"Wat Tiler, that idol of clownes, and famous rebell in the time of King Richard the Second, was of this town; and in the year 1206 about this town was a monster found stricken with lightning, with a head like an asse, a belly like a man, and all other parts far different from any known creature, but not approachable nigh unto, by reason of the stench thereof." No mention of this is made by Lambarde in his _Perambulation of Kent_. Has this been traditional, or whence is Kilburne's authority? And what explanation can be offered of the account? H. W. D. _Page._--What is the derivation of this word? In the _Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities_, edited by Dr. W. Smith, 1st edit., p. 679., it is said to be from the Greek ~paidagôgos~, _pædagogus_. But in an edition of Tacitus, with notes by Boxhorn (Amsterdam, 1662), it is curiously identified with the word _boy_, and traced to an eastern source thus:--Persian, _bagoa_; Polish, _pokoigo_; Old German, _Pagie_, _Bagh_, _Bai_; then the Welsh, _bachgen_; French, _page_; English, _boy_; and Greek, ~pais~. Some of your correspondents may be able to inform me which is correct. B. H. C. * * * * * Minor Queries with Answers. _The Fish "Ruffins."_--In Spenser's _Faerie Queene_ we read (book iv. canto 11.), among the river guests that attended the nuptials of Thames and Medway came "Yar, soft washing Norwitch walls;" and farther on, that he brought with him a present of fish for the banquet called _ruffins_, "whose like none else could show." Was this description of fish peculiar to the Yare? and is there any record of its having been esteemed a delicacy in Elizabeth's reign? A. S. [This seems to be the fish noticed by Izaak Walton, called the _Ruffe_, or _Pope_, "a fish," says he, "that is not known in some rivers. He is much like the perch for his shape, and taken to be better than the perch, but will grow to be bigger than a gudgeon. He is an excellent fish, no fish that swims is of _a pleasanter taste_, and he is also excellent to enter a young angler, for he is a greedy biter." In the _Faerie Queene_, book I. canto iv., Spenser speaks of "His _ruffin_ raiment all was stain'd with blood Which he had spilt, and all to rags yrent."