being 8 foot deep and
6 foot broad, I having found the timber,
&c. 30 0 0

"For the King's Arms at large, with
ornaments thereto, designed for the pediment
of the said front, the same being in
the whole 15 foot long and 9 foot high, I
finding timber, &c. 73 15 0

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L103 15 0"

Extracted from Rawlinson MS. A. 170, fol. 132.

J. YEOWELL.

_The Aliases and Initials of Authors._--It has often occurred to me that it
would save much useless inquiry and research, if a tolerable list could be
collected of the principal authors who have published their works under
assumed names or initials: thus, "R. B. Robert Burton," _Nathaniel Crouch_,
"R. F. Scoto-Britannicus," _Robert Fairley_, &c. The commencement of a new
volume of {125} "N. & Q." affords an excellent opportunity for attempting
this. If the correspondents of "N. & Q." would contribute their mites
occasionally with this view, by the conclusion of the volume, I have little
doubt but a very valuable list might be obtained. For the sake of
reference, the whole contributions obtained could then be amalgamated, and
alphabetically arranged.

PERTHENSIS.

_Pure._--In visiting an old blind woman the other day, I was struck with
what to me was a peculiar use of the word _pure_. Having inquired after the
dame's health, and been assured that she was much better, I begged her not
to rise from the bed on which she was sitting, whereupon she said, "Thank
you, Sir, I feel quite _pure_ this morning."

OXONIENSIS.

Oakridge, Gloucestershire.

_Darling's "Cyclopaedia Bibliographica._"--The utility of Mr. Darling's
_Cyclopaedia Bibliographica_ is exemplified by the solution conveyed under
the title "Crellius," p. 813, of the following difficulty expressed by Dr.
Hey, the Norrisian professor (_Lectures_, vol. iii. p. 40.):

"Paul Crellius and John Maclaurin seem to have been of the same way of
thinking with John Agricola. Nicholls, on this Article [Eighth of the
Thirty-nine Articles], refers to Paul Crellius's book _De Libertate
Christiana_, but I do not find it anywhere. A speech of his is in the
_Bodleian Dialogue_, but not this work."

Similar information might have been received by your correspondent (Vol.
vii., p. 381.), who inquired whether Huet's _Navigations of Solomon_ w