(Vol. iii., p. 39.).--Will
JONATHAN OLDBUCK, JUN., oblige me by describing the family coat-armour
borne by the Cottons mentioned in his Note? It may facilitate his inquiry,
in which, by the way, I am much interested.

R. W. C.

_Sir George Buc's Treatise on the Stage._--What has become of this MS.? Sir
George Buc mentions it in _The Third University of England_, appended to
Stowe's _Annals_, ed. 1631, p. 1082.--

"Of this art [the dramatic] have written largely _Petrus Victorius_,
&c.--as it were in vaine for me to say anything of the art; besides,
that _I have written thereof a particular treatise_."

If this manuscript could be discovered, it would doubtless throw
considerable light upon the Elizabethan drama.

EDWARD F. RIMBAULT.

_A Cracowe Pike_ (Vol. iii., p. 118.).--Since I sent you the Query
respecting a _Cracowe Pike_, I have found that I was wrong in supposing it
to be a weapon or spear: for _Cracowe Pikes_ was the name given to the
preposterous "piked shoes," which were fashionable in the reign of Richard
II., and which were so long in the toes that it was necessary to tie them
with chains to the knee, in order to render it possible for the wearer to
walk. Stowe, in his _Chronicle_, tells us that this extravagant fashion was
brought in by Anne of Bohemia, Queen of Richard II. But why were they
called _Cracowe_ pikes?

I. H. T.

_St. Thomas of Trunnions._--Who was this saint, and why is he frequently
mentioned in connexion with onions?

"Nay softe, my maisters, by _Saincte Thomas of Trunions_,
I am not disposed to buy of your _onions_."
_Apius and Virginia_, 1575.

"And you that delight in trulls and minions,
Come buy my four ropes of hard _S. Thomas's onions_."
_The Hog hath lost his Pearl_, 1614.

"Buy my rope of onions--white _St. Thomas's onions_," was one of the
cries of London in the seventeenth century.

EDWARD F. RIMBAULT.

_Paper-mill near Stevenage_ (Vol. ii., p. 473.).--In your number for
December 14, 1850, one of your correspondents, referring to Bartholomeus
_de Prop. Rerum_, mentions a paper-mill near Stevenage, in the county of
Hertford, as being probably the earliest, or one of the earliest,
established in England. I should feel much obliged if your correspondent,
through the medium of your pages, would favour me with any further
particulars on this subject; especially as to the site of this mill, there
being no st