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engaged in this pastime, and longer still
since I romped round with them. I am not
quite sure if I rightly remember the words,
and shall be glad to know if anywhere
children still engage in " As the farmer sows
his seed." THOS. RATCLIFFE.
Worksop.
ARCHBISHOP OF DOVER. In a charter of confirmation by King Canute to the monastery at Exeter, Lyfing, Archbishop of Canterbury, signs as a witness thus : " Ego Lyvynge Dovernensis Basilice Primus," &c. Was it customary for the early archbishops to describe themselves as of Dover ? and if so, for what reason did they do it ? GREGORY GRUSELIER.
CHRISTOPHER THOMSON was ordained acolyte at Chester in June, 1557, and subse- quently received Anglican orders. On 19 March, 1569, he was instituted to the living of Winwick in Lancashire, on the presenta- tion of the Queen ; and according to Baines's ' Lancashire ' (iii. 622), the next incumbent was John Coldwell, instituted 7 Jan., 1575, on the death of the last. This, however, must be a mistake. There can be no doubt that it was he, now described as of London diocese, who was at the English College at Douay in 1576, and left 30 April for Louvain, whence he proceeded to England, and, as it would seem, revisited Lancashire. On 27 March, 1577, he returned to Douay, and was ordained priest on Holy Saturday, 6 April, at Cambrai by the Archbishop Mgr. Louis de Berlaymont, leaving on the following 24th for Louvain, on the way to England.
These visits to the Continent became known, and in consequence the Earl o: Derby arrested the ex-parson of Winwicfe in the summer of 1578 as a suspected Papist and put him into gaol. By command o: the Privy Council, dated 23 August, he was sent to London by the end of September and on or about the 3rd of November waf committed to the Marshalsea. Thence towards the end of December, 1580, he was removed to the Tower, where he was racke< on 3 Jan., 1581 ('Douay Diaries' passim ' P.C.A.,' N.S., x. 309, 370 ; Simpson' 'Campion,' 1896, ed., pp. 261, 267). Wit! nineteen other priests and a layman he wa put on board the Mary Martin of Colcheste at Tower Wharf on 21 Jan., 1585, and on 2 February was landed at Boulogne (Holins bed's ' Chronicle,' iv. 554-6). Two year later he was in Paris (Strype, ' Ann.,' Ill ii. 599). Is anything further known of him JOHN B. WAINEWRIGHT.
LLECHYLCHED, ANGLESEY. 1. Is any-
tiing known of the dedication of the old
hurch of the parish of Llechylched, near
Sryngwran, Anglesey, which was pulled
.own in 1842 ?
2. Is there any published account of xcavations undertaken in the immediate leighbourhood by the late Mr. Richard Bennett of Liverpool among some of the lut circles there.
3. What evidence is there to show that he ancient paved road that passed through he parish is of Roman origin.
4. Was there a saint of the name of ^ylched; or is the parish named after a itone circle ?
5. Has the well near the site of the old jhurch any traditional name or legend ?
FRED. G. ACKERLEY. Grindleton, Clitheroe.
" BUFF." This word in the plural "bums") is used in Dunbar's * Twa Maryit Wemen and the Wedo ' (line 186). The earliest reference in the ' N.E.D.' is of the next century, and none of the defini-
- ions make me quite sure that they fit.
Will PROF. SKEAT or some one else explain its meaning ? FORREST MORGAN.
Hartford, Conn.
ATTORNEY-GENERAL TO THE
QUEEN. (10 S. x. 110.)
IN the * Encyclopaedia of the Laws of England,' 2nd ed., vol. i. p. 626, title, 'The Attorney-General of the Queen Consort,' is the following :
" The Queen Consort is in law a public person exempt and distinct from the King. She may sue and be sued without the King being joined ; but she has an Attorney-General in whose name she sues and is sued. This privilege does not extend to a Queen Dowager."
The s following references may also be useful :
" The Queen Consort is a subject, though privi- leged in certain ways She has her separate
officers and legal advisers." Alison's 'Law and Custom of the Constitution,' vol. ii., ' The Crown,' p. 255.
"Queen Consort. She has separate courts
and officers distinct from the King's, not only in matters of ceremony, but even of law ; and her Attorney and Solicitor General are entitled to a place within the Bar of His Majesty's Courts together with the King's Counsel." Wharton's ' Law Lexicon,' 1902.
