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REPLIES TO MINOR QUERIES.
_Compendyous Olde Treatyse._--"F.M." (No. 18. p. 277.) will find this
tract reprinted (with the exception of the preface and verses) in Foxe's
_Acts and Monuments_; a portion once peculiar to the first edition of
1563, p. 452., but now appearing in the reprint of 1843, vol. iv. p.
671-76., which may be of some service in the absence of the original
tract.
NOVUS.
_Hordys_ (No. 5. p. 157.).--I have waited till now in hopes of seeing an
answer from some more competent pen than my own to the Query as to the
meaning of the word "_hordys_," by your correspondent "J.G.;" but having
been disappointed, I venture a suggestion which occurred to me
immediately on reading it, viz. that "_hordys_" might be some possible
or impossible derivation from _hordeum_, and applied "irreverently" to
the consecrated host, as though it were no better than a common
barley-cake.
Whether in those early days and in Ireland, the host was really made of
barley, and whether "hordys" was a name given to some kind of
barley-cake then in vogue, or (supposing my suggestion to be well
founded) a word coined for the occasion, may perhaps be worthy of
investigation.
A.R.
Kenilworth, April 5.
_Eachard's Tracts._--The Rev. George Wyatt, who inquires (No. 20. p.
320.) about Eachard's _Tracts_, will probably get all the information he
wants from the Life of Eachard prefixed to the collected edition of his
_Works_ in three volumes, which I am sorry I have not the means at
present of referring to.
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