Fes. 23. 1850.] 
NOTES AND QUERIES. 
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for keppinge of Evan Redde y* was Mr. 
Hariots mane till his departtur and for his | 
Shete and Burialle as dothe apere —_x/® viij? 
“ Pd for makinge of the Longe pillowe & the 
pulpit clothe - - - ijs 
« P4 for a yard and a naile of fustane for the same | 
pillowe - - - - xvji 
« P4 for silke to the same pillowe - xvji 
« Pd for xjli of fethers for the same pillowe, at 
vw os - 3 - iiij? vij? 
«“ Pd for brede and beer that day the quen cam 
in - - - = a eis 
« P4 for candells and mendinge the baldrocke* vj4 
“« Pd for paynttinge y° stafe of the survayer —_1ij4 
« P4 for mendynge the lytell bell - - iiijs 
«“ Pd to Mr. Sanders for the yearly rent of the 
Laystall and skowringe the harnes } for his yer 
iijs viij9 
“ Pito Mr. Wright for the makinge of the Cloke + 
mor than he gatheride, agred one at the laste 
vestrie - 3 - + xvij? 
“P2 to Peter Medcalfe for mending the Cloke 
when it neade due at ot Ladies Daye laste 
pastin Anno 1581 - - Seri 
“ P4 for entringe this account —- een 
W.C., Junior, 
Overseer of St. Antholin, 1850. 
QUERIES. 
COLLEGE SALTING. 
Mr. Editor, — If your very valuable work had 
existed in October, 1847, when I published in the 
British Magazine a part of Archbishop Whitgift’s 
accounts relative to his pupils while he was Master 
of Trinity College, Cambridge, I should certainly 
have applied to you for assistance. 
In several of the accounts there is a charge for 
the pupil's “salting ;” and after consulting gentle- 
men more accurately informed with regard to the 
customs of the university than myself, I was 
obliged to append a note to the word, when it 
occurred for the first time in the account of Lord 
Edward Zouch, in which [ said, “I must confess 
* The haldricke was the garter and buckle by means 
of which the clapper was suspended inside the bell. 
+ Harnes, or armour, which perhaps hung over some 
of the monuments in the church, 
¢ It was about this time that clocks began to be 
generally used in churches (although of a much earlier 
invention); and in subsequent years we have several 
items of expenditure connected with that above men- 
tioned. In 1595: — 
“ Paid for a small bell for the watche -  iij® 
“Paid to the smith for Iron worke to it - xx4 
“Paid for a waight for the Clocke wayinge 
36! and for a ringe of Iron - - v3,” 
Still, however, the hour-glass was used at the pulpit- 
_ desk, to determine the length the parson should go in 
his discourse ; and xij‘ for a new hour-glass frequently 
occurs. 
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my inability to explain this word; and do not 
know whether it may be worth while to state that, 
on my mentioning it to a gentleman, once a 
| fellow-commoner of the college, he told me, that 
when, as a freshman, he was getting his gown 
from the maker, he made some remark on the 
long strips of sleeve by which such gowns are 
distinguished, and was told that-they were called 
‘salt-bags,’ but he could not learn why ; and an 
Oxford friend tells me, that going to the buttery 
to drink salt and water was part of the form of 
his admission . . . . This nobleman’s (@. e, Lord 
Edward Zouch’s) amounted to 4s., and that of the 
Earl of Cumberland to 3s. 4d., while in other 
cases it was as low as 8d.” To this I added the 
suggestion that it was probably some fee, or ex- 
pense, which varied according to the rank of the 
parties. It afterwards occurred to me that this 
“salting” was, perhaps, some entertainment given 
by the new-comer, from and after which he ceased 
to be “fresh;” and that while we seem to have 
| lost the “salting” both really and nominally, we 
retain the word to which it has reference. 
Be this as it may, my attention has just now 
been recalled to the question by my accidentally 
meeting with one of Owen’s epigrams, which shows 
that in his time there was some sort of salting at 
Oxford, and also of peppering at Winchester. As 
T doubt not that you have readers well acquainted 
with the customs of both these seats of learning, 
perhaps some may be good enough to afford in- 
formation. Owen was at Oxford not many years 
after Whitgift had been Master of Trinity at Cam- 
bridge, if (as Wood states) he took his bachelor’s 
degree in 1590. The epigram is as follows : — 
“ Oxoniz salsus (juvenis tum) more vetusto; 
Wintonizque (puer tum) piperatus eram. 
Si quid inest nostro piperisve salisve libello, 
Oxoniense sal est, Wintoniense piper.” 
It is No. 64 in that book of epigrams which 
Owen inscribed ‘“‘ Ad Carolum Eboracensem, fra- 
trem Principis, filium Regis,” p. 205. edit. Elz, 
1628. 12mo. I give this full reference in order 
to express my most hearty sympathy with the 
righteous indignation of my highly respected friend, 
your correspondent “L. 8.” (No. 15. p. 230.), 
against imperfect references. I do not, however, 
agree with him in thinking it fortunate that he is 
not a “ despotic monarch ;” on the contrary, now 
that I have not to take up verses, or construe 
Greek to him, I should like it of all things ; and I 
am sure the world would be much the better for 
it. S. R. Marruanp. 
Gloucester, Feb. 18. 1850. 
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A FEW DODO QUERIES. 
The discovery and speedy extinction of that 
extraordinary bird the Dopo, belongs rather to 
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