_Sangaree._--Your periodical having been the means of eliciting some interesting particulars respecting the origin of the word _grog_, perhaps you will allow me to claim a similar distinction for the word _sangaree_. You are aware that this word is applied, in the West Indies, to a beverage composed of Madeira wine, syrup, water, and nutmeg. The French call it _sangris_, in allusion, it is supposed, to the colour of the beverage, which when mixed has the appearance, as it were, of grey blood _(sang gris)_: but as there is reason to believe that the English were the first to introduce the use of the thing, they having been the first to introduce its principal ingredient, Madeira wine, I am disposed to look upon _sangaree_ as the original word, and _sangris_ as nothing more than a corruption of it. Can any of your readers (among whom I trust there are many retired West India planters) give the etymology of this word? HENRY H. BREEN. St. Lucia, Dec. 1850. _King John at Lincoln._--Matthew Paris, under the year 1200, gives an account of King John's visiting Lincoln to meet William, king of Scots, and to receive his homage: "Ubi Rex Johannes, [he says] contra consilium multorum, intravit civitatem intrepidus, quod nullus antecessorum suorum attentare ausus fuerat." My Query is, What were they afraid of? C. W. B. _Canes lesi._--May I also put a question with respect to an ancient tenure in Dorsetshire, recorded by Blount, edit. 1679, p. 46.: "Juliana, &c., tenuit dimidiam hidam terrae, &c., per serjantiam custodiendi _Canes_ Domini Regis _lesos_, si qui fuerint, quotiescunque Dominus Rex fugaverit in Foresta sua de _Blakemore_: et ad dandum unum denarium ad clancturam Parci Domini Regis de _Gillingham_." Blount's explanation of _Canes lesos_, is "leash hounds or park hounds, such as draw after a hurt deer in a leash, or liam;" but is there any reason why we should not adopt the more simple rendering of "hurt hounds;" and suppose that Dame Juliana was matron of the Royal Dorset Dog Hospital? Ducange gives no such word as _lesus_; neither does he nor any authority, to which I have access, help me to understand the word _clanctura_. I trust, however, that some of your correspondents will. C. W. B. _Headings of Chapters in English Bibles._--The arguments or contents which are prefixed to each chapter of our English Bibles seem occasionally to vary; some being more full and comprehensive than others. When and by whom were they compiled? what authority do they possess? and where can we meet with any account of them? LITURGICUS.