_Pilgrims' Road to Canterbury._--Can any of the readers of "Notes and Queries" point out the route which was pursued by Chaucer and his fellow-travellers on the pilgrimage which his genius has immortalised? Is the route of the old pilgrims' road laid down upon any early maps? (it is not, I believe, marked on the Ordnance Survey;) and would it be possible to traverse it at the present time? Any hints upon these points, and any references to objects of interest on the line of road inquired after, will be thankfully received by
"_Ædricus qui signa fundebat._"--In a chronicle of Battel Abbey, compiled in the twelfth century, there is a list of the abbey's tenants in the town of Battel. Among many such names as Gilbertus Textor, Godwinus Cocus, Rotbertus filius Siflet, Rotbertus de Havena, I find that of "Ædricus qui signa fundebat." As this phrase is susceptible of several widely different renderings, I shall be grateful to any of your ingenious readers who will give me their opinions as to its actual meaning. I may add that Ædric was living about the year 1170, so that the phrase can have no reference to events connected with the battle of Hastings.
_Osmund the Waterman._--In his description of the _Flowering Fern (Osmunda regalis)_, Mr. Newman observes, that "the rhizoma [root-stock], when cut through, has a whitish centre or core, called by old Gerarde in his _Herbal_, 'the heart of Osmund the waterman.' My lore is insufficient to furnish my readers with the history of the said Osmund." (_History of British Ferns_, by Ed. Newman, 2nd ed., p. 334.) Can any of _your_ readers supply this deficiency?
_Logic._--What is the earliest printed book on logic? meaning the first which gives the common theory of the syllogism. Does it contain the celebrated words _Barbara, Celarent_, &c. The difficulty will probably arise from this, that each book has some _undated_ editions which are probably earlier than the dated ones. Of books with dates there is the exposition of Petrus Hispanus by Joh. Versor, in 1473, and the _Summulæ_ of Paulus Venetus, in 1474; the first I find in Hain (who had not seen it), the second I have seen. Can any one of your readers go farther back?
_Darvon Gatherall?_--Can any reader adduce further information respecting an image, called _Darvon Gatherall_, brought from Wales at the Reformation, than what is mentioned in one of the treatises published by the Camden Society?