2»« S. VI. 147., Oct. 23. '58.] 



NOTES AND QUERIES. 



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Walk-money, Walk-mills, Walks (2°" S. vi. 285.) 

 — In East Norfolk certain village fsiirs are called 

 " walks." These are quite distinct from " wakes," 

 and are not held on the festival of the patron 

 saint of the church. Halvergate walk and Ling- 

 wood walk are held on Michaelmas Day (O. S.), 

 one of those churches being dedicated to SS. 

 Peter and Paul, the other to S. Peter. Both of 

 these are simply pleasure fairs ; there is no busi- 

 ness or hiring of servants. But I am told that 

 Great Ormesby rvalk was for hiring of servants, 

 and was held two days before Michaelmas (O. S.). 

 The " walk," it seems, was what is in other coun- 

 ties called a " moss," i. e. an irregular hiring ; 

 while the statute or " statty," or sessions, as they 

 are called in Norfolk, were held by precept from 

 the high constable or other lawful authority. 



I can only suggest that the Oxburgh " walk- 

 money," mentioned by Mr. Goddard Johnson, 

 may have been originally intended for clothing 

 servants who had obtained situations at a " walk." 

 Perhaps the Charity Commissioners' Reports would 

 determine this. Or the "walk-money" may have 

 been some fee or toll collected at a "walk." 



I cannot think that the "walk-mill" derived its 

 name from being turned by men walking inside a 

 wheel. This, I imagine, is quite a modern in- 

 vention. The "walk-mills" were probably turned 

 by water-power, and were used for beating the 

 cloth with the large wooden mallets called fuUing- 

 stocks, which, if done by manual power, would 

 have been done without the intervention of an 

 engine: "Walcken i.q. bleyeken" (i.e. to bleach), 

 and " walcker, fullo," are given by Kilian. Bos- 

 worth, A.-S. Diet, has " wealcere, a fuller ; weal- 

 can, to roll, turn, tumble, revolve." E. G. R. 



A walk-mill is a fulling-mill ; Germ. walkmiiJile, 

 from walken, to stamp, to pound. Fulling-mill 

 from 'French fouler, to stamp, to pound. The in- 

 vention was probably borrowed from the Flemings 

 (German and French), our masters in the art of 

 cloth-making. H. F. B. 



University Hoods (2°'' S. vi. 211.) — Permit me 

 to correct one or two slight errors into which 

 Mb. Gutch has fallen in his article on " Univer- 

 sity Hoods." 



Those worn at Cambridge by those bearing the 

 degrees of B.D., M.A. Non-regent, B.C.L., and 

 M.B. are of plain black silk, and are not lined at 

 all ; at least I never saw one made at the Univer- 

 sity which had any lining. 



There is no doubt but that the hood for the de- 

 gree of D.D. at Cambridge, as well as for that of 

 LL.D. (or what was more properly designated 

 until the recent changes in the degrees in this 

 faculty, of D.C.L.), ought to be, as Mb. Gutch 

 states it, of scarlet cloth, lined with white ermine. 

 But although this is uniformly worn in the Senate- 

 house on the creation of a Doctor in both facul- 



ties, and in Doctors' Commons by the Advocates 

 being D.C.L. of Cambridge, on every other oc- 

 casion it is practically obsolete, as well at the 

 University, as among the clergy who have pro- 

 ceeded to this degree ; the hood uniformly worn 

 over the surplice being precisely the same by the 

 D.D. as by the D.C.L., viz., scarlet cloth lined 

 with rose-coloured silk. 



I think, too, that Mr. Gdtch will find upon in- 

 quiry that the hood of the M.D., Oxon., is lined, 

 not with crimson, but with rose-coloured silk, and 

 is precisely the same as that for the D.C.L. 



As to the Cambridge proctors, it is true that on 

 ordinary occasions they wear their hoods squared, 

 as Mb. Gdtch states ; but on litany-days, and pos- 

 sibly on some other important occasions, they wear 

 them hanging behind in the common way, over a 

 black silk rufF, called a congregation ruff, fastened 

 round the neck, over tlie M.A. gown. 



The Dublin M.A. hood which I saw was lined with 

 lilac, and not blue ; which is correct I know not. 



Until the very recent changes in the Law de- 

 grees, they were always conferred by both Oxford 

 and Cambridge in the Roman Civil Law, and not 

 in Laws; and so they ought to be designated 

 B.C.L. and D.C.L. respectively, and not LL.B. 

 and LL.D. This will serve as a reply to another 

 of your correspondents. D.C.L. Cantab. 



Consecration of Bishop of Cork, S)'C. (2"* S. v. 

 515.)— The Ven. William Fitzgerald, D.D., Arch- 

 deacon of Kildai'e, domestic chaplain to the Arch- 

 bishop of Dublin, and Professor of Ecclesiastical 

 History in the Univarsity of Dublin (of which he 

 had been a scholar, 1833), was consecrated to the 

 united sees of Cork and Ross, and Cloyne (" in 

 Ireland," as your querist cautiously adds), on 

 Sunday the 8th of March, 1857, at morning ser- 

 vice, in St. Patrick's cathedral, Dublin, by Richard 

 (Whately), Abp. of Dublin ; and the Bishops of 

 Down and Connor (Dr. Knox), and Limerick 

 (GrifSn). Having been present on that occasion, 

 I remember that the cathedral was densely crowded. 



John Ribton Garstin. 



Town and Country Magazine (2"'' S. vi. 190.) 

 — The following extract from Dr. Busby's Ar- 

 guments and Facts demonstrating that the Letters 

 of Juniiis ivere written by J. L. De Lolme (p. 55. 

 note) although not a reply to the Query of your 

 correspondent, may deserve a record in " N. & 

 Q.," as affording some illustration of the history 

 of this magazine : — 



" The Italian Count, Carraccioli, whose hicubrations, 

 under the head ' Bon Ton ' gave a few years since such 

 celebrity to the Town and Country Magazine, as to pro- 

 duce, while he wrote in this Miscellany, a sale of fourteen 

 thousand copies per month, made, however, a near ap- 

 proach to the English of De Lolme," &c. 



What is Dr. Busby's authority for this state- 

 ment, and where can I learn more particulars of 

 Carraccioli ? T. Co 



