attel called an
_"Iland Chest:"_ thus, ex.g. "Item: to Edmond Poyley I give the Iland
chest in the great chamber wherein his linen was." Mention is made of
the like article in two or three other instances. An explanation of the
word and an account of the kind of chest will much oblige.

B.W.G.

_D'Israeli on the Court of Wards._--D'Israeli, in his article upon
"Usurers of the Seventeenth Century" (_Curios. of Lit._ iii. 89. old
ed.), which is chiefly upon Hugh Audley, a master of the Court of Wards
and Liveries, speaks of that court as "a remarkable institution, on
which I purpose to make some researches." Can any of your readers inform
me if D'Israeli acted upon this resolve, and, if so, where the results
of labours are to be found?

J.B.

_Ancient Tiles._--Two birds, back to back, with heads turned to each
other, were common on ancient tiles. What are they intended to represent
or to emblemise?

B.

_Pilgrimage of Kings, &c.--Blind Man's Buff--Muffin--Hundred Weight,
&c.--_ 1. Can your readers oblige me with the name of the author and the
date of a work entitled _The Pilgrimage of Kings and Princes_, of which
I possess an imperfect copy--a small quarto? 2. What is the etymology of
the game Blind Man's _Buff?_ I am led to doubt whether that was the old
spelling of it, for in a catalogue now before me I find a quarto work by
Martin Parker, entitled _The Poet's Blind Man's Bough, or Have among you
my Blind Harpers,_ 1641. 3. What is the origin of the word _muffin?_ It
is not in _Johnson's Dictionary._ Perhaps this sort of tea-cake was not
known in his day. 4. By what logic do we call one hundred and _twelve_
pounds merely a hundred weight? 5. I shall feel still more obliged if
your readers can inform me of any works on natural history, particularly
adapted for a literary man to refer to at times when poetical,
mythological, scriptural, and historical associations connected with
animals and plants are in question. I am constantly feeling the want of
a work of the kind to comprehend zoological similes and allusions, and
also notices of customs and superstitions connected with animals, when
reading our old poets and chroniclers. Even the most celebrated
zoological works are of no use to me in such inquiries.

STEPHEN BEAUCHAMP.

_Anthony Bek, Bishop of Durham._--Having employed my leisure for many
years in collecting _materials_ for the biography of the famous Anthony
Bek, Bishop of Durham, I am baffled by the