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NOTES AND QUERIES. M.S. v 1.

We have in the North of France, a number of places with both an hospital and an inn for the pilgrims to St. James, the first being reserved for the poor, the inns rather used, it seems, by well-to-do people. A list of English localities with such inns or any other with signs likely connected with pilgrimages would greatly oblige. PIERRE TURPIN.

MR. HILL ' ON A DAY OF THANKSGIVEING ' (12 S. vi. 222). I think it likely that the author of the sermon is Thomas Hill, of Emmanuel College, Cambridge, B.A. 1622,! M.A. 1626, rector of Tychmersh in North- amptonshire, 1633, one of the assembly of divines, a frequent preacher before the Long Parliament. He was incorporated at Oxford as M.A., July 9, 1622. (Hence the reference in the sermon to the Friday fasts at Oxford.) He was intended as Master of Trinity College, Cambridge, and vice -Chancellor of the said University. Wood, ('Fasti,' i. 403). Mr. Worthington would in that case be John, also of Emmanuel College, incorporated at Oxford as B.D., Aug. 30, 1649, afterwards " in the time of the usurpation " Master of Jesus College, Cambridge (Wood, ' Fasti,' ii. 125). JOHN R. MAGRATH.

Queen's College, Oxford.

He may be the Will Hill, a Puritan mer- chant of London, who ruined himself by lending money to the Parliament, and who is alluded to in Cromwell's letter to Lord Wharton ; for which see Carlyle's ' Oliver Cromwell,' vol. ii. p. 49, Chapman & Hall's edition ; a Dr. Thomas Kill, Master of Trinity College, Cambridge, is also men- tioned at vol. i. p. 313 of the same work.

N. W. HILL.

BATS: HAIR (12 S. v. 210). In the Chinese encyclopaedia ' Yuen-kien-lui-han,' 1703, torn. ed. xlvii., Liu I-King's ' Yu-ming-luh,' written in the fifth century A.D., is thus quoted :

" About the beginning of the Tsung dynasty (421 A.D.), it happeried in the province of Hui-nan that nightly an unknown being came to cut off many persons' hair. Chu Tan, the governor, saying he knew how to discover it, daubed walls with bird-lime in good quantity. That evening a bat as big as a cock was thus caught. Killing the animal, he put a stop to the mischief, and, after searching, found the locks of several hundred men which it had accumulated under rafters."

For the details of the so-called hair- cutting devilry of the Japanese and Chinese, see Kitamura's ' Kiyu Shoran,' 1830.

KUMAGUSU MlNAKATA. Tanabe, Kii, Japan.

TENNYSON ON TOBACCO (12 S. vi. 190, 234). Other references to smoking are to be found in Tennyson's poems :

Sottin' thy braains

Guzzlin' an' soakin' an' smoakin' an' hawmin' about i' the laanes.

' The Northern Cobbler,' st. iv. But I wur awaake, An' smoakin' an' thidkin' o' things. .

' Owd Roa,' st. xvii.

Perhaps one might add the " carved cross-pipes " at the end of ' Will Water- proof.' EDWARD BENSLY.

It may interest your correspondent to know that there is no entry under tobacco in ' A Concordance to the Poetical and Dramatic Works of Tennyson,' by A. E. Baker, an exhaustive work of over 1200 pp. in double columns published in 1914.

H. TABLE Y-SOPER.

University College, Exeter.

A SEVENTEENTH-CENTURY BOOKSELLERS' LABEL (12 S. vi. 205). " Prospectives " is an old word for spectacles.

" Spirit of scurvy-grass " was a volatile oil distilled from the cochelaria ojficinalis or spoon- wort, a plant that grows on rocks near the sea, has an acrid, bitter taste, and when eaten raw as a salad, was considered an excellent remedy for the scurvy. I have ^een unable to ascertain what the spirit was. used for.

The first quotation for " fountain pens " in the ' N.E.D.' is from the ' Dictionary of Mathematical and Physical Science,' 1823. JOHN B. WAINEWRIGHT.

If the author will refer to the Cantor Lectures on ' Reservoir, Stylographic and Fountain Pens,' delivered by myself before the Royal Society of Arts in January and February, 1905, he will find at the end an illustration of a fountain pen which was taken from a volume published in 1723 r being a translation from the French of Monsieur Bion's work on Mathematical Instruments the date of publication of the original I do not know, but presumably it was some years before the translation. The pen was called " plume sans fin."

JAMES P. MAGINNIS.

1 1 Carteret Street, S.W. 1.

THE "Bio FOUR" OF CHICAGO (12 S. vi. 88, 238). -An additional report of the Federal Trade Commission made public in Washington to-day (May 15), mentions the Chicago meat-packers as " the Big Five,"