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NOTES AND QUERIES. 



[No. 97. 



published) would be a most welcome addition to 

 the works of so eminent and original an author as 

 S. T. Coleridge. J. II. Kershaw. 



129. Henryson and Kinaston. — Me. Singer 

 (Vol. iii., p. 297.) refers to Sir Francis Kiiinston's 

 Latin version of Chaucer's Troilus and Cresseid, 

 and of llenryson's Testament of Cresseid. The 

 firit two books of the former are well known as 

 having been printed at Oxford, 1635, 4to.; and 

 the entire version was announced fur publication 

 by F. G. AValdron, in a paniplilet printed as a 

 specimen, in 1796. Query, AVho is now tlie pos- 

 sessor of Kinaston's manuscript, whicli Mr. Singer 

 recounnends as worthy of the attention of the 

 Camden Society ? 



In the original table of contents of a manuscript 

 collection, written about the year 1515, one article 

 in that portion of the volume now lost is " ]\Ir. 

 Robert Henderson's dreme. On fut by Forth." 

 Can any of your readers ])oint out where a copy 

 of this, or any other unpublished poems by Hen- 

 ryson, arc preserved ? D. L. 



Edinburgh. 



130. Oldys" Account of London Libraries. — In 

 " A Catalogue of the Libraries of the late Willium 

 Oldys, Esq., Norroy Iving at Arms (author of the 

 lAfe of Sir Walter Raleigh), the Reverend 3Ir. 

 Emms, of Yarmouth, and Mr. William Rush, which 

 will begin to be sold on Monday, April 12, by 

 Thomas Uavies ;" published without date, but 

 supposed to be in 1764, I find amongst Mr. Oldys's 

 manuscripts, lot 3613. : " Of London Libraries : 

 with Anecdotes of Collectors of Books, Remarks 

 on Booksellers, and on the first Publishers of Ca- 

 talogues." Can any of your readers inl'orm me if 

 the same is still in existence, and in whose posses- 

 sion it is ? William Brown, Jun. 



Old Street. 



131. A Sword-blade Note. — I find in an 

 account-booli of a public company an entry 

 dated Oct. 1720, directing the disposal of "A 

 Sword-blade Note for One hundred ninety-two 

 pounds ten shillings seven pence." Can any of 

 your numerous readers, especially those cognisant 

 of monetary transactions, favour me with an ex- 

 planation of the nature of tliis note, and the origin 

 of its peculiar appellation ? R. J. 



Threadiiecdle Street, Aug. 28. 1851. 



132. Abacot. — The word Abacot, now in- 

 serted in foreign as well as Englisii dictionaries, was 

 adopted by Spelman in his Glossary ; the authority 

 which he gives seetns to be the passage (stating 

 that King Henry VI.'s " high cap of estate, called 

 Abacot, garnished with two ricli crowns," was pre- 

 sented to King Edward IV. after the battle of 

 Hexham) whicli is in Holinshed, (the third 

 volume of Chronicles, fol. Lond. 1577, p. 666. 

 col. 2. line 28.) : but this appears to be copied 



from Grafton (A Chronicle, Sfc, fol. Lond. 1569), 

 where the word stands Abocochet. If this author 

 took it from Hull {The Union, SfC, fol. Lond. 

 1549) I think it there stands the same: but in 

 Fabyan's Chronicle, as eilited by Ellis, it is printed 

 Bycohet; and in one black-letter copy in the 

 British Museum, it may be seen Bicoket, corrected 

 in the margin by a hand of the sixteenth century, 

 Brioket. 



Can any reader point out the right word, and 

 give its derivation ? J. W. P. 



133. Prmcesses of Wales (Vol. iv., p. 24.).— 

 C. C. R. has clearly shown what is Hume's au- 

 thority for tlie passage quoted by Mr. Christian in 

 his edition of Blachstone, and referred to by me in 

 my former communication, Vol. iii., p. 477. Can 

 he point out wliere the passage in Hiune is found? 

 Mr. Christian refers to Hume, iv. p. 113.; but I 

 have not been able to find it at the ])lace referred 

 to in any edition of Hume which I have had the 

 opportunity of consulting. G. 



A Kelso Convoy. — What is the origin of a 

 Kelso convoy, — a Scotch phrase, used to express 

 going a little way with a person ? B. 



[Jamleson, in his Dictionary of the Scottish I.angvage, 

 Johnstone's Abiid^rment, thus explains the phrase: — 



" Kelso CoNVoy, an escort scarcely deserving the 

 name south of Scotland. ' A step and a half ower the 

 door staiic.' (^Antiquary.) This is rather farther than 

 a Scotch Convoy, which, according to some, is only to 

 the djor. It is, however, explained by others as sig- 

 nifying that one goes as far as the friend whom he 

 accompanies has to go, although to his own door."] 



Cardinal Wolsey. — In the life of Wolsey in 

 the Penny Cyclopadia is the following : 



" It is said that wlille he lived at Lymington, he got 

 drunk at a neighbouring fair. For some such cause 

 it is certain that Sir Amias Paulett put him into the 

 stocks, — a punishment for which we find that he sub- 

 sequently revenged himself." 



I have been unable to find what was his re- 

 venge. B. 



[Collins, in his Tecraqe of England, vol. iv. p. 3., 

 says, "that in tlie reign of Henry VII., when Car- 

 dinal Wolsey was only a sclioolniaster at Lymington, 

 in Somersetshire, Sir Amias Paulett, for some misde- 

 meanor committed by liim, clapped liim in the stocks ; 

 which the Cardinal, when he grew into favour with 

 Henry VIII., so far resented, that he sought all 

 manner of ways to give him trouble, and obliged him 

 (as Godwin in his Annnls, p. 28., observes) to dance 

 attendance at London for some years, and by all manner 

 of obsequiousness to curry favour with him. During 

 the time of his attendance, being commanded by the 

 Cardinal not to depart London without licence, lie took 

 up his lodging in the great gate of the Temple towards 

 Fleet Street.] 



