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 392 NOTES AND QUERIES. [12 S.VIIL MAY 14,1921. VAN DEB DOES. I shall be much obliged if some reader of ' N. & Q.' in the Netherlands can tell me from what the family of Van der Does derive their name, and, if it is a place- name, where the place is situated. E. C. DOWSE. 42, Lansdown Crescent, Cheltenham.

THE ' EXERCITIA SPIBITUALIA ' OF ST. IGNATIUS LOYOLA. Of what historical value is the subjoined note of Ranke, in his i 'Popes of Rome,' vol. ii., p. 467 (1847,; English edition) ? As early as the year 1606, belief prevailed in the sanctity of a cave at Manresa, where it was said that the ' Exercitia Spiritualia ' of Ignatius i were composed, although neither of the two i traditions mentioned a syllable of such a story, ' and the Dominicans maintained, doubtless i correctly, that the real cave of Ignatius was in ! their monastery. At that very time the i differences between the Dominicans and the Jesuits were at their height ; motive sufficient on the part of the latter to fix on another spot as the scene of the foundation of their Order. Have the rival claims ever been settled and how ? J. B. McGovEBN. St. Stephen's Bectory, C.-on-M., Manchester. COBSICAN WAB-DOGS : ISLAND OF FOWLS. In the ' Ta-Tsing-i-tung-chi,' the ' General Description of the Chinese Empire,' com- piled by Imperial command and finished in 1743, tome ccclv., we read : I-ta-li-a (Italy) has three celebrated island?. . . One of them, called Ko-rh-si-kia ( Corsica), has thirty-three castles altogether and produces the dogs that fight well. Every dog can stand against a cavalryman, so that in the islander's tactics be- tween every two cavalrymen one dog is placed ; and sometimes the dog proves superior to the cavalryman. Near Jeh-n-u-a (Genoa) there is Ivi-tau (Fowl Island), which is entirely spread over with fowls living and breeding without human protection, but very distinct from the wild fowls. From the context these words appear to have been translated from a European work. Can any reader point it out for me ? KUMAGUSU MlNAKATA. Tanabe, Kii, Japan. EARLY STAGE-COACHES. Can anyone tell me the names of any books containing lists of the stage-coaches running before 1680 ; between 1695 and 1722 ; and between 1725 and 1741 contemporary lists. Possibly such particulars are to be found in com- pendia of general information. Also, are any copies of ' The English Gentleman's Guide, being a New and Com- i plete Book of Maps of all England and Wales,' 1717, known ? W. A. WEBB. THE MONUMENT : ' LSTGOLDSBY LEGENDS/ On Jan. 18, 1810, Lyon Levi, a diamond merchant, flung himself from the top of the Monument and was literally dashed to pieces. The ' Ingoldsby Legends,' in the poem entitled ' Misadventures at Margate,' alludes to this in the lines : And now I'm here, from this here pier it is my fixed intent To jump, as Mister Levi did from off the Monument ! Was this suicide the occasion of the creation of the cage at the top of this column ? Is there any edition of the ' Legends ' that gives any historical notes ? JOHN B. WAINEWBIGHT. STAT.UES or GEOBGE IV. AT BBIGHTON. The only existing one, so far as I know, is that in the Old Steine, a bronze figure by Chantrey, erected bv public subscription in 1828 (see 11 S. ii. 243); but Toone, ' Chr. Hist.,' ii. 506, under date July 2 1, 1802, says : A statue of his royal highness the prince of Wales was lately put up in the front of the new buildings, called the Royal Crescent, at Brighton. It is not there now. What happened to it ? JOHN B. WAINEWBIGHT. " COMMON OB GABDEN." I shall be glad^if any reader can inform me how the phrase " common or garden " originated. Ap- parently it arose from the " common or garden " butterfly, but how, and when, was it turned into a popular expression ? CHABLES DBUBY. [MR. J. F. MANSEBGH, at 7 S. xii. 293, reminded a correspondent that the phrase occurs in Johnson's ' Dictionary,' where, s.v. " Lettuce," is a quotation from Miller ending : " The species are common or garden lettuce ; cabbage lettuce," &c. The first quotation in the ' N.E.D.' is dated 1657 from W. Coles'S ' Adam in Eden ' : " But the Common or Garden Nightshade is not dangerous."] NOBFOLK CHEESES IN THE FOUBTEENTH CENTUBY. In Archceologia, vol. Ixix., it is- ststed in a paper on a Roll of Household Accounts at Hunstanton, Norfolk, 1347-8, that " cheeses are mentioned at different prices from Id. to 6d. each." What was the variety or type of these cheeses ? Are there any references available from which we could learn whether the cheeses of the fourteenth century in England were of the soft or the hard pressed type, and whether type of cheese varied according to the county in which it was made ? In vol. xxv. of Archceologia, extracts from accounts at Hunstanton. 1519-1578, are given which do