s, with
such like merchandise, which were so esteemed and abused to the
prejudice of God's glory and commandments, that they were made most
high and most holy things, whereby to attain to the eternal life, or
remission of sin."

I cite the above from the Parker Society's edition of Archbishop Cranmer's
_Miscellaneous Writings and Letters_, p. 148. It occurs also in Professor
Corrie's edition of the _Homilies_, p. 58. I shall be glad to be informed
what is meant by the "fifteen Oo's," or "fifteen O's" (for so they are
spelt in the above edition of the _Homilies_).

C. H. COOPER

Cambridge, April 14. 1851.

[The fifteen O's are fifteen prayers commencing with the letter O, and
will be found in _Horae Beatissime Virginis Marie, secundum usum
ecclesiae Sarum_, p. 201. edit. 1527.]

_Meaning of Pightle._--As I dare say you number some Suffolk men among your
readers, would any of them kindly inform me the meaning and derivation of
the word "pightle," which is always applied to a field adjoining the
farm-houses in Suffolk?

PHILO-STEVENS.

[Phillips, in his _New World of Words_, has "PIGLE or PIGHTEL, a small
Parcel of Land enclosed with a Hedge, which in some Parts of England is
commonly call'd a Pingle."]

_Inscription on a Guinea of George III._--Round the reverse of a guinea of
George III., 1793, are the following initials:--"M. B. F. ET H. REX--F. D.
B. ET L. D. S. R. I. A. T. ET E." The earlier letters are sufficiently
intelligible; but I should be glad to learn the meaning of the whole
inscription.

J. H. C.

Adelaide, South Australia.

[Of the Faith Defender, of Brunswick and Lunenburg Duke, of the Holy
Roman Empire Arch-Treasurer and Elector.]

_Meaning of Crambo._--Sir Thomas Browne (_Religio Medici_, part ii. s. 15.
ed. 1678) says:

"I conclude, therefore, and say, there is no happiness under (or, as
Copernicus will have it, above) the sun, nor any Crambo in that
repeated verity and burthen of all the wisdom of _Solomon_, _All is
vanity and vexation of spirit_."

Query, What is the meaning of _crambo_ here, and is it to be met with
elsewhere with a similar meaning?

J. H. C.

Adelaide, South Australia.

[The words "nor any Crambo" mean that the sentiment expressed by
Solomon is a truth which cannot be too often repeated. Crabbe says,
"_Crambo_ is a play, in rhyming, in which he that repeats a word that
was said b