certain {27} lake in the west of Ireland in company with those of a turkey.
(See _Zoologist_, ub. sup.)

W.R.F.

Lincoln's Inn, Dec. 21. 1850.

"_Away, let nought to Love displeasing_" (Vol. ii., p. 519.).--This song,
usually entitled "_Winifreda_," has been attributed to Sir John Suckling,
but with what justice I am unable to say.

It has also acquired additional interest from having been set to music by
the first Earl of Mornington, the father of the Duke of Wellington.

The author should certainly be known; and perhaps some of your
correspondents can furnish a clue by which he may be discovered.

BRAYBROOKE.

_Red Sindon_ (Vol. ii., pp. 393. 495.).--I have only just seen your
correspondent, B.W.'s Query respecting the "red sindon," and refer him to
Du Cange, where he will find--

"Sindon pro specie panni [Byssus tenuis], etc."

It was a manufacture that was used for dresses as well as hangings, and is
constantly mentioned in inventories and descriptions of the middle ages.

J.R. PLANCHÉ.