_Stephen Eiton, or Eden's "Acta Regis Edw. II._"--The
interesting account of St. Thomas of Lancaster, with the appended
queries (No. 12. p. 181.), reminds me of the work of Stephen Eiton
or Eden, a canon-regular of Warter, in Yorkshire, entitled, "Acta
Regis Edwardi iidi," which is said still to remain in manuscript.
Where is it deposited?

T.J.


_Dog Latin._--Permit me also to ask, what is the origin of the
expression "Dog Latin"?

T.J.


_The Cuckoo--the Welch Ambassador._--In Middleton's _A Trick
to Catch the Old One_, Act iv. sc. 5., Dampet says:--

"Why, thou rogue of universality, do I not know thee? Thy
sound is like the cuckoo, the Welch Embassador."

And the editor of the continuation of Dodsley's
_Collection_ remarks on the passage,--

"Why the cuckoo is called the Welch Embassador, I know not."

{231}Perhaps some of your readers can explain why the cuckoo is so
called.