Notes and Queries, Number 71, March 8, 1851, page 29 by Various Authors
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le in the reign of Richard II., and which were so long in the toes that it was necessary to tie them with chains to the knee, in order to render it possible for the wearer to walk. Stowe, in his Chronicle, tells us that this extravagant fashion was brought in by Anne of Bohemia, Queen of Richard II. But why were they called Cracowe pikes?
I. H. T.
St. Thomas of Trunnions.--Who was this saint, and why is he frequently mentioned in connexion with onions?
"Nay softe, my maisters, by Saincte Thomas of Trunions, I am not disposed to buy of your onions." Apius and Virginia, 1575.
"And you that delight in trulls and minions, Come buy my four ropes of hard S. Thomas's onions." The Hog hath lost his Pearl, 1614.
"Buy my rope of onions--white St. Thomas's onions," was one of the cries of London in the seventeenth century.
EDWARD F. RIMBAULT.
Paper-mill near Stevenage (Vol. ii., p. 473.).--In your number for December 14, 1850, one of your correspondents, referring to Bartholomeus de Prop. Rerum, mentions a paper-mill near Stevenage, in the county of Hertford, as being probably the earliest, or one of the earliest, established in England. I should feel much obliged if your correspondent, through the medium of your pages, would favour me with any further particulars on this subject; especially as to the site of this mill, there being no stream within some miles of Stevenage capable of turning a mill. I have been unable to find any account of this mill in either of the county histories.
HERTFORDIENSIS.
Mounds, Munts, Mounts.--In the parish register of Maresfield in Sussex, there is an entry recording the surrender of a house and three acres of land, called the "Mounds," in 1574, to the use of the parish; and in the churchwardens' accounts at Rye, about the same time, it is stated that the church of Rye was entitled to a rent from certain lands called