. Why are they called Guildhalls?

2nd. For what purpose were they anciently used? {321}

3rd. Are they common in other counties besides Suffolk?

Also: What is the origin of the Friday Streets so common in most
villages in this neighbourhood?

A SUBSCRIBER AB INITIO.

Guildhall, Framlingham, Suffolk, Feb. 6. 1850.

_Vox Populi_--_Monody on Sir John Moore._--Can any reader give me the
origin of the saying "_Vox Populi, Vox Dei_?"--and has any one of your
correspondents ever heard of any doubts being raised as to the original
author of the _Monody upon Sir John Moore_, which is now always assigned
to the Rev. Dr. Wolfe? I saw it stated in an English paper, published in
France some few years back, that Wolfe had taken them from a poem at the
end of the _Memoirs of Lally Tottendal_, the French governor of
Pondicherry, in 1756, and subsequently executed in 1766. In the Paper I
refer to, the French poem was given; and certainly one of the two must
be a translation of the other. I have not been able to get a copy of
Tottendal's _Memoirs_, or of the Paper I refer to, or I would not
trouble you with this Query; but perhaps some one can inform me which is
the Merchant here, and which the Jew.

QUAESITOR.

Reg. Coll. London.

_Use of Coffins._--How long has it been the custom to inter the dead in
coffins? "In a table of Dutyes" dated 11th Dec. 1664, and preserved at
Shoreditch Church, it is mentioned:--

"For a buryall in the New Church Yard without a coffin, 00 00 08.

"For a buryall in ye Old Church Yard without a coffin seauen pence
00 00 07.

"For the grave marking and attendance of ye Vicar and Clarke on
ye enterment of a corps uncoffined the churchwardens to pay the
ordinary duteys (and no more) of this table."

H.E.

_Rococo._--Would any correspondent of "NOTES AND QUERIES" give the
history of this word, or indicate where it is to be found? or, if the
history is not known, state when, and by whom, it appears to have been
_first_ used?

T.

Oxford.

_Howlett the Engraver._--Can any of your readers furnish me with an
account of the "Publications of Bartholomew Howlett," who was an
engraver of some note, and about forty-five or fifty years ago resided
in London? He was a native of Louth in Lincolnshire, and about
forty-five years ago, being then resident (as appears from his book)
somewhere in the neighbourhood of the Blackfriars' Road, published by
subscription a