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NOTES AND QUERIES. 
[No. 23. 
ing of poulterer for poker! With respect to 
“T. R. F.’s” conjecture, I should be more ready 
to accept it if he could produce a single example 
of the word pawker, in the sense of a hog-warden. 
The quotation from the Pipe-roll of John is 
founded on a mistake. The entry occurs in other 
previous rolls, and is there clearly explained to 
refer to the porter of Hereford Castle. Thus, in 
Pipe 2 Hen. I. and 3 Hen. II. we have, under 
Hereford, 
“Tn liberatione portarii castelli . - : 
In Pipe 1 Ric. I. we have, 
“Tn liberatione constituta portarii de Hereford, 30s. 5d.” 
Again, in Pipe 3 Joh. 
“Tn liberatione constituta portario de Hereford, 30s. 5d.” 
A similar entry is to be found in other rolls, as 
well printed as inedited. I could indulge some 
30s. 5d.” 
other criticisms on the communication of your | ” : : fs 
| foot legend, and what remains of a border inserip- 
correspondent in Spring Gardens, but I prefer 
encouraging him to make further inquiries, and to 
produce from the records in his custody some more 
satisfactory solution of the difficulty. In the 
meantime, let me refer to a Survey of Wrigmore 
Castle in the Lansdowne Collection, No. 40. fo. 82. 
The surveyor there reports, that the paling, rails, 
&c. of the park are much decayed in many and 
sundry places, and he estimates the repairs, with 
allowance of timber from the wood there, “ by 
good surveye and oversight of the poker and other 
officers of the said parke,” at 47. The date of the 
survey is 13 May, 1584. 
Comparing this notice of the office with the re- 
ceiver’s accounts tempore Hen. VII. and Hen. 
VILL. (anté, p. 269.), in which the officer is called 
“pocarius omnium boscorum,” I cannot doubt 
that his duty, or at least one of his duties, was 
that of woodward, and that, as such, he assigned 
timber for repair of the premises. How he came 
by his local title and style of poker is a mystery | 
on which we have all hitherto tailed to throw any 
light. E.S 
Vox Populi Vox Dei,—about the origin of which 
saying “ Quzsiror” asks (No. 21. p.321.),— were 
the words chosen by the Archbishop of Canter- 
bury, Simon Mepham, as his text for the sermon 
which he preached when Edward III. was called 
to the throne, from which the nation had pulled 
down his father, Edward II. This we learn from | 
Walsingham, who says : 
*« Archiepiscopus verO Cantuariz prasenti consensit | 
electioni, ut omnes prelati et archiepiscopus quidem | 
assumpto themate, Vox populi Voa Dei, sermonem fecit 
populo, exhortans omnes ut apud regem regum inter- | 
cederent pro electo.”— Tho. Walsingham, Hist. Angl. 
ed. Camden, p. 126, 
Danrex Rock. | 
A living Dog beiter than a dead Lion.—I do not | 
know whether your correspondent (No. 22. p. 352.) 
ever goes to church; but if he is not prevented by 
rain next St. Swithin’s day, he will learn who was 
the author of this proverb. It will be a good 
thing, if your work should sometimes lead your 
readers to search the Scriptures, and give them 
credit for wisdom that has flowed from them so 
long, and far, and wide, that its source is forgotten ; 
but this is not the place for a sermon, and I now 
only add, “here endeth the first lesson” from 
EccxesiastEs. 
[«J. E.,” “D. D.,” and other correspondents, have 
also replied to this Query by references to Eccl. ix. 4.] 
Curious Monumental Brass (No. 16. p. 247.) — 
If “ Ranere” will turn to Mr. Boutell’s Monu- 
mental Brasses and Slabs, p. 148., he will there 
find a description as well as an engraving of what, 
| from his account, I doubt not he will discover to 
be the identical fragment to which he refers, A 
tion, is added to it. In the above work, pp. 147 
to 155, and in the Oxford Architectural Society’s 
Manual for the Study of Brasses, p.15., “* Raners” 
will find an account and references to numerous: 
examples of palimpsest brasses, to which class the 
one in question belongs. 
I presume that “ Ranere” is a young brass- 
rubber, or the fact of a plate being engraved on 
both sides would have presented no difficulty to 
him. ARUN. 
[ We have received several other replies to this Query, 
referring to Mr. Boutell’s Monumental Brasses: one from 
« W.”; another from “A CornisuMan,” who says, — 
** The brass in question, when I saw it last, had been 
removed from the Rectory and placed in the tomb 
of Abbot Wheathampstead, in company with the 
famous one of Thomas Delamere, another Abbot of 
St. Albans.” 
Another from “ E. V.,” who states, — 
“ Other examples are found at St. Margaret’s, Ro- 
chester (where the cause of the second engraving is 
| found to be an error in costume in the first), St. 
Martins at Plain, Norwich, Hedgerly Church, Bucks, 
and Burwell Church, Cambridgeshire. Of this last, 
an engraving and description, by Mr. A. W. Franks, is 
given in the fourteenth part of the Publications of the 
Cambridge Antiquarian Society.” 
One from “ Witt1am Sparrow Simpson,” who says,— 
“Tt is also described in the Oxford Architectural 
Society’s Manual of Mon. Brasses, No. 6. pp. 6, 7., 
other examples of which occur at Rochester, Kent, 
and at Cobham, Surrey. A small plate of brass, in the 
possession of a friend, has on one side a group of chil- 
dren, and on the reverse the uplifted hands of an 
earlier figure.” 
And, lastly, one from “A. P. H.” (to which we 
cannot do ample justice, as we do not keep an en- 
graver), from which we extract the following pas- 
sages ; — 
“A friend of mine has a shield in his possession, 
taken from a slab, and which has been enamelled. It 
is of late date, and mudehy executed. On the back is 
