essel in order to leave the port?

C.W.G.

_Ormonde House._--Perhaps some of your annotators on Cunningham's
_Hand-book of London_, will be so kind as to inform me whereabouts
"Ormonde House" stood in St. James's Square; also to state any
particulars respecting its history before and after it was occupied by
that noble family.

J.G.

_As Morse caught the Mare._--I shall be glad to be informed the meaning
of this expression--it is to be met with in the translation of Rabelais.
There is also a song sung among the farmers of South Devon, of which the
last line of each verse is "As Morse caught the Mare."

R.S.B.

_Dustpot--Forthlot._--In a Manorial Compotus, temp. Hen. V., I find the
following entry, under the head of Out-goings:--

"In custodes carucarum et carectarum nil quia per firmarium. Item
pro eorum _duspot_ (xij'd) nil, causa predicta. Item pro eorum
_forlot_ (iiij'd) nil, causa predicta," &c.

I have in vain consulted the glossaries within my reach,--Ducange,
Spelman, Halliwell, for the meaning of the terms _dustpot_ and _forlot_
(or, as spelt in another Compotus, _dustpot_ and _forthlot_). They
appear to have been customary payments to the servants who had the care
of the carts and carriages belonging to the manor, which, at the time of
this particular Compotus, were not payable by the lord, because the
demesne lands were in farm; and these dues were paid by the tenant. A
reference to the _Promptorinm Parvulorum_ (a further instalment of which
I rejoice to learn, from Mr. Way's communication, in No. 15., is in a
state of progress) has been equally unproductive. The editorial note to
the communications inserted in No. 17., on the interpretation of
_Pokership_, induces me to send you this query, in the hope of eliciting
information, if not from the gentleman you there refer to, at least from
some one or other of your numerous readers learned in Archaic words.

I may, at a future period trouble you with some further remarks arising
out of the same Compotus.

G.A.C.

_Tracts attributed to Eachard._--The writer of this article has long had
in his possession an old volume (among many others of a like kind in his
collection) published in 1685; and containing the following
tracts:--1st. "The Grounds and Occasions of the Contempt of the
Clergy,... in a letter written to R.L., 9th edition." This letter is
signed T.B. 2nd. "Observations upon the Answer to the Inquiry, &c., in a
second