g recorded.

ROBERT SNOW.

_Simon Bache_ (Vol. iii., p. 105.).--_Thesaurarius Hospitii_.--The office
of "Thesaurarius Hospitii," about which A. W. H. inquires, means, I
believe, "Treasurer of the Household." In Chauncy's _Hertfordshire_, vol.
ii. p. 102., the inscription on Simon Bache is given in the same terms as
by your correspondent. The learned author then gives, at p. 103., the
epitaph on another monument also in Knebworth Church, erected to the memory
of John Hotoft, in which occur these two lines:

"Hospitii regis qui Thesaurarius olim
Henrici sexti merito pollebat honore."

At p. 93. of the same volume, Sir Henry Chauncy speaks of the same John
Hotoft as an eminent man, and sheriff of the county, and adds:

"He was also Treasurer of the King's Household afterwards; he dyed and
was buried in the chancel of this church, where his monument remains at
this day."

Who Simon Bache was, or how he came to be buried at Knebworth, I cannot
tell. The name of "Bach" occurs in Chauncy several times, as that of mayors
and assistants, at Hertford, between 1672 and 1689.

J. H. L.

_Winifreda_ (Vol. iii., p. 108.).--It may perhaps interest LORD BRAYBROOKE
and J. H. M. to know, that I have in my possession the copy of Dodsley's
_Minor Poems_, which belonged to John Gilbert Cooper, and which was bought
at the sale of his grandson, the late Colonel John Gilbert-Cooper-Gardiner.
The song of "Winifreda" is at page 282. of the 4th volume; and a manuscript
note, in the handwriting of the son of the author of _Letters concerning
Taste_, states it to have been written "by John Gilbert Cooper." The
_praise_ bestowed by Cooper on the poem, and which J. H. M. conceives to
militate against his claim to the composition, is obviously intended to
apply to the _original_, and not to Cooper's elegant translation.

A.

Newark.

_Queries on Costume_ (Vol. iii., p. 88.).--Addison's paper in the
_Spectator_, No. 127., seems to be {156} conclusive that hooped petticoats
were not in use so early as the year 1651. The anecdote in connection with
the subject related in Wilson's _Life of De Foe_, has always appeared to me
very questionable, not only on that consideration, but because Charles was
at the time a fine tall young man of more than twenty-one years of age, and
at the only period that he could have been in the neighbourhood referred
to, he was on horseback and attended by at least two persons, who were also
moun