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 236 vi. SEPT. 22, 1900. NOTES AND QUERIES. posed that the difference in the appearance of the medullary rays [in the oak and the Spanish chestnut] is one of degree, they being broader in oak than in chestnut." I stated, and now wish to restate, the fact that some of the medullary rays in the oak are broad, and these give the feature to its wood by which it is readily distinguished from that of Spanish chestnut, in which all the rays are narrow. The difference is one of degree. The " visible" streaks in wood of oak are entirely a consequence of these broad rays. The wood of chestnut, having none of them, has no " visible" streaks ; but, all the same, it is traversed by an abundance of medullary rays—more numerous, indeed, because all are narrow—and they are quite recognizable to minute inspection. There is no flower" in wood of chestnut, because there are no broad rays. Your correspondent will forgive my saying that he should not write of the " threads or vessels which in chestnut do the duty of medullary rays"— one might as well s^eak of the " lifts which do the duty of corridors" in a building—a possible construction, no doubt, but one which nature has found unpractical and unprogressive in relation to the requirements of the vegetation of our epoch. As a matter of fact, the vessels (vasa) in the two woods are distributed in so much the same manner, giving the well-known flame-pattern in each case, that expert knowledge is required for their distinction. SENGA. MR. BLASHILL says, " Only one instance oi the use of chestnut in Gothic work is known.' Here is a second—a very small exception admittedly, to a doubtless true general rule Years and years ago part of a wall of Ford- ington Vicarage nere was pulled down Under rough-cast there appeared a smal' fifteenth-century window. Outwardly it hac an arched head of stone. Inwardly it was lintelled with two little sturdy timbers, which had every appearance of being original. One was oak, the other chestnut. I am sure o: it. I made a box of it; so I had a good look at its grain. H. J. MOULE. Dorcnestor. RONJAT, THE KINO'S SERJEANT-SURGEON (9th S. v. 475 ; vi. 37, 137).—My suggestion to the effect that this name was an anagram o Sterne's manufacture was, I find, entirely superfluous. In 'The Gold-headed (Jane (edition of 1827, p. 24 et seq.) are to be founc full particulars of the illness and accident o William III.; of the quarrel over the treat rnent between his Dutch physician Bidloo his French surgeon Konjat; of the sub equent death of their royal patient, and of he paper war which resulted in the publica- .ipn of the following : " Verhaal der Laatste /iekte en het overlijden, van Willera de )erde, <fcc., in Leide, 1702," written by iidlop in Low Dutch, "in order, as his enemies said, that few might read it in this country," and "Lettre de M. Roniat, Premier Jhirurgeon de feu Sa Majeste Britanriique Uuillaume III., ecrite de Londres a un tfedecin de ses Amis en Hollande," published jy Henry Ribotteau, bookseller in the Strand, over-against Bedford's Buildings, London, 1703. GEORGE C. PEACHEY. Brightwalton, Wantage. CLIFFORD : BRAOSE (9th S. v. 355,499; vi. 75). -The following notes concerning the Braose Family may be of some use to MR. HUSSEY. Cal. of Close Rolls, 2 Edward I., No. 4, p. 206, ran, as well as I could make out the writing :— "Compt. fuit cor. Esc. citra Tr. qd. m. de Wyk tenet de Honora de Thony quo fuit ux. Roe. de Thonv. dudum defuneti temp. Hen. III. custod. qd. ter. id. Rex coneess. Rico de Brus hend. usq. ad leg*1 etat...? he'dem pfat. Rex qd. exitus? m. pd. a tempore quo id occone contenco'is inter Godehudam sororem pfati. Rpgeri de Wyk, et Walt, de Mer- worth nepoteni ipm. Roger, in man...? oapt. fuit pfat. Rico de Bru8 libet." Patent Rolls, 1297 A.D., memb. 11 d : Pro- tection with clause " nolumus" till Mich" for clergy in Devon. M. 9, Hugh de Brewose, parson of Penebrugg. In the ' Calendar of Patent Rolls' temp. King John I noticed half a column of the index devoted to Braose. From C. Worthy's ' Devon Wills' I glean : " Wm. de Braose (great-grandson of luhellns or Ludhellus, Baron of Totnes and Barnstaple temp. Wm. I., son of Alured, Earl of Bretagne) hem a moiety of the honour of Totnes, and made partition thereof with Roger de Valletort, heir to Henry, son of Roger de Novant Sir Roger Valletort obtained Lapflode, within the Valletort manor of Bridford, in partition with Wm. de Braose, in 1208 Wm. de Cantilnpe of Broad- hemston. fto., was the husband of Eva Braose, granddau. of Emma de Balun of Gloucester." See also Worthy's 'Ashburton and its Neighbourhood.' ETHEL LEGA-WEEKES. 'THE STREAM OF TIME' (9th S. vi. 170).— 'The Stream of Time' was a chart exhibiting the course of ancient and modern universal history, chronology, and biography. It was originally compiled by Prof. Frederick Strass, and was translated from the German in 1810, with a ' Descriptive Guide,' by William Bell, of Hull, who was afterwards known as a writer on folk - lore and a contributor to ' N. & Q.' (4th S, ii. 529). Later editions of