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JUNIUS (7 th S. xi. 104, 133). Reference i made to an edition of the ' Letters of Juniua dated 1806. There were two editions of that date, viz., one issued by Vernor, Hood & Sharpe, another by Almon and Sir Richard Phillips, both in two volumes. Will MR. OROOKE kindly explain which is the edition to which he refers ? A. H.

"A CROW TO PLUCK WITH" (9 th S. i. 367, 438). A fairly full explanation of this phrase will be found in Dr. E. C. Brewer's ' Diction- ary of Phrase and Fable.' The meaning would seem to express the sense of being displeased with another, and hence having ground for complaint. Dr. Brewer quotes from Ho well's proverbs (1659) the following, "I have a goose to pluck with you," in a similar sense. Chaucer, we learn, has the phrase "Pull a finch," but the meaning here has reference to cheating or filching. Both Shakespeare in 'Comedy of Errors,' III. i., and Butler in 'Hudibras,' pt. ii. 2, use variants of the phrase. The saying seems to run on all fours with the expression " I have a bone to pick with you " ; but the latter is of the two the more frequently used nowadays.

C. P. HALE.

When seeing this quotation in ' N. & Q.,' I thought some one would surely refer us to the 'Comedy of Errors,' ^vhere Shakespeare's use of the words explains what is meant (Act III. sc. i.) :

Dro. E. I pray thee, let me in.

Dro. S. [within]. Ay, when fowls have no feathers

and fish have no fin.

Ant. E. Well, I '11 break in ; go, borrow me a crow. Dro. E, A crow without feather ? Master, mean

you so ? For a fish without a fin, there 's a fowl without a

feather :

If a crow help us in, sirrah, we'll pluck a crow together.

Which means evidently that a quarrel will ensue between the contending parties.

E. A. C.

CHURCHES OF ST. PAUL (9 th S. i. 488). Surely the basilica of St. Paul, outside the walls of Rome, must have kept its name from its foundation in Constantino's time.

E. L. G.

FIELD-NAMES (9 th S. ii. 86). " Intacks " occurs among the field-names of Notting- hamshire recorded by Mr. Andrews. In the north-western part of Lincolnshire an " in- take " formerly signified land taken in from an open field or common. In the manor records of Scotter for the year 1629 there is an entry stating that Richard Huggit sur-

rendered land within that manor to Thomas Stothard in a place known as "Le Long Intackes." The word is also in use to denote land reclaimed from a tidal river ; thus there was a field in the parish of Winteringham called " The Intake, which had teen taken from the Humber. I have heard that nearly the whole of it has been washed away by the tide in recent years. " Intake " was in use, and probably is still, in this latter sense in York- shire. In a survey of the lands of the Abbey of Selby taken in 1540 mention is made of "One lytle close called Seller Intak over- flowed with water all wynter " (' Monasticon Angl.,' vol. iii. p. 505, col. 2). At Bubwith in the same county there was in 1765 a place named " The Intak " (' N. & Q ' 7 th S. xii. 504). In Kent the parallel word "innings" is used to indicate reclaimed land. Mr. Robert Furley, in his 'Outline of the History of Romney Marsh,' which appeared in the Archceologia Cantiana, vol. xiii., says : " One of the earliest 'innings' of Walland Marsh, after the Norman Conquest, appears to have taken place between 1162 and 1170, and it has been ever since called 'Becket's Innings,' as this archbishop has the credit of promoting it." EDWARD PEACOCK.

TOBACCO IN ENGLAND (9 th S. ii. 86). In a review of " Brief Lives, chiefly of Contempo- raries. Set down by John Aubrey between the Years 1669 and 1696. Edited from the Author's MSS. by Andrew Clark," the Athe- naeum, 30 July, talces occasion to quote from the work in question the following :

"I have heard my grandfather Lyte say that one pipe was handed from man to man round the table. They had first silver pipes ; the ordinary sort made use of a walnutshell and a straw."

S. J. A. F.

BRIDGET CHEYNELL OR ABBOT (9 th S. ii. 87). She was the daughter of John Egioke, of Egioke, co. Worcester, by Anna, daughter of Nicholas Huband, of Ipsley (pedigree entered in College of Arms). Her brother was Sir Francis Egioke, Knt. She married, firstly, John Cheynell, M.D. (1605), by whom she had the well-known Francis Cheynell (baptized

6 July, 1608, at St. Mary's, pxford), and Martha,

who married Campion. She married,

secondly (as his second wife), in January, 1617/8 (only two months before his death), Robert Abbot, Bishop of Salisbury. Her will, in which she describes herself as his widow, and then "sick in body,' is dated

7 August, 1635 (sic\ though not proved in the C.P.C. till 26 February, 1646/7. In the probate act she is described as of Pet worth, Sussex, where, probably, she was buned. It