_Indian Jugglers_ (Vol. iv., p. 472.).--In looking over some former Numbers I find an inquiry under this head. N. will find a full account of some of these wonderful and apparently inexplicable performances in the _Dublin University Magazine_. I have not a set to refer to, but the papers appeared about three or four years ago.
_Sons of the Conqueror_ (Vol. v., pp. 512. 570.).--I believe after all that Sir N. Wraxall is right. According to the old chroniclers, _three_ members of the Conqueror's family met their death in the New Forest.
1. _Richard_, his _second son_, is said to have been killed by a stag in the New Forest when hunting, and to have been buried at Winchester in the choir of the cathedral there.
2. _Henry_, youngest son of Robert, Duke of Normandy, and _grandson_ of the Conqueror, was accidentally slain in the New Forest.
3. _William Rufus_, third son of the Conqueror, fell in a similar way and in the same place.
_Saint Wilfred's Needle_ (Vol. v., pp. 510. 573.).--A very interesting account of this curious crypt beneath the central tower of Ripon Cathedral will be found in a pamphlet published twelve years ago, entitled "_Sepulchri a Romanis Constructi infra Ecclesiam S. Wilfridi in civitate Reponensi Descriptio Auctore Gul. D. Bruce_. London 1841." A copy is in the library of the Society of Antiquaries, and another in the British Museum.
_Frebord_ (Vol. v., p. 440.).--It may possibly assist the inquiries of your correspondents SPES and P. M. M. to be informed that the right of Frebord belongs to many estates in the midland counties. In some instances in Leicestershire the claim extends from the boundary hedge of one lordship to the extent of twenty-one feet over the land of the adjoining lordship; it is here understood to represent a _deer's leap_, and is said to have been given with the original grant of the manor, in order to secure to the lord a right to take the deer he happened to shoot when in the act of leaping from his domain into his neighbour's manor.
_Royd_ (Vol. v., p. 571.).--The meaning of this word may be further illustrated by reference to Swiss etymology and history. The great battle of Naefels (April 9, 1388) is celebrated on the first Thursday of every April, on the spot where the fiercest part of the struggle took place. Mount _Ruti_, the meadow where the liberators of Switzerland met, on the lake of the Four Cantons, and opposite Brunner, is called the Rutli: both words being derived from a common root of common use in the formation of names in German Switzerland, _Ruten-defricher_, "to clear;" or, _Ruthen_, "to measure, gauge;" in short, "prepare for clearing;" whence, perhaps, our _Ruthyn_ and Rutland.