Gough says that a large collection of extracts from records in the Tower, &c., concerning Waltham Forest was in Dr. Rawlinson's collection. In the Harlein Library (No. 6705) is a MS. treatise concerning the forest with copies of leases. Articles given in charge to the grand jury at Waltham Forest concerning forest laws, A.D. 1634 (Nos. 1634 & 6839). Among Judge Hale's collection in Lincoln's Inn are proceedings about the Forest of Essex, 4to.

words. verb. et lit.:-" Nota. Edward le Confessor graunt a un Raffe Peperking l'office de garder deson Forest_ de hundred de Chelmer et Dauncing in Com. Essex in taile appiert per Record in Lescheker escrie modo sequente:—

separated them in 1544, and gave the brewers a have not been very successful. However, small crest instead. Bitter beer is considered to be of contributions may be useful, and here is mine. remote antiquity; Rabbinical tradition states that the "Babylonian bitter beer-with good sallets they had,—like the Stogumber ale, preserved the Jews from leprosy, which had so much afflicted them." Beerhouses were well known in England in 1496, owing to the inconveniences from the assemblage of numbers of riotous persons and of the excessive drinking in ale-houses becoming so great, it was found necessary to bring them under legislation. In the second year of Henry VII., an Act was passed against "vacabounds and beggers," I hoped to have got some information on the subempowering two justices of the peace, "to reject ject of "S. S.'s" query from Crompton, “L'Authoritie and put away comen ale-selling in tounes and et Furisdiction des Courts," B. L. (Yetsweirt, 1594); places where they shall convenyent (convene), and but his particulars relate chiefly to the forests north to take suretie of the keepers of ale-houses of their of Trent. He gives the perambulation of Shergode behaving by the discretion of the seid jus-wood Forest. The following quaint record contices, and in the same to be avyed and agreed at cerning Essex Forests. It is ushered in by these the tyme of their sessions." In Edward the Sixth's time the magistrates had power to forbid the selling of beer and ale at such alehouses. Some years after this an Act was passed to restrain the "inordinate haunting and tippling in inns, alehouses, and other victualling-houses." Notwithstanding these Acts, several clergymen in the reign of Charles I. were indicted for indulging in this loose habit. The benefice of Mundon, co. Essex was sequestered from Thomas Staples, "for that he is a common frequenter of taverns and alehouses, and a great drinker and companion with drunken, debauched, and malignant persons, and upon the first of June, in this instant year, 1643, being the next day after the fast, invited to his house a riotous company to keep a day of prophaneness by drinking of healths round about a join'd stoole, singing of prophane songs, with hollowing and roaring, and at the same time enforcing such as came to him upon other occasions to drinke healths about the stoole with him untill they were drunke; and hath taught that it is not for laymen to meddle with the Word, nor yet to search the Scriptures," &c. This serious state of things was carried on to an alarming extent during the Commonwealth, which was observed and lamented over by the sober thinking men of that age, hence quaint old Dr. Fuller sang in words expressive of regret, which are well worthy of example even in the present day

"My prayers for friends' prosperity and wealth
Shall ne're be wanting: but if I refuse
To hurt myself by drinking others' health,
Oh, let ingenious natures mee excuse :
If men bad manners this esteeme, then I
Desire to be esteemed unmannerly,
That to live well will suffer wine to dye."
Waltham Abbey.
W. WINTERS..
EPPING FOREST (vol. i., p. 19.—I have been try-
ing to find the requisite references for "S. S.," but

'Iche Edward King

Haue yeven of my Forest the keeping
Of the hundred of Chelmer and Dauncing
To Randolph Peperking, and to his kynlyng,
With Hart & Hynde, Doe and Bucke,
Hare & Foxe, Catt & Brocke,
Wyldfowle with his flocke,

Partrige, Fezant Hen, & Fezant Cocke.
With greene & wilde stub and stocke

To keepen, & two yeomen by all their might,
Both by day and eke by night,

And Hounds for to hould
Good, swift and bould,

Four Greyhoundes, and sixe raches
For Hare and Foxe & wylde Cattes :
And therefore yche made him my booke—
Witnesse the Bishop of Wolstone
And booke ylerned many one
And Sweyne of Essex our brother
And tekyn him many other,
And our Steward Howelyne,
That besought me for him.'"
Derby.

