most perfect on record. But Lord Bacon himself, "who
knew everything" else, knew nothing of his own name.

[Footnote 2: See vol. ii., p. 138.]

SAMOHT NEHCEEB.

_Meaning of Bacon_ (Vol. ii., pp. 138. 247.).--As, on reconsideration, I
perceive there is some doubt as to the meaning of the word _bacons_ in
Foulques Fitzwarin, I send you the passage in which it occurs, that your
readers may form their own opinion concerning it:--

"Pus apres, furent les portes de le chastel, qe treblees erent, ars e
espris par feu que fust illumee de bacons e de grece."

I must in addition add, that I was mistaken as to the meaning of
_hosebaunde_, which was possibly only the French mode of writing husband.

B.W.

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REPLIES TO MINOR QUERIES.

_Cockade_ (Vol. iii., p.7.).--The black cockade worn by the officers of the
army and navy is the relic of a custom which probably dated from the
Hanoverian succession; the black cockade being the Hanoverian badge, the
white that of the Stuart. In _Waverley_, when the hero for the first time
meets the Baron Bradwardine, he is accosted by the latter thus:--

"And so ye have mounted the cockade? Right, right; though I could have
wished the colour different."

APODLIKTES.

Erechtheum Club.

_Form of Prayer for King's Evil._--Mr. Lathbury, in his _Convocation_, p.
361., states that this form appeared in Prayer-book of 1709. This was not,
however, its earliest appearance, as it is found in a quarto one bearing
date 1707, printed by the Queen's printers, Charles Bill and the Executrix
of Thomas Newcomb. It occurs immediately before the Articles, and is simply
entitled, "At the healing."

N.E.R. (a Subscriber.)

[Prayers at the Healing may be found in Sparrow's _Collection of
Articles, Injunctions, Canons, &c._, p. 223. 4to. 1661. Consult also,
Nichols's _Anecdotes of Bowyer_, p. 573; _The Antiquary's Portfolio_,
vol. ii. p. 179.; Aubrey's _Letters_, vol. i. p. 250.; Nichols's
_Literary Anecdotes of the Eighteenth Century_, vol. ii. pp. 495-505.;
_Christian Observer_ (1831), p. 119.]

"_Aver._"--_Hogs not Pigs_ (Vol. ii., p. 461.).--In Wensleydale, North
Yorkshire, the thin oat-cake (common in many mountainous parts of England)
is called "_aver-cake_," or "_haver-cake_." The Loyal Dales Volunteers were
surnamed "The Haver-cake Lads." Previously to seeing the Note of G.M., I
imagined the "aver" to be derived from