I hope ARUN will be satisfied with this connexion of St. Anthony with the pig, the crutch, and the bell. "The staff" in the figure of the saint at Merthyr is, I should think, a crutch. "The custom of making particular saints tutelars and protectors of one or another species of cattle is still kept up in Spain and other places. They pray to the tutelar when the beast is sick. Thus St. Anthony is for hogs, and we call a poor starved creature a _Tantony_ pig."--Salmon's _History of Hertfordshire_, 1728. A. HOLT WHITE. May I venture to observe, in confirmation of ARUN'S suggestion as to the origin of this term, that the bell appears to have been a constant attribute of St. Anthony, although I have tried in vain to discover any allusion to it in his legend? Frederick von Schlegel, in describing a famous picture by Bramante d'Urbino (_Æsthetic and Miscellaneous Works_, p. 78.), mentions St. Anthony as "carrying the hermit's little bell;" and Lord Lindsay, in the Introduction to his _Letters on Christian Art_ (vol. i. p. 192.), says that St. Anthony is known by "the bell and staff, denoting mendicancy." If this be the case, the bell at Kimbolton was doubtless intended originally to announce the presence of some wayfarer or mendicant. Tanthony is a common contraction for St. Anthony, as in the term "a Tanthony pig;" and a similar system of contraction was in use amongst the troubadours, who put _Na_ for _Donna_; as _Nalombarda_ for _Donna Lombarda_. The bell carried by St. Anthony is sometimes thought to have reference to his Temptations; bells being, in the words of Durandus, "the trumpets of the eternal king," on hearing which the devils "flee away, as through fear." I think, however, that these words apply rather to church bells. E. J. M. PILGRIMS' ROAD TO CANTERBURY. (Vol. ii., pp. 199. 237. 269. 316.) I think those of your readers who are interested in this Query will feel that the replies it has received are not quite satisfactory, and I therefore trust you will find some room for the following remarks. I would beg to ask, can there be any doubt that from Southwark to Dartford, and from Rochester to their destination, Chaucer and his fellow pilgrims journeyed along the old Roman way, then for many centuries the great thoroughfare from London to the south-eastern coast, and which for these portions of the route is nearly identical with the present turnpike-road? The _Tales_ themselves make it certain that the pilgrims started on this ancient way; for when the Host interrupts the sermonising of the Reeve, he mentions Deptford and Greenwich as being in their route: "Say forth thy tale, and tarry not the time, Lo Depeford, and it is half way prime; Lo Greenewich, there many a shrew is in, It were all time thy tale to begin."