io«> s. iv. JULY i,i905.] NOTES AND QUERIES. printed in the Year MDCCXXIII." The book is dedicated to Sir William Cecil, Knight, Baron of Burghleigh, Lord High Treasurer of England, and signed, "Miseria men tern macerat, At your Honours direction, lohn Norden." The preface is addressed "To all covrteovs gentlemen," <kc., and consists of 18 pp., concluding, "At ray poore howse neere Fulham, 4 Nouember, 1596," &c.; the frontispiece, printed from a plate, "Specvlvm Britanniae the first parte, &c. Middlesex, &c. By the Travaile and iew of lohn Norden." The next page contains the following address to the queen :— "To the High and most Mighty Empres Eliza- beth, by the divine providence Queene of England, France, and Ireland, powerful protector of the faith and undouted Religion of the Messiah, the most comfortable nursing mother of the Israel of God in the British Isles, Her Highnes Loyall Sub- ject John Norden in all humilitie conseorateth his Speculum Britanniie." Then full-page plate of the royal arms, and addresses to Lord Burghleigh and to "The Honorable, Wise, and Learned and," <fec.; and then a full description of the county of Middlesex, contained in 52 pages, with maps of London, " Wesminster," anrf " Myddlesex," in the right-hand cornerof which is "Johannes Norden descripsit 1593." The book also contains a description of "Hartfordshire" (with a map of the county), consisting of 31 pp. Of course, full justice to this book cannot be done in this short description, but it is sufficient to show that anch a book is in existence. W. J. GADSDEN. Crouch End. SHORTER: WALPOLE (10th S. iii. 269, 317, 337, 434).—Kegarding MR. VIDLEU'S second query at the last reference, I think Birkhead is only a variant of Burkett, for the Harleian Society's edition of Le Neve's 'Knights,' vol. viii. p. 301, gives the wife of Sir John Shorter as "[sabefiadaughter of John Birkett, of Croistath in Boroughdale, Cumbr." Names were spelt according to individual pronunciation, and this -would probably account for the various renderings. OH AS. HALL CROUCH. 5, Grove Villas, Wanstead. JACK AND JILL (10* S. iii. 450).—So far as I remember, this riddle appeared in the 'Children's Almanack,' published by the S.P.C.K., between the years 1867 and 1872, in the following form :— Not amid Alpine snow and ice, On purely British ground, " Excelsior !" was their bold device, J!ut sad the fate they found. They did not climb for love of fame, They went at duty's call. They were united in their climb, Divided in their fall. In the same collection, but not necessarily the same year, was the following :— If I were to ask the queen and her chair Both to tell me what they were ; And then were to ask of you to bear To the top of the house the queen and her chair— The queen, her chair, and yourself, all three. In the very same sentence would answer me. Does any correspondent know the answer? RED CROSS. The version of the question in this conun- drum which I learnt many years ago was as follows:— Not over Alpine snow and ice. But homely English ground, " Excelsior !" was their device. But sad the fate they found. Not in pursuit of empty fame, They went at duty s call. They were united in their aim, But parted in their fall. F. HOWARD COLLINS. My memory of the conundrum is as follows for the last four lines, to complete : — They did not go for love of fame, But at stern duty's call. They were united in their aim, Divided in their fall. HORACE M. HOBART-HAMPDEN, Major, Folkestone. My recollection of the second verse is :— They trod not in the path of fame, But followed duty's call. They were united in their aim, But parted in their fall. GEO. RUTTER FLETCHER. The remaining lines are, I believe, as follows:— They did not climb for love of gain, But obeyed stern duty's call. They were united in their aim, And parted in their fall. ANDREW OLIVER. [Reply also from HARRIETT M'!LQUBAM.] COKE OR COOK? (10th S. iii. 430.)-Camden, who compiled a pedigree of his friend the great lawyer, spelt the name Coke, and the name is thus spelt in the baptismal register of Sir Edward at Mileham, co. Norfolk,. 8 February, 1551. In the 'Life of Sir Edward Coke,' by Cuthbert Wm. Johnson, the author, on the authority of Horsfield's 'Sussex,' vol. i. E. 252, says that the town of Cuckfield, ussex, was originally spelt Cokefield, Cokk-