ALFRED WALLIS. ANONYMOUS LATIN PROVERB (vol. i., p. 51).— At the risk of being thought captious or hypercritical, I must really stand up for Euripides against the imputation of having written such a line as that ascribed to him by Mr. Rule. For if the word demento be of no authority either as a verb active or neuter, much less so is the word àлoppevoî, since no such word exists, it is not Greek at all. Demento, I admit, "has not the sanction of the first age,' but it is used by one who wrote very pure LatinLactantius-and who was for this reason called the

h

Christian Cicero. Vide Mort. Persec. 7. In the quite ready for the printer, and, indeed, I must say other form, dementio, we meet with it both in Lac- that my new material will be so different from the tantius 1. iv. 27,) and Lucretius (iii., 465). As first that it would not encroach on the "Handbook having, at least, some affinity to the proverb, I will of Fictitious Names," and, therefore, without waittake leave to give the passage in Lactantius,- ing for the small edition (500 I bargained for) of "Ecce aliquis instinctu dæmonis percitus dementit, that work to be exhausted I am quite ready to effertur, insanit." As an illustration, the case of publish if I can only find a publisher ready for me. Saul seems very apt. EDMUND TEW, M.A. As to the question of the anagram which I adopted after much difficulty, as my name contains eight consonants out of eleven letters, it arose in this way. I adopted it originally for my notice of the translated that from Querard's notice of himself, Life and Works of J. M. Querard, because I chiefly which he wrote under an anagram. Then, having published one thing, I was naturally desirous of identifying myself in the next. My amusement being to waste my time in minutely searching out facts which nobody else may ever want, and my name being totally unknown, it is, I think, quite unnecessary, and would not add any more weight, if so much, as the signature of

The proverb, queried by" LL.D.," takes a variety of shapes, of which the opening, "Quem Jupiter," &c., alluded to by Mr. Rule is one. The original idea is contained in a fragment of Euripides, quoted by St. Athenagorus, thus,

or,

“ Οταν δὲ δαίμων ἀνδρί πορσύνη κακὰ,
Τὸν νοὺν ἔβλαψε πρῶτου;”

"At dæmon omini quum struit alquid malum,
Pervertit illi primitus mentem suam."

Freely translated by Barnes

"Quem Fupiter vult perdere, dementat prius." The verb, "demento," seems to be a coinage of very obvious derivation, but of no authority. Derby. ALFRED Wallis.

"Quem Deus," &c. The Greek passage in the fragments of Euripides from which this proverb is taken, is as follows:

“ Οταν δὲ Δαίμων ἀνδρὶ πορσύνη κακὰ,
Τὸν νοῦν ἔβλαψε πρῶτον

OLPHAR HAMST.

ANGLING QUERY (vol. i., pp. 19, 51).-The ancient Egyptians were acquainted with the various modes of netting, spearing, and angling for fish. This last they did with rod and line, and with the line only, as depicted in a tomb at Beni-Hassan. The fellahs of the present day fish exactly in the same way, i.e., without a rod.

g"Athena. sine auctoris nomine." 3, Franklin-road, Brighton. JNO. A. FOWLER. Vide Eurip. Trag. et Epist. ex Edit. Barnesi, &c., THOMAS BROOKS (vol. i., p. 52).—"This Nonex recens. Musgrave, tom. u., p. 497. Edit. Lipsia, conformist's works," says Lowndes, in his uncom1779. The verb demento is used by Lactantius, pleted "British Librarian," 66 are numerous, and "De Mortibus Persecutorum," chap. vii. Speaking many of them have singular titles. They have of Diocletian, who in the beginning of the chapter been, and still are, highly popular on account of he styles “Scelerum inventor et malorum machina- their spiritual tendency." His works were edited by tor," desiring that Nicomedeia should rival Rome. the Rev. C. Bradley, and published in two volumes "Ita semper dementabat, Nicomediam studens urbi in 1824. The story of Sennacherib's murder, Roma coæquare." Vide Lact. Opera Cantab. 1685, which forms the basis of a query from Joseph RICHARD CAULFIELD,

P. 529.

Clark, jun., occurs in Mathias Prideaux's "Easy Royal Institution, Cork. LL.D., F.S.A. and Compendious Introduction for Reading all LITERARY PSEUDONYMS: A PERSONAL EXPLA- Sorts of Histories" (Oxford, 1650). Reference is NATION (vol. i., p. 19).—I need scarcely say that I given in the margin to the "Biblia Castalionis," experienced a lively pleasure in reading "J. B. D.'s " Tobit, c. 1., for the story extracted from Thomas kindly note. Mention in such terms as he is good Brook's work. It is told in precisely similar terms enough to mention my humble attempts at being by Prideaux, thus :-" Demanding, on a time, of useful is really encouraging, and I confess one some about him (Sennacherib) what might be the requires a little encouragement from time to time reason that the unresistable God of Heaven so in one's journey through volumes of small print favoured the Jewish nation, as he had found by and paper (though not aged, still discoloured by sad experience? Answer was given that Abraham, time). Printing, and thus recording one's work from whom they descended, sacrificed unto him his from time to time is of itself sufficient encourage- only sonne, which purchased this protection to his ment, but I have had no printing now, as "J.B. D." progeny. If that will winne him (saith he) I will very justly remarks, for six years. During that spare him two of my sonnes to procure him to be time I have been day by day accumulating, and on my side, which Sharezar and Adramelech his have, in fact, accumulated a mass of fresh informa- sonnes hearing of, they prevented their own deaths tion. I apprehend the printing a new edition is by his, as he was worshipping in the house of Nissimply a matter for the public; at all events, I am rech his god." The tale has a strong Talmudic

