A. N.
Skeletons at Egyptian Banquet (Vol. iii., p. 424.).
—The interpretation of this is probably from Jer. Taylor's own head. See, for the history of the association in his mind, his sermon on the "Marriage Ring."
"It is fit that I should infuse a bunch of myrrh into the festival goblet, and, after the Egyptian manner, serve up a dead man's bones as a feast."
Q. Q.
Sewell (Vol. iii., p. 391.).
—Allow me to refer H. C. K. to a passage in the Letters on the Suppression of the Monasteries, published by the Camden Society, p. 71., for an example of the word sewelles. It is there said to be equivalent to blawnsherres. The scattered pages of Duns Scotus were put to this use, after he was banished from Oxford by the Royal Commissioners.
The word is perhaps akin to the low Latin suellium, threshing-floor, or to the Norman French swele, threshold: in which case the original meaning would be bounds or limits.
C. H.
St. Catharine's Hall, Cambridge.