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 9*s. XL JAN. 3, iocs.] NOTES AND QUERIES.

other Burgesse for the sayd towne, the sayd Assembly have no'iated, elected and chosen, Christopher Honiwood gent., Mayor there, together with the sayd M r Bodyly, to be and appeare at Westm r at the day above sayd, and the sayd M r Honiwood is to be allowed for his fee in this s'vice iiijs. the daye duringe the tyme of the said P'liament."

The Lord Warden was Sir William Brook, Lord Cobham.

Mr. Wilks states that the member recom- mended was afterwards better known as Sir Thomas Bodley, the munificent founder of the Bodleian Library, Oxford. In the suc- ceeding Parliament, 1586, the members chosen for Hythe were John Smyth, of Western- hanger, gent., and William Dalmyngton, jurat, so that Sir Thomas Bodley's connexion with Hythe was of brief duration.

R. J. FYNMORE.

Sandgate, Kent.

'N. & Q.' ANAGRAM. (See 9 th S. x. 185.) Notes and Qv&ries=rea,soued inquest. This anagram in the " general sense " of the word inquest ('N.E.D.,' s.v. 3t b and c), "a search or investigation in order to find something ;

a research; inquiry or investigation

into something" is proposed as even more apt, because more comprehensive, than "a question-sender." C. P. PHINN.

Watford.

BURIAL CUSTOM AT ARDOCH. Perhaps this pagan survival may be interesting :

"We are authorized to state that while opening a grave in the Ardoch graveyard the other day, the gravedigger came upon a decayed coffin in which were bones and a pint bottle containing liquid. The gravedigger, being a teetotaler, could make nothing of it, until a neighbour with more pro- nounced olfactory nerves scented the ' rale Mackay,' upon which the lad of the pick and shovel offered to hand it round. Some years ago a grave was found to contain a skeleton and a well -filled tobac9O pouch, so that, it may be presumed, Ardoch in former days not only ' fed ye here,' but gave ye something to 'carry ye ower the brae. '"Strathearn Herald, 8 Nov., 1902.

IBAGUE.

LODONA. Pope's myth of the nymph Lodona in * Windsor Forest ' is evidently founded on that of Syrinx in Ovid's ' Meta- morphoses ' (i. 12), the scene of which was the river Ladon (a tributary of the Alpheius, now called Rufea), in Arcadia. But it is scarcely accurate of the late Dr. Cobham Brewer, in his * Reader's Handbook,' to say " Lodona is an affluent of the Thames"; for some would not recognize in the word the river Loddon, which flows into the Thames at Wargrave, after passing near Binfield, where Pope wrote several of his early poems and part of * Windsor Forest ' itself.

W. T. LYNN.

DAGGER MONEY.

" At the Newcastle[-on-Tyne] Assizes this morn- ing, the Mayor, addressing Mr. Justice Channell, said : I don't know whether your lordship is aware that it is the custom in this city for the Mayor for the time being to present to the judge a coin, which we call 'dagger money.' In olden times, before railways and coaches, I assume it was necessary for the Mayor of the old town of Newcastle to furnish an escort for the judge of Assize between Newcastle and Carlisle. That escort consisted of a body of men to protect the person of the judge, when ex- posed to the attacks of marauders and freebooters, especially in the neighbourhood of Bewcastle and that desolate part of the county of Northumber- land ...... I am to ask your lordship to accept this

Jacobus coin." Newcastle Evening Paper, Nov. 19, 1902.

L. L. K.

WE must request correspondents desiring infor- mation on family matters of only private interest to affix their names and addresses to their queries, in order that the answers may be addressed to them direct.

WALTON AND COTTON CLUB. Forty years ago several questions were asked under this heading (see 3 rd S. i. 273). The then Editor himself answered all the questions except the first, which was, " Can any of your readers inform me whether this Club is still in existence 1 " Being the happy owner of the rare book of the rules, described by the said Editor as quite a " gem," I ask to be allowed to repeat the unanswered question. If, as I fear, it is a fact that the Club has ceased to exist, I should like to be informed when and why it did. STAPLETON MARTIN.

The Firs, Norton, Worcester.

ANNIE OF THARAU. I should be much obliged if one of your correspondents could tell me whether Aennchen von Tharau was a real person, or if there is any legend con- nected with her. I know, of course, the German ballad to her by Helder, and that he took the subject from an older Northern one ; also that Longfellow has made a translation of it. I should be grateful if your corre- spondents could tell me the date when she " flourished " or of the legend.

(Miss) CATHERINE L. GIBBS.

RUBENS PICTURES. Can any reader kindly give information regarding pictures or sketches painted by Rubens representing Time and Truth 1 I know of the finished picture forming one of the Marie de Medicis series, and of two sketches showing different treatments of the same subject, all in the Louvre at Paris. There may be others, perhaps, among the sketches in the Munich