_Porci solide-pedes_ (Vol. iii., p. 263.).--A correspondent of "NOTES AND QUERIES" inquires about the breed of solid-hoofed pigs. Some years, perhaps twenty years, ago there were several pigs of that sort in the possession of Robert Ramsden, Esq., of Coulton Hall, Notts, of which he was good enough to give some to my father. I believe they were considered of Chinese origins, but how remotely I do not know. They were very easily fattened, but always of small size; and I think, unless my memory much deceives me, on removing the horny portion of the hoof, the rudiments of a cloven hoof, like that of the ordinary swine, were to be seen. E. G. SELWYN. Blackheath, April 17. 1851. _Sir Henry Slingsby's Diary_ (Vol. iii., p. 323.).--The council of "THE CAMDEN SOCIETY" will no doubt be pleased to find that your correspondents are good enough to keep in view the welfare of that Society, and to suggest works suitable for their publication. If Sir Henry Slingsby's _Diary_ had never been published, it would indeed have been an excellent book for the Camden Society; but be kind enough to inform your correspondent P. B. that, besides some quotations printed in Seward's _Anecdotes_, and large extracts published at Edinburgh, in an octavo volume, in 1806, the whole _Diary_, with a great deal of illustrative matter relating to the Slingsby family, was published in one volume, 8vo., London, 1836, under the very competent editorship of the Rev. Daniel Parsons, of Oriel College, Oxford. It appears from the preface to that publication, that the original MS. is not now known to be in existence. Mr. Parsons printed from a copy of the original, made by Sir Savile Slingsby, in 1714-5, which then remained at Scriven. ETTIE. _Criston, Somerset_ (Vol. iii., p. 278.).--Perhaps PRISTON is the place inquired for. This is a village near Keynshem, where a Mr. _Vaughan_ Jenkins has some property. _Criston_, as a place in Somerset, is unknown to J. Bath, April 18. _Criston_ (Vol. iii., p. 278.).--There is a small village in Somersetshire called Christon, about five miles N.W. of Axbridge. C. I. R. _Tradesmen's Signs_ (Vol. iii., p. 224.).--In the delightful little volume on Chaucer, in Knight's shilling series, entitled _Pictures of English Life_, the author has the following on the Tabard, at p. 19.:-- "The sign and its supports were removed in 1776, when all such characteristic features of the streets of London in the olden time, disappeared _in obedience to a parliamentary edict_ for their destruction." It would appear, however, by the subsequent quotation from Brand's _Antiquities_, vol. ii. p. 359., that the edict above referred to was not carried into execution against all signs; or that, if so, it was soon repealed:--