"This discovery was made by the _Literary Gazette_."
Will you permit me, through the medium of your useful publication, to solicit information of the number and date of the _Literary Gazette_ which recalled public attention to this very remarkable fact?
_Coronet._--In Newbold Church, in the county of Warwick, is a monument to the memory of Thomas Boughton of Lawford, and Elizabeth his wife, representing him in a suit of armour, with sword and spurs, _a coronet on his head_, and a bear at his feet, chained and muzzled. Query.--Can any of your readers give an accurate description of this coronet? Or can any of them mention instances of the monuments of esquires having similar coronets? The date of his death is not given: his wife died in the year 1454.
_Cinderella._--Referring to Vol. ii., p. 214., allow me to ask in what edition of Perrault's _Fairy Tales_ the misprint of _verre_ from _vair_ first occurs? what is the date of their first publication, as well as that of the translation under the title of _Mother Goose's Tales_? whether Perrault was the originator of _Cinderella_, or from what source he drew the tale? { 298} what, moreover, is the authority for identifying _sable_ with _vair_ for the employment of either in designating the highest rank of princesses?
_Judas' Bell, Judas' Candle_ (Vol. i., pp. 195. 235. 357.).--Some time since I asked the meaning of a Judas' Bell, and your learned correspondent CEPHAS replied that it was only a bell so christened after St. Jude, the apostle. However, it may have been connected with the Judas' tapers, which, according, to the subjoined entries, were used with the Paschal candle at Easter. May I trust to his kindness to explain its purport?
"1499. Itm. payed for making leng' Mr. Smyth's molde wt. a Judas for the Pascall--vJd."
"A.D. 1514. Paid for making a Judas for Pascall iiijd."
"_Churchwardens' Accompts of S. Martin, Outwich_.
"1510. Paid to Randolf Merchaunt Wex Chandiler for the Pascall, the tapers affore the Rode, the Cross Candelles, and Judas Candelles--viiijs. iiijd."
"1524. Item payed for xij. Judacis to stand with the tapers--O ijd. O"
_Dozen of Bread; Baker's Dozen._--In the _Chronicle of Queen Jane, and of Two Years of Queen Mary_, lately printed for the Camden Society (Appendix iv. p. 112.), it is stated that, amongst other particulars in the accounts of the Chamberlain of Colchester, at which place Mary was entertained on her way to London, there is:--"For xxxviii. _dozen of bread_, xxxixs." In the language of the county from which I write, "a dozen of bread" was (and I believe is yet) used to express either one loaf, value twelvepence or two loaves, value sixpence each: and even when the sizes and price of the loaves varied, it was used to express the larger loaf, or the two smaller loaves. A dozen of bread was also divided into six twopenny, or twelve penny loaves.