Dr. H. W. in this paper refers to a former one in the third volume of the first series of the same journal, in which he advanced proofs that the Cervus was a race which had but very recently become extinct. W. C. TREVELYAN. Edinburgh, Feb. 19. 1851. _Canes Lesos_ (Vol. iii. p. 141.).--In a note to Beckwith's edition of Blount's _Jocular Tenures_, 4to. 1815, p. 225., Mr. Allan of Darlington anticipates your correspondent C. W. B., and says, respecting Blount's explanation of "Canes lesos," "I can meet with no such word in this sense: why may it not be dogs that have received some hurt? _laesos_ from _laedo_." _Clancturam_ should be _clausturam_, and so it is given in the above edition, and explained "a tax for fencing." S. W. SINGER. "_By Hook or by Crook_" (vol. iii. p. 116.).--However unimaginative the worthy Cit may be for whose explanation of this popular phrase J. D. S. has made himself answerable, the solution sounds so pretty, that to save its obtaining further credence, more than your well-timed note is needed. I with safety can contradict it, for I find that "Tusser," a Norfolk man living in the reign of Henry VIII., in a poem which he wrote as a complete monthly guide and adviser for the farmer through the year, but which was not published till 1590, in the thirty-second year of Queen Elizabeth, has the following advice for March 30: "Of mastiues and mongrels, that many we see A number of thousands, to many there be: Watch therefore in Lent, to thy sheepe go and looke, For dogs will have vittels, by hooke and by crooke." This must be a Norfolk phrase; for in January he advises farmers possessing "Hollands," rich grass lands, to only keep ewes that bear twins, "twinlins." BLOWEN. This appears as a well-known proverbial expression long before the time pointed out by J. D. S. Thus, in _Devout Contemplations_, by Fr. Ch. de Fonseca, Englished by J. M., London, 1629, we read that the Devil "Overthroweth monasteries; through sloth and idleness soliciting religious men to be negligent in coming to Church, careless in preaching, and loose in their lives. In the marriage bed he soweth tares, treacheries, and lightness. With worldly men he persuadeth that he is nobody that is not rich, and therefore, _bee it by hooke or by crooke_, by right or wrong, he would have them get to be wealthy." W. D--N. _Suem._--Allow me to suggest to your correspondents C. W. G. (Vol. iii., p. 7.) and [Delta]. (Vol. iii., p. 75.), that _suem_ is probably a form of the A.-S. word _seam_, a _horse-load_, and generally a _burden_. For cognates, see Bosworth's _A.-S. Dict._ {213} I may add, that the word is written _swun_ in a charter of Edward the Confessor, printed by Hickes in his _Thesaurus_, vol. i. p. 159., as follows: "--ic ann [țaet] ethridde treow. [et] [țaet] ethridde swun of aevesan ethaes nextan wudes ethe liț to kyngesbyrig," &c. Which Hickes thus renders: