It is a little hard that your valuable space should be taken up by gentlemen who will not even take the trouble of referring to the authorities where you tell them that they will find an answer, and then begin questioning again, as if you had not already settled the matter. C. _Theoloneum_ (Vol. v., p. 105.).--Theoloneum is the Latin law term for toll, corrupted from the Greek Telonium. I am surprised that I cannot find it either in Du Cange or Spelman. C. B. _John of Padua_ (Vol. v., p. 78.).--I have often endeavoured without success to obtain some correct particulars about John of Padua, and also to ascertain whether he was the same person as "John Thorpe." I hope, therefore, that the inquiry in your last number may lead to a satisfactory result; for we ought to know more of these worthies. BRAYBROOKE. Audley End. _Stoke_ (Vol. v., p. 106.).--W. B. asks the meaning of the word _stoke_ in the names of places; as Bishopstoke, Ulverstoke, &c. (Ulverstoke being, I presume, a miscopying or misprint of Alverstoke). I cannot at all concur in the derivation you quote from Bosworth, from _stoc_, "a place;" for then every place might be called _stoke_ without distinction. But in all the _stokes_ that I remember in England there is always and actually a kind of _stockade_ or sluice, which dams up some watercourse to a certain level. Whether this explanation will apply to the local circumstances of all the _stokes_, I know not; but it certainly does to the cases of Bishopstoke and Alverstoke, and of at least half a dozen other _stokes_ within my own observation. C. _Eliza Fenning_ (Vol. v., p. 105.).--Eliza Fenning was a maid servant convicted and executed for poisoning her master's family. I happened to be very intimate with some charitable and distinguished persons who had doubts of her guilt. I myself did not partake those doubts, but I assisted my friends in their benevolent inquiries, and was so frequently in communication with them both at the time, and long after, that I think I may venture to say that there can be no foundation for the statement that another person had confessed to the crime for which she suffered. C. On or about Christmas Day, 1833, there may be found in _The Times_ newspaper a notice of the death of a man, who, after leading a dissolute life, ended his days in the workhouse of some town either in Suffolk or Essex. On his death-bed he confessed that he was the brother of the law-stationer, and that he had put the poison into the pudding, by the eating of which his brother and family died, and for which crime Eliza Fenning had suffered innocently. F. HH.