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all Foundation, and supposed to be calculated to serve the Interest of private Persons." The Margate hoy, like the Leigh, also seems to have been anxious to show that it was doing the "clean thing" in plying to and from that popular haven innocent of contraband. In view of PROF. SKEAT having pointed out such early instances of the word "hoy," it is perhaps superfluous to mention that among the early leaden tokens in the Beaufoy Collection there is one of the " Hoy, or sailing vessel," while two other and later copper tokens relate to the same sign. Was it the dubious character of the hoy that gave Sydney Smith occasion to allude, by way of contrast, to the " religious hoy which sets off every week for Margate " ?

J. HOLDEN MACMlCHAEL.

. HOWE OF CORNWALL (9 th S viii. 305, 349). MR. HAMBLEY ROWE will find a list of some of the Englishmen who joined the Crusade in 1270 in Rymer's * Fcedera ' (ed. 1816), vol i. p. 483, and doubtless there are many other- similar protections on the Patent Rolls of Henry III. MR. ROWE has confused two different persons in his query. The Black Prince never went on a crusade, and Edward, the son of Henry III., was not a prince. Until the conquest of Wales there was no principality in the kingdom of England, and in ^ 1270 no prince, except Llewellyn ap Griffith. The first son of an English king who bore the title of prince was Edward's own son, who afterwards reigned as Edward II. Edward I., before succeeding to the crown, usually called himself and was called "dorninus Edwardus domini regis primo- genitus." Though in the Middle Ages and later the word "prince" was sometimes used as a vague complimentary title in writing to kings or other great noblemen as, for instance, the King of France, in a letter to Henry III., styles him "egregio principi karissimo consanguineo suo H. eadem gratia illustri regi Anglie," &c. its modern applica- tion to all the sons of a king of England has no justification in antiquity," and commences, as far as I know, in what a recent writer in the Archceoiof/ical Journal calls "a period of heraldic decadence." C. T. M.

I was told some years ago, on the authority of * a list of Cornish knights who went to the second Crusade," that among them was a Sir John de Rose wall, of the ancient family of that name who for many centuries lived at Rosewall in the parish of Towednack. I have never been able to discover this list, or to obtain any evidence as to the truth of the above statement. The earliest Subsidy List

that of 1327 names a John de Ryswal and others of the family. I imagine that Daniel may have seen such a list of Cornish knights.

JOHN HOBSON MATTHEWS. Town Hall, Cardiff.

" CICERO otf AUGURS" (9 th S. vii. 260). Here is another reference by Cicero to the subject : " Mirabile videtur, quod non rideat haruspex, cum haruspicem viderit." 'De Nat. Deorum,' i. 26-(71).

In the quotation previously given "aiebat" should, I think, take the place of "dicebat." ROBERT PIERPOINT.

St. Austin's, Warrington.

MENILEK (9 th S. iv. 7, 112, 171). There has something else turned up on this subject since the reply of COL. PRIDEAUX, for which I thank him. It is from the Pall Mall Maga- zine of August, by Wm. Waldorf Astor, entitled ' Balkameh ':

"An element of uncertainty will always attach to Abyssinian tradition that the royal family of that kingdom, whereof Menelik is the present representa- tive, descends from a son of the Queen of Sheba. I have asked the opinion of Egyptologists, of Oriental scholars, and of eminent Churchmen as to the exist- ence of this child, and while the consensus of opinion rests upon inferential conclusions, there is in the surmise which attributes its paternity to Solomon nothing conflicting with our knowledge of the Prince of Wisdom."

And further :

"And King Solomon gave to the Queen of Sheba all her desire, -whatsoever she asked, beside that which she had brought unto the king, so she turned and went away to her own land, she and her ser- vants." 2 Chrori. ix. 12.

RICHARD HEMMING.

BURNT SACRIFICE : MOUND BURIAL (9 th S. viii. 80, 151). In November, 1886, a gentleman who got in at Ottery St. Mary, on the way from Torquay to Surbiton, and who gave me his card as vicar or rector of Salterton, told me that he had known a farmer sacrifice a calf, building his altar on the highest part of his land. The story of a gold corselet looks a little like that of a "long bow," does it not ? I find flint flakes, "as good as new," in the surface soil of my back garden. I have a bronze anklet from a tumulus on the communal cow -pasture (Chaumont) on La Montague de Chateauneuf such an upland pasture as in Sussex would be called "the parish down " ; there is, or used to be, an equally extensive water-meadow pasture, reserved in the spring for hay ; but I fear it has now been mostly enclosed. The same man (Macon ?) who told me of his father baving been a prisoner of war in England informed me at the same time of a treaty