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NOTES AND QUERIES. 



[No. 120. 



examples of the curious kind of inscription com- 

 municated by your correspondents J. O. B. and 

 Mr. E. S. Tatlob (by the way, the one men- 

 tioned by J. O. B. was found also at St. Olave's, 

 Hart Street; see Weever, Fun. Mon.). These 

 both occur at Winchester Cathedral : the first 

 near a door in the north aisle, at the south-west 

 angle : — 



.^ ILT. PREC 



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The other on the south side : 



CESSIX COMMVNI PROPBIVM JAM PERGITE 

 QVA FAS. 1632. 



-a 



W. Sparrow Simpson, B.A. 



[This curious inscription, with a translation, is given 

 by Milner, in his History of Winchester, vol. ii. p. 90.] 



Coins of Edward III. struck at Antwerp in 1 337. 

 — Rudinnj, in his Annals of the Coinage of Great 

 Britain (3rd ed. p. 212.), describing the coins of 

 Edward III, (who often resided on the Continent, 

 and whose sister Eleanor was married to Rai- 

 mond III., Duke of Guelder), says : 



" In November a.d. 1337, according to Grafton, the 

 king was made vicar-general and lieutenant to the 

 emperor, with power to coin tnonei/ of gold and silver. 

 He kept his winter at the castle of Louvain, and 

 caused great sums of money, both of gold and silver, 

 to be coined at Antwerp." 



And in the note : 



" Chronicle [of Grafton ?] sub anno. Froissart also 

 mentions this fact. Tiie silver coins were probably 

 struck with English dies, and consequently are not now 

 to be distinguished. " 



Now, you will oblige me by Informing your 

 English readers, that though these may have been 

 struck with English dies, they can readily be dis- 

 tinguished from other English coins by the legends. 

 They are represented on PI. viii., Nos. 19. and 20., 

 in my Munten der voormalige Hertogdommen Bra- 

 hand en Limhurg, van de vroeyste Tyden tot aan 

 de Pacijicatie vari Gend. The type is wholly 

 English, and agrees with the coins of Edward III., 

 as I have remarked in the text. The Moneta nostra 

 indicates a joint coin (i. e. common to the emperor 

 and to the king) ; as Coin No. 3. PI. xxxill. was 

 probably a joint coin of Edward III. and Philip 

 VI., King of France. P. 0. van der Chys. 



Leiden. 



IS THE WALRUS FOUND IN THE BALTIC ? 



Is the Walrus, or Sea-Horse, ever found in the 

 Baltic, or in the ocean near Norway or Lapland ? 



Mr. J. R. Forster, in his Notes on the Geography 

 of Europe hy King Alfred, appended to the edition: 

 of Orosius by Daines Barrington, says, at p. 243. : 



" In the country of the Beormas he ( Ohthere) found 

 the horse-whales or the Walrus, animals which he dis- 

 tinguishes carefully from the whales and the seals, of 

 whose teeth he brought a present to King Alfred, and 

 which are found nowhere but in the White Sea, near 

 Archangel, and the other seas to the north of Siberia. 

 In all the ocean near Norway and Lapland, no walruses, 

 are ever seen, but still less in the Baltic." 



I wish to know if the walrus is found in the 

 Baltic, and where it most abounds, with a reference 

 to voyages or written works of authority where It 

 Is mentioned. Personal testimony would be va- 

 luable. Throw. 



ENGLISH FREE TOWNS. 



A great many of your readers are doubtless 

 aware that there are in France a number of 

 towns commonly known by the name of Villes 

 Anglaises, or the English towns, and also called 

 Bastides. Many of these were certainly founded 

 by Edward I., and important privileges were 

 granted to these Free Towns from motives of 

 sound policy. These towns are all built on a 

 regular plan, the principal streets wide, open, and 

 straight, and crossing each other at right angles, 

 with a large market-place, usually In the centre of 

 the town. I have seen several of these towns, 

 which preserve their original ground plan to the 

 present time. I could mention other peculiarities 

 about them ; but it Is not necessary for my pur- 

 pose, which is to Inquire whether we have any 

 towns in England corresponding with them, of 

 the same regular plan and arrangement. The 

 only one I have been able to hear of Is the ruined 

 town of WInchelsea, which corresponds closely 

 with them, and was also founded by Edward I. 

 If any of your readers can inform me of any other 

 town In England of the same plan, I shall be 

 greatly obliged to them. J. II. Parker. 



Oxford, 



Minox ^VLtxiti, 



Bishop Halts Resolutions. — A small edition of 

 Bishop Hall's Resolutions and Decisions of Cases 

 of Conscience, printed In 1650, and consequently 

 in the author's lifetime, has, as its frontispiece, a 

 " vera effigies" of the venerable writer. On a fly- 

 leaf there is, in the handwriting of the former 

 possessor, — a man of much literary information, — 



