worn by that functionary.

It is curious that during the Commonwealth the Collar of Esses was worn
by John Glynne, the Chief Justice of the Upper Bench, with a difference;
that difference being a quatrefoil, instead of the knot, between each S;
and a large jewel, surrounded by smaller ones, being substituted for the
portcullises and rose.

These facts may, I hope, be of some use to MR. J.G. NICHOLS in the
volume I am glad to see that he contemplates. I hope he will not forget
to answer the other Query of [Greek: phi]., "Under what circumstances,
and at what dates, was the privilege of wearing these collars reduced to
its present limitation?"

EDWARD FOSS.

_The Story of the three Men and their Bag of Money_ (Vol. ii., p.
132.).--In _Tales, and quicke Answers, very mery, and pleasant to rede_,
is the following, with the title "Howe Demosthenes defended a Mayde:"--

"There were two men on a time, the whiche lefte a great somme of
money in kepyng with a maiden, on this condition, that she
shulde nat delyuer hit agayne, except they came bothe to gether
for hit. Nat lang {172} after one of them cam to hir mornyngly
arrayde, and sayde that his felowe was deed, and so required the
money, and she delyuered it to hem. Shortly came the tother man,
and required to have the moneye that was lefte with her in
kepyng. The maiden was than so sorrowfull, both for lacke of the
money, and for one to defend her cause, that she thought to
hange her selfe. But Demosthenes, that excellent oratour, spake