manuscripts of the poem. Of these there are no less than ten in the
British Museum, all of which have been kindly examined for me. One
of these wants the prologue, and another that part of it in which the
line occurs; but in _seven_ of the remaining eight, the reading is--

"A gentil maunciple was ther of _a_ temple;"

while _one_ only reads "the temple." The question, therefore, is
involved in the same doubt which I at first stated; for the subsequent
lines quoted by P.H.F. prove nothing more than that the person
described was a manciple in _some_ place of legal resort, which was
not disputed.

EDWARD FOSS.


_Bawn_ (Vol. i., p. 440.).--If your Querist regarding a "Bawn" will
look into Macnevin's _Confiscation of Ulster_ (Duffy: Dublin, 1846,
p. 171. &c.), he will find that a Bawn must have been a sort of
court-yard, which might be used on emergency as a fortification
for defence. They were constructed either of _lime_ and _stone_, of
_stone_ and _clay_, or of _sods_, and twelve to fourteen feet high,
and sometimes inclosing a dwelling-house, and with the addition of
"flankers."

W.C. TREVELYAN.


"_Heigh ho! says Rowley_" (Vol. i., p. 458.).--The burden of "_Heigh
ho! says Rowley_" is certainly _older_ than R.S.S. conjectures; I will