Dibdin published this in 1838. Has the memoir of Grostete ever appeared?
I may add, as a pendant to this Query, that two years back I saw a beautiful English MS. of Grostete's on vellum, at the library of the English College at Douay, out of which some British traveller, to whom it had been obligingly lent, had cut every one of the illuminations.
O. T. D.
Almas-cliffe.
—During a brief sojourn at Harrogate, Yorkshire, I have visited two remarkable groups of rock, locally known as Great Almas-cliffe and Little Almas-cliffe: the former crowning a lofty ridge about five miles south-west of this place; and the latter standing upon a wild, heathery moorland, about three miles north of the other. Both command most extensive views; and, on the table-rock of each, I noticed circular basins, with channels by which superfluous fluid may be carried off. Tradition says, that in remote ages they were used as druidical altars; and, that in later days, after the introduction of Christianity into England, mass was occasionally celebrated upon them. In some of the local guide-books they are called Almias Cliff. Whence is the name derived? Can it be a corruption of holy mass, or hallowmas?
G. H. of S.
Harrogate.
Amyclæ.
—What special ordinance of taciturnity had the burghers of Amyclæ?
MORTIMER COLLINS.