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I cannot find any definite statement respect- ing the islands. Higden's ' Polycronycon,' 1527, says (938 or 939) : " Thenne he toke to his subieccyon Cornugallia and amended Exceter." Holinshed, 'Chronicles,' 1577, gives a fuller account :

" After this hee subdued also the Cornishmen : and whereas till those daes they inhabited the citie of Exeter, mingled amongst the Englishmen so that the one nation was as strong within the citie as the other, he ridde them quiet out of the same and repaired the wall &c. and so removed the Cornish- men further into the west parts of the country that he made Tamer water to be the confines between

the Englishmen and them."

JOHN RADCLIFFE.

In Lysons's * Magna Britannia' (1814), vol. in., 'Cornwall,' it is recorded (p. 331) : "The first mention we find of the Scilly Islands in history is in the tenth century, when they were subdued by King Athelstan." The authors give Camden as their authority.

HARRY HEMS.

Fair Park, Exeter.

The origin of the name, with references to historical works and early authorities, will be found in 5 th S. ii., iii. ; 6 th S. ix., x.

EVERARD HOME COLEMAN. 71, Brecknock Road.

TRANSLATOR'S NAME WANTED (9 th S. viii. 143). ' Hero and Leander,' a poem from the Greek of Museeus, was translated with notes by Edward Burnaby Greene, London, 1773. In Halkett and Laing. Whether the edition published by Foulis is a second of the above I am unable to inform MR. CURRY.

JOHN RADCLIFFE.

ANGLO-HEBREW SLANG : " KYBOSH " (9 th S. vii. 188, 276, 416 ; viii. 87, 150). In my boy- hood, now fifty years ago, the expression " put the kybosh on " was frequently used at school in games of emulation, such as leaping, throwing the cricket ball, &c. It was an injunction to the player who came last, and its meaning was invariably a com- pound of the familiar locutions "Put your best foot foremost," " Go in and win," " Show them how to do it." T. DUNNING EGBERTS.

Condover.

REIMS RELICS OF THE PAST (9 th S. viii. 282). The little bibliographical romance attaching to the'Textedu Sacre,' or "oath- book," so called because the French kings at their coronation laid their hands on the relics in its jewelled cover, is related at length in Sir F. Madden's edition of Syl- yestre's ' Universal Palaeography,' as well as in my ' History of the Alphabet,' from one of which books, or from a guide-book, the

Daily Telegraph has apparently conveyed it, without acknowledgment, but with sundry errors. The mysterious script of this MS. remained unknown for centuries, till the clue was at last given at the time of the visit made by the Czar Peter the Great to Rheims. This Slavonic MS. has now been traced to the library of the Emperor Charles IV., King of Bohemia, from which it came to Rheims in 1574. ISAAC TAYLOR.

SHAKESPEARE QUERIES (9 th S. vii. 388, 494 ; viii. 86, 148, 294). You will doubtless have many references to academic wall-verses and pall- verses, some of them before Shakespeare's time. I do not remember that Shakespeare himself actually alludes to such verses, unless the Rosalind verses which Orlando placed on the " palm trees " in the Forest of Arden were wall-verses, or unless Paris was referring to pall-verses when he said, by the vault where Juliet lay,

My hands

With funeral praises do adorn thy tomb.

The point upon which I wish to address you is an addition to Gunning's ' Reminis- cences ' (as to the funeral of Dr. Chevallier) by a quotation from Wordsworth's 'Auto- biographical Memoranda.' The poet says :

" Very soon after I was sent to St. John's College, the Master, Dr. Chevallier, died; and according to the custom of that time, his body, after being placed in the coffin, was removed to the hall of the college, and the pall, spread over the coffin, was stuck over by copies of verses, English or Latin, the composition of the students of St. John's. My uncle [Dr. Cookson, who had been a Fellow of the college] seemed mortified when upon inquiry he learnt that none of these verses were from my pen, ' because,' said he, ' it would have been a fine oppor- tunity for distinguishing yourself.' I did not, however, regret that I had been silent on this occasion, as I felt no interest in the deceased person, with whom I had had no intercourse, and whom I had never seen but during his walks in the college grounds."

It will be noticed that Wordsworth is not quite accurate when he places the funeral of Dr. Chevallier " very soon after " his entrance at St. John's. The poet "at the Hoop alighted, famous inn," in October, 1787 ; the Master did not die till March, 1789. But, as Wordsworth did not write his 'Autobio- graphical Memoranda ' till some sixty years afterwards (1847), the discrepancy may be excused. H. P. STOKES.

Cambridge.

"RACING" (9 th S. viii. 104, 150, 291). The contribution at the last reference is interest- ing, and none the less so because it is founded on misconception. If your learned con- tributor will re-read, he will find that I