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 498 NOTES AND QUERIES. [JS a IX.D EC. 17,1921. " MAKING BRICKS WITHOUT STRAW " (12 S. ix. 331, 398, 437). I am sorry the mention of " tension "by me at the second reference should have led L. L. K. to think the meaning was that the whole of any brick might be in tension. If the straw has any mechanical strengthening effect on the sun-dried bricks it must be because the straws would have to be "sheared" or broken by tension or a combination of these, and my suggestion is that the tensile and shearing strengths of straw are not sufficient materially to affect the strength of the bricks. Sun-dried bricks are very irregular in shape, owing to their being dumped out of the moulds (each of which makes two bricks, of about the usual size, end to end) flat on to the levelled and dusty drying ground. When irregular bricks are built into a wall most of the load on ! any one brick may come on its centre, ; while its ends are supported. The brick is then a "beam," and part of its substance is in tension. This is the tension that was meant at the second reference. A. S. E. ACKERMANN. SHAKESPEARE'S CHEESE -LOVING WELSH- MAN (12 S. ix. 110, 196, 234, 254, 335). i T. Warton, in his ' History of English Poetry' (1870 ed., at p. 1000) quotes an epigram by Henry Perrot ('Laquei Ridi- j culosi, or Springes for Woodcockes,' London, 1613, lib. 1, epigr. 9), as follows : A W elslmian and an Englishman disputed, Which of their lands maintain' d the * greatest state: The Englishman the Welshman quite confuted, Yet would the Welshman naught his brags abate ; " Ten cookes in Wales," quoth he, " one wedding gested that he was the John Grymbolde, chaplain, who took the degree of B.A. at Oxford in April, 1514. JOHN B. WAINEWRIGHT. MACKEN (12 S. ix. 410). This family is no doubt of the same origin as Machen (pronounced Macken), which derived its name from Machen in Monmouthshire, situate between Newport and Caerphilly, and eventually settled in Gloucestershire r now, or until recently of Bicknor, Coleford, in that county. Thomas Machen was three times Mayor of Gloucester, and was buried in that city in 1614. See Burke's 'General Armory' (1884) Gentry' (1906). and Burke's ' Landed CROSS CROSSLET. "True," quoth the other " each man toasts his cheese." JOHN B. WAINEWRIGHT. NICHOLAS GRIMALD (12 S. ix. 409). The account of Nicholas Grimald, Grimalde or Grimoald (1519-1562) in the ' D.N.B.,' by Sir Sidney Lee, says that he was born in Huntingdonshire, " and was probably son of Giovanni Baptist a Grimaldi, a clerk in the service of Empson and Dudley under Henry VII., and grandson of Giovanni Grimaldi of Genoa, a merchant who was made a denizen of England in 1485." It adds that " his mother, on whose death he wrote a poem rich in autobiographic detail, was named Annes." It would seem that there is no direct evidence as to who his father was. D. J., at 11 S. iv. 384, sug- REV. J. DE KEWER WILLIAMS (12 S. ix.. 450). A contemporary of veterans like Thomas Binney, Doctors Allen, Parker and Reynolds ; T. T. Lynch, Henry Varley a school of ardent eschatologists ; Charles Stanford and the Baptist, W. Williams of Upton Chapel. Flourished in the seventies, if not well on into the eighties ; was a Congregational pa-stor probably in East -end area. Though a minor pulpit light in his days he somehow gripped on. ' Congregational Year Book ' would have particulars of him, and these might also be sought in The Christian World. ANEURIN WILLIAMS. Menai View, North Road, Carnarvon. A HUSHING POOL (12 S. ix. 450). See Murray's ' Handbook for Kent and Sussex ' (1868). In Pagham Harbour, between Pag- ham and Selsey Church, and but three miles west from Bognor, is a place called by the fishermen the " Hushing Well." Over a space of about 130ft. long by 30ft. broad the water is apparently in a state of ebullition, from the rushing of immense volumes of air to the surface. The noise of the bursting bubbles resembles the simmering of a huge caldron, and may sometimes be heard at Selsey Church, a quarter of a mile distant. The air rushes through a bed of shingle, left dry at low tide, and the only explana- tion hitherto offered is that there is some large cavity beneath, from which the air is expelled as the water rushes in. A. H. W. FYNMORE. Broadway Mansions, Rustington. MILK, BUTTER AND CHEESE STREETS (12 S. ix. 169, 214, 259, 413). There is a Milk Street in Exeter. A. H. W. FYNMORE. Broadway Mansions, Rustington. ' !