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 g» s. vi. SEPT. s, i9oo.] NOTES AND QUERIES. 195 a tenant were inherited by custom by all hi sons, but that such custom was ever uni versal or even general amongst Swaledal manors is certainly not true. It MR. PEACOCK will tell us precisely to what Swaledal manors he refers, and will kindly afford u some typical examples of his "numerou extracts, he may do something to assis students of the history of land tenure ; bu the vague inaccuracies which constitute hi two notes on ' Borough-English ' are worse than useless—they are misleading. Though I pointed out MR. PEACOCK': blunder in confounding Skidby with Skeeby he still persists in speaking of " Skeeby 01 Skidby," as if they were one place. "As to Skeeby, or Skidby," he writes, " the origina record says 'Schideby.'" What "origina record"? In penning such a sentence MR PEACOCK, I greatly fear, betrays his limited acquaintance with original records generally And why does he persistently misspell the well-known local name Swaledale 1 J. K. BOYLE. HulL " LE MOT DE CAMBRONNE " (9th S. iv. 265, 355, 541).—I am at present making a transla- tion of the exceedingly interesting ' Scala- cronica' of Sir Thomas Gray, and I find that General Cambronne is not the first to use this word upon an historic occasion. Gray alleges that after King Edward had deposed John Balliol in 1296 he appointed the Earl of Warren Guardian of Scotland, and handed him a proper seal of office in the abbey of Newminster, and remarked in jest, "Bon bosoigue fait qy de raerde se deliuer." which may be interpreted, " He does good business who gets rid of dirt." HERBERT MAXWELL. TRUFFLE-HUNTING PIGS (9th S. vi. 129).— A very long article on truffles appears in All the Year Round, vol. xvi., 1876 ; another in Chambers's Journal, vol. Ixix., 1892 ; the St. James's Magazine, vol. xiv. ; also ' N. & Q.,' 3rd S. vi. 209, 398 ; vii. 167, 265. Possibly the pigs may hold a place in one or the other. EVERARD HOME COLEMAN. 71, Brecknock Road. See Chambers'* Journal, vol. Ixix.. 1892. W. H. PEET. AGE OF ENTRY AT INNS OF COURT (9th S. vi. 107).—The admission of Wentworth, Earl of Strafford, as of the Inner Temple at fourteen years of age would be by no means an exceptional case, although it was not usual at that or any other time to enter boys at our Inns of Court. From my annotated extracts from the original records I could name some admissions there at as early an age as eleven or twelve. Until comparatively recent years the purpose for which at least most of the persons were entered was not, however, as your correspondent probably imagines, for the study of the law. W. I. R. V. "TASHLICH " (9th S. vi. 128).—The custom of Tashlich is religiously observed among the Jews throughout the world. Between the morning and afternoon services of the first day of New Year it is their custom to go to some river or to the seaside and shake their garments over the water. By some this ceremony is represented as a casting away of their sins and an accomplishment of the prophetical declaration, " Thou wilt cast all their sins into the depths of the sea." And others say :— " It is customary to (to to the river, where there are fish, to put us in mind that we are taken away suddenly, as a fish caught in a net; we therefore ought to repent while it is in our power, and not leave that for to-morrow which may as well be done to-day." L. JACOBSON. TRENTAL = " MONTH'S MIND " (9th S. vi. 104). —I am afraid I disagree with MR. JOHN A. RANDOLPH in his statement that •' trental " is
 * he equivalent of " month's mind." The
 * erm is common enough in wills of the Middle

Ages. Thus one Helen Holden, of Orford, in Suffolk, whose will is dated 1527, bequeaths to the "Fryers Augustyns of Orfford x' to syng a trentall of Massis for my Sowle, the money to be Ptid among them that be priests." The Rev. Father Bridgett, in his ' History of ,he Holy Eucharist in Great Britain,' vol. ii. ). 150, says :— A trental of Masses varied very much in the manner of celebrating it; thus one Mass might be said on thirty different days, or, which was very incommon, they might be said by thirty priests in ne day, e.g., Thomas Croughton willed that a 'rental of Masses be said on the day of his burial. )ften the Trental of St. Gregory is mentioned; his consisted of ten different Masses three times epeated. The Masses were the Nativity of Our x>rd, the Epiphany, Our Lady's Purification and mnunciation, Our Lord's Resurrection and Ascen- ion, Pentecost, the Trinity, and Our Lady's Assumption and Nativity. Each Mass according o an ancient authority is to be said thrice within tie octaves of the respective feasts, so that the '•hole could not bo performed in less than nine lonths." 'he term "trental" is as unknown in the >resent day as " month's mind " was in pre- leforraation days. W. BANCROFT RANDALL. 23, Wellington Road, Old Charlton, Kent.