cidence of Easter Day and St. Mark's Day (which will occur in 1886). Will he kindly state what it is? W. M. M. "MASTER OF THE CHAUNCERY" (6th S. ix. 228). -That Masters of Chancery used, under certain circumstances, to hear causes in former times, is pretty clear from Chamberlayne's Angliæ Notitia for 1677. At p. 122 of the second part, it is stated that "the Master of the Rolls, in the absence of the Chancellor, hears causes and makes orders, by virtue of a commission, with two Masters, and that jure officii." G. F. R. B. HADHAM IN ESSEX (6th S. ix. 170).—AN ENGLISHMAN makes a mistake, for it is in Herts, about four miles from Bishop's Stortford. Latest information about it and the hall can be obtained by reading Mr. Cussans's Hist. of Herts, Hundred of Edwinstree. M.A.Oxon. AUTHORS OF QUOTATIONS WANTED (6th S. ix. 229). "A wealthy cit," &c., is the beginning of The Cit's Country Box, a ludicrous poem by Robert Lloyd, the intimate friend of Churchill. Lloyd was a miscellaneous writer, and in addition to his poems he wrote the Capricious Lovers, an opera, and four other dramatic pieces. Wilkes said of him, "He was contented to scamper round the foot of Parnassus on his little Welsh pouy, which seems never to have tired." Lloyd is said to have died a prisoner in the Fleet in 1764. FREDK. RULE, Miscellaneous. NOTES ON BOOKS, &c. Ye Olden Time: English Customs in the Middle Ages. By Emily S. Holt. (Shaw.) We have seldom met with a more useful book than that which Miss Holt has presented to the public. She must have been a most diligent student of medieval records to have got together the highly curious facts she has put before us. The collecting of mere facts, though by no means a work to be despised, is little in comparison with their arrangement. Miss Holt evidently knows not only what facts to observe, but how to classify them so that they shall illustrate each other. There is not a single chapter in her book which does not contain matter that will be new to most of her readers. How few persons know what the mediæval law as to marriage really was! We have known many, clerics as well as lay folk, exclaim in astonished wonder when it has been explained to them that in medieval England marriage "per verba de presenti was held to be good. Miss Holt understands this, and has endeavoured to make her readers do so too. So inveterate is prejudice, and so determined are many people to view the past through nineteenth-century spectacles, that we can only hold out to her the hope of a moderate degree of success. The chapter on clothing is very good, and contains a great amount of highly condensed information. It was a happy thought, in describing the pocketing sleeve of the twelfth and thirteenth centuries, to draw attention to the fact that it still exists in the heraldic charge known as the maunch, which is borne by the Hastings family and by those Nortons who suffered so cruelly for their participation in the Rising in the North, We remember once to have read a tale of extremely medieval character, written by some one whose fancy had been caught by these long sleeves. An English lady is represented running away from some place, whether a Turkish harem hunger she calls to mind that she has a loaf of bread in or an English nunnery we forget. When faint with the pocket of her sleeve. Though these sleeves were used to carry small objects in, we can hardly believe that a loaf of bread could be carried therein without its presence making itself felt. The medieval credulity as to relics is curiously illustrated by a present which Edward III. made to Westminster Abbey. that church, it seems, the vestments in which St. Peter was wont to say mass. One would like to know how he had acquired them, and what evidence he thought he had of their authenticity. He gave Early and Imperial Rome; or, Promenade Lectures on the Archaeology of Rome. By Hodder M. Westropp. (Stock.) MR. WESTROPP'S Promenade Lectures were, we have understood, listened to by a large and cultivated audience. He has done well in publishing them. There are many English men and women who having seen Rome will derive great pleasure from having their memories refreshed by these most useful comments on the objects yet to be seen above ground in the Eternal City. We wish Mr. Westropp had relied somewhat more upon himself. With a modesty which seems to us excessive, he tells us the views of other archeologists and historians, and keeps his own at times too much in the background. The last lecture, entitled "Ancient Marbles," is extremely valu. able for purposes of reference, as it gives a complete, or nearly complete, catalogue of the marbles that were used in Rome, with so much of description of them as to make fragments in most cases easy of identification. The plate of masons' marks on the wall which is commonly attributed to Servius Tullius is interesting. Marks identical in form are to be found on several of our own Norman buildings. We have noticed one or two rash statements. For example (p. 11), we read: "The Etruscans appear to underlying stratum of population over the whole world." have been an original Tauranian race, which formed the Surely there is no evidence whatever that the populations of Africa were Tauranian, and it is doubtful whether the natives of America can be so classed. The Yorkshire Archæological and Topographical Journal, pt. xxx. (vol. viii. pt ii.), throws light on a good many points of north-country family history and antiquities. Mr. H. E. Chetwynd-Stapylton continues his elaborate account of the Stapleton family, including pedigrees of the Richmondshire and Bedale and Carlton