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NOTES AND QUERIES.

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spondent may be interested to know that a sweet sedge which I presume to be the one referred to grows in abundance in some parts of the Thames, where in my old punting days, twenty or more years ago, I frequently gathered it. The leaf is long, narrow, and sharp - pointed, and it has a serrated edge, like that of a very fine saw, so sharp as to inflict a deep and painful cut if drawn through the hand downwards from the point. The scent is very fragrant, but not emitted until the leaf is crushed.

EDWARD P. WOLFERSTAN.

National Club.

FAGGOTS TO BURN HERETICS (9 th S. ii. 169). According to Herbert's 'History of the Twelve Great Livery Companies,' 1836, a portrait of Mrs. Margaret Dane is hung in the hall of the Ironmongers' Company, Fenchurch Street. By her will, dated 16 May, 1579, she bequeathed 2,0001. to the Company for certain specified purposes among them 25. for 1,200 bundles of faggots, to be divided between the poor of the twenty-four wards of London. The Company pay each ward, in lieu of faggots, 17. 10s. lOd. yearly. Mrs. Dane also directed that the sum of 101. should be spent yearly for a dinner, on the day of her decease.

In the benefaction table of St. Mary's, Newmarket, Suffolk, John Archer gave to the poor of that parish sixty-two band faggots, the first working day after Christmas, payable out of the " Maidenhead Inn," now callec the " Greyhound."

James Evelyn, Esq., of Godstone, Surrey by a codicil to his will, dated 3 July, 1793 directed that 200 faggots should be provider yearly for the schoolmistress to dress the meat distributed to the poor from the firs Thursday in November to the last Thursday in April.

At Biddenham, Kent, 100 faggots were distributed yearly by the churchwarden: among the poor, out of what is called thi "Biddenham Maid's Charity."

The question of faggots being provided fo the burning of heretics was discussed in ' N. & Q.,' 4 th S. i. 196 ; ii. 23. I believe it to be a myth. EVERARD HOME COLEMAN.

71, Brecknock Road.

EDITION (9 th S. ii. 265, 298). The ' H.E.D. although giving meanings under three separat headings, does not settle the point raised and one has to fall back on one's ow judgment. Is not the direct connexion o author and publication, with due regard t the claims of titles, the root of the matter What is published in a newspaper is diverse in title, and the work of many authors. It

s the same with the contents of magazines.

iVhat is published in pamphlet or book form, tiough the work of several authors, is com rehended in a title selected specially for the articular contents, and applicable peculiarly o them. The personal equation, in relation

the title, would seem to be the dominant nd deciding factor. A heading which is not

1 title, applied to notes issued serially, bars he use of " second edition " when for the first ime the author publishes them with their )wn title. ARTHUR MAYALL.

HOLT (7 th S. xi. 165). The translation or mitation of Burger's ' Wild Huntsman ' is not the only work of Scott's in which "holt" .ppears (three times). It occurs again in The Lord of the Isles,' canto iv. stanza xvi. Edward Bruce says to Amadine (Edith of x>rn) :

Thou shalt be mine ! a palfrey fair O'er hill and holt my boy shall bear

JONATHAN BOUCHIER

Ropley, Hants.

MARSTON AND SHAKSPEARE (9 th S. ii. 183, 294). I quite admit that I was in error in quoting the words from ' Measure for Measure,' IV. iii. 38, as a reference to the use of the word " straw " as = " spear." I had noted it as a reference to the shaking of straw in connexion with the other lines, where

straw " is undoubtedly used as equivalent to spear, and failed to separate it from the other references. The mistake is, however, im- material to the point of my query.

C. S. HARRIS.

GAMBOLD (9 th S. ii. 169). If HARFLETE wishes, I can give him information about Benjamin Millingchamp, who married a Gambold. FRANK PENNY,

Senior Chaplain.

Fort St. George.

NOTES ON BOOKS, &c. A Calendar of the Inner Temple Records. Edited

by F. A. Inderwick, Q.C. Vol. II. (Sotheran

&Co.)

RAPID progress has been made by Mr. Inderwick, now the Treasurer of the Inner Temple, with the all-important task of publishing the records of his Inn. The first volume, comprising the records from 21 Henry VII. to 45 Elizabeth, saw the light two years ago (see 8 th S. x. 507). The second volume, now issued, extends from 1 James I. (1603) to the Restoration (1660). It is, it is needless to say, edited with no less care than the previous volume, and is in noway of inferior interest. What specially strikes the student is the absence from the Acts of Parliament of the Inn of all signs of political excite-