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WOODHOUSE'S RIDDLE (12 S. vi. 252). The riddle which Mr. Woodhouse could not remember is printed as Garrick's in the second volume of ' The New Foundling Hospital for Wit.' I supplied this reference at 10 S. ix. 317.

Kitty, a fair but frozen maid,

Kindl'd a flame I still deplore ; The hood-wink'd boy I call'd in aid, Much of his next approach afraid, So fatal to my suit before.

At length, propitious to my pray'r,

The little urchin came : At once he sought the mid-way air And soon he clear'd with dexterous care,

The bitter relicks of my flame.

To Kitty Fanny now succeeds ;

She kindles slow but lasting fires ; With care my appetite she feeds ; Each day some willing victim bleeds,

To satisfy my strange desires.

Say by what title or what name,

Must I this youth address ? Cupid and he are not the same, Tho' both can raise or quench a flame

I'll kiss you if you guess.

The answer is " the Chimney Sweeper."

EDWARD BENSLEY. [PRINCIPAL SALMON also thanked for reply.]

JOHN DE BUBGO (12 S. vi. 209). One naturally turns to Ulysse Chevalier. He has the following brief notice (' Repertoire des sources historiques du moyen age, Bio- bibliographie,' column 2470) :

" Jean de Peterborough [Burgen., de Burgo], chancel, de 1'acad. de Cambridge, f a Collingham 1386."

The authorities given are Quetif and Echard's ' Scriptores ordinis Praedicatorum recensiti ' (1719-21) i. 741, and Tanner's ' Bibliotheca Britannico-Hibernica ' (1748), 431. I am unable to consult either of these works at the present moment. There is not only a Collingham in Yorkshire (W.R.), but a place of that name in both N. and S. Notts.

John of Peterborough here named is to be distinguished from the John of Peterborough who, according to the ' D.N.B.,' " must be regarded as an imaginary person."

EDWARD BENSLY.

University College, Aberystwyth.

THE ITINERARY OF ANTONINUS : LONDON o YORK (12 S. vi. 252). This fourth- century authority yields particulars of three routes from London to Lincoln and of two from Lincoln to York. Not one of the three is direct. Route V., from London to

Carlisle, goes through Essex and Suffolk by way of Chelmsford; Colchester and Godman- chester to Lincoln through " Causennae " (unidentified), and on to York through Doncaster. Route VI. goes by way of St. Albans and the Watling Street to High Cross and then along the Fosse Way to 'Leicester. Thence it proceeds through " Verometum," " Margidunum," " Ad Pon- tem," and " Crococalana " to Lincoln. Route VIII. from York to London passes through Doncaster to Lincoln and on to Leicester through " Crococalana," " Margi- dunum " and " Vernemetum." Antonine gives no indication of any direct route between London and Lincoln.

The efforts made by antiquaries and historians to identify the five stations whose names are given above in Latin form proceed upon the assumptions : (1) that the official who planned these routes went the direct way, and (2) that that was the shortest. ALFRED ANSCOMBE.

The line of route taken by the ' Antonine Itinerary ' between London and York is that of Iter VIII. London by St. Albans ; Dunstable ; Fenny Stratford ; Towcester ; Weedon ; High Cross, Claybrooke ; Leicester ; nr. Willoughby, Notts ; nr. East Bridgeford ; Brough, nr. Collingham ; Lincoln ; Little - borough ; Doncaster ; Castleford ; York.

There was a station at Tadcaster between Castleford and York. It is mentioned in the Second Itinerary, but strangely enovigh, not in the Fifth and Eighth Itineraries.

From London to High Cross, Claybrooke, the route passes over Watling Street. From High Cross to Lincoln, over the Foss Way.

The above route is as given by Camden, except that I have substituted High Cross, Claybrooke, for Cleycester, as the point where Watling Street and the Foss Way intersect. Is there a place of that name now, as I am unable to find it on the map ?

There was an eastern route from Lincoln to York along Ermine Street, crossing the Ouse from Winteringham to Brough, and thence through Market Weighton or God- manham, and Stantford Bridge (?). North of the Ouse, and as far as Stainford Bridge (Derventio ?) the route is conjectural, and i is so given by C. H. Pearson in his Historical maps of England. The part between York and Godmanham is included in the First Itinerary. H. P.. HART.

The Vicarage, Ixworth, Bury St. Edmunds.