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seems to justify a conjecture that cogware was made of cobwool, rough, coarse, and lumpy. Q V.

P.S. Since writing the above I find another perplexing variant in Act 13 Richard II., stat. i. c. 19 :

" Qe nulle deinszein ou forein ne face autre refus de leynes sinoun cod, gard, & vilein, & qe nulle merchant nautre horn me achate ses leynes par celles paroles Goodpakkyng ne par autres paroles semblables."

The solution of the matter I must now leave to others.

" DRIVEBUNDLE." Dr. Pegge's definition of this word, " when a horse first carries one and then returns to fetch another, that is in carry- ing on double horse," is inadequate and to the general reader obscure ; yet the new 'Dialect Dictionary ' merely quotes it without addi- tion or explanation of any kind. In West Kent the word is in daily use, chiefly as a verb. If two waggons have to mount a severe hill, it is a common practice to harness both teams to the first, draw it to the top, and then return for the other. This is called "drift- bundling the hill," or simply " driftbundling." As we use "drift" for a number of animals driven, and " bundle " for to mix or to join, the origin of the phrase seems plain enough. Dr. Pegge's use, though never actually heard by me, would certainly be understood, as the word is freely used in metaphors. The sub- stantive, except in phrases like "Shall we make a drif tbundle of it ? " is not common. W. P. HASKETT-SMITH.

"CHIMPANZEE." In the second volume of the 'N.E.D.' (published 1893) this is stated to be the native name in Angola, therefore a Bantu word, but I see Prof. Skeat, in the new edition of his 'Concise Etymological Dictionary/ 1901, ascribes it to " the neigh- bourhood of the Gulf of Guinea." His in- formation, though later in date than Dr. Murray's, must oe less correct, as there can be no doubt of the existence of the Bantu form kampenzi among the tribes south of the Congo river. There is an island near the left bank, not very far from the mouth, which in Tuckey's 'Congo,' 1818, p. 92, is called ''Zoonga Kampenzey, or Monkey Island." In Burton's 'Gorilla Land,' 1870, vol. ii. p. 84, it is more grammatically written "Zunga chya Kampenzi," and translated " Chimpanzee Island." JAS. PLATT, Jun.

BOHEMIA IN THE ' WINTER'S TALE.' It is well known that Shakespeare in this play (follow- ing Robert Greene's story of ' Pandosto,' on which it is founded) represents Bohemia as a

maritime country, Antigonus landing upon its desert shore in the third scene of Act III. This mistake, we may presume, like that of Johnson about a "pastern," resulted from " ignorance, pure ignorance." But there is a similar one in a great modern work which is as evidently a mere slip. In Sir James Ramsay's ' Foundations of England,' vol. ii. p. 386, we read (anno 1139), "Then Stephen had to hurry to the Wiltshire coast." King Stephen was, according to lago in ' Othello,' "a worthy peer " who was prone to false economy in the purchase of some of his garments ; but notwithstanding his hurry, all his horses and all his men too could not have brought him to the coast of Wiltshire, as that county nowhere touches the sea. Nor can the word " coast " be taken in the old sense of " boundary," the king's objective being Ware- ham in Dorsetshire.

I feel sure all students of Sir James's histories hope that he will favour the public with a third, embracing the period from the accession of Henry II. to that of Henry IV., and thus complete the history of England up to the Tudor dynasty.

W. T. LYNN.

Blackheath.

MICHAEL SCOT. His 'Qvaestio cvriosa de Natvra Solis et Lvnae ' occupies folios 195 to 202 of "Pretiosa Margarita Novella de Thesavro, ac pretiosissimo Philosophorvm

Lapide, collectanea ex Arnaldo, Rhay-

mundo, Rhasi, Alberto, & Michaele Scoto ; per lanum Lacinium Calabrum nunc primum

in lucem edita," Venice, "apud Aldi

filios," 1546, 12mo. The earliest date in ' D.N.B.,' Ii. 61 b, is 1622. W. C. K

A FRIENDSHIP OF EIGHTY YEARS. The Guardian of 11 September, in a communicated in memoriam notice of the Rev. E. Brumell, rector of Holt, Norfolk, and formerly Fellow and Tutor of St. John's, Cambridge, states that the committal prayers at the 'uneral were read by the Rev. W. T. Kingsley, rector of South Kilvington, Yorkshire, a schoolfellow of Mr. Brumell at Morpeth, his olleague as proctor, 1846-7, and a friend of eighty years' standing. May I be allowed
 * .o pay, inani functus munere, a last tribute

>f respect to my old college tutor, and to testify to the unwearied pains that he took with his pupils 1 P. J. F. GANTILLON.

THE WANDERING MINSTREL.' The once- famous farce of 'The Wandering Minstrel,' n which Robson made such an astonishing success at the Olympic Theatre in the cha- racter of Jem Bags, was written by Henry