Mak. 8. 1851.] 



NOTES AND QUERIES, 



187 



He says again, p. 144. : 



" Edmund Piideaux, AttoriTsy-General to Oliver 

 Cromivell, and Inventor of the Post-office." 



Now the Edmund spoken- of as Attorney-Ge- 

 neral, was of Ford Abbey, in Devonshire, and 

 second son of Sir Edmund Prideaiix, of Netherton, 

 in the said count)', therefore could not be one of 

 the Cornish branch. 



Query No. 1. AVho was the Edmund Prideaux, 

 his countryman, that regularly established the 

 Post-office ? \ 



Query No. 2. How were letters circulated be- 

 fore his time ? 



Query No. 3. "Was Edmund Prideaux the 

 Attorney-General, the inventor of the Post-office, 

 as he states ; if not, who was ? 



Qiery No. 4. Has any life of Edmund Prideaux 

 as Attorney-General been published, or is any 

 account of him to be found in any work ? ' 



G. P. P. 



William Tell Legend. — Could any of your 

 readers tell me the true origin of the AVilliam 

 Tell apple story ? I find the same story told of — 



(1.) E.;il, the father of the famous smith Way- 

 land, who was instructed in the art of fm-ijing 

 metals by two dwarfs of the mountain of Kullova. 

 (Depping, Mem. de la Societe des Antiquaires de 

 France, torn. v. pp. 223. 229.) 



(2.) Saxo Grarainaticus, who wrote nearly a 

 century before Tell, tells nearly the same story of 

 one Toko, who killed Harold. 



(3.) " There was a souldier called Pumher, who, 

 daily through witchcraft, killed three of his 

 enemies. This was he who shot at a pennie on 

 his son's head, and made ready another arrow to 

 Lave slain the Duke Remgrave (? Rlieingraf), 

 who commanded it." (Reginald Scot, 1.384.) 



(4.) And Adam Bell, Clym of the Clough, and 

 William of Cloudeslie. G. H. R. 



Arms of Cottons buried in Landwade Church, Sfc. 

 (Vol.iii., p. 39.). — WillJoNATHAN Oldbuck, Jun., 

 oblige me by describing the family coat-armour 

 borne by the Cottons mentioned in his Note ? It 

 may facilitate his inquiry, in which, by the way, I 

 am muc;h interested. R. W. C. 



Sir George Bud's Treatise on the Stage. — What 

 has become of this MS. ? Sir George Buc men- 

 tions it in TVie Third Unioersity of England, 

 appended to Stowe's Annals, ed. 1631, p. 1082. : — 



" Of this art [tlie dramatic] have written largely 

 Petrus Victorlus, &CQ. — as it were in vaine for me to 

 say anything of the art ; besides, that / have written 

 thereof a particular treatise." 



If this manuscript could be discovered, it would 

 doubtless throw considerable light upon the 

 Elizabethan drama. Edward E. Ri.mbault. 



A Cracowc Pike (Vol. iii., p. 118.). — Since I sent 

 you the Query respecting a Cracowe Pike, I have 



found that I was wrong in supposing^ it to be a 

 weapon or spear : for Cracowe Pikes was the name 

 given to the preposterous " piked shoes," which 

 were fashionable in the reign of Richard II., and 

 which ^yere so long in the toes that it was necessary 

 to tie them with chains to the knee, in order to 

 render it possible for the wearer to walk. Stowe, 

 in his Chi'onicle, tells us that this e.\travagant 

 fashion was brought in by Anne of Bohemia, 

 Queen of Richard II. But why were they called 

 Cracowe pikes ? 1. H. T. 



St. Thomas of Trunnions. — Who was this saint, 

 and why is he frequently mentioned in connexion 

 with onions ? 



" Nay softe, my maisters, by Saincte Thomas of Trunions, 

 I am not disposed to buy of your onions." 



Apius and Firffinia, 1575. 



" And you tliat delight in trulls and minions, 

 Come buy my four ropes of hard 5. Thomas's onions." 

 The Hog hath lost his Pearl, 1614. 



"Buy my rope of onions — white St. Thomases 

 onions," was one of the cries of London in the 

 seventeenth century. Edward E. RiMaAULT, 



Paper-mill near Steveimge (Vol. ii., p. 473.).-^ 

 In your number for December 14, 18.50, one of 

 your correspondents, referring to Bartholomeus de 

 Prop. Rerum^ mentions a paper-mill near Steven- 

 age,- in the county of Hertford, as being probably 

 the earliest, or one of the earliest, established in 

 England. I should feel much obliged if your 

 correspondent, through the medium of your pages, 

 would favour me with any further particulars on 

 this subject ; especially as to the site of this mill, . 

 there being no stream within some milesof Steven- 

 age capable of turning a mill. I have been unable 

 to find any account of this mill in either of the 

 county histories. Hertfordiensis. 



Mound.i, Munts, Mounts. — In the parish register 

 of Maresfield in Sussex, there is an entry recording 

 the surrender of a house and three acres of land, 

 called the " Mounds," in 1574, to the use of the 

 parish ; .and in the churchwardens' accounts at 

 Rye, about the same time, it is stated that the 

 church of Rye was entitled to a rent from certain 

 lands called " Mounts." In Jevington, too, there 

 are land's belonging to the Earl of Liverpool called 

 Munts or Mounts, but whether at any time belong- 

 ing to the church, I am unable to say. Any inform- 

 ation as to the meaning of the word, or account 

 of its occurring elsewhere, will much oblige 



R. W. B. 



Church Chests. — A representation of two 

 knights engaged in combat is sometimes found on 

 ancient church dii^sts. Can any one explain the 

 meaning of it ? Examples occur at Harty Chapel, 

 Kent, and Burgate, Suffolk, The forn>er is men-- 

 tinned in the Glossary of Architecture, and de- 

 scribed iis a carving : the latter is painted only, 



