The French and Neapolitan festivals, called _cocagne_ and _cocagna_, appear to have presented themselves in this country under the form of Cockneys' feasts and revels conducted by the King of Cockneys. Strype, in the first appendix to his edition of Stow's _London_, under the head "Stepney," describes at some length "The Cockney's Feast of Stepney;" and Dugdale, in his _Origines Juridiciales_, recapitulates an order entered on the _Register of Lincoln's Inn_, vol. iv. fo. 81a, in the 9th of Henry VIII.: "That the _King of Cockneys_ in Childermass-day should sit and have due service, and that he and all his officers should use honest and lawful manner and good order, without any waste of destruction making, in wine, brawn, chely, or other victuals: as also that he, his marshal, butler, and constable marshal, should have their lawful and honest commandments by delivery of the officers of Christmas: and that the said King of Cockneys, ne none of his officers, medyll neither in the buttry nor in the Stuard of Christmass his office--upon pain of xi's. for every such medling. And lastly, that Jack Straw and all his adherents should be thenceforth utterly banisht, and no more to be used in this house upon pain to forfeit, for every time five pounds, to be levied on every fellow hapning to offend against this rule." Some obliging bencher of Lincoln's Inn will perhaps have the goodness to examine, or to permit me to examine the _Register_, to ascertain whether this potentate was king of Cockneys, as Dugdale has it, or of Cockney. A LONDONER. Replies to Minor Queries. _The Word Infortuner_ (Vol. iv., p. 328.).--J. C. W. enquires, "Is _infortuner_ to be found in any old Dictionary?" I would state that I have not been able to find it; but in Cockeram's _English Dictionarie_, 1639, I find "_Infortunate_, unhappy;" and in Bailey's _Dictionary_, vol. i. 1753, "_Infortunate_, unhappy, unlucky;" "_Infortune_, misfortune," referred to Chaucer; "_Infortunes_, an astrological term, applied to Saturn and Mars, because of their unfortunate influences;" "_Infortunid_, unfortunate," referred to Chaucer; and in vol. ii of Bailey's _Dictionary_, 1727, I find "_Infortunateness_, unhappiness, unluckiness." It is singular that Cockeram gives "infortunate" in his first alphabet, which, he says, in his preface, "hath the _choicest_ words now in use, wherewith our language is enriched." "Unfortunate" he places in the second alphabet, which, he says, "contains the _vulgar_ words." Neither Cole's _English Dictionary_, 1685, nor Blount's _Glossographia_, 1670, nor Phillips' _World of Words_, 1678, contain the word "unfortunate" in any of its terminations or applications. Mr. Halliwell, in his _Dictionary of Provincial Words_, gives the word "_Infortune_, misfortune," deriving it from the Anglo-Norman.