Dec. 8. 1849.] 
Wit's Theatre of the Little World, and England's 
Helicon. He seems to have less claim to be con- 
sidered the author of the Wit's Theatre than of the 
Wit’s Commonwealth, for in the original edition of 
the former, “ printed by J. R. for N. L., and are 
to be sold at the V Vest doore of Paules, 1599,” the 
dedication is likewise addressed “ To my most 
esteemed and approved loving friend, Maister 
J. B. I vvish all happines.” After acknowledging 
his obligations to his patron, the author proceeds : 
“ Besides this History or Theatre of the Little 
World, suo jure, first challengeth your friendly 
patronage, by whose motion I vndertooke it, and 
for whose love I am willing to yndergoe the 
heavy burden of censure. I must confesse that it 
might have been written with more maturitie, and 
deliberation, but in respect of my promise, I have 
made this hast, how happy I know not, yet good 
enough I hope, if you vouchsafe your kind appro- 
bation: which with your iudgement I hold omi- 
nous, and as ynder which Politeuphuia was so 
gracious.” I. Il. M. 
TRAVELLING IN ENGLAND. 
Sir, —I beg to acknowledge the notice which 
two of your correspondents have taken of my 
query on this subject. At the same time I must 
say that the explanations which they offer appear 
to me to be quite unsatisfactory. I shall be happy 
to give my reasons for this, if you think it worth 
while; but perhaps, if we wait a little, some other 
solution may be suggested. 
For the sake of the inhabitants, I hope that 
your work is read at Colchester. Is there nobody 
there who could inform us at what time the 
London coach started a century ago? It seems 
clear that it arrived in the afternoon—but I will 
not at present trespass further on your columns. 
Iam, &c., G. G. 
MINOR NOTES. 
Ancient Inscribed Alms Dish. 
L. S. B. informs us that in the church of St. Paul, 
Norwich, is a brass dish, which has been gilt, and 
has this legend round it four times over: —“ HER : 
I: LIFRID: GRECH®: WART.”* 
This seems to be another example of the inscrip- 
tion which was satisfactorily explained in No. 5. 
p- 73. 
The Bishop that burneth. 
I do not think Major Moor is correct in his 
application of Tusser’s words, “the bishop that 
burneth,” to the lady-bird. Whether lady-birds 
are unwelcome guests in a dairy I know not, but 
certainly I never heard of their being accustomed 
to haunt such places. The true interpretation of 
* Blomefield’s Norfulk. Folio. 1739. Vol. ii. p. 803. 
NOTES AND QUERIES. 
87 
Tusser’s words must, I think, be obtained by com- 
parison with the following lines from his Five 
Hundred Points of Good Husbandry, quoted in 
Ellis’s Brand, iii. 207. :— 
“ Blesse Cisley (good mistress) that bishop doth ban 
For burning the milk of her cheese to the pan.” 
The reference here, as well as in the words 
quoted by Major Moor, is evidently to the pro- 
verb relating to burnt milk, broth, &c.—“ the 
bishop has put his foot in it ;” which is considered 
by Ellis to have had its origin in those times 
when bishops were much in the habit of burning 
heretics. He confirms this interpretation by the 
following curious passage from ‘l'yndale’s Obedyence 
of a Crysten Man :— 
“Tf the podech be burned to, or the meate ouer 
rosted, we saye the Byshope hath put his fote in the 
potte, or the Byshope hath playd the coke, because 
the Bishopes burn who they Just, and whosoeuer dis- 
pleaseth them.” 
I fear the origin of the appellation “ Bishop 
Barnaby,” applied to the lady-bird in Suffolk, has 
yet to be sought. D.S. 
Tron Manufactures of Sussex. 
Sir, —I have made two extracts from a once 
popular, but now forgotten work, illustrative of 
the iron manufacture which, within the last hun- 
dred years, had its main seat in this county, 
which I think may be interesting to many of your 
readers who may have seen the review of Mr. 
Lower’s Essay on the Ironworks of Sussex in the 
recent numbers of the Atheneum and Gentleman's 
Magazine. ‘The anecdote at the close is curious, 
as confirming the statements of Macaulay; the 
roads in Sussex in the 18th century being much 
in the condition of the roads in England generally 
in the 17th. ‘ Sowsexe,” according to the old 
proverb, has always been “ full of dirt and mier.” 
« From hence (Eastbourne) it was that, turning 
north, and traversing the deep, dirty, but rich part of 
these two counties (Kent and Sussex), I had the 
curiosity to see the great foundries, or ironworks, 
which are in this county (Sussex), and where they are 
carried on at such a prodigious expense of wood, that, 
even in a county almost all overrun with timber, they 
begin to complain of their consuming it for those fur- 
naces and leaving the next age to want timber for 
building their navies. I must own, however, that J 
found that complaint perfectly groundless, the three 
counties of Kent, Sussex, and Hampshire (all which lye 
contiguous to one another), being one inexhaustible 
storehouse of timber, never to be destroyed but by a 
general conflagration, and able, at this time, to supply 
timber to rebuild all the royal navies in Europe, if they 
were all to be destroyed, and set about the building 
them together. 
«J left Tunbridge . . . and came to Lewes, through 
the deepest, dirtiest, but many ways the richest and 
most profitable country in all that part of England. 
