Halliwell, in his _Dictionary_, says that in old authors frequent allusions occur to the custom of decorating notorious liars with whetstones; but I would thank any of your readers for a fuller account of "y^e game for y^e whetstone." What is known of Lambarde, or Lambert, as Gervase Markham calls him? Was his _Topographicall Dictionarie_ (mentioned, as prepared for the press, in the _Perambulation_) ever published, and what other works by him exist? E. G. R. [The extracts from our early writers given by Brand and Nares furnish some clue to the origin and character of the game of the whetstone; when the social and convivial combatants sharpened their wits to see who could gain the satirical prize of the silver whetstone by telling the greatest lie. In Lupton's _Too Good to be True_, p. 80., is the following passage, somewhat illustrative of the game: "_Siuqila._ Merry and pleasant lyes we take rather for a sport than a sin. Lying with us is so loved and allowed, that there are many tymes _gamings_ and _prises_ therefore purposely, to encourage one to outlye another. "_Omen._ And what shall he gaine that gets the victorie in lying? "_Siuqila._ He shall have _a silver whetstone_ for his labour." WILLIAM LAMBARDE was born October 18, 1536. He was the eldest son of John Lambarde, alderman of London. In 1570 he resided at West Combe, near Blackheath, a manor he then possessed. He purposed publishing a general account of Great Britain, of which his _Perambulation of Kent_ was but the specimen; and he was only deterred by learning that Camden was engaged on a similar task. His materials were published from the original manuscript in 1730, under the title of _Dictionarium Angliæ Topographicum et Historicum_, to which is prefixed a portrait of the author, engraved by Vertue. His first work was _Archaionomia, sive de priscis Anglorum legibus libri_, 1568, 4to. He also wrote _Eirenarcha_; or, the Office of the Justices of the Peace, and Duties of Constables: _Archeion_, a Discourse upon the High Courts of Justice. In 1600 he was appointed by Queen Elizabeth Keeper of the Records in the Tower; and in the following year he presented her Majesty with an account of them, under the title _Pandecta Rotulorum_. He died at his residence at West Combe, August 19, 1601, and was buried in the Church of St. Alphege, Greenwich, where a monument was erected to his memory. In after days this mortuary memorial was removed to the Church of Sevenoaks, in which parish the family now possesses a seat. Lambarde was the first Churchman after the Reformation who founded a hospital. It was called "The College of the Poor of Queen Elizabeth at Greenwich, Kent," and was opened in 1576.]