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man,' published by the Religious Tract Society ; ' The Gleaming Dawn,' a romance founded on 'The Forgotten Great English- man'; and 'The Cardinal's Page,' a sequel to the second work. All are by James Baker ; the second and third are published by Chapman & Hall. I had the good fortune to make Mr. Baker's acquaintance in Oxford, just before last Whitsuntide. Peter Payne was Principal of my old Hall, St. Edmund, from 1410 to 1414. Owing to the energy of its present Principal, the Hall has not been obliterated. Long may it flourish ! It is the fourth oldest foundation of the University of Oxford.

Massingberd on the 'English Reformation,' fourth edition, 1866, says :

"Some Bohemians, who had come into England with the queen of Richard II., had carried back the doctrines of WyclifFe with them. And they were joined by some English clergymen, particularly one Peter Payne, who is accused of having got up the Oxford testimonial in favour of Wycliffe."

M.A.OxoN.

FOLK-LOEE OF CHILDBIRTH (9 th S. xii. 288,

413, 455). In Derbyshire new babies come from under the gooseberry bushes ; from nettle and parsley beds also boys from the nettles, and girls from the parsley. They are " dug up," wrapped in a white cloth, and brought into the house when nobody is look- ing. But there are various places which are baby's come-from. THOS. RATCLIFFE.

Work sop.

"CLAMEUR DE HARO": "CRIER HARO" (9 th S. xii. 126, 272, 412). The following care- ful explanation of this ancient "cry," taken from Black's ' Guide to Jersey ' (1902), may prove of interest :

" All encroachments on property which require a

B-ompt remedy may be resisted by the Clameur de aro, after which an action is brought. At the disputed place the aggrieved person, in the presence of two witnesses, orders the aggressor or his agent to desist by exclaiming: 'Haro! Haro ! Haro ! a 1 aide, mon Prince, on me fait tort.' After this he denounces the aggressor by exclaiming: ' Je vous ordonne de quitter cet ouvrage ' ; upon which, unless he desist instantly, he is liable to be punished for breach of the peace and contempt of the king s authority, the property being supposed to be under the king's special protection from the moment the ' cry is made. Any party calling for the protection of the sovereign wrongfully is fined by the court ; and when a case of Clameur de Haro

UKi! Tj e M e .J? U & be J hree J urats on th e bench with the Bailiff. The Clameur, formerly respected in Normandy, is in Jersey still an instantaneous check which cannot be disputed. The term was in common use in Normandy long before the arrival of Kollo and his freebooters, and is derived from tne Frankish verb haran, to cry out or shout." From this it is evident that the quaint

appeal is still used in one at least of the Channel Islands. I am not quite sure about the others. Perhaps some reader may further enlighten. CECIL CLARKE.

Authors' Club S.W.

GIPSY QUEEN (9 th S. xii. 407, 428). A cot- tager in the King's Town of Brading, I.W., told me in 1900 that some years before a gipsy known as " Old Stanley " in the place died. He had possession of a cottage and strip of land by the side of Nunwell Park, and others of his people used to camp on his strip of ground. On his decease, his family shut the house up and camped in the garden till after his burial, when his bedding and clothes were taken and burnt on the down, and his tools were " drowned " in the river Yar, ** after the gipsy custom," as my in- formant said. RED CROSS.

"SCRIPTURES OUT OF CHURCH" (9 th S. xii. 429). It was Mrs. Slipslop who considered it Atheism to mention the Bible out of church; see 'Joseph Andrews.' She was a fellow- servant with Joseph in Lady Booby's house- hold. I do not remember a Mrs. Adams. Was not the good parson a bachelor 1

G. T. SHERBORN.

Twickenham.

The line,

That Scriptures out of church are blasphemies, is to be found in ' Don Juan,' canto xiii. stanza 96, where in a note Byron refers the authorship of the sentiment to Mrs. Adams, In 'Joseph Andrews,' book iy. ch. xi., when Parson Adams told Mrs. Adams that the husband was the head of the wife, she replied that "it was blasphemy to talk Scripture out of church." J. A. J. HOUSDEN.

"LORD PALATINE" (9 th S. xii. 347, 417). Mr. Plowden, on p. 9 of his ' Grain or Chaff? ~ recently published, alludes to a charter granted by Charles I. to his forefather Edmund Plowden (grandson of the famous lawyer), in which the said Edmund Plowden is described as Earl Plowden, Earl Palatine,. Governor and Captain-General of the Pro- vince of New Albion.

JOHN B. WAINEWRIGHT.

QUEEN ELIZABETH AND NEW HALL, ESSEX (9 th S. xii. 208, 410, 477). MR. CURRY'S reply, ante, p. 410., is extremely interesting. I am sorry that I can give no further infor- mation about the Italian lines at New Hall. I quoted them as given in Murray's * Hand- book to the Eastern Counties ' (1892, p. 27) ; but that compilation is very faulty, and by no means up to the average of the celebrated