an article on the Tudor Style of Architecture, signed T.M. is the
following:--

"This room (talking of the great halls in old manor-houses)
was in every manor-house a necessary appendage for holding
'the court,' the services belonging to which are equally
denominated 'the homage,' with those of the king's palace. The
_dais_, or raised part of the _upper end_ of the hall, _was
so called_, from the administration of justice. A _dais-man_
is still a popular term for an arbitrator in the North, and
_Domesday-Book_ (with the name of which I suppose every one to
be familiar) is known to be a list of manor-houses."

C.D. LAMONT.

Greenock.

[Our correspondents will probably find some confirmation of
their ingenious suggestion in the following passage from _The
Vision of Piers Ploughman_:--

"And at the day of dome
At the heighe deys sitte."

Ll. 4898-9. ed. Wright.]


_Saveguard_.--"BURIENSIS" (No. 13. p. 202.) is informed that a
_saveguard_ was an article of dress worn by women, some fifty or sixty
years ago, over the skirts of their gowns when riding on horseback,