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Stowe Missal was among the Stowe MSS. bought by Government in 1883 from Lord Ashburnham. One hundred and forty-eight volumes connected with Ireland from this purchase were deposited in the library of the Royal Irish Academy in Dublin, the Stowe Missal being among them. The remaining and larger portion of the MSS. was similarly deposited in the British Museum. The Stowe Missal is thus at present preserved in the Academy's care in Dublin. GRENVILLE A. J. COLE, R.I.A.

GOWER (9 th S. ix. 68). There is no con- nexion. Gower is a land barony in Gla- morganshire. It is the name of a man in Yorkshire. H. R. GRENFELL.

"SAULIES" (9 th S. ix. 108). It is Jamieson who gives an " A.-S. sal." There is no such word. He means salu, which is Mod. E. sallow. Saule, a willow tree, would have given a monosyllabic word saule, without -ie. In order to obtain a dissyllabic saul-ie, we must go back to a dissyllabic French form ; and if we are to guess (which is still yearned after), we might as well go back to the O. Fr. saoule, glutted, which was fre- quently used to mean simply drunk, or a drunken fellow. But let us hope that the hired mourners knew better. CELER.

" IN PETTO " (9 th S. viii. 443 ; ix. 58). I notice that Mr. Kipling, in ' Kim,' p. 341, makes his Russian say, with reference to Hurree Babu, "He represents in petto India in transition the monstrous hybridism of East and West." The meaning of in petto in this passage seems to be "in miniature" not "in the recesses of his breast." The first reference is misprinted "413" in the heading to Miss ROBERTS'S reply. W. F. PRIDEAUX.

" PEN-NAME " (9 th S. ix. 28, 151). Dr. Annan- dale's ' Imperial Dictionary ' (1882) attributes this expression to Bayard Taylor. Now if this statement be correct, Bacon could not have used the word, for his Excellency the United States Minister at Berlin was born on 11 January, 1825, and died on 19 December, 1878. I fail to find the word in any dictionary of an earlier date than the above named, though I have searched in many.

EVERARD HOME COLEMAN. 71, Brecknock Road.

REV. JOHN TAUNTON (9 th S. ix. 9). The Composition Books for First Fruits show no trace of him as vicar of Axb ridge. A John Taunton, clerk (index gives Tainton), com- pounded for first fruits of Castle Carey, 7 February, 1592, and had for bondsmen

George Yonge, of Compton Dando, co. Somer- set, and James Kyrton, of Almisforde, co. Somerset, gent. Bondsmen, being very often relatives of the compounder, help in identifi- cation. GERALD MARSHALL. Wandsworth.

LONDRES (9 th S. viii. 443 ; ix. 35). I ven- ture to think that G. E. R. is in error when he states that the first mention of William de Londres is found in 1128. William de Londres, or London, was one of the twelve knights who accompanied Robert Fitzhamon, who was persuaded by Eineon to come to Wales to help Jestyn. This was about the year 1090. I think it will be found that William de Londres, or Londinensis, was born in London, and that Fitzhamon gave him the castle and manor of Ogmore, and William thus became Lord Ogmore. This William de Londres had a son Maurice ; the former soon after the conquest of Glamorgan founded a priory at Ewenny for the Benedictines, the latter in 1141 made a cell there to St. Peter's Abbey of Gloucester.

Maurice left a son named, after his grand- father, William de Londres. The ruins of Ewenny Abbey are among the most interest- ing architectural studies in this country. There is, or was, a sepulchral stone to the memory of Maurice de Londres, an orna- mental cross in relief, extending the whole length, with the inscription

Ici gist Morice de Londres le fondeur, Dieu lui rend son labour.

The flat, coffin-shape stone, with its Norman- French inscription, is of considerable value, assisting as it does the tracing of the history of other monuments of the class.

ALFRED CHAS. JONAS.

BRANDON, EXECUTIONER (9 th S. ix. 9, 70). I am deeply indebted to MR. STEPHENS for his able account of the various original papers relating to Richard Brandon. I had, however, previously read all these papers, but MR. STEPHENS'S review of them will, lam sure, prove of much aid to others interested in the subject. The print, which represents the headsman cutting off the head of the " kneeling " king, must, as MR. STEPHENS points out, be admitted as some evidence in favour of the theory of the " high " block, but I consider, nevertheless, that the evidence adduced in support of the "low" block, or slab, is far stronger. Nearly all the best contemporary records describing the execu- tion state that Charles " lay down," that he asked why the block was not higher, and that he was told it was high enough. Moreover, a Spanish contemporary manuscript mentions