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 250 NOTES AND QUERIES. [9th s. vi. SEPT. 29, im Horace Walpole were both educated at Eton and King's, but whether on the foun- dation I cannot say. In one of the chantries of the chapel is the tomb of the young Marquess ot Blandford, only son of the great Duke of Marlborough, who died of smallpox when at King's College. It is a large marble tomb, having on it a long epitaph. Some little time since, when I was talking to the Vice-Provost, he told me that " the whole college was now filled with young men as undergraduates" — different indeed from former times, of which Wordsworth wrote : Tax not the royal saint with vain expense, With ill-matched aims the architect who planned (Albeit labouring for a scanty band Of white-robed scholars only) this immense And glorious work of fine intelligence. ' Ecclesiastical Sonnets,' xliii. JOHN PICKFORD, M.A. Newbourue Rectory, Woodbridge. 'EARLIEST USE OF RjME ON THE DAYS OF THE MONTH.—I find in 'The Return from Parnassus,' 1606 (Act III. sc. i.) :— Sir Had. How many days hath September? ImmtrHo. Aprill, June, and November, February hath 28 alone and all the rest hath 30 and one. Is there an earlier instance of this rime ? W. MURPHY GRIMSHAW. " PILEKOC."—Under the year 1317, Blome- field, in his 'History of Norwich' (1745, ii. 603, 633), describes the first chantry priest in the church of St. Stephen as Henry de Thorn ham, pilekoc. What was a pilekoc? In ' N. & Q.,' 5th S. ix. 345 and 377, Pelekoc is given as an obsolete surname, and from ' King Lear,' III. iv., is quoted the passage Pillicock sat on pillicock's hill. Reference is also made to a French caricatu- rist. Jules Pellecocq, living in May, 1878. - find no explanation of pilhcock in any Shak- spearian volume to which I have access. The word is not in Nares. JAMES HOOPER. Norwich. (Schmidt, in his excellent 'Lexicon,' says, "A term of endearment with a lascivious double meaning."] SERJEANT HAWKINS, CIRCA 1673-1749 (1750 N.S ).—Is there any clear evidence on the question whether William Hawkins, Serjeant-at-Law, author of 'Hawkins's Pleas of the Crown,' was educated at Oxford or at Cambridge ? The books do not agree upon the subject. 1. The 'Diet, of Nat. Biog.' (vol. xxv p. 230) says that " in 1689 he graduated B.A at St. John's College, Cambridge, and M.A, in 1693." This is apparently said on the authority of Woolrych's ' Eminent Serjeants. 2. There was undoubtedly a William Hawkins of St. John's College, Cambridge, 3.A. 1689, M.A. 1693; see ' Graduati Canta- jrigienses.' 3. I can find no person mentioned in ' The Admissions to St. John's College, Cambridge' published 1882), with whom I can identify x>rn at Barnelmes, Surrey, son of Francis Hawkins, D.D.," and admitted pensioner 26 June, 1686, cet. sixteen. 4. Foster's 'Alumni Oxonienses, 1500-1714)' p. 677, has the following entry:— " Hawkins, William, s. John, of London, gent. Pembroke Coll., matric. 28 Feb., 169576. aged 14; B.A. from Oriel Coll. 1699, fellow 1700, M.A. 1702 ; bar.-at-law, of the Inner Temple, 1707 ; Serjeant-at- law 1 Feb. 1723/4; died at Hornchurch, Essex, 19Feb., 1749/50; lather of William, 1737,and Philip, 1740. See Rawl., iv. 283; Woolrych's 'Lives of Eminent Serjeants,' ii. 513; Foster's ' Judges and Barristers'; and ' UN.B.'" 5. In Kirby's ' Winchaster Scholars' the William Hawkins of Oriel College, M.A. 1702, is identified with William Hawkins, who was elected scholar at Winchester in 1690, aged ten, and baptized at St. Swithun, Winchester. An examination of the names in Hoi gate's ' Winchester Long Rolls, 1653-1721,' leads me to think that William Hawkins, the scholar, was still at Winchester College in September, 1697, but left before September, 1698. H. C. AUTHOR OF POEM. — Can any of your readers tell me the name of the author of, or the title of, the volume wherein the following lines may be found 1— I watched her pass into the far-off country. Hand in my hand, she had gone forth to where Message, voice, touch of mine, could never reach her. Tumultuous rose, dethroning numb despair, A mighty longing for the Land Arcadia: Surely the loved are there ! Lo ! I am here a irilgrim and a stranger ; A sojourner. as all my fathers were; Nor knew they rest far from the Land Arcadia, If they had once been there! I have only seen them quoted in MS. with the addition " From ' A Citizen of no Mean Country' by K. B." H. R. N. Norwich. ST. AMELIA'S LEAF.— This is a plant, probably a kind of mint, with a sweet smell. 1 noticed it growing at a cottage door near Lough Noagh, east side. The woman of the house gave me a little bit, and said it was called St. Amelia's leaf, but the bit was lost before I could get it identified. What plant is known by this name ' W. H. PATTERSON.
 * his B.A. of 1689 except " William Hawkins,