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 12 S. IX. JULY 9, 1921.] NOTES AND QUERIES. 39 ALDEBURGH CHAMBERLAINS' ACCOUNT - BOOK: SALT MONOPOLY, 1635 (12 S. viii. 506). Judging by the style in which the Aldeburgh accounts are written it seems much more likely that " the pattine for salt " means " the patent for salt " than that there should be any connexion, with the Latin patina. F. W. READ. WINDOW TAX AND DAIRIES (12 S. viii. 449, 492, 518). I remember my wonderment when, as a child, I found the word " Dairy " above a window lighting a little place where household pottery was ranged and where milk for current use was kept in a white basin. Having see a real dairy, in a farm- house, it seemed to me that it was hardly fair to call a pantry by the same honourable name. The desire to evade the window tax spoilt many a house. People blocked up, or in some way rendered useless, such lights as they determined to do without, and ugly blanks destroyed the balance of windows in fa9ades. Not infrequently an attempt was made to improve matters by having sham blinds painted on the economic shutter, which was, however, generally of uncompromising black. ST. SWITHIN. At the old manor house of Thornethorpe, standing near the western boundary of this parish (Langton, Malton), may still be seen over some of the windows small oak boards on which are cut the words, " Cheese Room," " Dairy." C. V. COLLIER. Langton. SUNDIALS (12 S. viii. 511).!. In 1872 ' The Book of Sundials,' by Mrs. A. Gatty, was published by G. Bell, and in 1889 the same publishing house brought out another edition enlarged by H. K. F. Gatty and E. Lloyd (15s.), and still another edition enlarged by H. K. F. Eden, in September, 1900 (31s. 6d.). This book does not appear in 'The Publishers' Catalogue,' 1920. 2. Foulis published, Dec., 1906, 'The Book of Sundial Mottoes ' in the Garden Lover's series, by A. H. Hyatt, with an introduction by Alice Meynell, 2s. 6d net. This book does not appear in * The Publishers' Catalogue,' 1920. 3. Foulis published, Nov. 1915, 'A Book of old Sundials and their Mottoes.' Eight illustrations in colour by Alfred Rawlings and 34 drawings by Warrington Hogg. The price of this book in 1920 is quoted as 5s. net. 4. 'Friendship Booklets,' ix., is ' A Little Book of Sundial Mottoes,' published by Foulis, Nov. 1916. The price of this book in 1920 is quoted at 9d. net. One of the above books may be the one which H. K. ST. J. S. is seeking. W. B. WHITE. The following information is taken direct from ' The Book of Sundials. Collected by Mrs. Alfred Gatty. London : Bell and Daldy, York Street, Covent Garden, 1872.' (377 in all.) Sundial No. 115: Horas non numero nisi sercnas. I only reckon the bright hours. This elegant motto is on dials at Sackville College, East Grinstead : on the Town-hall at Aldeburgh in Suffolk, which was built circa 1500 ; at Learn, near Leamington ; in the Garden of Beard Sheppard, Esq., Frome ; in front of a farmhouse near Farnworth, Lancashire ; at Campo Dolcino ; at Cawder, near Glasgow ; at Arley Hall, Cheshire ; and. . . near Venice. The motto is alluded to by Sir Arthur Helps in his ' Friends in Council,' first series, vol. i., Book 2. W. M. CLAY. Alvtrstoke, Hants. on More about Unknown London. By Walter G. Bell. (John Lane, 6s. 6d. net.) HERB are seventeen essays on London topics* which, if found unsigned in some paper would* without much hesitation, be ascribed to Mr. Bell. There is no one at the moment writing on London who spreads his net so wide, sets out with such evident affection what he catches in it, and has such stores already gathered from which to illus- trate it. His geniality and rapidity, while they form an inseparable element in the pleasantness of his work, sometimes in this volume betray him into slight incoherence, whereby we are forced to read sentences twice to discover their meaning, and we found a strange word in the essay on ' Gogmagog and Other Giants '--" divergisation" to wit which we believed Mr. Bell's pen made up as it ran. However, we feel not a whit less grate- ful to his pen on this account. Among the most interesting chapters is that on the Carmelite vault in Brittons Court, White- friars Street. It seems to have been discovered in 1895, when investigations were undertaken in preparation for the sale of the property in which it is included. It had long been used for storage and as a receptacle for rubbish ; but the fine mason's work now attracted attention, and closer examination showed that this was of the fourteenth century walls formed of chalk blocks, still white, with moulded ribs of dark stone making the vaulted roof. Mr. Bell informs us that its present owner, Mr. Smee, is no less anxious than he is himself for its preservation, but, in view of the