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shire, referred to by your obliging correspondent 

 Mb. Hughes, without being so fortunate as to 

 succeed in discovering any particulars relating to 

 the above-named gentleman, Mr. Hughes will 

 perhaps be so good, in order to assist my farther 

 eearch, as to name the pages in Shaw where the 

 desired information may be sought for. 



Having observed in a foot-note to Lysons' 

 Mag. Britannia, Cheshire, p. 501., that Hall-o'- 

 Wood, in Balterley, situate partly in Cheshire 

 and partly in Staffordshire, is said to have been 

 built by Chief Justice Thomas Wood early in the 

 sixteenth century, it occurs to me that Justice 

 George Wood might have been a descendant of 

 the Chief Justice. And probably Me, Hughes, 

 or some other of your genealogical correspondents, 

 can throw light on the subject, and furnish the 

 arms those judges bore, which would tend to 

 establish a family connexion between them. 



Cestkiensis. 



Old Map of Mendip, co. Somerset. — I have a 

 large and old oil painting by me, with the follow- 

 ing title over it, " Meyndeepe, with its adjacent 

 villages and laws." It is a bird's-eye view of the 

 hills, and its mineries, and is surrounded by por- 

 traits of the many parish churches in the neigh- 

 bourhood. On each side are the curious " minery 

 laws," which appear to have been drawn up by 

 "My Lord Chocke," whom "King Edward y' 

 Fourth ordered to goe downe into y* county of 

 Meyndeepe, to sett a concord and peace, upon 

 Meyndeepe, upon paine of his high displeasure ; " 

 there being, at that time, a great dispute " be- 

 tween my Lord Bonvill's tenants of Chuton, and 

 the Prior of Green Oare." 



I am anxious to know if this map has been en- 

 graved, and when ? Or, are any of your readers 

 in possession of a similar one ? Will some Somer- 

 setshire or other reader of the " N. & Q." en- 

 lighten me ? W. G. 



Bristol. 



JBlack Livery Stockings. — In Southey's Letters 

 from Spain and Portugal, London, 1808, p. 199. : 



" A Duke of Medina Celi formerly murdered a man, 

 and as the court wouid not, or could not, execute so 

 powerful a noble, they obliged their pages to wear hUck 

 stockings, and always to have a gallows standing before 

 their palace door. The late king permitted them to re- 

 move the gallows, but the black stockings still remain a 

 singular badge of ignominy." 



Can any of the English families whose liveries 

 have black stockings be traced to a similar origin ? 



W.M.M. 



Thomas Rolf, — Can any of your readers give 

 me information as to the history of Thomas Eolf, 

 who was buried in the Church of St. Catherine, 

 Gosfield, Essex, about the year 1440 ? On the 

 altar-tomb is his effigy in brass, with the subjoined 



inscription, in which he is called professor of law. 

 Manning, in his List of Monumental Brasses, styles 

 him "Thomas Eolf, Judge." In the Manual of 

 Monumental Brasses, published by the Oxford 

 Society, he is called " professor of law." Is the 

 term " professor of law " synonymous with that of 

 "Serjeant at law?" for in the Oxford Manual 

 the robes of the judges and barons of the Exche- 

 quer are said to consist of the coif or skull-cap, a 

 long robe with narrow sleeves, a hood, a tippet, 

 and a mantle buttoned on the right shoulder. 

 The dress of serjeant at law was the same, with 

 the exception of the mantle, which they did not 

 wear ; and to their hoods two labels were attached. 

 Thomas Rolf has the latter dress. Must not Mr. 

 Manning, therefore, have been mistaken in sup- 

 posing him to have been upon the bench ? May 

 he not have been an ancestor of Thomas Monsey 

 Kolf, Lord Cranworth, now Lord Chancellor ? 



" Quadringenteno : semel. M. quat' X numerato Juni 

 viceno septeno consociato. Legi p'fessus: sic Thomas 

 Eolf requiescit, morbis dep'ssus, huic Xp'i vera quies sit. 

 .^s dedit ip'e satis miserisque viris maculatis. Came 

 p'stratis ; et virginibus bona gratis. Int' Juristas, quasi 

 flos enituit iste, mortis post istos ritus vivat tibi Xp'e. 

 Celi gemma bona ; succurre reo Katerina, mitis patrona ; 

 sis huic Thome Medicina." 



W. T. T. 



Ipswich. 



" EmsdorfTsfame," Sfc. — I am anxious to pro- 

 cure a copy of 'a metrical address to the 15th. 

 Kegiment of Hussars, commencing : 



" EmsdorfTs fame unfurl'd before you, 

 Brave Fifteenth, your standards rear," 



and to learn the author's name. Perhaps your 

 correspondent Mr. H. L. Mansel can supply a 

 copy of this address, and furnish the name of its 

 author, as he lately published in your columns 

 some valuable details relative to the battle of 

 Villers-en-Couche, in which the gallant 15th 

 Hussars also distinguished themselves. Were the 

 above words ever set to music ? Juvebna. 



"Ptoowism Exposed." — I have a theological 

 pamphlet of 128 pages, the title-page of which is 

 lost, and the running title is " A Candid Inquiry." 

 From the matter and print, I suppose it to be of 

 about the middle of the last century. The author 

 says, at p. 42. : 



" Had Lord Bolingbroke been a Greek scholar, he would 

 not have taken his notions of the Platonic Trinity from 

 Flatonism Exposed, which is itself the compilation of one 

 who also took his learning at second hand." 



Again, at p. 80. : 



" Flatonism Exposed would look very meagre, if the 

 unacknowledged obligations to Bayle and Le Clerc were 

 withdrawn. The author had no Greek." 



Flatonism Exposed seems to have been a well- 

 known work, from the way in which it is men- 

 tioned. Can any of your readers tell me what it 



