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field as being in that church; but as he says 

 nothing of this one, it had probably been reaved 

 before his time. If your correspondent will kindly 

 put himself in communication with the Rev. C. R. 

 Manning, Rector of Diss, there being no resident 

 rector at Billingford, he may rely upon this me- 

 morial, although more of genealogical than of 

 archaeological interest, being restored to its proper 

 locality. Mr. Manning's careful researches and 

 extensive information on the subject of monu- 

 mental brasses is well known. He has recently 

 turned his attention to Indents, and has commu- 

 nicated a most interesting and useful paper on 

 " Lost Brasses " to a recent number of the Nor- 

 folk Archaeological Society's publications. If 

 such of your readers under whose notice any stray 

 brass may come will follow the example of Mb. 

 Gantillon, by communicating the discovery 

 through the pages of " N. & Q.," he may be the 

 means of rendering important, service to archae- 

 ology or history. G. A. C. 



Observing Mr. Gantillon's communication in 

 this week's " N. & Q.," I take the earliest oppor- 

 tunity of writing to you, to inform you that I 

 have little or no doubt that the brass referred to 

 belongs to one of the Billingford parish churches 

 in Norfolk, and that if you will write to Rev. G. 

 H. Dashwood, Stow Bardolph Rectory, Norfolk, 

 he will put you in a way of effecting a restoration, 

 as he has a cousin a rector of one of the Billing- 

 fords referred to. 



The clergyman of the other Billingford, which 

 is near Diss, in this county, is the Rev. G. A. 

 Cooper, and in my opinion it is this latter church 

 to tvhich the brass in question refers. 



John Nurse Chadwick. 



King's Lynn. 



General Breezo (2 na S. ix. 484.) — In " N. 

 & Q." of this day (June 23rd), P. P. asks " if 

 any one can explain the origin of this toast ? " 

 In giving the origin I always understood it 

 to have merited, it should be accompanied by 

 another, termed the bumper-toast, which used to 

 precede it in days of yore, in what was con- 

 sidered the good old Catholic times, after the 

 French language had been introduced here by 

 our Norman invaders. The great toast of the 

 day in those times was the Pope, holy father, Bon 

 Pere, or bumper, which being generally the final 

 toast on great festive occasions, it was considered 

 that the glasses would be desecrated by being 

 ever again used; they were consequently smashed, 

 when the presiding host directed a Brisee geiu'ralc, 

 or, according to the English version, a General 

 Breeso. 



This toast was so general at military messes in 

 my younger days that 1 heard it frequently ob- 

 served by foreigners that this General Breezo 

 must have been a very celebrated commander, 



his health having been so frequently and so 

 enthusiastically drank, although they never could 

 discover his name in any of our military annals. 



In giving this version to P. P., if he is a parish 

 priest, he is not, I presume, one of the papal 

 sect, otherwise he would in all probability be 

 more conversant with Le Bon Pere et La brisee 

 generale. John Scott Lillie. 



Library discovered at Willscot, co. Ox- 

 ford (2 nd S. ix. 461.) — The discovery said to 

 have been made in the old glebe-house at Wills- 

 cot is certainly very interesting, if true ; but a 

 suspicion arises from its not having been made 

 earlier or more generally known, though stated 

 to have occurred in last December. And, besides, 

 why should an Oxfordshire discovery rest upon 

 the authority of the Southern Times ? But if the 

 discovery really took place in Dec. 1859, and was 

 as described, of a " closet containing about fifty 

 volumes, probably concealed therein during the 

 early days of the Reformation," then it will be 

 most desirable that the literary world should be 

 furnished with a catalogue of the whole library 

 thus recovered, together with the dates of each 

 publication comprised in it, which would deter- 

 mine whether the conjecture can be maintained, 

 that they were secreted during the perilous days 

 of persecution. 



That religious books were sometimes " bricked 

 up " in closets and walls, we know from the con- 

 temporary anecdotes of Edward Underhill, the 

 " hot gospeller," who had recourse to this plan 

 himself. He tells us that, shortly after the coro- 

 nation of Queen Mary and King Philip, there 

 began in London — 



" the cruelle parsecusyeme off the prechers, and earnest 

 professors and followers off the gospelle, and shearchynge 

 off men's howses for ther bokes. Wherefore I goott olde 

 Henry Daunce, the brekeleyer off Whytechappelle, who 

 used to preche the gospelle in his gardene every haly- 

 daye, where I have sene a thowsande people, he dyde 

 inclose my bokes in a bryke walle by the chemnyes syde 

 in my chamber, where they weare presarved from mol- 

 dynge or mice, untylle the fyrsteyere off ower most gra- 

 cvouse quene Elisabeth."— {Narratives of the Days of the 

 Reformation, printed for the Camden Society, 18C0, p. 

 171.) 



If the correspondents of " N. & Q." are re- 

 minded of other instances of resort having been 

 had to such means of preserving books, I would 

 request their communication. 



John GouGn Nichols. 



" His People's good," etc. (2 nd S. ix. 281.) — 



" Simul olim legislatori Mosi sanguine vescendum non 

 esse mandavit Dons, simul ab istiusmodi cibo abstinere 

 debere a praconilms gratia; est constitution. Et quan- 

 qnam turn veteris turn nova gratia; tempore ilia res vilis 

 habita sit, etnefaria; co tamen contumacire, imo vecor- 

 diffl homines processere, ut neutri legi aurem prwstent 

 morigeram. At contra alii lucri, alii guise, causa, summa 

 cum impndentia mandatum contemnunt, in escam que 



