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it .stated festivals preserved the cattle of the nhabitarits from disease and death. I should ike to learn why, in relation to folk-lore, the lorse was once believed to be antagonistic x> the interests of cattle or oxen. Does this ndicate that the horse was domesticated at i later stage than oxen 1

R. HEDGER WALLACE.

MIDDLEMORE FAMILY. Some time during Park Hall, at the request of Agnes Middle- .nore, settled Pedmore, near Button Coldfield, on John Arden (the younger brother of Walter) for the term of his life. At a later period William Middlemore, of Throck- morton, near Pershore, is reported to have had a daughter who was married to William Arden, of Worcestershire or Warwickshire. Still later (in 1516) Thomas Middlemore, gent., and William Ive were concerned in a recovery referring to lands at " Wolverden " in the county of Warwick ; Wolverton, close to Snitterfield, and about seven miles from Stratford-on-Avon, being doubtless the place in question. Were these Middlemores related; and were they connected with the old family of the name seated through a long course of years at Edgbaston ? WM. UNDERBILL.
 * he reign of Edward IV., Walter Arden, of

46, Blatchington Road, Hove.

" CARNAFOR." What were the duties of a Carnafor? Was he the same official, with double duties, as a searcher of hides ? And, a;: Carnafor, was he inspector of meat in the shambles 1 Was he, as such, the official who reported butchers for selling the flesh of unbaited bulls? Littleton's 'Dictionary' does not seem to give the word, or any variant, either in his English-Latin or "Latin bar- barous "-English section. There is a set of little engravings of the arms of boroughs, published apparently about one hundred years ago. Under each coat is a short notice (by no means always free from mistakes) of the borough in question. Of the borough of Corfe Castle we read that the mayor, with the ex-mayor, chose "Coroners during life & Carnafors & Ale-tasters, &c."

H. J. MOULE.

Dorchester.

F. W. NEWMAN. In a bibliography of works on logic, appended to a recently published book, I find mention of a book entitled ' Lectures on Logic,' by F. W. New- man, who, I presume, is the lately deceased Francis W. Newman, brother of Cardinal Newman. Only once previously have I found mentioned this book, and that was in Py croft's 'Course of Reading.' Where can I fijid a

critical estimate of the treatise 'I I should be glad to know of any such thing, or to have an opinion as to this writer's views on logic.

C. P, HALE,

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A POSSIBLE GLOUCESTERSHIRE ORIGIN FOR GEOFFREY CHAUCER. (8 th S. xii. 341, 449.)

ALTHOUGH MR. RYE opens his reply with truly valorous blasts of misstatement, these at least have one superlative merit they do not appropriate so much space as to deny him the pleasure of affording readers of ' N. & Q.' most authoritative, even affluent, information concerning the illustrious families of Gibbs and Cubitt, to which he permits us to know he has the good fortune to be allied, together with unusually interesting touches of autobiography, for which they ought to be unfeignedly thankful. But I shall pro- bably be excused if I refrain from dwelling upon that gentleman's athletic achieve- ments from childhood upwards, or upon the unusualness of his surname, and more espe- cially in regard to the last as his communi- cation happened (O Coincidence H to be immediately followed by no less than two scholarly notes actually relating to its signi- fication.

I will, however, deny the truth of his assertion that I have gotten together twenty- one various place-names all beginning with (7, to which the name Chausy, Chaucer, and Chawser "has a Monmouth - Macedon - like resemblance."

MR. RYE credits me with adventurousness, Now, provided it is not indulged in too far, many will perhaps agree with me that this quality is not altogether blameworthy, even in high places ; for it is apt to lend enliven- ment to studies which, though far from being dull of themselves, have had a sort of Teutonic dulness thrust upon them by autocratic dry- asdusts. In writing on a Chaucerian subject I was well aware that I am adventurous, but in persuading himself that I have dared, helter- skelter fashion, to gather such names as I did, and remark their actual and intimate con- nexion one with another, without the backing of lawful evidence, MR. RYE has fallen into extravagance. As matter of fact, I met with those variant names in the process of tracing out the territorial and other possessions, in England, France, and Italy, belonging to a distinguished Gascon family, namely, that of the Chaurse (De Cadurcis), Lords of Mont- doubleau, members of which received both