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NOTES AND QUERIES. 
[No. 8. 
an occasional residence of the Earl, though we have 
no correct account of its occupants after the death 
of Richard III. W.G. M. J. Barner. 
Banks of the Yere, Nov. 28. 1849. 
Coffee, the Lacedemonian Black Broth. 
Your “ Notes on Coffee” in No. 2. reminded me 
that I had read in some modern author a happy 
conjecture that “coffee” was the principal ingre- 
dient of the celebrated ,“‘ Lacedemonian black 
broth;” but as I did not “make a note of it” at 
the time, and cannot recollect the writer from 
whom I derived this very probable idea, I may 
perhaps be allowed to “make a query” of his 
name and work. R. O. 
Eton, Nov. 26. 1849. 
Letters of Mrs. Chiffinch. 
The Chafins, of Chettle, in Dorsetshire, pos- 
sessed at one time some interesting family memo- 
rials. In the third volume of Hutchins’s Dorset, 
pp- 166, 167., are printed two or three letters of 
Thomas Chafin on the battle of Sedgemoor. Ina 
manuscript note, Hutchins alludes to letters, 
written by a female member of the family, which 
contain some notices of the court of Charles II. 
Can your Dorsetshire correspondents inform me 
whether these letters exist? I suspect that the 
lady was wife of the notorious Chiflinch; and she 
must have seen and heard strange things. The 
letters may be worthless, and it is possible that 
the family might object toa disclosure of their 
contents. The manuscript memorandum is in 
Gough's copy of the History of Dorset in_ the 
Bodleian Library. J.F.M. 
Sangred — Douts of Holy Scripture. 
In the will of John Hedge, of Bury St. Edmund's, 
made in 1504, is this item :— 
“I beqweth to the curat of the seid church iiijs. 
iiijd. for a sangred to be prayed for in the bedroule for 
my soule and all my good ffrends soulls by the space 
of a yeer complete.” 
In the same year Thomas Pakenham, of Ixworth 
Thorpe, bequeathed 6 hives of bees to the sepulchre 
light, “to pray for me and my wyffe in y* comon 
sangered ;” and in 1533, Robert Garad, of Ixworth, 
bequeathed to the high altar ijs. “for halfe a san- 
red.” 
F Can any of your readers explain what the san- 
gred is? or give me any information about the 
book referred to in the following extract from the 
will of William Place, Master of St. John’s Hos- 
pital, Bury St. Edmund’s, made in 1504: — 
“Ttem. I beqweth to the monastery of Seynt Ed- 
mund forseid my book of the dowts of Holy Seryptur, to 
ly and remain in the cloyster,” &c. 
Buriensis. 
Catsup, Catchup, or Ketchup. — 
Will any of your philological readers be so 
obliging as to communicate any note he may have 
touching the origin or definition of the word 
Catchup ? 
It does not appear in Johnson’s Dictionary. 
Mr. Todd, in his edition, inserts it with an asterisk, 
denoting it aS a new introduction, and under 
Catsup says, see Catchup. Under this latter word 
he says — “ Sometimes improperly written Ketchup, 
a poignant liquor made from boiled mushrooms, 
mixed with salt, used in cooking to add a pleasant 
flavour to sauces.” He gives no derivation of the 
word zéself, and yet pronounces the very common 
way of spelling it improper. 
What reference to, or connexion with, mushrooms 
has the word ?—and why Catsup, with the inference 
that it is synonymous with Catchup ? G. 
“ Let me make a Nation's Ballads, who will may 
make their Laws !” 
One perpetually hears this exclamation attri- 
buted to different people. In a magazine which I 
took up this morning, I find it set down to “a 
certain orator of the last century ;” a friend who 
is now with me, tells me that it was unquestionably 
the saying of the celebrated Lord Wharton; and I 
once heard poor Edward Irving, in a sermon, 
quote it as the exclamation of Wallace, or some 
other Scottish patriot. Do relieve my uncertainty, 
and, for the benefit of our rising orators, tell us to 
whom the saying ought to be set down. 
C.U..B. E. BR. 
To endeavour Oneself. 
Tn the Collect for the 2nd Sunday after Easter, 
in the preface to the Confirmation Service, and in 
the form of Ordering of Priests, the verb “ en- 
deavour” takes (clearly, I think) a middle-voice 
form, “to endeavour one’s self.” Is there any 
other authority for this usage? No dictionary I 
have seen recognises it. GaP: 
Date of the Anonymous Ravennas. 
Can you inform me of the date of the Choro- 
graphia Britannie Anonymi Ravennatis ? W.C. 
[This is a very difficult question. We should be 
glad to hear any of our correspondents upon the 
subject. | 
The Battle of Towton. 
The “ Note” on the battle-field of Sedgemoor, 
induces a “Query” concerning another equally 
celebrated locality. d 
It is well known in the neighbourhood, that the 
field of Towton, at least that part of it which is 
now, and, according to tradition, has remained 
pasture since the days of the wars of York anid 
Lancaster, produces two species of roses, which 
