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NOTES AND QUERIES. [9 th s. xn. SEPT. 5, 1903.

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Swiftlye they determined too flee from a countrye so

wycked, Paltocks Inne leauing, too wrinche thee nauye too

southward.

The " paltock " was, as is well known, a kind of short coat or sleeved doublet, worn by men from the fourteenth to the sixteenth century. But immediate connexion between this and Paltock's Inn is not obvious, unless some inn notorious for its shabbiness or churlishness had as its sign a paltock (cf. " the Tabard "). On the other hand, Paltock's Inn, whether an inn for travellers, or an inn for students of law, may, like Clement's Inn and Gray's Inn, have been named after some person having the surname Paltock. I shall be glad of any communications or pertinent sugges- tions on the subject. J. A. H. MURRAY. Oxford.

HICHARD COBDEN. Who was the author of the verses published in a country newspaper the week after Cobden's death in 1865, and issued as a leaflet by the Cobden Club 1 Three of them are as follows :

Pure-hearted Hero of a bloodless fight !

Clean-handed Captain in a painless war ! Soar, spirit, to the realms of Truth and Light, Where the Just are !

If one poor cup of water given shall have

Due recognition in the Day of Dread, Angels may welcome this one, for he gave A nation bread !

No narrow patriot bounded by the strand

Of his own Isle, he led a new advance, And opened, with the olive-branch in hand, The ports of France.

T. FISHER UNWIN.

NODUS HERCULIS. I should be glad of early references. Has the nature of the knot been described ? H. G.

" WENTHLOK." In a charter at the British Museum, dated 37 Edward III., I find men- tion of certain lands "in Kayrwent infra comitatum de Wenthlok in Wallia." Accord- ing to several of the publications of the Monmouth and Caerleon Antiquarian Asso- ciation, the county or lordship of Wentllwch was bounded on the east by the Usk, and the lordship, in fact, corresponds more or less with the modern Hundred of Wentloog. Caerwent is, however, in Caldecot Hundred, in the ancient Nether Gwent, and a consider- able distance from the Usk. Is there any instance of Wentllwch being used as a name for South Monmouthshire generally ? Or is there any place in Wentloog Hundred which is now, or has been, called Caerwent?

H. I. B.

''CATER" : "LETHES." In the ninth chapter of Hector Boece's * History and Chronicles of Scotland,' as translated by Archdean John Bellenden(vol. i. p xxxvii), the writer, speak- ing of the fat of the gannet or solan goose, which bred in large numbers on the Bass Rock, says : " It helis mony infirmiteis, speciallie sik as cumis be gut and cater dis- ceding in the hanches or lethes of men and wemen." I am unable to make out what the words "cater" and "lethes" mean, though perhaps " lethes " is an old Scotch spelling for "legs," and shall be much obliged to any one better informed who can help me.

J. H. GURNEY.

Keswick Hall, Norwich.

" CATHERINE WHEEL " INN. Can some reader give me any information as to the site in Oxford, or other particulars, of the "Catherine Wheel" Inn where the Gun- powder Plot conspirators are said to have met? C. J. P.

'WIVES AND DAUGHTERS.' I should be much obliged if you would let me know in what magazine Mrs. Gaskell's 'Wives and Daughters ' appeared. T. W.

[Conihill, August, 1864, to January, 1866.]

AUTHORS or QUOTATIONS WANTED. Where are the following lines to be found ? I asked of Time for whom those temples rose, That prostrate by his hand in silence lie ; His lips disdained the mystery to disclose, And, borne on swifter wing, lie hurried by.

Tell me, ye winged winds, that round my pathway

roar, Know ye some blissful spot where mortals weep no

more, Some lone and pleasant dell, some valley in the

West, Where, free from toil and pain, the weary soul may

rest?

The loud wind dwindled to a whisper low, And sighed for pity as it answered "No."

No God, no Truth ? receive it ne'er,

Believe it ne'er, O man ! But turn not then to seek again

What first the ill began. No God, it saith : ah, wait in faith

God's self -completing plan ; Receive it not, but leave it not,

And wait it out, O man.

INDIANA.

STAFFORD. Can any family of the name of Stafford trace their descent from Thomas Stafford, of Botham Hall, Mellor, Derbyshire, and his wife Dorothy Bagshaw, the second daughter of Thomas Bagshaw, of the Ridge, Derbyshire, who were married in the year

3H THOMAS STRAFFORD.

-Beechland, St. George's Road, St. Margaret's-on-Thames.