of this parish for
sixty-four years. It commences with the gifts of various sacks
of coals, faggots, &c., to the poor, receipts for flesh
licences, collections, interest money, the Lady Martaine's
gifts, Sir W. Craven's gifts, the Merchant Tailors' Company's
gifts, Mercers' ditto, the Company of Ironmongers _forty
fagots_, the Company of Mercers a load of charcoal, the gift of
the late King James seven loads of Newcastle coals,--_this royal
bequest appears to have been annual gift for ever. Query, if now
in payment?_ ANNUAL gifts of Lady Coventry for putting out two
poor children born in this parish. Lady Martin's, and many
others, are annual gifts, which ought to be forthcoming to the
parish at this time."

This last note contains some Queries which I should be glad to see
answered.

EDWARD F. RIMBAULT. {173}

_The Plant "Haemony"_ (Vol. ii. p. 88. and p. 141.).--The mystical
meaning of "Haemony" is evolved by Coleridge in a passage which occurs
in his _Statesman's Manual_, appendix B., and which cannot fail to
interest the readers of _Comus_.

"It is found in the study of the Old and New Testament, if only
it be combined with a spiritual partaking of the Redeemer's
blood, of which, mysterious as the symbol may be, the
sacramental wine is no mere or arbitrary _memento_. This is the
only certain, and this is the universal, preventive of all
debasing superstitions; this is the true haemony ([Greek:
haima], blood, [Greek: oinos], wine), which our Milton has
beautifully allegorised in a passage strangely overlooked by all
his commentators. Bear in mind, reader! the character of a
militant Christian, and the results (in this life and in the
next) of the redemption by the blood of Christ, and so peruse
the passage."

T.M.B.

_Mildew in Books_ (Vol. ii., p. 103.).--Your correspondent B. suggests
that "any hints as to the cause or remedy of _mildew in books_ will be
most acceptable". I venture therefore an opinion that the cause is to be
found in the defective bleaching and manufacture of the rags from which
the paper is made and the careless or intentional admixture of linen
with cotton rags. The comparatively modern method of bleaching with
oxymuriate of lime, or chlorine in substance, with the ad-libitum and
unacknowledged admixture of gypsum (to give weight and firmness to the
paper) are, I believe, the true causes