J.E.M.
Works of King Alfred.
Sir,--If any of your readers can inform me of MSS. of the Works of Kings
Alfred the Great, besides those which are found in the larger public
collections of MSS., he will confer a favour not only on the Alfred
Committee, who propose to publish a complete edition of King Alfred's
Works, but also on their Secretary, who is your obedient servant,
J.A. GILES.
Bampton, Oxford, Nov. 23. 1849
"Bive" and "Chote" Lambs.
I should be much obliged to any of your readers who would favour me with
an explanation of the words "Bive" and "Chote." They were thus applied in
an inventory taken Kent.
"27 Hen. VIII. Michaelm.
Bive lambes at xvid. the pece.
Chote lambes at xiid. the pece."
T.W.
Anecdote of the Civil Wars.
Horace Walpole alludes to an anecdote of a country gentleman, during the
Civil Wars, falling in with one of the armies on the day of some battle
(Edgehill or Naseby?) as he was _quietly going out with his hounds_.
Where did Walpole find this anecdote?
C.
A Political Maxim--when first used.
Who first used the phrase--"_When bad men conspire, good men must
combine_"?
C.
Richard of Cirencester
S.A.A. inquires whether the authenticity of Richard of Cirencester, the
Monk of Westminster, has ever been satisfactorily proved. The prevailing
opinion amongst some of the greatest antiquaries has been that the work
was a forgery by Dr.
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