby.

MOMXVI.

History of Congregationalism and Memorials of the Churches in Norfolk and Suffolk. By John Browne, B.A., Congregational Minister at Wrent- ham. London : Jarrold & Sons, 3 Paternoster Buildings. MDCCCLXXVII. )

_ ,., L. H. CHAMBERS.

Bedford.

About forty epitaphs are collected in pp. 382-94 of 'Thistledown, a Book of ..Scotch Humour,' Paisley, 1901.

Though not ranging strictly under the

above heading, perhaps the following epitaph

taken in 1903, and apparently not printed,

.is worth preserving. It is in the churchyard

of Thaxted, Essex :

To George Foot, Esq. " He departed this Life, July 27, 1819, In the 57th year of his age : Beloved by all who knew him or had the pleasure of his Acquaintance." W B H

"FLUMMERY" (12 S. v. 149). " Flum- mery" is not unknown to contemporary English cooks, I remember it as a dainty dish offered at juvenile parties in early Victorian days. A recipe for Dutch flum- mery is given in that culinary classic ' Mrs. Beeton,' and about half-a-dozen flummeries were considered worthy of mention by Mary Jewry in ' Warne's Everyday Cookery.' The composition is not farinaceous, and I should say that the result is an uncleared jelly. ST. S WITHIN.

" HOMER " MONTHS (12 S. v. 150). " Homer " months, or " romer " ' months, i.e., Roman months, is an antiquated ex-i pression denoting the monthly sum of money (fixed at the Imperial diet of Worms in the year 1521), a subsidy of 12,800 florins, required for keeping an army of 4,000 horse- men and 20,000 foot soldiers sent to Rome to maintain and protect there the Holy Roman Empire during the Middle Ages.

H. K.

TOWER OF LONDON : YEOMEN OF THE GUARD AND TOWER WARDERS (12 S. iv. 190). Chamberlayne's ' Present State of Great Britain/ 1716, p. 105, says:

" Of the Yeomen of the Guard. Again, in the first Boom above Stairs, called the Guard- Chamber, attend the Yeomen of the Guard of His Majesty's Body ; whereof they were wont to be two hundred and fifty Men of the best Quality under Gentry, and of larger Stature than ordinary (for every one of them was to be six foot high). There are at present one hundred Yeomen in daily waiting, and seventy more not in waiting ; and as any one of the Hundred shall die, his Place is to be fill'd up out of the Seventy. These wear Scarlet Coats down to the Knee, and Scarlet Breeches, both richly garded with black Velvet, and rich Badges upon their Coats, before and behind. Moreover, black Velvet round broad-crown'd Caps (according to the Mode used in the Reign of Henry VIII.), with Ribbands of the King's Colour : One half of them of late bear in their Hands Harquebuses, and the other half Partizans, with large Swords by their Sides. They have Wages and Diet allow' d 'em. Their Office is to wait upon the Ki-ig in his standing Houses, Forty by Day, and Twenty to watch by Night ; about the City, to wait upon the King's Person abroad by Water or Land."

Later on (pp. 217, 218) he discourses .of the Tower of London, of whose Lieutenant he says :

" He hath also a further Perquisite, the disposal of the 40 Yeomen-Warders places as they die oft." He then proceeds :

" Warders. The Yeomen- Warders of the Tower are 40 in Number, who are accounted the King's Domestic Servants, and are sworn by the Lord Chamberlain of his Majesty's Household,