Grimsdyke (Vol. iv., p. 192.).
—I can mention at all events one other earthwork named Grimsdyke in England—the great earthwork, viz., south of Salisbury, which is called Grimsdyke. Mr. Guest has stated his belief that it was not a Belgic work, but a boundary line made by the Welsh after the treaty of the Mons Badonicus.
W. S. G.
Newcastle-upon-Tyne.
Coke, how pronounced (Vol. iv., pp. 24. 93. 138.).
—Respecting the pronunciation of the name of Coke at page 138., I recollect having some discussion on it in 1812 with the late Mr. Andrew Lynch, Master in Chancery, then a student at the Temple, when he corrected me for calling it Cooke, which he maintained should be called Coake. We happened to dine that day at Mr. Charles Butler's, his future father-in-law, and agreed to refer the matter to him who had been associated with Hargrave in publishing Sir Edward Coke's Commentaries on Littleton (1809, 7 vols. 8vo.). Mr. Butler at once decided the question in my favour, adding that he had never heard the name otherwise pronounced, and that Coake was quite a novelty, which he should never adopt—indeed, I am sure it is so, though now I find it generally prevalent.
J. R.
Cork.
Marcus Ælius Antoninus (Vol. iv., p. 152.).
—I think that your correspondent will not readily ascertain the owner of this pseudonyme; but, in the presumed absence of any opposing evidence, I would suggest that the mask may belong to Marc-Antonio Flaminio. Melancthon's excellent Responsio ad scriptum quorundam delectorum à Clero secundario Coloniæ Agrippinæ, 4to., Francfurdiæ, 1543, is now before me, but it does not allude to the Querela set forth in the same year. It is said that the framer of the Cologne Judicium against Bucer was the Carmelite Eberhardus Billicus; and TYRO may be assured that he is fortunate if he be a possessor of the tract by the fictitious Antoninus; for, in the words of Seckendorf,—