IN excavating for a railway cutting at Friedland, near Göttingen, an urn was recently dug up, which was found to contain more than 1,500 ancient French silver coins bearing dates from the year 1285 to 1314, with the effigy of Philippe-le-Bel.

AN ANCIENT CHRISTENING ROBE.-A para- ther that of a pious priestess at 100. A third graph went the round of the papers in Decem- tablet has the names of fifteen members of the ber last, describing the christening of Lord Municipal Council: Seniores Municipii. Milton's son. Some accounts stated that the child's robe in which the ceremony was performed was presented to the Milton family by William III., while others asserted the robe was given by William the Conqueror. In either case, if there is any truth in the matter, the robe is a most interesting relic. I shall be glad to know the real facts. It is said that not only the heirs, but all male children that have been born into the family, have been christened in this robe.

HUNGARY.-Whilst digging up the ground preparatory to the planting of a new vineyard at Tapolczafo, in Hungary, an old Roman grave was discovered, last week. It contained a stone sarcophagus, in which were found human bones and hair, whilst an inscription on the outside. gives the name of the deceased, and shows that he died A.D. 264. F. S.

A "WITCH Box."-One of these old relics was lately found, and the circumstance appears to me to be worth recording in LONG AGO. "On Mon- URNS, &C., DISCOVERED IN POSEN.-A vast day, January 13, 1873, in the taking down of field of urns and paludean habitations has been some old building at Bramley, a curiosity in the discovered near Lussowo (Posen), by a ploughshape of a 'witch box' was found secreted on man tilling the gentle slope towards the Lussow the top of an oaken beam in the roof. The box lake, and who found that his deep share often is in a good state of preservation, neatly lined, met with firmly-embedded obstacles. After a and contains a rusty nail wrapped in cotton thorough search made by the landlord, it was wick, and about half-a-dozen pins in an up- found that the subsoil of no less than ten acres right position, with a little spare cotton wick of land formed one immense urn-field. The for the use of the witches. Behind the door of urns stand in rows, each row 7 ft. apart from the the house was an old horse shoe, which was next, and the calculated number is about 10,000 formerly considered to act as a charm against urns. They vary in size from 3 ft. to 1 ft. in diathe influence of the witches." Can anyone meter, and all of them are made of black, unsuggest for what particular purpose this "witch box" was used? THOMAS RATCLIFFE.

Research and Discovery.

glazed micaceous clay. The ornaments on them consist of unexplained lines scratched on the body. They contained decayed bone or ashes in such large quantities that it was at once used for manure. There were also vestiges of burnALGERIA.—A communication from Bougia conceived the idea of letting off the water of the ing places. The landlord, M. Boas, at once (Algeria) states that excavations effected near lake, and to his delight, as the level subsided, the Col de Takrieds has produced discoveries of about eighty piles of 8 in. to 10 in. diameter were great interest. Twenty silver coins, and fortysix in bronze, belonging to various periods of cation between this lacustrine habitation and the seen to emerge above the water. The communithe Roman domination, were found in a vase of land seems to have been established by a bridge red pottery under the flagstones of the triclinium laid over a line of piles connecting the main (or upper room) of a villa. The walls of that apartment were in stucco covered with frescoes group with the shore of the Lussowo lake.

of an extremely loose character, similar to those kept in the secret museum at Naples. A bronze bust, richly gilt, of a youth, exquisitely worked, wears the synthesina, a garment which the effeminate Romans only put on when at home, reclining before the festive table. The base bears the name of the sculptor, "Marius Cascavero, artifex fecit." Another, of less perfect finish, represents Jupiter Tridens. A large number of tumulary stones have also been discovered, the inscriptions on which are in a good state of preservation. One of them commemorates the death of a prefect of Legion at the age of 110, having fought during forty years; ano

Restorations.

ST. ALBAN'S ABBEY.-The Committee for the reparation of St. Alban's Abbey have received the announcement that the Company of Mercers have, at a recent court, voted the sum of 200 guineas towards the completion of this great national work.

