on and Baptism of Isuf, the
Turkish Chaons, named Richard Christophilus, 8vo. Lond. 1684."

Also, in the Bodleian Catalogue, under the head of "Bassa (Isuf)," CH.
may find--

"The History of Isuf Bassa, Capt.-General of the Ottoman Army at
the Invasion of Candia. 8vo. Lond. 1684."

In reference to the former of these volumes, there is a note in the
_Fasti Oxonienses_, ad ann. 1683, v. Thom. White, of which the following
is a copy:--

"Quaere, if Tho. White, Lecturer of S. Andrew's Holborn,
published an Epistle to the Reader of 'A True Relation of the
Conversion and Baptism of Isuf, the Turkish Chaons, named
Richard Christophilus, in the presence of a full congregation,
Jan. 30, 1658, in Covent Garden, where Mr. Martin is Preacher.
Lond. 1658. 8vo.' Kenneth." (_Athenae Oxon_. ed. Phil. Bliss,
1820, vol. iv. _Fasti_, coll. 392, 393.)

J. SANSOM.

_Poker._--Among the muniments of the corporation of Bodmin is a
certificate of the mayor and burgesses respecting the claims of the
inhabitants of the town to take wood in Dunmere Wood, belonging to the
Priory of Bodmin. The language of it seems to throw light on the origin
of the word _pocarius_, or _poker_, which has been so often noticed and
discussed. (_Ante_, Vol. i., pp. 185. 218. 236. 269. 281. 323. 369.) The
passage also illustrates the _Hook or Crook_ privilege, which has been
already satisfactorily explained. The date is A.D. 1525:

"We say, and for truth testify that the wood called Dynmure
Wood, was ever open and common to all burgesses and inhabitants
of Bodmin till now of late, as well for all manner kind of their
beasts to common therein, as to have their burden wood, to bear
and carry away upon their backs, of lop, crop, _hook_, _crook_,
and _bag_ wood; ... always reserving to the Prior the stems of
the trees for their fuel and building."

(See the _Bodmin Register_, collected by the Rev. John Wallis, of
Bodmin, and printed at Bodmin, 1827-1838, p. 303.)

I presume that _bag wood_ is such wood as can be cut with a hook or
crook, and bunched. In another nearly contemporary petition (Ibid. p.
306.), the same identical privilege is described by the townsmen as a
right to lop and crop with a hook and crook, and to carry away on their
backs, and "none other ways." This explains the former passage, and
shows that the wood was probably carried away on the back in a bag.

The woodward, who