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name (very few) are Wealtun, Waltune, and Waltun. Wealh means a stranger, a foreigner, and some of its declensions are walk, walsch, ^vale, wales, all of which were Anglo-Saxon personal names, and also prefixes to com- pound names. Anglo-Saxon weall (of which wall and wal are forms) means a wall, ram- part, or bank of earth or stone. Must we read Walton as " the town of the stranger," "the town of Wale," or "the walled (en- closed) town"? W. H. DUIGNAN. Walsall.

' FFLORES CORTOX.' In the will of Thomas Francke, who was my predecessor as vicar of Claines, dated A.D. 1598, I find the legacy to his friend Humphrey Cratford of " one book called mores Cortox." The last word is in- distinct, and I may possibly have read it wrongly. I shall be thankful to any of your readers who can tell me if they know of such a book and what is its subject.

ALFRED S. PORTER, F.S.A.

HOLLING DAY. Why is 5 January so called? I find it in the 'Purse Almanack' for 1898 (London, H. W. Crane & Co., 63, Goswell Road). The entry is wanting in the same almanac for 1899 ; but perhaps that may be because the last quarter of the moon at 3.22 A.M. needed a line of record.

ST. SWITHIN.

COL. STARCK. Who was Col. Starck, who commanded at the attack on Guadaloupe ? EMMA ELIZ. THOYTS.

BOOK OF VERSES. Can any one give me the name of a little book of Cambridge verses, published ten or twelve years ago, con- taining, among other things, some parodies by A. C. Hilton, originally written, I think, for a university magazine called The Light Green? F. M. D.

"KYLON." Can any correspondent en- lighten me about the origin of the white china dogs called " kylon "? I have been told that some were found amongst the debris of the round towers in Ireland. J. D.

ST. MICHAEL'S, CROOKED LANE. At what date was the church of St. Michael, Crooked Lane, E.G., demolished, and where were the bodies reinterred ? HALIFAX.

THOMAS SHAKSPEARE. I have found in the register of marriages of the parish of Mere the following entry, which should be recorded : "A.D. 1625. Thomas Shakspeare and Jane Toupe y e ij of Maie." Can this be a member of the Warwickshire family ? No other entry of the name occurs. The family

of Topp was resident in the neighbourhood, and I find the name spelt in various ways, viz., Top, Topp, and Toupe. THOS. H. BAKER.

"CAMBUSCAN BOLD." In a pamphlet by the late William Morris, entitled ' Concerning Westminster Abbey,' issued by the Society for the Protection of Ancient Buildings, is the following passage :

"Rewrite the lost trilogies of ^Eschylus, put a beginning and an end to the fight at Finsbury, finish the Squire's Tale for Chaucer, even if you cannot

Bring back him who left untold The story of Cambuscan bold,

and if you can succeed in that, you may then ' restore ' Westminster Abbey."

What was the fight at Finsbury, and who was Cambuscan bom ? JOHN HEBB.

Canonbury Mansions, N.

[At Sarray in the land of Tartarye, Ther dwelt a king, that werreyed Russye, Thurgh which ther deyde many a doughty man. This noble king was cleped Cambinskan. These lines are the beginning of ' The Squieres Tale ' of Chaucer, into which Algarsyf, Cambalo, and Canacee are also introduced. See Chaucer, ed. Skeat, vol. iv. pp. 461 et seq. For further informa- tion consult Prof. Skeat's notes, vol. v. pp. 370

WHITE MONEY. What was the disadvan- tage of silver money in Elizabethan times ?

"I hope he had so much grace before he died to turn his white money into gold, a great ease to his executor. "Middleton's 'Phoenix, I. vi.

"She's coming, sir, behind, will take white money." Beaumont and Fletcher's 'Philaster,' II. ii.

M. C. L.

New York.

REV. WILLIAM MORE, M.A. He was rector of St. Thomas the Martyr, in the Cliffe, at Lewes, in Sussex, until in 1595 he exchanged with Robert Brinkloe to Preston-next- Wing- ham, 1595-1608. He was also a minor canon of Rochester. On 11 May, 1608, he exchanged to St. Laurence Pountney, London, with William Symonds. Any further information as to these three clerics would be very accept- able. ARTHUR HUSSEY.

Wingham, Kent.

"CHAL": "ROMANY CHAL." How many meanings are there to the word chal in the Romany language ? Would a correct render- ing of Romany chal be Romany or gipsy lass 1 Will some one learned in the English gipsy dialect kindly inform me ? S. J. A. I.

'THE THREE SERGEANTS.' I believe that a military narrative was published some thirty years ago under the above title. I think that it covered a period from about