2'"» S. VIII. Nov. 5. '69.] 



NOTES AND QUERIES. 



375 



and though I have no othei' example at hand to 

 produce, some will probably occur to many other 

 readers of " N. & Q." — both in manuscripts and 

 in old printed books. It was merely this : where 

 we now use i. e. for id est, the single letter i. was 

 considered sufficient. But, besides their misap- 

 prehension of the meaning of t., both Donald 

 Lupton and Archdeacon Churton alike misunder- 

 stood the import of reducum. They seem to have 

 been led to that misunderstanding by the pre- 

 ceding clause, in which it is stated that Nowell 

 had been one of the exiles in the reign of Mary : 

 but in reality there is no connexion or allusion 

 between the two clauses, and the word reducum 

 has nothing to do with the exiles and their "re- 

 turn." The writer's intention was simply to state 

 that Nowell was " the defender of the Reformers 

 in two books that he wrote against the English 

 Papists." Wishing to express this, he had no 

 single Latin word into which he could translate 

 the term Reformers ; and he therefore effected his 

 purpose by styling them " Reduces i. Verae Reli- 

 gionis," — "the bringers-back (that is to say) of 

 True Religion." John Gough Nichols. 



Minav ^atei. 

 Richmond and its Maids of Honour. — The. re- 

 fined gourmand in patisserie will scarcely visit 

 Richmond without paying his devoirs to the 

 maids of honour. These may be characterised 

 as most delicate and delicious little cheesecakes, 

 for which that place has long enjoyed an esta- 

 blished reputation, under, it is believed, the fol- 

 lowing circumstances : — When the Prince of 

 Wales, George Augustus (postea George 11.) oc- 

 cupied the Royal House at Richmond, the accom- 

 modation for the maids of honour of the princess 

 was quite insufficient, and he caused a row of 

 houses to be built for their residence, which still 

 exists under the denomination of " Maids of Ho- 

 nour Row." The royal confectioner invented 

 these so-much improved cheesecakes, which gain- 

 ing great celebrity, a pastrycook of the town was 

 fortunate enough to obtain the receipt, and esta- 

 blished a good business. Towai'ds the latter part 

 of the last century, a Mr. William Hester so far 

 obtained the patronage and support of the place 

 and neighbourhood that he was soon enabled to 

 leave off business, and it is said on retiring sold 

 the receipt for making his maids of honour for 

 300^. Theodore Hook, who delighted to treat 

 everything with fun, equivoque, and whimsical- 

 ness, speaks* of going with a party of ladies to 

 one of the hotels, ringing the bell, and desirins 

 the waiter to bring in the "maids of honour." 

 The ladies became alarmed, thinking they were 

 going to have some ambiguous company intro- 



* Gilbert Gurney, 3 vols., 1836, vol. i." p. 110. 

 2°dS. VIII. NO. 201.] 



duced, but were soon appeased when the pastry 

 appeared. 22. 



Ancient Will. — 



" A" 1450. Testamentum dm Tho. Cumberworth, mil. 



" In the name of Gode and to his loveyng, Amen. I, 

 Thomas Cumbj-rworth, Kn^-ght, the xv. day of Feber'jer, 

 the 3er of owre Lord m.cccc and ti., in clere mynde and 

 hele of body, blyssed be gode, ordan my last wyll on this 

 wise folowyng. Furst I gyff nu"- sawle to gode my lorde 

 and my redemptor, and mj' wrechid body to be beryd in 

 a chitte * w'owte any kyste t in the northyle of the parych 

 kirke of Someretby be my wj'fe, and I wyll my body ly 

 still, my mowth opyn untild xxiiij ovvr3's and aft' laid on 

 bene w*owtyn any thyng yopon to cover it bot a sheit 

 and a b!ak cloth, w* a white crose of cloth of golde, bot I 

 wyl my kj'ste be made and stande by, and at my bereall 

 giff it to hj'm that fiUis my grave. Also I gifF my 

 blissed lord God for my mortuary there I am bered my 

 best hors." — Regist. Marmad. Lumley, epl Line., fo. 43. 



Z. z. 



Statistics of Letters sent hy Post. — The follow- 

 ing piece of epistolary statistics is curious ; and, 

 as the document which contains it is seen by com- 

 paratively few, it appears to merit the extensive 

 circulation which it will get by insertion in " N. & 

 Q.:"- 



"The Fifth Report of the Postmaster-General, dated 

 7th April last, bears (see pp. 13. and 14.), that, in 1858 

 there were 623 millions of letters delivered in the United 

 Kingdom, being an increase of 19 millions over the pre- 

 ceding year, and giving in proportion to the population 

 18 letters to each individual. It states also that in the 

 seven principal towns the number of letters to each indi- 

 vidual in proportion to their respective number of in- 

 habitants was as follows : — Glasgow, 24 ; Liverpool, 26 ; 

 Birmingham, 28; Manchester, 30; Dublin, 33; Edin- 

 burgh, 34 ; and London, 46." 



M.C. 



Edinburgh. 



CromweWs Remains. — In Prestwich's Respublica, 

 p. 149., occurs the following passage in relation to 

 Oliver Cromwell : — 



" His remains were privately interred in a small pad- 

 dock near Holborn ; in that very spot over which the 

 obelisk is placed in Red Lion Square, Holborn. — The Se- 

 cret! John Prestwich." 



Now it is well known that the Protector's re- 

 mains, in consequence of their rapid decay, were 

 privately interred previous to the magnificent 

 pageant of his funeral, and from this various stories 

 take their rise : such as that his body was thrown 

 into the Thames, carried to Naseby-field, and 

 there buried, or interred at Windsor in the grave 

 of Charles I., while the king's remains were sub- 

 stituted for his in Westminster Abbey. The last 

 has been clearly disproved by the disinterment of 

 Charles's remains at Windsor under the orders of 

 George IV., and there can be little doubt of the 

 others being equally false. To the same category 

 may be consigned the above statement, though it 

 is less improbable than the other fables. Cromwell's 



Shroud. 



t Coffin. 



