and I need scarcely say that these widely scattered pilgrims would not all traverse the country by one and the same road, but that they would select various routes, according to the different localities from which they came. Hence, several roads might be called "Pilgrims' Roads."
From a paper which appeared in the Athenæum in 1842, and has since been reprinted in a separate form, the writer of which I take to be identical with the reviewer of Buckler's work referred to by MR. JACKSON, I think we may gather that what he speaks of as the "Old Pilgrims' Road" is the Otford Road noticed by S. H. and M. (2.) Messrs. Buckler's tract mentions no wayside chapels in Kent.
It may not be uninteresting to add, that the author of Cabinet Pictures of English Life—Chaucer has expressed his firm belief, the grounds for which must be sought in his work, that the "Pilgrims' Room" of the Tabard, now the Talbot, in Southwark, whence these memorable pilgrims set forth, must be at least as old as Chaucer, and that the very gallery exists along which Chaucer and the pilgrims walked.
ARUN.
Replies to Minor Queries.
Shakspeare's Use of "Captious" ([Vol. ii., p. 354.]; [Vol. iii., p. 229.]).—As W. F. S. does me the favour to ask my opinion of his notion respecting the passage in All's Well that Ends Well, I beg to say that I am very glad to find he agrees with me in regard to the signification of the word "captious;" but that I cannot suppose, with him, that Shakspeare wrote capatious in a passage in which the metre is regular; for what sort of verse would be—
"Yet in this capatious and intenible sieve?"
Surely W. F. S. has too good an ear to allow him to fix such a line in Shakspeare's text.
J. S. W.
Stockwell, April 3. 1851.
Inscription on a Clock ([Vol. iii., p. 329.]).—The words written under the curious clock in Exeter Cathedral, about which your correspondent M. J. W. HEWETT inquires, and which are, or were, also to be found under the clock over the Terrace in the Inner Temple, London, are, in truth, a quotation from Martial; and it is singular that a sentiment so truly Christian should have escaped from the pen of a Pagan writer: