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Essex issued a precept for the raising of a company of archers for the service of the king and Parliament. Sir Sibbald Scott adds that

" then we may consider that the career of the long bow, as a military weapon, is brought to a close, having continued for more than two centuries after the effect of gunpowder had become known."

Carlyle alludes to this " commission of array for Leicestershire" at p. 153, vol. i., ' Cromwell's Letters and Speeches,' 1846.

W. S.

The following passage from the Sporting Magazine of 1798 shows that little more than a century ago it was proposed to reintroduce the bow as a military weapon :

" A memorial has been put into the hands of the Duke of York, stating the advantages which might result from employing a numerous band of archers to act in concert with the cavalry on the coast." Vol. xii. p. 55.

We wonder whether this document has been preserved. It would be interesting to know what were the reasons given for the pro- posed revival and the names of the persons who signed it. N. M. & A.

OLIVER CROMWELL AND CHRISTMAS (9 th S. iii. 104, 174, 235). Either Christmas Day, 1644, was kept as a fast day, or the attempt to have the day so observed made it a marked day. Richard Fogge, of Danes Court, in the parish of Tilman- stone, some seven miles north of Dover, mentions in his 'Family Chronicle ' (printed in Arch. Cantiana, vol. v.) : " N.B., Six Beeches set in the Limekiln Hill that Winter when Xmas was kept fast, 1644." Richard Fogge was one of the Royalists of Kent, and died in 1680. ARTHUR HUSSEY.

Wingham, Kent.

QUARRE ABBEY (9 th S. iii. 408). Possibly your correspondent may obtain some in- formation by consulting "Quarr Abbey ; or, the Mistaken Calling, a Tale of the Isle of Wight in the Thirteenth Century, by Frances A. Trevelyan," published by Rivington, 1862.

EVERARD HOME (JOLEMAN. 71, Brecknock Road.

ST. JORDAN (5 th S. iii. 129 ; 9 th S. iii. 207, 349, 414). I believe that the Christian name Jordan was anciently bestowed upon those \vho were baptized in water brought from the river Jordan. This was a rather common practice in the Middle Ages ; and water from the Jordan is, if I am rightly informed, still used in the baptism of members of our royal family. JOHN HOBSON MATTHEWS.

Town Hall, Cardiff.

THE LONDON ELECTRICAL DISPENSARY (9 th S. iii. 348). In E. H. Barker's 'Literary Anecdotes,' 1852, ii. 15, 16, is printed a copy of an old advertisement of an "Electrical Machine " by which " many people have received benefit," " as it cures old achs and pains." W. C. B.

Haydn's 'Dates' gives 1791 for the date of Galvani's discoveries; further, in 1789 Madame Galvani operated on frogs. From family tradition, I feel certain that 1793 for the above institution is plausible things exist before they get into print. A. H.

APELLA," HOR. I. v. 100 (9 th S. iii. 326). The interpretation suggested, viz., "circumcised," as if Apella could be formed from the preposition a compounded with pellis, skin, is not noticed by Doering or Macleane. In the note by the Delphin editor (edition 1810), "Apella, quasi sine pelle in prseputio circumciso," it is added that Salmasius objects that the first a could not possibly be short as it is found in Apella, and further that the form would rather have been appella or impella. I may add that in amens, avolo, avoco, &c., the a is long. Macleane says that the majority of the Jews at Rome were freedmen, and that Apella was a common name for the libertini. He com- pares Acts vi. 9.

C. LAWRENCE FORD, B.A. Bath.

DYSON : COLET (9 th S. iii. 449). By way of reply to the second of MR. BRESLAR'S queries I copy the following from an article on Dean Coletby R. Newman which appeared in the now defunct East London Magazine for March, 1892 :

" Old Stepney Church still stands, perhaps the most venerable structure in East London. The walk from the south porch towards White Horse Street has been known as the 'Dean's Walk.' Within ten years past there was an old house at Street, where the vicarage of St. Matthew now stands, which was always called Colet's House, though it was not the ' Great Place ' which Colet's 'ather built in the latter half of the fifteenth century, and which was the home of Colet's mother
 * ne junction of Salmon's Lane with White Horse
 * hrough the Dean's life and after his death. It was

shattered in a gale of wind, and its bricks were then ground down, after the manner of modern builders, to make mortar for use in the erection of neighbour- ing warehouses. There is a Dean Street in Com- mercial Road, and the row of houses running to the right and left of Dean Street was known as Colet Place before the renumbering."

As a matter of fact Dean Colet's house at the junction of White Horse Street and Salmon's Lane was demolished in 1881. For several years after the storm of wind referred to by