[Pegge in his _Anonymiana_, Cent. iv. Sect. 32. says, "At St. John's College, Cambridge, a scholar, in my time, read some part of a chapter in a Latin Bible; and after he had read a short time, the President, or {266} the Fellow that sat in his place cried, _Tu autem_. Some have been at a loss for the meaning of this; but it is the beginning of the suffrage, which was supposed to follow the reading of the Scripture, which the reading scholar was to continue by saying _Miserere mei, Domine_. But at last it came to mean no more than to be a cue to the reader to desist or give over."] * * * * * Replies. BARONS OF HUGH LUPUS. (Vol. iii., pp. 87. 189.) The inquiry of P., in p. 87., seems to indicate an impression that all the witnesses to the charter of Hugh Lupus to Chester Abbey were barons of the Palatinate, but only a few of them were such, the rest being of England generally. The original barons of the Palatinate were clearly distinguishable by possession of privileges confirmed to them by a well-known charter of Earl Ranulph III.; and all the Norman founders of their baronies will be found, under Cestrescire, in Domesday, as tenants in capite, from the Earl Palatine, of lordships within the lyme of his county. _Bigod de Loges_ (one of the subjects of P.'s inquiry) will not bear this test, unless he was identical with Bigot, Norman lord of the manors afterwards comprised in Aldford Fee, which is not known to have been the case. For this last-named Bigot, whose lands descended through the Alfords to Arderne, reference may be made to the _History of Cheshire_, I. xxix., II. 411. _William Malbanc_, the other subject of inquiry, who has eluded M. J. T.'s searches, is easily identified. He was the Norman baron of Nantwich, the Willelmus Malbedeng of the _Domesday Survey_ (vol. i. p. 265. col. 2.), and the name is also written thus in the copy of H. Lupus's charter referred to, which was ratified under inspection by Guncelyn de Badlesmere, Justiciary of Chester in 8 Edw. I. The charter, with Badlesmere's attestation prefixed, will be found in Leycester's _Cheshire Antiquities_, p. 109., and in Ormerod's _Hist. of Cheshire_, vol. i. p. 12. In the latter work, in vol. iii., the inquirer will also find an account of William Malbedeng or Malbanc, his estates, his descendant coheirs, and their several subdivisions, extending from p. 217. to p. 222., under the proper head of Nantwich or _Wich Malbanc_, a still existing Palatine barony. LANCASTRIENSIS. Your correspondent M. J. T. says it appears from-- "_The MS. Catalogue_ of the Norman nobility before the Conquest, that Robert and Roger de Loges possessed lordships in the districts of Coutances in Normandy." Will he be so good as to say what _MS. Catalogue_ he refers to? He seems to speak of _the MS._ _Catalogue_ of Norman nobility as if it were some well-known public and authentic record. Q. G.