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CONTENTS. No. 98.

NOTES : The Anglo-French 'De Sanctis,' 281 Fielding as a Publicist, 283-The Moores of Egham. 234 Waltham- stow's Historic Manor House. 286 "Tribion"-" Spido- metre "Lamb at East India House, 287 The State Coach A Threatened River Bed Jenner Statue at Boulogne- Louis XVIII. : Monument at Calais "A little garden little Jowett made." 288 Superphosphate Quarry- men's Terms Double Christian Names, 289.

QUERIES : Hamilton, 289 "Toponymies" Dumb Ani- mals H. Washington ' Hints to Freshmen ' " Ney " Rev. T. Aubrey, 290 John Bell Blackstone : the Regicide All^yne or Allen John Norcross Four Royal Rivers of Scotland- Patrick Brady Author of Anthem Wanted Cantrell Family' Cobden : a Bagman '"Peter- loo," 291 'Adeste Fideles' Missing Register Wanted H. Nepean Melkart's Statue Marazion Ensign Oliver Cromwell Three Cripples Alexander S. Hopkins : D. Michell : T. Cotesmore, 292 Arms on Stone Entabla- ture T. Baillie J. W. Fletcher Wilson of Westmorland and Cumberland Unfinished Law Case Crusaders' Names Army Officers' Obituary Pseudonyms Daggle Mop, 298 Church Briefs T. Greenwell Pannag Rome- land Simco's'Monuments Boyer Family Royal Grooms W. Cope Capt. R. Boyle Slang Terms, 294 Fremland and Gunpowder Plot' 4 Xit " Bell Tavern, Bristol- Translations Wanted J. J. Kleinschmidt " Now Then ! " G. Shepherd Gavelacre : Place -n ame David Powell Authors of Quotations Wanted, 295.

REPLIES : Strange Tale of a Princess, 296 John Wilson New College, Oxford Thames Tunnels, 297 Capt. B. Grant References Wanted, 298' Village Blacksmith ' ' Tragedy of Nero,' 299 Lucien Bonaparte" Dish " in Latin, 300 Discoveries in Coins G. Dyer Piano f.egs in Trousers Elephant : Oliphant, 301 "Old Lady of Thread- needle Street "Emerson's 'English Traits ' Astertion Flowers Bluecoat Schools Brassey Family, 302' Tom Jones ' Tobacco Pipes " As dead as a door-nail," 303 Hedgehogs Hampshire Church Bells. 304 Old Watch- makers R. S. Surtees Two Popes Tombstone Inscrip- tionMarriages, 305 Exchange of Souls in Fiction- Portraits on Gravestones Blackwell Hall Factor Lumber Troop Richard Hooker's Bust Hervey Shake- speare and the Garden ' Quentin Durward ' President Wilson's Ancestors, 306 Ralph Griffiths, 307.

NOTES ON BOOKS : ' Spoken and Written English ' ' A Concise Guide to the Town and University of Cam- bridge.'

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THE ANGLO-FRENCH 'DE SANCTIS/

IT does not appear to have been generally noticed that the Anglo-French list of saints and their burial places, preserved as the last item in the miscellaneous matter bound up with the Breviate of Doomsday and printed in the Rolls edition of Gaimar's is in part a version of a much earlier list originally compiled in Anglo-Saxon about 1030 and translated into Latin before 1085 ; both of these were published by Lieber- mann in 1889 under the title ' Die Heiligen Englands,' the Anglo-Saxon from two MSS., the Latin from a British Museum MS. (Cotton Vitellius A. 2 f3-5 = V.) with variants
 * Estoire des Engleis ' (vol. i. Introduction),

from two others and from a version pre- served by Leland in his * De Rebus Britain.' (ed. Hearne III. 80).

The Anglo-French text, as it stands, belongs to the fourteenth century, but cursory examination shows that it is not all of one date in origin. The introduction in verse, " Ci sunt les mervailes dites," is due to the writer of the MS. before us -and to him is probably due the introduction of the prose miracle of St. Cradoc, which is inserted between the list proper and the next section of the treatise the description of Britain deriving from Henry of Hun- tingdon's history (Lib. I. 4, 5, 7). The main body of the text is much earlier in origin, and seems to have been put together in its present form in the first half of the thirteenth century, the most recent date being the mention of St. Hugh, Bishop of Lincoln ; there is, however, a distinct trace of an earlier form compiled about the middle of the twelfth century by a writer living in the south of England. From the initial entry of the list proper " St. Alban fust li premir martir si fust posez en Lingecestre " down to the entry con- cerning St. Osith and Aylesbury we have a fairly close version of the earlier De Sanctis interspersed with a few additions, either augmenting the list or supplementing existing statements. Of the first class are the entries relating to Glastonbury, Ciren- cester and Aylesbury ; of the second are the addition of'Caricius (?=Faricius, abbot of Abingdon, d. 1117) in the entry referring to Abingdon and the re -arrangement of the entries relative to Winchester. The latest date in this part is that given by the men- tion of Thomas a Becket, but it is not improbable that the list was put into French some twenty or thirty years earlier as the next latest reference is, apart from Caricius (v. supra), to Anselm (d. 1109). This early draft seems to have found its way, either original or in copy, to a more northerly home where about a dozen more names were added the entries from St. Oswi e St. Oswine en Tinemue to St. Bethothe en Copland probably, as they are in no sort of order, in one batch.

The question next arises whether the source of the first draft is the Anglo-Saxon or the Latin version of the De Sanctis. The evidence, though not very conclusive, suggests that a Latin text, not identical with V. nor, seemingly, with those cited in the variants in Liebermann's edition, was used by the translator. In support of this view the following points may be