["Went" is used in Chaucer in the sense of "way," "passage," "turning," or road: thus, in Troilus and Creseide, iii. 788., he speaks of a "a privie went," and v. 605., "And up and doun there made he many a went;" and in the House of Fame:
"And in a forrest as they went,
At the tourning of a went.">[
Dr. Owen's Works ([Vol. i., p. 276.]).—The editor of the Works of John Owen is informed, that in the valuable library of George Offor, Esq., of Hackney, will be found a thick volume in manuscript of unpublished Sermons on the Fifty-third Chapter of Isaiah, in the Doctor's own hand-writing, and apparently prepared for publication. The same library also contains two scarce pieces by Dr. Owen, which it is thought have never been reprinted: 1. The Stedfastness of Promises, and the Sinfulness of Staggering, opened in a sermon preached at Margaret's, in Westminster, before the Parliament, Feb. 28, 1649, being a Day set apart for Solemn Humiliation throughout the Nation. By John Owen, Minister of the Gospel. London, 1650. 4to. pp. 54.—2. God's Work in Founding Zion, and his People's Duty thereupon. A Sermon preached in the Abbey Church at Westminster, at the opening of the Parliament, Sept. 17, 1656. By John Owen, a Servant of Jesus Christ in the Work of the Gospel. Oxford, 1656. 4to. pp. 48.
J. Y.
Hoxton.
Bactrian Coins ([Vol. iii., p. 353.]).—Has your correspondent read the book by Masson On the Coins, &c. of Afghanistan, published by Professor H. H. Wilson? There are also references to authorities in Humphreys On Ancient Coins and Medals.
C. B.
Bactria.—BLOWEN will find some trustworthy information respecting Bactria in Professor Lassen's Indische Alterthumskunde, Zweiter Band, pp. 277. et seq. Bonn, 1849; and a list of authorities on the Græco-Bactrian coins in the same work, pp. 282. 283. (notes).
C. H.
Baldrocks ([Vol. iii., p. 328.]).—On looking over a vestry book belonging to South Lynn in this town, commencing at 1605, and ending in 1677, I find some Churchwardens' Accounts, and amongst them the two following entries, which may, I trust, assist "A CHURCHWARDEN," and lead to an elucidation of this word:—