Committee, who propose to publish a complete edition of King Alfred's
Works, but also on their Secretary, who is your obedient servant,

J.A. GILES.

Bampton, Oxford, Nov. 23. 1849


"Bive" and "Chote" Lambs.

I should be much obliged to any of your readers who would favour me with
an explanation of the words "Bive" and "Chote." They were thus applied in
an inventory taken Kent.

"27 Hen. VIII. Michaelm.
Bive lambes at xvid. the pece.
Chote lambes at xiid. the pece."

T.W.


Anecdote of the Civil Wars.

Horace Walpole alludes to an anecdote of a country gentleman, during the
Civil Wars, falling in with one of the armies on the day of some battle
(Edgehill or Naseby?) as he was _quietly going out with his hounds_.
Where did Walpole find this anecdote?

C.