_Sabraz_.--"He drinks bitter _sabraz_ to recover his health."

_Heteneste_.--"Inclosed _hetenest_ in a stone coffin or tomb."

_Schunche_.--"Schunche away."

_I-menbred_.--"A girdle _i-menbred_."

_Blodbendes_ of silk.

_Hesmel_.--"Let their _hesmel_ be high _istiled_, al without broach."

_Irspille_.--"Wear no iron, nor haircloth, nor _irspilles_ felles."

J. Mn.

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MINOR QUERIES

_Countess of Desmond_.--I should be much obliged if any of your readers
would inform me of the manner of the death of Catherine Fitzgerald,
Countess of Desmond, commonly called the "old Countess of Desmond," who
died in 1626, aged above 140 years,--some say, 162 years. I think I
remember reading, some years since, that she died from a fall from a
cherry-tree, at the age of 144 years. If so, where can the account be
found?

K.