by the corporation of
Totness in Devon, in the year 1703, demises premises by this
description: "All that cellar and the chambers over the same, and the
little _pallace_ and landing-place adjoining to the river Dart." Can
your readers give an explanation of the term "pallace?"

J.R. ROGERS.

_Did Oliver Cromwell write "The New Star of the North?_"--Perhaps some
of your numerous correspondents, who have perused a curious letter of
Count de Tessins, in Clements' _Bibliotheque Curieuse_, tome ix. page
331., can inform me what credit, or if any, is due to the Count's
conjecture, that Oliver Cromwell was the author of the book entitled
_The New Star of the North, shining upon the victorious King of Sweden_,
&c. 4to. London, 1632.

J.M.

Oxford.

_Meaning of Savegard and Russells_.--In the will of Elizabeth
Coddington, lady of the manor of Ixworth, 1571, mention is made of "the
red _russells_ quilt," of "a felde bed," and of "my cloke and _savegard
of freseadon_." I shall be obliged by any description of the garment
known as the _savegard_, and of the _russells quilt_.

BURIENSIS.

_Pandoxare_.--Having met with an old volume containing the entire
household expenses, as well as in some degree a diary, kept by a country
gentleman during the reigns of James II., William and Mary, and Anne, I
observed that he has made use of a species of hieroglyphics, to
facilitate his reference to his book, as it contained all the entries of
all kinds, in chronological order. For instance, where mention is made
of money spent on behalf of one person in his house, he puts at the side
of the page a clay pipe, rudely drawn; an entry of the payment of wages
to another servant has a jug of ale; another a quill pen; another a
couple of brooms, as the housemaid; a fiddle for the dancing master for
his daughter; payment made to the sexton or parish-clerk has a
representation of the village church by its side, and the window-tax a
small lattice-window; and on the days that they brewed, a small barrel
is drawn by the side of the date. And the chief object of my letter is
with respect to this last; a barrel is often drawn, and by its side the
words, _primo relinitus_, and the date, naturally meaning the day it was
tapped; and then shortly after comes another barrel, and to it is
written the word _Pandox_., or sometimes in full _Pandoxavimus_; in some
places at the end of the year there is a list to this effect:--

"(1705.)