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 1- 9»»S.v1.Jms,19w.j Nofrss AND QUERIES. 75 numbers. This wa.s originally supposed to bring the history to date, but the ‘ mass of material” rendered it impossible, and Mr. Howitt finished it to the end of the reign of George III., 1820. The dates of the volumes are1857, 1858 (2), 1860, 1861, 1862. GEORGE Rosmson. Dalston. LOLLARD TOWERS (9"‘ S. v. 496).-Of course MR. HOOPER knows of the idea that the very curious top room of Lambeth Palace, “Lo_- lards’ Tower,” was not so much an arch1- episcopal as a manorial prison. If a query may be added to a note, it IS asked whether the long survival of the lining boards of that room is not notewortxy. The “ black-letter” cuttings on the boa s look quite genuine, and would seem to carry back the settlng up of those boards to the sixteenth century or earlier. And yet the boards are elm. H. J. Mouns. Dorchester. For articles on this subject see the Quar- terly Review for July, 1878. Others by the late EDWARD SOLLY and the late Rsv. W. Smnsow SIMPSON will be found in ‘N . & Q.,’ 51° S. x. 162, 241, 474. EVRRARD Home Coucuan. 71, Brecknock Road. Wanmmrssu (9"' S. v. 515).-The missal in awestion appears to belong to the.d1ocese of armia, armie, or Warmelandla, now called “ Ermeland,” a district of East Prussia (near Kdnigsberg), renowned for its ancient see, whose bishop, during the fourteenth century, had obtained the title and dignity of “ Prussiae Reglisa Primas.” It was unlted with the Polish ingdom from 1466 to 1772, when it was incorporated in the Prussian state. H. KREBS. Oxford. I quote the following from the ‘Notitia Episcopatuum’of Miraeus (Aubert le Mire), 1613, p. 411 : “ Varmia, Warmerlcmflt, Prussue Regal1sEprouincia, sub ditioue Re§1s Polonuse: cuius pisco us sedem habet runsbergae, vulgo Braum£erg.” For “ Warmerlandt ” read, in accordance with modern orthography, “Ermeland” or “Ermland,” under w ich name there is 'a voluminous account in Gruber’s ‘Allgemeine Encyklopadie/ not to mention other German encyclopeedias where it is less copiously treated. “ `rmeland, en latin Warmia,” is the beginning of an article in Larousse’s ‘ Grand Dictionnaire Universel ’; and a brief notice appears in so accessible a book as ‘Chamberss Encyclopaedia# s.v. ‘Ermelandf mi _t|__, ¢ Ermeland was one of the eleven districts into which ancient Prussia was divided. and, after its conquest bg' the Teutonic Knights, one of the four bis oprics- founded b the Pope in 1250 out of the lands of the (llrder. The bishgps were independent of the knights, acknowl ging only t e supremacy of Rome, and during the fourteenth centur were raised to t e dighnity of plrinces of tlae em- Ezire. In 1466, w en, by t e e of Thorn, rmeland, with the whole of West Prussia, was ceded to Poland, with which kingdom the knights had been continuall at war, the bishop was made a member of' the Polish senate and invested with the right, on a vacation of the throne, of convoking the Prussian estates. Ermeland was reunited to Prussia on the first partition of Poland in 1772, and comprised in the government of Konigsberg. Amon; the most famous of its bishops was fEneas ylvius Piccolomini (Pope Pius I.). The title “ Bisho of Ermeland ” is still borne by a Catholic gishop in Eastern Prussia, whose excommunication in 1871 of Dr. Wollner for denying the Pope’s infalli- bility caused a great sensation. The episcopal seat was originally at Braunsberg, as stated by Mirseus; it was subsequently transferred to Heilsberg, and is now at Frauenburg, the cathedral of which contains the tomb of Copernicush “canonicus Varmiensis ” in the words of t e inscription placed thereon in 1581. F. ADAMS. AN OLD CURE FOR Snmcuzs (9"' S. v. 514).-Mrs. Woolley omitted one important particular, Only a black cat’s blood is of any use in shing es, and even that has been known to do hurt. See Dyer’s ‘En lish Folk-lore,’ p. 147. C. C. CLIFFORD: Bmoss (9”* S. v. 355, 499).-In Hasted’s ‘History of Kent’ (vol. iii. folio edition), under the ‘Historgeof Wickham- breux,’ it is said that soon a r 3 Hen III. by the marriage of Magaret, dau hter and heir of Walter de Cli ord (by ignes de Cund ), with John de Braose, the manor into that name, and William de raose was possessed of it in 42 Hen. III. (1257-8). This statement does not accord with other facts concerning the families, hence my inquiry for further information; for when, in 1253, the son of the king was knigihted, William Longespee held Wic ham in ent by serjeanty from the Bishop of Lincoln ; so that the manor probabhylpassed from the Longespee familydto that o raose. Hasted may haveconfused argaretédaughter of Llywelyn), the widow of John e Braose (died 1232), who remarried Walter de Clifford