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having been disinterred since it was laid to rest with that of his wife in the vaults of St. Olave's Church, Hart Street, Cripplegate in 1703 which are now bricked up. The present Rector is unable to confirm or deny the rumour though he too has heard it.

Can any reader of ' N. & Q.' throw any light on this rumoured disinterment, when it took place, if indeed it ever did, and under what circumstances ?

WlLLOUGHBY MAYCOCK.

WARWICKSHIRE SAYINGS (12 S. vii. 67). Many such proverbial sayings have wide currency not limited to any single county. Of No. 2, at the above reference, a variant in Wiltshire fifty years ago ran :

Who on the Sabbath pares the horn 'Twere better for'm he'd ne'er been born.

a version that recognised the farrier as well as the chiropodist. K. S.

A MEETING OF WAYS (12 S. vii. 86). Towards the Western end of the vale of Llangollen there is a similar meeting-place of ways of communication. At a point half a mile east of the town the hills upon either side of the deep valley approach so closely together that it is barely two hundred yards across. Within this limited space lie the following, in succession from north to south: (1) the Shropshire Union Canal; (2) a broad footway by its side, shaded by a belt of trees ; (3) the Llaiigollen-Ruabon Road ; (4) the Great Western railway line ; (5) the River Dee ; (6) across the river the London-Holyhead road ; (7) the old Holy- head road seven distinct ways in all.

Your correspondent may thus find at least one rival to Bowling within the United Kingdom. The scenery at this point in Llangollen Vale is intensely beautiful. The walk by the canal side was beloved by Sir Theodore Martin biographer of the late Prince Consort. JOHN W. WALTON.

Tower House, Manor Road, Folkestone.

SHAKESPEARE'S ' SHYLOCK ' (12 S. vi. 244 ; vii. 5, 18, 96). In the essay of Pro- fessor Neumeyer (University of Kiel), on the judgment against Shylock in the Merchant of Venice, the author cites a number of forfeitures in fourteenth, fifteenth and sixteenth century contracts, the severity of which equalled, if not exceeded the pound of flesh. For instance a contract in suit before a Court in Cologne in 1263, in which the debtor agreed to allow himself to be beheaded in case the debt were not paid.

Another case cited was that of a Silesiam. document in which a Konrad Blind agreed that upon the breach of his assurance he might be killed. And a further citation i- that of a Genoa case occuring in 1279 in. which the forfeiture was that of a hand, foot or the nose.

Are any such records avaiiabie in authen- ticated reports ?

Is there a translation of Gregorio LetiV biography of Pope Sixtus V. ?

WENDELL HEBBRUCK.

Canton, Ohio.

JOHN DAVIDSON : THE VALE OF LONG DITTON (12 S. vii. 110). The poet was*

Erobably referring to the author of * The tory of My Heart.' Jefferies went to live- at 2 Woodside, Surbiton early in 1877 ; see Edward Thomas's ' Life of Richard Jefferies ' Chapter VIII. J.

WILLIAM DE Eu (12 S. vii 47). The- suggestion that authorities like- Dr. Round should deal with this query makes one hfisitate to reply ; but as the invitation has not been accepted, I venture to suggest that Mr. Chester- Waters' arguments are un- answerable. See pp. 15-17 of his c Genea- logical Memoirs of the Counts of Eu,' London, 1886. (This pamphlet may be a- reprint of the article mentioned in the query,, but I have no time to look into this.) He- refers (p. 17) to Eyton's remarks in his- ' Key to Domesday Dorset Survey,' 1878.

I do not see how there can be any doubt that William de Eu and William Count of Eu were different persons, and I think that this view is generally accepted. Thus Doyle, who confused them in the text of his ' Official Baronage ' (i. 702), put the error* right in the " Corrections."

Dr. Round has a reference to the for- feiture of William of Eu in his * Studies ini Peerage and Family History,' p. 187, but I do not remember that he has ever written; on the point in question.

G. H. WHITE.

23 Weighton Road, Anerley.

MARY ANN BOHUN (12 S. vii. 29). This surname is an error for Bodkin which occurs- in Betham's Baronetage, but has been corrected in Burke. The M.I., given bjr the former authority, is in the churchyard of the parish of St. Ann Sandy Point, St. Kitts, where I copied it in 1914.

Blake, Bodkin, French and Kirwan all came from Galway, and settled Jn._ the West