The same peculiarities are exemplified on brasses at Harpham, York., 1420; and Spilsby, Lincoln., 1391. I will not further multiply instances, as my own collection of rubbings would enable me to do. I should, however, observe, that the hypothesis of S.S.S. (as to "these figures" being "the private mark of the artist") is untenable: since the twenty-three examples above alluded to are scattered over sixteen different counties, as distant from each other as Yorkshire and Sussex. Two examples are well known, in which the dog so represented was a favourite animal:--Deerhurst, Gloc., 1400, with the name, "Terri," inscribed; and Ingham, Norfolk, 1438, with the name "Jakke." This latter brass is now lost, but an impression is preserved in the British Museum. The customary explanation seems to me sufficient: that the dog was intended to symbolise the fidelity and attachment of the lady to her lord and master, as the lion at _his_ feet represented his courage and noble qualities. W. SPARROW SIMPSON. Queen's College, Cambridge, April 22. 1850. _Fenkle Street_.--A street so called in Newcastle-upon-Tyne, lying in a part of the town formerly much occupied by garden ground, and _in the immediate vicinity of the house of the Dominican Friars there_. Also, a way or passage inside the town wall, and leading between that fortification and the _house of the Carmelites or White Friars_, was anciently called by the same name. The name of _Fenkle_ or _Finkle Street_ occurs in several old towns in the North, as Alnwick, Richmond, York, Kendal, &c. _Fenol_ and _finugl_, as also _finul_, are Saxon words for _fennel_; which, it is very probable, has in some way or other given rise to this name. May not the _monastic institutions_ have used fennel extensively in their culinary preparations, and thus planted it in so great quantities as to have induced the naming of localities therefrom? I remember a portion of the ramparts of the town used to be called _Wormwood Hill_, from a like circumstance. In Hawkesworth's _Voyages_, ii. 8., I find it stated that the town of Funchala, on the island of Madeira, derives its name from _Funcko_, the Portuguese name for _fennel_, which grows in great plenty upon the neighbouring rocks. The priory of Finchale (from _Finkel_), upon the Wear, probably has a similar origin; _sed qu._ G. BOUCHIER RICHARDSON. Newcastle-upon-Tyne, May 12. 1850. _Christian Captives_ (Vol. i., p. 441.)--In reply to your correspondent R.W.B., I find in the papers published by the Norfolk and Norwich Archæological Society, vol. i. p. 98., the following entries extracted from the Parish Registers of Great Dunham, Norfolk:-- "December, 1670. £ s. d. Collected for the redemption of y'e English Captives out of Turkish bondage 04 05 06 Feb. 13. p'd the same to M'r. Swift, Minister of Milcham, by the Bhps appointm't.