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1390, 1391, 1394, 1395, 1398, 1399 ; and 1412-90 inclusive (except 1418, 1424, 1430, 1458, 1466, 1471, 1477). It is just possible that some of your contributors or readers may have come across the names of persons who were mayors during some of the above years. Should that be so, I shall esteem it a great favour if they will oblige me with the same, and any other items relative thereto that may be useful to one who is wishful to obtain not only a full list of mayors, but other facts relating to the old borough. R. SIMMS.

Newcastle, Staffs.

COWLEY'S POEMS SET TO Music. Can any of your readers refer me to a copy of, or give any information concerning, a volume men- tioned by Dr. Grove in his ' Dictionary of Music,' entitled "Poems of Mr. Cowley and others. Composed into Songs, &c., by William King, Organist of New-Colledge in the Uni- versity of Oxon. 1668 "1 I have failed to find any mention of the volume in well-known bibliographies, and the British Museum does not possess a copy. Is the volume rare and valuable? E. L.

ISAAC PENINGTON THE YOUNGER. I have in my possession the complete works of Isaac Penington the younger, in two parts, bound in one volume, and dated 1681, dealing with the ground or causes which are said to have induced the court at Boston, in New England, to make the order or law of banishment upon pain of death against the Quakers. The book, I may add, is in excel- lent preservation. Is it scarce ?

ONE IN DOUBT.

" CUSTICE." Some forty years ago, when I was a little boy at a dame's school in the far west of England, two forms of corporal punishment were administered to the recal- citrant, the one by the cane and the other by the custice. ^ As I do not find this latter word in ' H.E.D.,' though it was unhappily common amongst those of us who were youngsters then, I would add the information (none about the cane being required even by studious readers of ' N. & Q.') that it was a flat black ruler, and that the punishment consisted of strokes from it upon the open palm. Is the word generally known, and is it derived from custos, as signifying the wand of authority of

the keeper, guardian, warden, or custodian"]

DUNHEVED.

[The ' E.D.D.' assigns the word custice, or custies, to Devon and Cornwall, and carries it back to

LAVINGTON IN SUSSEX.-" Peter Lombard," in the Church Times of 7 June, says that

Mr. Sargent bequeathed the estate of Laving- ton to the late Bishop Samuel Wilber- force. But is this correct ] I always under- stood that Bishop Wilberforce acquired the estate in right of his wife, the elder co-heiress of the Sargents of Lavington. There were, I think, four daughters. Two married two brothers Wilberforce Samuel, the bishop, and Henry, rector of East Farleigh. One married George Dudley Kyder, and the other married Henry Edward (afterwards Cardinal) Man- ning. I write from memory and under correction. It has always been noted as a curious fact that Manning, Ryder, and Henry Wilberforce all joined the Church of Rome. Samuel Wilberforce did not, but his only daughter and her husband did. So a cynical writer said that the bishop was quite right in opposing the Church of Rome, " an erroneous system which had seduced all his nearest relations." GEORGE ANGUS.

St. Andrews, N.B.

'THE KING or SPAIN'S BIBLE.' Was any seventeenth-century work called by this name in jest or in popular speech 1

PERCY SIMPSON.

BRESLAW. In 9 th S. vii. 110 there appears a quotation from 'Advice to Officers/ 1782, from which I repeat the fol- lowing : "A good adjutant should be able to play as many tricks with a regiment, as Breslaw can with a pack of cards." W as this Breslaw a Jew? Can any one furnish me with biographical details'? If he turns out to be some undisclosed ancestor of mine I shall regret raising the ghost of the past, inasmuch as, in defiance of Talleyrand's warning, I have an ingrained detestation of card -play ing. Wherefore, if the theories of heredity are not entirely valueless, I need not fear the sought-for information respect- ing my unknown namesake.

M. L. R. BRESLAR.

PHILPOT MSS. What is the history of these MSS., said to be preserved at the College of Arms 1 What do they contain, and are they of historical value 1 H. M. T.

MACKENZIE OF GAIRLOCH. The last member of the family of Mackenzie of Gairloch who matriculated arms was Sir Alexander Mac- kenzie, the second baronet. The date is not officially recorded, but is said to be 1723. The blazon is as follows : Quarterly, 1 and 4, Azure, a hart's head ca bossed, and attired with ten tines or; 2 and 3, Azure, three frasiers (or cinquefoils) argent. Crest, a dexter arm holding a garland of laurel proper. Motto, "Virtute et valore." Which