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NOTES AND QUERIES. 
[254 §, No 20., May 17. °56. 
lished Zhe Writing Schoolmaster, a treatise con- 
sisting of three parts: the first treating of “ Bra- 
chygraphie, that is, to write as fast as a man 
speaketh, treatably, writing but one letter for a 
word ;” the second of Orthography, and the third 
of Caligraphy. “Imprinted at London by ‘I. Or- 
win, 1590, 4to.” 
Holinshed describes one of Bales’ performances 
as a “rare peece of worke and almost incredible, 
brought to passe on the tenth of August, 1575.” 
This consisted in writing — 
“‘ within the compasse of a penie, in Latine, the Lord’s 
praier, the Creed, the 10 Commandements, a praier to 
God, a praier for the Queene, his posie* his name, the 
daie of the moneth, the yeare of our Lord, and the reigne 
of the Queene.” 
And on August 17, following, — 
“ He presented the same to the Queene’s Majestie, at 
Hampton Court, in the head of a ring of gold couered 
with christall; and presented therewith an excellent 
spectacle by him deuised, for the easier reading thereof; 
wherewith Hir Majestie read all that was written therein 
with great admiration, and commended the same to the 
Lords of the Council and the Ambassadors; and did wear 
the same many times upon hir finger.” 
There was also another English treatise on 
stenography, published in 1588 by Dr. Timothy 
Bright, and dedicated to Queen Elizabeth, but I 
have no further note of it. R. W. Hackwoop. 
Facetious Writer (2° §, i. 313.) —“* Who is the 
late facetious writer ?” 
“Tt is to be noted, that when any part of this paper 
appears dull, there is a design in it.”—Steele, Zatler, 
No. 38. 
A. B. 
Hamilton Terrace, 
The Tithe Impropriators of Benefices in Capitu- 
lar Patronage ( 2": S. i. 173.) — The information 
required will be found in a Blue Book of 308 pages, 
printed by order of the House of Commons (No. 
298, session 1848), being a return 
“Of all Tithes commuted and apportioned under the 
Act 6 & 7 Will. IV. c. 71., distinguishing between those 
assigned to Clerical Appropriators, Lay Impropriators, 
Parochial Incumbents, Schools and Colleges : —— And, 
of all Tithes commuted but not yet apportioned.” 
ARUN, 
Tau Cross (24 §, i. 211.) —The monumental 
efligy which your correspondent desires to recall 
to mind, is that of Sir Roger de Boys, in Ingham 
Church, Norfolk, engraved by Stothard, where 
the mantle of the Order of St. Anthony is seen, 
with the tau cross on the right shoulder. 
C. R. M. 
Communion Wine (2" S. i. 334.) —In the an- 
cient canons a provision is simply made that the 
oblation and wine should be free from unclean- 
ness and impurity. Theodulf’s Capitula, 5, A.v. 
994.; Canons, a.D. 960. c. 39., which forbid the 
use of a wooden chalice (c. 41). ; Canons, a.v. 740. 
c. 98. In the Prayer Books of 1552—1559, and 
1604, it is ordered that the “ bread be such as is 
usually to be eaten at the table with other meats, 
but the best and purest wheat bread:” the wine, 
therefore, was probably also that in ordinary use. 
“The minister of the altar” was by some of the 
ancient canons required to superintend the baking 
of the “holy bread.” 
Mackenzie Watcort, M.A. 
Query about Elephants (2™4 S. i. 115.) — The 
following are two quotations in point. Grwillim’s 
Display of Heraldry, London, 1611, p. 124.: 
“ This beast is so proud of his strength, that he never 
bowes himselfe to any (neither indeed can he); and ~ 
when hee is downe (as it usually is with proud great ones), 
hee cannot rise up againe.” 
Ti Livre des Creatures, by Philip de Thaun, who 
dedicated his work to Adelaide of Louvaine, 
queen of Henry I. of England; it was probably 
written soon after their marriage in 1121. It was 
printed (with others) by the Historical Society of 
Science in 1841; edited by Mr. Thos. Wrizht, 
F.S.A., with translation in notes : 
“ Et Isidres nus dit, ki le elefant descrit, 
Es jambes par nature nen ad que une jointure, 
Il ne pot pas gesir quant il se volt dormir, 
Ke si cuchet estait par sei nen leverait ; 
Pur ¢eo li stot apuier, el lui del cucher, 
U a arbre u & mur, idunc dort aseur. 
E le gent de la terre, ki li volent conquere, 
Li mur enfunderunt, u le arbre enciserunt ; 
Quant li elefant vendrat, ki s’i apuierat, 
La arbre u le mur carrat, e il tribucherat ; 
Issi faiterement le paruent cele gent.”—V. 100. 
‘A; TH, 
Stoke Newington. 
The Hangman-stone (2™4 S. i. 282.) —It may 
be interesting to your correspondent, Mr. J. W. 
Puitxies to be informed that at about five miles 
from Sidmouth on the road to Colyton, on the 
right hand side of the road, and near Bovey House, 
is a large stone known by the name of “ Hang- 
man-stone.” The legend is precisely similar to 
that noticed by Mr. Pumuies in “ N. & Q.,” 2" S. 
i, 282. and by Mr. Greaves, p. 15. 
N. S. Herexen. 
Sidmouth. 
In Westcote’s View of Devonshire in 1630, 
p- 252., there_is this statement with respect to the 
parish of Tatchcomb : 
“This parish is separated from Comb-Martin by bound- 
stones only, one of which they term hang-man-stone:; the 
reason demanded, it was answered, that a thief haying 
stolen his neighbour's sheep, bound the legs together, and 
casting him upon his shoulders, the legs compassing his 
neck, he came to the stone (which is some four feet in 
height, pitched in the earth) and thinking there to ease 
himself for awhile of his heayy burden, the sheep, laid on 
