_Pandoxare_.--Having met with an old volume containing the entire household expenses, as well as in some degree a diary, kept by a country gentleman during the reigns of James II., William and Mary, and Anne, I observed that he has made use of a species of hieroglyphics, to facilitate his reference to his book, as it contained all the entries of all kinds, in chronological order. For instance, where mention is made of money spent on behalf of one person in his house, he puts at the side of the page a clay pipe, rudely drawn; an entry of the payment of wages to another servant has a jug of ale; another a quill pen; another a couple of brooms, as the housemaid; a fiddle for the dancing master for his daughter; payment made to the sexton or parish-clerk has a representation of the village church by its side, and the window-tax a small lattice-window; and on the days that they brewed, a small barrel is drawn by the side of the date. And the chief object of my letter is with respect to this last; a barrel is often drawn, and by its side the words, _primò relinitus_, and the date, naturally meaning the day it was tapped; and then shortly after comes another barrel, and to it is written the word _Pandox_., or sometimes in full _Pandoxavimus_; in some places at the end of the year there is a list to this effect:-- "(1705.) (------------------) _Memoranda_. 29. Mar.--Pandoxe. 6. Apr.--relinit. 28. Apr.--relinit. 3. May.--Pandoxe. 17. May.--relinit. 31. May.--relinit. 5. Iun.--Pandoxe." and at the top of the list the figure of a barrel. I should be glad if any of the readers of your paper could tell me the meaning of the word _Pandoxare?_ Whatever it was, it took place about once a month. H.B. [Ducange explains _Pandoxare_ "Cauponum exercere, agere; cerevisiam venum exponere atque adeo conficere."] _Lord Bacon's Metrical Version of the Psalms_.--In old Izaak Walton's _Life of George Herbert_, I find the following passage:-- "He (_i.e._ Lord Bacon) thought him so worthy of his friendship, that having translated many of the Prophet David's Psalms into English verse, he made George Herbert his patron by a public dedication of them to him, as the best judge of divine poetry." Can any one of your numerous readers inform me if these "Metricals" are known?--if so it will greatly oblige A CORNISHMAN.