lines. The history of Ribston and the Knights Templars, by Rev. R. V. Taylor, is also continued, and the charters printed are very fully annotated from a genealogical point of view. We only regret that the earlier portions of these two papers are not before us. They are both valuable and interesting, and the same must be said for the paper on York Church Plate, by Mr. T. M. Fallow and Mr. R. C. Hope, which is well illustrated, and should be read along with the "Notes on Carlisle and other Church Plate" in vol. xxxix. of the Archæological Journal, for 1882. IN the Transactions of the Glasgow Archæological Society, vol. ii. pt. iii. (Glasgow, published for the Society), we find much matter of interest, proving the reality of the revival, which was mainly accomplished through the exertions of the late Alexander Galloway. A well-known contributor to our columns, Mr. W. G. Black, discusses the singularly vexed question of the etymology of Glasgow, and pronounces in favour of the double-name theory, deriving the name which has survived from a Gaelic, or, as he prefers to write it, "Goidelic" source. But we are not very well satisfied with the suggestion that this surviving name is an epithet of St. Kentigern, viz., "the Greyhound." Prof. Ferguson's paper on "Books of Receipts" contains a large amount of bibliographical detail on a rarely trodden part of the field of literature. THE Transactions of the Royal Historical Society, New Series, vol. i. pt. iii., will be found to contain an important paper by Sir Richard Temple, on the "Political Lessons of Chinese History," with a note on the same subject by Sir Thomas Wade, who was present at the reading, and took part in the discussion. Under existing circumstances, there is much reason for paying attention to the history of the "Middle Kingdom." PART V. of Mr. James Payn's Literary Recollections gives a good account of Whewell and De Quincey. Mr. Payn's mother showed to a dean of the English Church, then at the head of the High Church party at Oxford, some complimentary remarks of De Quincey concerning her son, and received the astounding reply, "Very flattering to your son, madam, no doubt; but who is this Mr. De Quincey?"-Shropshire is dealt with in All the Year Round in the Chronicles of English Counties."-Mr. Austin Dobson supplies to the English Illustrated Magazine a singularly interesting and attractive paper on Changes at Charing Cross. "The Belfry at Bruges" is another paper of much interest.-"A Pilgrimage to Selborne," by T. E. Kebbel, arrests and repays attention in Long man. Natices to Correspondents. We must call special attention to the following notices: address of the sender, not necessarily for publication, but same as upsee Dutch, Frisian being equivalent to Hol- It hath a heavy cast, 'tis upsee Dutch." C. LAWRENCE.-The lines commencing "'Twas whispered in heaven, 'twas muttered in hell," are not by Lord Byron, but by Miss Catharine Fanshawe. They were written in 1816, at Deepdene, the seat of the late Thomas Hope, and the original MS. was long preserved, and probably may still be found in the Deepdene album. We recall having seen the lines in a collection of miscellany poems printed somewhere near 1816 by Joanna Baillie. W. B. C.-Instead of " often quoted " lines, say " often misquoted," and you will be correct. The real reading i8 "So naturalists observe a flea Has smaller fleas that on him prey; Swift, Verses occasioned by Whitshed's WE cannot undertake to answer queries privately. W. M. ("Call a spade a spade").-The earliest recorded use of this expression is said by Scaliger to have been made by Aristophanes, "Αγροικός εἰμι τὴν σκάφην σkápηv λkyw. See note to Priapeia, Carmen, ii. 9, 10, in which is told a story of the use of the phrase by Philip of Macedon. "Scapham scapham dicere" occurs in a letter of Melanchthon to Cranmer, dated May 1, 1548. In Mar Prelates Epitome we have the English form, "I am plaine, I must needs call a spade a spade." Burton,Thanks. The reference has, however, been supplied. Anatomy of Melancholy, has "I call a spade a spade,' and Ben Jonson writes, "Boldly nominate a spade a spade." ESTE (Foreign Notes and Queries").-The paragraph from a Roman journal you forward is inaccurate We cannot give currency to its misstatement. LAMBTON YOUNG.-("Our Eye-Witness on the Ice"). CRITO.-Bingen on the Rhine was written by the Hon C. L. BRANDRETH, M.D. (" Richard Le Davids").- T. A. 8. ("Queen Elizabeth's Lodge "). Tradition holds this building to have been a hunting lodge of the queen whose name it bears, and asserts that when she visited it she always rode upstairs on horseback to the great chamber. The topmost landing was once known as the horse-block. The feat of riding upstairs has been accomplished in the present century by one of the foresters. Lysons, in his Environs of London, holds, in-We can hear of no English version. opposition to general acceptance, that it was the Chingford manor-honse. A description of the place is supplied in Mr. Thorne's Handbook to the Environs of London. "Ancestral voices prophesying war.' Coleridge, Kubla Khan. G. M. FERMOR ("Schubert's Knight of Toggenburg"). W. J. GREENSTREET (" Words employed in The Virgin Martyr").-Some of the words after which you inquire are not unfamiliar. 1. Ambry or aumbry, the same as French armoire, is a cupboard, locker, storehouse, repository. It is used by Langland in the fourteenth century, and by Beckford, in the form of ambery, and Mr. William Morris, in that of aumbrye, in the nineteenth, See Dr. Murray's New Dictionary, 2. Upsy-freesy is the E. R. 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