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 9 th S. II. AUG. 27, '98.]

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Alfriston parish register dates from 1504, and is thought to be the oldest in England."

EDWARD H. MARSHALL, M.A.

Hastings.

It is doubtful if the Elsworth register is a true original, for the appended date, 1597, suggests a late transcription of the earlier entries ; the term "catalog 8 " seems to imply that the writer had several names before him at the time, so not true contemporaneous entries. It is certain that, as registers de- cayed, they were sometimes transcribed ver- batim into a newer book. A. H.

DICTIONARY OF ENGLISH PROVERBS (9 th S. i. 487 ; ii. 117). George Herbert's ' Jacula Pru- dentum' will be found in the cheap "Chandos Classics" edition of his works. Q. V.

" HOUNDS " AT KING'S COLLEGE, CAMBRIDGE (5 th 8. xii. 88). At the above reference MR. EDWARD WALFORD wrote :

"In the 'Anecdotes' of Bowyer we are told that a ' hound ' of King's College, Cambridge, is an under- graduate not on the foundation, nearly the same as a ' sizar.' "

Can an exact reference to Bowyer be sup- plied for the benefit of the ' Historical English Dictionary'? Any other information as to this use of the word would be of service. ROBT. J. WHITWELL.

70, Banbury Road, Oxford.

ODIN (9 th S. ii. 107). W. will find the descent of Queen Victoria from Odin or Woden given in Frederick D. Hartland's 'Genealogical, etc., Chart of the Houses of Europe,' London, 1854. Also it maybe traced in Anderson's and Betham's 'Chronological Tables.' For an excellent table of descent from Woden through Cerclic to Egbert see Lappenberg's '.History of the Anglo-Saxons.' Respecting the divine origin, Olaus Magnus, in his ' History of Goths, Swedes, and Van- dals,' London, 1658, p. 37, states that "many nations, also led by this confidence, burnt their tings and princes when they were dead, that they might be made gods or go to the gods, or else they hanged them up solemnly in groves and woods by a chain of gold," &c.

JOHN RADCLIFFE.

' THREE JOVIAL HUNTSMEN ' (9 th S. ii. 88, 1 10). There is an article on the ' Three Jovial Huntsmen' in the Palatine Note- Book, i. 11-13, in which it is stated that the form of the old song used by Randolph Caldecott was the joint production of the late Edwin Waugh and the artist himself.

C. W. S.

PENNY-FARTHING STREET (9 th S. ii. 128). There was once, many years ago, a street of

this name in Oxford, mentioned, unless my memory is at fault, in 'Peter Priggins,' a story of university life, by the Rev. J. F. H. Hew- lett. Perhaps some Oxford antiquary can say in what part of the city it was situated. I can remember a street called Cat Street, but this name has been altered.

JOHN PICKFORD, M.A.

Newbourne Rectory, Woodbridge.

There is a street in Salisbury so named, but I think in the furthest parish from the cathe- dral. According to the plan of this new city, in 1220, it had not half so many churches as old cities of its size. One was put in the centre, St. Thomas of Canterbury, and four at the extreme corners, viz., the Cathedral, S.W., St. Martin's, S.E., St. Edmund's, N.E., and St. Paul's, N. W". The last was lately rebuilt on a new site, but was probably older than the city, being for the village of 'Fisher ton- Anger, or Angler. E. L. GARBETT.

I knew Salisbury some forty-two years ago well, but have no recollection of a Penny- Farthing Street ; but herein Oxford an ancient street, known as Pembroke Street after the foundation of Pembroke College, was com- monly called Penny-Farthing Street a cor- ruption of Penyverthing Street, the name of a family of some note, several of whom bore office in the city not long after the Conquest (see Wood). JOHN GILBERT.

ENTRANCE INTO CHURCHYARDS (9 th S. ii. 126). The entrances to the very old church at Tintagel, close to King Arthur's famous old castle in Cornwall, have a similar arrange- ment to that described by MR. PEACOCK as occurring in the Basque provinces and the Danish isles to keep out cattle. In this case the pit is covered with parallel stones, with spaces between. None of my party knew what the arrangement was until I explained it to them. H. R. P. C.

Nothing is more common in Cornwall, Devonshire,lHerefordshire, and North Wales than the gridirons (generally made of granite or other local materials) described under this entry. MR. PEACOCK will find hundreds of such in these districts. O.

In some places^narrow entrances (without gates) are made in'_the walls of churchyards for the convenience of churchgoers and the non-admittance of cattle. For example, at Westham, by Pevensey, a very fat parishioner could hardly squeeze through.

EDWARD H. MARSHALL, M.A.

With slats of stone in place of bars of iron, the description would answer well for the