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 9"> S. IV. Oct. 14, '99.] 313 NOTES AND QUERIES. example, quoted in ray ' Dictionary ' fifteen years ago, from Surrey's '/Eneid,' ii. 093 ; not to mention the example in Shakespeare, quoted by Nares in 1822 ; see ' Rich. II.,' III. iii. 156, where the sense is extended to mean "frequent resort." Hence the sense of "traffic." From the third grade we have the sb. trod, also in the sense of trodden path ; whence hot trod, for which see Jamieson, s.v. 'Fute hate.' It is surely time that questions of etymo- logy should be discussed in a scholarly way. This is an allowed maxim if the word be of Latin or Greek origin ; and English is just as worthy of careful treatment as either of these. Mere slipshod confusion does not advance our credit. Walter W. Skeat. " Trade (E.), the old sense was 'path'; hence a beaten, regular business" (Skeat's ' Con- cise Etymological Diet.'). Nares has several instances of this word in the sense from writers not quit*! forgotten, such as Shake- speare ('Rich. II.,' 111. iii.) and Massinger. In the Isle of Axholme we use the form trod to indicate a footpath. Cf. Spenser, 'Shep. Cal.,' July :— In humble dales is footing fast, The trode is not so tickle. C. C. B. Engraved Portrait of Dean Vincent (!)"' S. iv. 185, 253).—The portrait by William Owen, R.A., is the property of the dean's great-grandson, Charles Greaves Vincent, Ryde, Isle of Wight. Reginald Stewart Boddington. Constitutional Club, Northumberland Avenue. "The white faunch hind"(9th S. iii. 1G9, 372 ; iv. 17).—It ought to be noticed that Sir Walter Scott quotes " white faunch deer," from a MS. history of the family of St. Clair, by Richard Augustin Hay, Canon of St. Gene- vieve, in the notes to the ' Lay of the Last Minstrel,'canto vi. stanza xxi. W. C. B. The Montreux Churchyard Inscription (9th S. iv. 188). —In the second line of this inscription, which I have just read, I find la pit id mould be ta pite, "thy trifle":— En passant jette ici ta pite aux malheurcux. Henry Attwell. Glion sur Territet. The Devil's Door(9th S. iv. 127,178,218,256). —The " superstitious explanation " is founded on too widespread beliefs and customs to be dismissed by an individual expression of scepticism. It is sufficient to refer to such texts as Job xxvi. 6, 7, and Is. xiv. 13. Certainly the north side of the church is usually colder and damper than the south side; but it is because the north is cold that it is the dwell- ing-place of evil powers who send mist and cold. C. C. B. Boccaccio (9th S. iii. 247, 369, 435).—To the examples already given may be added Mr. John Payne's 'Salvestra' in 'New Poems' (1880), pp. 193-275. Cf. 'II Decamerone,' Giorn. iv. 8. G. L. Apperson. Wimbledon. Reference Wanted (9th S. iii. 487 ; iv. 54). —There is an error in Mr. Mayall's reference to Ovid's 'Heroides.' For "Epistle iii. 71" read Epistle ivii. 71-72. Alex. Leeper. Trinity College, Melbourne University. " Wardrobe-book " (9th S. i v. 209). —Although I cannot answer all the queries started by Mr. Whitwell, he may be glad to know that the Bibliotheca Phillippica contained a long series of such books. The portion sold in 1895 (21-26 March), for instance, contained one of Edward III., 1332; one of Elizabeth, 1559-60. The portion sold in 1896 (10-17 June) contained one of Edward I., 1298 ; one of Edward II., 1307 ; one of Elizabeth, from 1568 to 1589. In the portion sold in 1897 (17-20 May) were one of Edward II., 1323-4 ; one of Thomas, Duke of Gloucester, and Edmond, Duke of ork, sons of Edward III., 1359-60. One of the finest Wardrobe Rolls in the Phillipps sales occurred in the 1898 portion, lot 324, Edward II., 1324-5, a splendid historical record, 40 ft. long, purchased by Mr. Quaritch for 57/. There were probably other wardrobe-books of English sovereigns in the other portions of the Phillipps sales, but I cannot at the moment lay my hands on the catalogues. The sale of a portion of the Ashburnham MSS. on 1 May last included three wardrobe-books of Edward I., namely, 1299-1300, 1303-5, and 1305-7; also one of Queen Eleanor, first con- sort of Edward I., 1289-91. The contents of many of these and other wardrobe-books have doubtless been published in one form or another. The Reli//utiri/ of October, 1894 (pp. 214-19), published the contents of Henry VIII.'s wardrobe, 1537. W. Roberts. 47, Lansdowne Gardens, S. W. Wardrobe-books are the daily account-books of receipts and expenses kept by the Keeper of the King's Wardrobe, or that of any otner person whose household expenses are paid out of the revenue. They contain information as to household expenses, and frequently as to military expenditure, the army being in the department of the Keeper of the Great