MINISTERLEY HALL, SHROPSHIRE.-This fine old manor house has been lately restored by the Marquis of Bath. The timber framing, exposed to view on the removal of the plaster which covered the exterior, has been replaced with new oak where decayed, and 9 in. brick

work, plastered, has been used for the filling in, having been denuded of its rather dingy epideradding thereby considerably to the comfort of mis, now gleams white as new, and is a more the occupiers of the house. Windows with oak prominent object on the south side of the upper frames, mullions, and transoms have been sub- part of the choir than ever. The tomb of King stituted for plain sashes where the latter had John has been scraped, and it is intended to reb/ been inserted. The moulded farge boards, hip- crown him. Traces of paintings on the outside knobs and brackets are exact reproductions of of the tomb had been found, but no attempt has the old, which were decayed. The west or been made to restore them. This tomb was principal front consists of three wide and lofty formerly looked upon as a cenotaph, but in the gables, with a lower and richer one at the north side running through to the east front, and probably of earlier date. On the east or garden front the two large dormers, of which the valley pieces indicated their size and position, have been restored. The roofs have been covered with Ridge-hill tiles. Internally the panelling has been continued round the hall and the screen opened out. Other improvements and necessary repairs have also been carried out.

latter end of the last century the Dean and Chapter determined on opening it in order to settle the point, which was still disputed by some persons. On the 17th of July, 1797, the tomb was opened, and the remains of the king were found deposited in it, but it was evident that they had been disturbed since their first interment. The body was laid in a stone coffin with a cavity cut to fit the head. It measured 5 ft. 6 in.'in length, and was covered with a robe reaching from the neck to the feet. The choir flooring of marble has now been completed, though this has been somewhat delayed owing to a change made in the design after a part of it had been laid. The

Kilkenny ABBEY.-Considerable progress has been made in the repairs at St. Francis' Abbey, Kilkenny, under the zealous and efficient direction of Mr. Middleton. The haunches of the tower have been effectually and permanently old stone pulpit on the north side of the choir secured with hammered stone and made watertight and a small additional sum would now suffice to place the entire of this beautiful example of Gothic architecture in a very satisfactory

state.

has been pulled down, the lower portion rebuilt of more elaborate design, and the old upper portion will be replaced upon it. This is of Painswick stone also. Some light metal work in harmony with the grill work in the choir has been WORCESTER CATHEDRAL.-The restoration of added to the magnificent reredos, the gift of Worcester Cathedral, which, from its vastness Dean Peel. The organ is to be placed in one and importance, has occupied many years, is of the northern bays in the choir. The case, now drawing near to a completion, and by way elaborately designed by Sir G. Scott, is of carved of hastening on this end it has been announced oak, richly ornamented and surmounted by archthat the Restoration Committee require the re- angels with trumpets. The whole of the carvings maining work to be done by Whitsuntide. Since in the choir are exquisite specimens of design the last notice of the work, which appeared in and most artistically executed, some of the human the Times about five months ago, material pro- figures, although small, representing the passions gress has been made. The designs are by Sir as powerfully as an oil painting. The carvings Gilbert Scott, and Mr. E. A. Perkins, of Wor- on the stall ends are remarkable specimens of cester, is the local architect. The principal workmanship. The grills behind the stalls of recent work has been the completion of the choir ornamental metal work are now in their places. flooring, the erection of the grills behind the The magnificent bishop's throne of carved oak stalls, the repairs to the tombs of King John and is not yet erected in its place; nor are the proPrince Arthur, the erection of the screen between posed carved oak canopies which are to be placed the choir and nave, the flooring of the nave, over the stalls of the dean, the sub-dean, and and the lighting. The work required to be done canons, altogether eight in number, at the west to the tomb of King John and the mortuary end of the choir. A good portion of the carved chapel of Prince Arthur, elder brother of woodwork of the screen between the choir and Henry VIII, a curious and elaborate piece of nave is erected. In fact, it is completed, with perpendicular architecture-was small. Being the exception of twelve figures which have yet considered as national monuments, a grant was to be inserted. The metal work has to be added, made by the Government, and the "restoration" which will consist of decorative ironwork and of these monuments has been executed by Government officers. This chapel is of white Painswick stone, the whole of which has been scraped, and some slight repairs have been done to two or three broken pinnacles; but the defaced figures have not been restored. The chapel

metal shafts of brass. Considerable progress has been made in the floor of the nave. All the old white stone floor (which was much broken) has been removed and broken up to aid in making concrete which has now been laid nearly over the whole area of the nave. The new floor to be