The plate was presented to the Antiquarian Museum in Lewes Castle by Sir H. Shiffner, Bart., about two years ago, when he rescued it from a farm-house burnt down on his property near Lewes. It has been traced to a cottage where it previously served the same purpose as at the farm-house, as back to the fire-place; but no further record of its former history can be discovered. It is not unusual, however, to find monumental plates thus desecrated.
E. A. S.
Chelwoldesbury (Vol. v., p. 346.).
—Allow me to suggest to your correspondent W. H. K. the possibility that the name in question may originally have been Ceolwoldsburh or Ceolweardesburh, i.e. the burgh or castle of Ceolwold or Ceolweard, analogously with Brihthelmstûn, now contracted into Brighton. The A.-S. ce has constantly been corrupted into che.
D.
"The King's Booke" (Vol. v., p. 389.).
—The printer's account supplied by MR. BURTT does not relate, except possibly to a very trifling extent, to the Basilicon Doron; but it is evidently Robert Barker's bill, mainly in the matter of King James's Apologie for the Oath of Allegiance.
R. G.
Key Experiments (Vol v., pp. 152. 293.).
—In an edition of Hudibras of 1704 appears the following "annotation" to the line "As Friar Bacon's noddle was:"—