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civil life thejube, jupe, or gippon was the first garment put on after the shirt.

There must have been various modes of wearing it, for it is clear that the knight of the fourteenth century, as we learn from Chaucer, wore his gipoun, which was made of fustian, under his habergeon, or coat of mail (' Cant. Tales,' 1. 75). And the meaning of the word has experienced a remarkable change in modern times, seeing that the modern F. jupon simply means a woman's petticoat. The 'Century Dictionary' gives the old senses of jupon as a quilted jacket worn under the armour, and a surcoat worn over it.

Finally, I may note that Cotgrave, writing early in the seventeenth century, explains gippon or jupon as "a short cassock"; whilst he further gives juppe as meaning

"a shepheard's pelt, frock, or gaberdine; such a course [sic] long jacket as our Porters wear over the rest of their garments ; hence, also, a cassock, long coat, loose jerkin."

WALTER W. SKEAT.

LADY ARABELLA STUART OR STEWARD. In the collection of medals in the B.M. is a piece (described M.I., vol. i. p. 207, 41) sup- posed to refer to this lady. The editors have evidently experienced some difficulty in arriving at a reasonable attribution of this medal, which was formerly supposed to have reference to the sufferings of Mary, Queen of Scots, or perhaps to Lady Margaret Douglas, mother of Darnley. The description given in the M.T. runs thus :

"Half- length figure of a female, three-quarters length, in high headdress, collar, rich dress, and chain with cross ; her hand holding a book, pressed to her breast. Leg., o . GOD . GRANT . PATIENCE . IN . THAT . i . SVFFER . VRANG . m.m. star. Rev., inscription in six lines : QVHO . CAN . COMPARE.

VITH. ME. IN. GREIF. I. DIE. AND. DAR. NOCHT.

SEIK. RELEIF. Below, floral ornament. Leg., to which are prefixed two hands, one male, the other female, the latter holding a heart. HOVRT. NOT. THE. [design of a heart]. QVHOIS. IOY. THOV. ART."

It is assumed that the inscriptions may refer to the marriage of Arabella with William Seymour, and to the unhappy separation from her husband, as well as to the sorrow and imprisonment which she underwent during her imprisonment in the Tower, from the effects of which she died in 1615. I am somewhat interested in the medal, and should be glad to have the opinions of any of your readers on the point which I am about to raise. It seems to me that whilst the first two legends might be quite applicable to the condition of this prisoner, the last must refer to some wrong suffered by her at the hands of her lover or husband as the case might be.

But it is hard to see how Arabella, whilst naturally bemoaning her hard lot during her imprisonment, could be also adjuring her husband not to hurt her. He had hoped to have her with him to share his exile, and it was by the purest accident that they were separated and that the vessel in which she was escaping was captured, whilst his flight was uninterrupted. Should we not therefore seek another ascription? The piece in the B.M. is a manifestly modern production in silver, and it is recognized by the editors that it is derived from some earlier original. Such an original I possess, in lead, unique as far as I know, but it has no reverse. A medal intermediate in point of date between these two is also in my collection ; I do not know if it exists elsewhere. It is likewise in lead, and the reverse has the same legends as the B.M. medal, but is of ruder workmanship. Any hints on the probable intention of this curious piece will be gratefully received.

J. ELIOT HODGKIN.

THE LATIN PSALTER, 1457. Mr. Russell Martineau, in his account of this work, after giving a very careful collation and a list of the nine known copies, says (' Bibliographica,' pt. iii.) that there are three others known to nave existed in the last century which have since disappeared. One of these, in the cathedral Horary at Mainz, appears to have been last heard of in 1787, when Wurdtwein wrote his 'Bibliotheca Moguntina' at all events, I can find no later mention of it. Of the second, which was in the library of the now extinct university at Mainz, I have a note (but, unfortunately, cannot now remem- ber where I found it) of its having been " lent " to General Custine in 1793. As to the copy mentioned by Mr. Martineau as belong- ing to Count Zaluski, if it is true, as com- monly reported, that his library was carried away from Warsaw in 1795, and formed the foundation of the Imperial Library at St. Petersburg, it seems most probable that it is still in safe custody, and not likely to dis- appear again. FRED. NORGATE.

THE MANOR OF LISSON. (See 9 th S. i. 181.) In my former note on this subject I omitted to give any explanation of the name of the manor. There was a personal name among the Anglo-Saxons which we find under a two- fold form Lil, genitive Liles or Lilies, and Lilla, genitive Lilian. The first of these forms is found in Lilies beam (' Chart. Sax.,' iii. 632 115 ), Lilies ham (ibid., ii. 81 3 ), Lil-scetan, Lilleshall, co. Salop (ibid., iii. 355 29 ), and in Lilestone or Lillestone, the ancient name of the manor of Lisson. On the form Lilla,