["M." may also be referred to the _Catalogus Dissertationum
Academicarum quibusnsuper aucta est Bibliotheca Bodleiana_. A
quarto volume, printed at the Oxford University Press in 1834.]


_MSS. of Locke_ (No. 25. p. 401.).--"C." is informed {462} that Dr.
Thomas Hancock died at Lisburn, in Ireland, during the past year. The
papers of Locke respecting which he inquires are probably still in the
possession of Dr. H.'s son.

[Greek: Theta]

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MISCELLANIES.

_Spur Money._--Although I used often, twenty years ago, when a chorister
at the Chapel Royal, to take part in levying a fine on all who entered
that place with spurs on, I was not aware of its origin till I saw it
explained in your interesting publication (No. 23. p. 374.). There was a
custom however, connected with this impost, the origin of which I should
be glad to learn. After the claim was made, the person from whom it was
sought to be exacted had the power to summon the youngest chorister
before him, and request him to "repeat his gamut," and if he failed, the
spur-bearer was entitled to exemption.

E.J.H.