QUERIES IN MEDIAEVAL GEOGRAPHY.

What are the modern names of “Watewich,” “Portum Pusillum,” “Mare de Saham,” “Perpessa,” and “Northmuth?” They are not to be found in Ferrario’s Lexicon (a geographical dictionary so defective that it has not even the Latin name for Aix-la-Chapelle), nor in Baudrand’s Lexicon Geographicum (a good dictionary for the mediaeval Latin names in France, but not so perfect as the Index Geographicum attached to the volumes of Bouquet), nor in Martiniere’s Grande Dictionnarie Geographique, nor in the Index to Wright’s Courthand, a miserable and imperfect compilation.

[These Queries are addressed to our correspondents in a very flattering review of “NOTES AND QUERIES” which appeared in the Morning Herald of the 16th of November, and we shall be very glad to receive such answers to all or any of them as it may be in the power of any of our friends to supply.]

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MYLES BLOOMFYLDE AND WILLIAM BLOMEFIELD’S METRICAL WRITINGS ON ALCHYMY.

Sir,—­I have had intrusted to me a MS. metrical book on Alchymy, “written by me Myles Bloomefylde, late of Bury Saynes Edmunde in ye Countye of Suffolke, Physytione;” but I can find no account of the author.  Worton, Ritson, and Tanner, mention a “William Blomefield, born at Bury.  Bachelor in Physic and a Monk of Bury,” who wrote inter alia a metrical work called Bloomefield’s Blossoms, or the Camp of Philosophy.

Were there two metrical writers on alchymy of the name Bloomfield, temp.  Eliz. and connected with Bury?

BURIENSIS.

[The following Note by Park, which first appeared in the Edition of Wharton published in 1840, iii., p. 83., coupled with the fact that William Blomefield is described as a Bachelor of Physic, would seem to show that there is but one writer, whose proper name is not William, but Myles:  “From Ashmole’s Notes on Theatrum Chemicum, 1652. p. 478., it seems doubtful whether his name was not Myles.”]

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THYNNE’S COLLECTION OF CHANCELLORS.

Mr. Editor,—­Can any of your correspondents inform me who was the “streict laced” gaoler of the records, alluded to in the following passage in the Collection of Chancellors of England, by Francis Thynne, inserted in Holinshed (ed. 1808) iv. 351.

“John, Chancellor of England in the time of king Henrie the second, but what he was or in what yeare of king Henrie he lived I doo not know, and therefore leave it to him that both can and ought to give life to these persons whom he imprisoneth in the east castell of London; not doubting but in time he will doo his countrie good, and correct other men; though now he be so streict laced, as that he will not procure anie furtherance of other men’s trauels.”

[Greek:  S.]