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 314 NOTES AND QUERIES. p* ». iv. Oct. u, m Wardrobe. These books ought all to be among the Queen's Remembrancer's records of the Exchequer, being deposited as vouchers for the accounts of the Keepers; but owing to carelessness when the records were moved from Carlton Ride or at some earlier period, many of them are believed to be in private hands. The wardrobe-book for 28 Euward I. was printed by the Society of Antiquaries of London from the original in their possession. See Scargill - Bird's 'Guide to the Public Records,' 1896, p. 359. C. J. The wardrobe was a place where the robes and garments of princes or noblemen were kept. It was the duty of an officer styled the Clerk of the King's Wardrobe to keep an inventory or a particular account of all things belonging to the king's wardrobe, hence the necessity of a book. Everard Home Coleman. 71, Brecknock Road. Tonghks (9lh S. iv. 28. 96, 214).—There was formerly a Tonge family of Tonge Hall, in Prestwich, co. Lancaster. There is a pedigree in Sir Wm. Dugdale's 'Visitation of Lanca- shire,' 1664/5 (Chet. Soc, vol. lxxxviii.). A paper on Tonge Hall (with an illustration by my friend George Rowbotham), by Col. Fish- wick, F.S.A., will be found in vol. x. (pp. 25- 32) of the Transactions of the Lancashire and Cheshire Antiquarian Society. The Society visited the hall on 9 Sept., 1893. T. Cann Hughes, M.A. Lancaster. The Porter's Lodge (8th S. xii. 607; 9th S. i. 112, 198; ii. 135).—Here are two more direct allusions to " the porter's lodge" in the Waverley novels, other than the one I quoted from ' The Fortunes of Nigel':— "'How, sir?' said his [Wamba's] master; 'you shall to the porter's lodge, and taste of the dis- cipline there, if you give your foolery such licence.'" —' Ivanhoe,' chap. iv. " If / [Lambourne] had done this now in a strange lord's castle, the word had been,—The porter's lodge for the knave! and,—Have him flogged—trundle him down stairs like a turnip!"—Tienilworth,' chap, xxviii. Jonathan Bouchier. "Three Pound Twelve" (9th S. iii. 249; iv. 218, 292).—A similar weight was given me some years ago with the information that it was formerly used to weigh foreign money. In the Calais Museum, under the heading " Poids Anciens," are similar examples, one exactly as described by Mr. Ratcliffe. Another is stamped "Thirty-six Shillings"; this is about half the thickness, and probably throws light on the purpose of the weights, for by its side is one of the Rarae size inscribed " A Moidore." The Portuguese moidore may possibly at some time have been worth thirty-six shillings of our money, though in a list of exchanges dated 1829 1 find it valued only at twenty-seven shillings. I. C. Gould. George Chapman (9th S. iv. 226).—The fol- lowing extract from Peter Cunningham's 'Handbook of London,' 1853, will, I think, answer Mr. Page's inquiry :— "George Chapman, the translator of Homer (diod 1634): Inigo Jones erected an altar-tomb to his memory, at his own expense, still to be seen in the churchyard, against the south wall of the church; the monument-part alone is old; the inscription is a copy of all thai remained visible." The italics are mine. Everard Home Coleman. 71, Brecknock Road. Collection of Riblical Quotations (9th S. iv. 247).—A single instance of Biblical humour is the case of St. Paul's pun in Philemon, verses 10 and 11, where, in an otherwise pathetic passage, he speaks of the former un- profitableness and the present profitableness of Onesimus (oV7jo-i/*os = useful). Arthur Mayall. "To be aff the oleo " (9th S. iv. 47, 251).— I have been familiar with the worn gleg— glance all my life, and though it is rarely used here, it is, as C. C. B. says, common in the Midlands. It means "a glance," but not I '11 give him a necessarily of suspicion gleg" = "I'll look after him.'' " He gave me a gleg" = glance. "He thought I didn't gleg him." "I glegged him." I have heard " gleg " used instead of " wink " many times in the well-known saying " A wink 's as good as a nod to a blind horse." Thos. Ratcliffe. Worksop. Edward Howard, Ninth Duke of Norfolk (9th S. iv. 247).—The whereabouts of Edward Howard and his residence at Lambeth in 1720 was the subject of a query, 6th S. xi. 128, to which no reply has appeared. Everard Home Coleman. 71, Brecknock Road. "Oof" (9th S. iv. 166, 252).—I am not at all sure that the words spinuffen and oqftisch are unrelated; for the latter, whether it repre- sents oqft-isch or ooft-ich, may be suspected to be formed upon the base oqft-. And I see no difficulty in equating this ooft- with the O.H.G.uobida, M.H.G.wirfe, which is obviously derived from the very verb (G. iiben, Du. oeven) which I have already discussed. Of course