ream within some miles of Stevenage capable of turning a mill. I
have been unable to find any account of this mill in either of the county
histories.

HERTFORDIENSIS.

_Mounds, Munts, Mounts._--In the parish register of Maresfield in Sussex,
there is an entry recording the surrender of a house and three acres of
land, called the "Mounds," in 1574, to the use of the parish; and in the
churchwardens' accounts at Rye, about the same time, it is stated that the
church of Rye was entitled to a rent from certain lands called "Mounts." In
Jevington, too, there are lands belonging to the Earl of Liverpool called
Munts or Mounts, but whether at any time belonging to the church, I am
unable to say. Any information as to the meaning of the word, or account of
its occurring elsewhere, will much oblige

R. W. B.

_Church Chests._--A representation of two knights engaged in combat is
sometimes found on ancient church chests. Can any one explain the meaning
of it? Examples occur at Harty Chapel, Kent, and Burgate, Suffolk. The
former is mentioned in the _Glossary of Architecture_, and described as a
carving: the latter is painted only, {188} and one of the knights is
effaced: the other is apparently being unhorsed; he wears a jupon
embroidered in red, and the camail, &c., of the time of Richard II.: a
small shield is held in his left hand: his horse stoops its head,
apparently to water, through which it is slowly pacing. Is this a subject
from the legend of some saint, or from one of the popular romances of the
middle ages? Are any other examples known?

C. R. M.

_The Cross-bill._--Is "The Legend of the Cross-bill," translated from
Julius Mosen by Longfellow, a genuine early tradition, or only a fiction of
the poet?

2. Is the Cross-bill considered in any country as a sacred bird? and was it
ever so used in architectural decoration, illumination, or any other works
of sacred art?

3. What is the earliest record on evidence of the Cross-bill being known in
England?

H. G. T.

Launceston.

_Iovanni Volpe._--Can any of your readers supply a notice of IOVANNI VOLPE,
mentioned in a MS. nearly cotemporary to have been

"An Italian doctor, famous in Queen Elizabeth's time, who went with
George Earl of Cumberland most of his sea voyages, and was with him at
the taking of Portorico?"

Another MS., apparently of the date of James I., describes him as
"physician to Queen Elizabeth."

He had a daughter, Frances,