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Welsh ie, the similarity having been pointed out to me by a resident in this district. In a history of Bingley I find some undoubtedly Keltic numerals, used for counting sheep, given by the author, Mr. Speight. I shall be grateful for any help, either in your valuable columns or by letter.

FRED. G. ACKERLEY.

Keighley Rectory, Yorkshire.

1 TE DETJM ' (METRICAL VERSION). I have a version of this beginning :

O God we knowlege and we prayse The all with one accorde.

It is in a fragment, at present not identified, printed at London for William Seres and Richard Kele. As this version is not among those cited by Mr. Julian ('Dictionary of Hymnology,' 1892, pp. 1132-3), I write to ask if it is known to any readers of ' N. & Q.' and what is the book. S.

BROTHER LAWRENCE. The book known by the title of ' The Practice - of the Presence of God,' by Brother Lawrence, is probably familiar to many readers of ' N. & Q.' Can one say where information can be obtained about the writer of it? His true name is believed to be Nicholas Herman, of Lorraine.

TRANIO.

PREDICTION TO NEWLY ELECTED POPES. In the Daily News of 19 August, in the column headed ' This Morning's News,' were three paragraphs relating to the Pope, in the second of which it was stated that in the ear of each newly elected Pope is whispered the prediction "Non videbis annos Petri." Is this really the case; and, if so, what is the origin of so uncomfortable a vaticination?

JAMES HOOPER.

Norwich.

PASSAGE IN KINGLAKE. At p. 350 of vol. iv. of Kinglake's 'Invasion of the Crimea,' in the description of the retreat of the remnant of the Light Brigade and the scenes they then witnessed, this passage occurs :

" Of those who lay wounded and dying upon the ground thus retraced by our people, there was one who extended his arm, saying but no, I paas on, and yet leave here the half -written sentence. There are some to whom it will speak."

Can any of your readers throw light upon a passage so calculated to inspire curiosity ?

W. S.

"BOUNDER." The term "bounder" so-and- so " is a regular bounder "seems to be in a fair way to supersede in society the con- temptuously derogatory designation "cad." What is a bounder ? I hazard the hypothesis

that the term is derived from the prevalence of the exhibition for payment > of athletic sports among the youth of the upper and middle classes. May not a bounder (applied to an individual dedasstf) be conceived to define a mean fellow capable of leaping bounding over the enclosing palings at an athletic display in order to avoid disbursing the " gate money," the legitimate qualification for admission to behold the exploits of the green or "cinder path"? Is not some plausi- bility lent to this conjecture by finding the presumed equivalent sometimes employed, " a rank outsider "? NEMO.

Temple.

WILLIAM BARRON, LONDON, CLOCKMAKER. I should be obliged by particulars throwing any light on the date of a clock bearing this maker's name. It is a very handsome one, the case being thickly and elaborately inlaid with gilt Japanese work, and is evidently of a considerable age. C. C. B.

PARODIES. Will some reader refer me to some good books of parodies ? JD. M. R.

[' Parodies of the Works of English and America Authors,' by Walter Hamilton, 6 vols., 1884-1889, Reeves & Turner.]

JOHN HODDESDON. Where can I obtain biographical particulars of this individual? He wrote 'Tho. Mori Vita et Exitus ; or, the History of Sir Thomas More, sometime Lord High Chancellor of England,' &c., under the initials J. H., in 1652. The name is an un- common one, and there is a current belief that he was a foundling from Hoddesdon, in Herts. Was he not an emissary of Cecil's ?

W. B. GERISH. [See ' Diet. Nat. Biog.'J

" MUTUS NOMEN DEDIT Cocis." Who was the inventor or originator of this clever trick at cards ? D. K. T.

" HEALEN PENNY." In the churchwardens' accounts of Camborne, Cornwall, years 1683-4, &c., occur entries, " Rec d for the Healen penny." What is the "healen penny"? It occurs twice next to a receipt for a grave. Is it some customary fee for covering in with a slab or erecting a helling-stone (= slate) head ? YGREC,

CARTER = BRECKNOCK. Charles Carter, of St. George's, Hanover Square, and Camelia Brecknock were married 22 August, 1739. Post-nuptial contract dated 22 December, 1741. Camelia Brecknock is described as the daugher of Timothy Brecknock, of Northam and Eye, Northamptonshire, and the trustees