_St. Thomas of Lancaster_ (Vol. i., p. 181.).--MR. R.M. MILNES desires information relative to "St. Thomas of Lancaster." This personage was Earl of Leicester as well as Earl of Lancaster; and I find in the archives of this borough numerous entries relative to him,--of payments made to him by the burgesses. Of these mention is made in a _History of Leicester_ recently published. The most curious fact I know of is, that on the dissolution of the monasteries here, several relics of St. Thomas, among others, his felt hat, was exhibited. The hat was considered a great remedy for the headache! JAYTEE. _Smoke Money_ (Vol. ii., p. 120.).--"Anciently, even in England, were Whitsun farthings, or smoke farthings, which were a composition for offerings made in Whitsun week, by every man who occupied a house with a chimney, to the cathedral of the diocese in which he lived."--Audley's _Companion to the Almanac_, p. 76. Pentecostals, or Whitsun Farthings, are mentioned by Pegge as being paid in 1788 by the parishioners of the diocese of Lichfield, in aid of the repairs of the cathedral, to the dean and chapter; but he makes no allusion to the word _smoke_, adding only that in this case the payment went by the name of Chad-pennies, or Chad-farthings, the cathedral there being dedicated to St. Chad. C.I.R. _Robert Herrick_ (Vol. i., p. 291.).--MR. MILNER BARRY states that he found an entry of the burial of the poet Herrick in the parish books of Dean Prior. As MR. BARRY seems interested in the poet, I would inform him that a voluminous collection of family letters of early date is now in the possession of William Herrick, Esq., of Beaumanor Park, the present representative of that ancient and honourable house. JAYTEE. _Guildhalls._--The question in Vol. i., p. 320., relative to guildhalls, provokes an inquiry into guilds. In the erudite and instructive work of Wilda on the _Guild System of the Middle Ages (Gildenwesen im Mittel‰lter)_ will be found to be stated that guilds were associations of various kinds,--convivial, religions, and mercantile, and so on; and that places of assembly were adopted by them. A guild-house where eating and drinking took place, was to be met with in most villages in early times: and these, I fancy, were the guild-halls. On this head consult Hone's _Every-day Book_, vol. ii. p. 670., and elsewhere, in connexion with Whitsuntide holidays. JAYTEE. _AbbÈ Strickland_ (Vol. ii., pp. 198. 237.).--The fullest account of the AbbÈ Strickland, _Bishop of Namur_, is to be found in Lord Hervey's _Memoirs_ (Vol. i., p. 391.), and a most curious account it is of that profligate intriguer. C.