du pois xxix, du pris xl."

In the same document several others are described having feet. I could
give many other quotations, but will conclude with only one more, as in
the last occurs the word _kyrymyry_, of which I should like to know the
derivation, if any of your readers can assist me:--

"Item, un hanap d ore covere del ovrage d un _kyrymyry_ et iij
scochons des armes d Engleterre et de Franuce en le sumet."

I have met with notices of cups "covered of _kerimery_ work," and
"chacez et pounsonez en lez founcez faitz de _kermery_;" and the
following, from the _Vision of Piers Ploughman_, would seem to indicate
a sort of veil or net-work:--

"He was as pale as a pelet,
In the palsy he semed
And clothed in a _kaurymaury_,
I kouthe it nought diseryve."

W.C.
Jun.

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MISCELLANIES

_Bishop Burnet as an Historian._--Dr. Joseph Warton told my father that
"Old Lord Barthurst," Pope's friend, had cautioned him against relying
implicitly on all Burnet's statements; observing that the good bishop