"Quasi ab Hel-vaen, _i.e._ the stone generally found in brooks; unless it be a corruption of An-von, which in Cornish signifies a smith's anvil, and might fitly represent this very hard stone." The term is a Cornish one, and applied to a crystalline rock usually hard enough to strike fire readily on sharp friction; and may it not have been derived from the Cornish word "_Elven_, a spark of fire," given in Borlase's vocabulary. S. R. P. Launceston. _Wiclif._--There are few names of equal celebrity that have been so variously spelt, the sound remaining the same whether written _Wiclif_, _Wycliff_, _Wickliffe_, _Wykcliff_, &c. Can any authority be given, to ascertain the correct spelling? J. K. _Showing the White Feather._--What is the origin of this periphrasis for cowardice? Certainly not the words of King Henry: "Press where ye see my white plume shine, Amidst the ranks of war; And be your Oriflamme to-day The helmet of Navarre." A. A. D. Trin. Coll. Dublin. _Gray and Locke._--The germ of Gray's-- "For who, to dumb forgetfulness a prey," occurs somewhere in Locke's _Works_. Can any one refer me to the passage; it commences: "Who ever left the precincts of mortality, without," &c. H. E. H. _Horses and Sheep, Remains of in Churches._--In excavating the chancel of St. Botolph's parish church, Boston, we have discovered a quantity of _horse's_ bones, and the jaw-bones of a _sheep_. Can any of your correspondents enlighten us on this singular case? THOMAS COLLIS. Boston. _Archæologia Cambrensis, Vol I., Reprint._--I have recently purchased a copy of the above work to complete my set; but before doing so, I enquired of Mr. Pickering the publisher, if it was in all respects as well executed as the first copies. The answer, however, gave me no more information than "that the numbers of vol. i. _Arch. Camb._, which were destroyed by fire, have been _reprinted_, so as to make up a few copies, and the price is consequently 21_s._" The "reprint" is not as well executed as the original copies, inasmuch as nearly a whole page of interesting matter is omitted, and very few of the reprinted pages correspond with the good old ones. I have been a long time looking for the first volume of the _Archæologia Cambrensis_, the greater portion of which had been so unfortunately destroyed by fire; and though I cannot consider the "reprint" quite as good as the old copies, still I was very glad to obtain it. I trouble you with this "Note," not because I am dissatisfied with the mode of execution of the reprint, but in the hope that some of your correspondents will favour me with a few words on the work, and inform me why the page has been omitted, and why the reprinted pages do not agree with those of the old copies. Are there any other faults in the "reprint" which may have escaped my notice? R. H. Dublin.