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 12 S. IX. OCT. 1, 1921.; NOTES AND QUERIES. 277 has its chaplain named, viz., the Rev. Wm. Edmiston and the Rev. H. B. Owen, respectively, the third shows no chapliin. This is perhaps owing to its having been formed very shortly before the etching of the plate or perhaps the publishing of the book. ROBERT PIERPOINT. The following advertisement from The Public Advertiser of Thursday, Dec. 1, j 1785, is interesting from many points j of view. It is earlier than the date of previous references, it relates to foreign service with the H.E.I.C., and it shows that private domestic service was not, even at that time, thought much of, although there was then no " unemployment pay " nor Labour Bureaux to fall back on. HONOUR AND RICHES TO THE BRAVE ! VOLUNTEERS wanted, some clever Fellows, who are above Slavery, or a Mean Employment, or to be subject to Masters or Mistresses Tempers, may have an Opportunity now to lay themselves in Fortune's Way, by serving the well-known Honourable East India Company for Five Years only, in a Land that is the Envy of all Nations for its Greatness and Riches. Those who are desirous to engage in so noble an Employ, are requested to repair to Mr. John Simmons, at the General Eliott's Head, in . Blackman Street, in the Borough, Southwark, who will supply all their Necessaries of this Life, by giving them good Eating, good Drinking, Lodging, genteel Treatment, and everything they can desire in Honesty. N.B. It is well known the Honourable Com- pany takes Care and are Tender of all Men who are sick or lame in their Service, by supplying them with every Necessary of Life. E. E. NEWTON. " Hampstead," Upminster, Essex. " FLOREAT ETONA ! " (12 S. ix. Ill, 153, 234). The following is taken from 'The Eton Register,' Part IV. : Robert Hamond Elwes, eld. son of R. E., of Congham House, nr. King's Lynn, was at Eton (Francis Edward Durnford's house), Jan. 1870- July 1873. Lieut. Grenadier Guards; A.D.C. to Sir George Colley ; served in Boer War, 1881 ; killed at the battle of Laing's Nek, 27 January, 1881. The Hon. Richard Charles Stanley Mount joy Monck, 2nd son of 4th Viscount Monck of Charle- ville, Enniskerry, was at Eton (Edmond Warre's house), September, 1871- July, 1876; rowed in the eight, 1876 ; Lieutenant 62nd and 58th Regiments ; served in Boer War, 1881 ; died, 13 December, 1892. " The 5th " in MR. HUGH S. GLADSTONE'S reply, ante, p. 153, appears to be an error for " The 52nd," probably an error made by the eye-witness quoted. ROBERT PIERPOIXT. KINDS OF BREAD IN A.D. 1266 (12 S. ix. 70, 117, 171). Something about the different kinds, of bread and their relative popularity will be found on pp. 136-9 in ' Mediaeval Archives of the University of Oxford,' vol. ii., recently issued in the series of the Oxford Historical Society. There were five kinds of bread w r hich were in use in the Middle Ages : (1) coTcet, blancpayn, or white bread, made of pure white flour ; (2) clermatyn, panis ryngatus or temse bread, made of the better offal that was sifted out from the flour ; (3) panis integer de Jrumento, toutsayn, or wheat bread,, made from the whole grain, or, as we should say, " whole -meal bread " ; (4) treit or treat, made from the worse offal ; (5)i dyngle-rouncy, panis de omnibus granis,, or household bread, made of a mixture of wheat and barley. In 1266, perhaps onlv (1), (2) and (4) were in use ; but by the be- ginning of the fourteenth century (3) and (5)- had been invented, and they finally ousted (2) and (4). Besides these kinds of bread there was wastel, gastel or cake -bread, made of the same flour as coket, but slightly dearer because it had some spice or sugan. Dearer still was simnel or paindemain, which was of the nature of cracknel in that it was boiled first and then baked ; by this double process it lost weight and was therefore slightly dearer than wastel. Lastly there was a fancy bread called panis Franciscus or panis Gallicus or '* pouf," but what its price was with reference to simnel or wastel is not clear from the various assises which have survived.. It will probably be found that the names of the different kinds of bread varied in different parts of England, and there can be little doubt that in municipal records there must be many assises that have not yet been printed. H. S. CHRIST'S HOSPITAL AND THE XAVY (12 S. ix. 87, 199). According to Leigh Hunt, the " added by Charles the Second, through the zeal of Mr. Pepys " ('Autobiography,' ed. 1860, p. 53). The boys of this school were called " King's Boys," and it was an etiquette among them never to move out of a right line as they walked, whoever stood in their way. ... I remember well my astonish- ment when I first beheld, some of my little comrades overthrown by the progress of one of these very straightforward marine personages,, who walked on with as tranqfiiL and. unconscious
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