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NOTES AND QUERIES. 



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of the numbers seem to belong to that class of 

 words the original suggestion of which is utterly 

 beyond our explanation, — a subject full of in- 

 terest, but on which it would be out of place here 

 to enlarge. Andrew Stbinmetz. 



^tpXit^ ta Minat ^utviti. 



What is a Tyef (!'* S. iii. 263. 340. 469. ; V. 

 356. 395.) — In the First Series I asked this ques- 

 tion, but It met with no satisfactory reply. In 

 the GentlemarLS Magazine^ Feb. 1858, is an en- 

 graving of a tieing post at St. Albans, supposed 

 to represent the post to which and the cords with 

 which Christ was bound. Were such posts erected 

 at cross roads ? or were posts with serpents Druid- 

 ical emblems of wisdom, placed at cross roads, and 

 converted into the Christian emblem of the post 

 and cords. St. Eloy in his Sermon, quoted in 

 Maitland's Dark Ages, says, " let no Christian 

 place lights at the temple, or at fountains, or at 

 trees, or at places where cross roads meet." 



And again St. Eloy says, " do not make devilish 

 amulets at trees, or fountains, or cross roads." 



King Alfred Is said to have hung golden braces 

 at cross roads, to show the security of property 

 under his rule. 



Were tIeIng posts the original stocks, or whip- 

 ping posts ? Will no one tell me what was a 

 tye ? A. Holt White. 



Seventeen Guns (2°'' S. v. 70.) — If Mk. Lloyd 

 will turn to p. 33. of TTie Queen's Regulations for 

 the Army (edit. 1857), he will find the regulations 

 respecting " Honours to be paid at Military Fu- 

 nerals;" and at p. 35. of the same volume, the 

 " General Instructions regarding Salutes, esta- 

 blished by Her Majesty's Order in Council of 

 Feb. 1, 1838." Section v. p. 45. prescribes the 

 number of guns with which the Governor of Ma- 

 dras and Bombay are entitled to be saluted, which 

 is seventeen. Lieutenant-Governors of Her Ma- 

 jesty's colonies and foreign possessions are entitled 

 to thirteen. Why Mr. Colvin received a salute of 

 seventeen guns under these regulations, I cannot 

 tell ; as he would, as a Lieut.- Governor, appear to 

 be entitled to thirteen only. In Article 7. of the 

 section last quoted, It is provided that civil func- 

 tionaries shall have at their funerals the same 

 number of guns fired as minute-guns, while the 

 procession is going to the burial ground, as they 

 were entitled to as salutes when living. 



John Maclean. 



Hammersmith. 



In answer to Mb. Llotd respecting the salute of 

 seventeen guns fired on the death of the late Mr. 

 Colvin, Lieut.-Governor of the N. W. Provinces of 

 Bengal, I can refer him to an order of the Go- 

 vernor-General in Council, dated Deo. 7, 1852, in 



which the salutes for the various officials are duly 

 regulated, The order Is too long to transcribe 

 here, but it will be sufficient to state that, among 

 others, the Governors of Bengal, Madras, Bombay, 

 N. W. Provinces, and Prince of Wales' Island 

 are allowed seventeen guns. The bishops of either 

 Presidency fifteen guns. The lowest number 

 fired in a salute Is seven, which Is allowed to 

 captains and commodores in the Indian or Royal 

 navies. 



Can there be any reason why the salutes should 

 invariably consist of an odd number of guns? 

 And can any of your correspondents inform me by 

 whom and when the royal salute was fixed at 

 twenty-one guns ? W. B. 



Londinopolis (2"'' S. Iv. 470. 521.) — The^ copy 

 of Howell's Londinopolis In the Philadelphia Li- 

 brary contains the same gap In the paging from 

 128. to 301. as the copies noted already ; but It is 

 evident, not only from the context but from the 

 Table of Contents, that nothing is missing. It Is 

 probable that two printers were engaged at the 

 work, and that the one who printed the second 

 part was misled by an erroneous supposition that 

 the first part would cover 300 pages. Uneda. 



Aldermen in Livery, 8fc. (2°^ S. v. 25.)— Amongst 

 the Ordinances of the Corporation of Doncaster, 

 1617, was one which enacted that "no retainer, 

 being servant to any nobleman, knight, gentle- 

 man, or other, or wearing their liveries, should be 

 elected to the 24 capital burgesses." C. J. 



Irish High Sheriffs (2"'^ S. v. 156.) — The Lords 

 of the Treasury having, when too late, discovered 

 the worth of the man whom they allowed for many 

 years to take charge of the Exchequer Becords of 

 Ireland, with the sole reward affiarded by his own 

 enthusiastic love of them, after his death gave his 

 representatives 700Z., with the condition that his 

 MS. collections should be deposited in the Ex- 

 chequer for the public benefit. The labours of the 

 life of the late James J. Ferguson were thus 

 handed over to the country ; and I have no doubt 

 his " Exchequer Notes " will be found amongst 

 the mass of documents now In charge of Master 

 Hitchcock. I should be much obliged by any In- 

 formation as to the present state of Mr. Fergu- 

 son's MSS. Have they been arranged and bound, 

 so as to be available for consultation? or are they 

 still lying In the unarranged and unclassified state 

 in which the sudden demise of their lamented 

 collector left them ? 



The Memoranda Rolls of the Exchequer (of 

 which there is a very full series In Master Hitch- 

 cock's care) record the names of the sheriffs of 

 each county In Ireland who made their " proffers," 

 or were fined for not performing that duty, at 

 Easter and Michaelmas, every year. The defi- 

 ciencies of the Exchequer series are supplied by 



