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 9 th S. I. JUNE 25, '98.]

NOTES AND QUERIES.

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" Woolfel, skin not stripped of the wool. 'Wool and woolfels were ever of little value in this kingdom ' (Da vies)." I do not know if this was Sir John Davies (temp. James I.) who wrote a work on the state of Ireland, or Thomas Davies (the friend of Dr. Johnson) who died in 1783.

In an old English-Latin dictionary I possess, printed in 1677 (unfortunately muti- lated by the boys at Winchester College), I read :*

A fell or skin, Pellis.

A sheep's fell, Melota.

A pelt-man or pelt-monger, Pellio Subactarius.

A skin-fell or pelt, when separated from the flesh, Pdtis ; when joined to the flesh, Pellis.

Pellio, a skinner or fell-monger.

From this it would seem almost that in 1677 a "pelt -man" or "pelt-monger" was the term for a dealer in " woolfels " or " woolpelts."

If W. P. M. turns to the under-mentioned words in N. Bailey's 'English Dictionary,' 1742, he will see more on this subject : "Fell- monger," one who deals in sheepskins and parts the wool from the pelts; "Murrain," the rot; "Pelt-monger" and "Pelt-wool"; "Shorling," a sheepskin after the fleece is shorn off.

A more modern writer, Hyde Clarke, in his ' Dictionary of the English Language, as Spoken and Written,' gives the words " fell," a skin; "pelt," undressed skin; "pelt-monger" and " pelt- wool "; " shorling," " shoreling," or "shearling"; "woolfel." W. B. WYNNE.

Allington Rectory, Grantham.

Skins of sheep and other animals that have died " in morina " are frequently mentioned in the Account Rolls of Durham Abbey, now being edited by me for the Surtees Society. " Woolfelts " or " woolfells " are the skins of sheep with the wool on. J. T. F.

Bp. Hatfield's Hall, Durham.

Woolfels (not "woolfelts") are mentioned in the statutes 25 Edw. III. stat. 4, c. 3 ; 3 Edw. IV. c. 1 ; see also Frost's ' Notices of Hull.' "Mortlings" and "shorlings" also occur, 3 Edw. IV. c. 1 ; 12 Car. II. c. 32.

W. C. B.

FAITHOKNE'S MAP OF LONDON (9 th S. i. 409, 491). I am grateful to MR. GOLEM AN for his note on this subject. I have lent my impres- sion (unquestionably an original one) to Mr. Stanford, of Cockspur Street, in whose shop it can now be seen by any one interested. The date on the map is 1658 (not 1618), though certain details prove that the survey was made between the years 1643 and 1647.

C. L. LINDSAY.

97, Cadogan Gardens.

PRAYER FOR "ALL SORTS AND CONDITIONS OF MEN " (9 th S. i. 307). There is no reason- able doubt that this prayer was composed by Dr. Peter Gunning, who was at the head of the Committee appointed to revise the Liturgy in the reign of Charles II. It was originally much longer, the "finally" being, in its present form, somewhat abrupt and un- necessary. Peter Gunning was born in 1613, at Hoo, in Kent, of which place his father was vicar. He was educated at the King's School, Canterbury, and Clare College, Cambridge, where he became fellow and tutor in 1633. He was an ardent Royalist, and was compelled to leave the University in 1646. At the Restoration he was reinstated in his fellowship, made Prebendary of Canterbury and Doctor of Divinity, and became rector of Cottesmore, in Eutland, and Stoke Bruen, in Northamptonshire. In 1661 he became Master of Corpus Christi College, Cambridge, and Lady Margaret's Professor of Divinity, and subsequently Kegius Professor of Divinity and Master of St. John's. In the Convoca- tion, 1661, he was chosen Proctor for the Chapter of Canterbury and for the clergy of the diocese of Peterborough. He was made Bishop of Chichester in 1670, and of Ely 1674. He died 1684. J. FOSTER PALMER.

8, Royal Avenue, S. W.

The prayer was added at the last revision. The authority, or, at any rate, an authority for attributing the authorship to Bishop Gunning, is :

"Bishop Gunning, the supposed author of it, in the college whereof he was Head, suffered it not to be read in the afternoons, because the Litany was never read then, the place of which it was supposed to supply." 'The Beauty of Holiness in the Com- mon Prayer, as set forth in Four Sermons preached at the Rolls Chapel,' by T. Bisse (Lon., 1717), p. 97, note.

Wheatley, 'On the Common Prayer,' Oxford, 1794, p. 168, states that " it has been generally ascribed to Bishop Sanderson "; but he refers to a tradition at St. John's College, Cam- bridge, in favour of Bishop Gunning's author- ship as well as to Dr. Bisse, u.s.

ED. MARSHALL, F.S.A.

The Oxford 'Helps,' accepting the tra- ditional Gunning authorship, dates the prayer 1661. For more details see Blunt's ' Annotated Prayer Book.'

EDWARD H. MARSHALL, M.A.

Hastings.

PEKIN, PEKING : NANKIN, NANKING (9 th S. i. 448). INQUIRER is right in supposing that Peking, Nanking, are the Chinese forms, and that Pekin, Nankin, have crept into English