That the old Germans may have called robbers _Cimbri_, does not prove that word implies _robbers_, or anything of the kind; but it indicates that the intrusion of the old Germans on the lands of the Cimbri caused the invaded to make reprisals on the invaders; and then the injured Germans connected or identified the Cimbrian name with that of enemy or robber. GOMER. _Stoke_ (Vol. v., pp. 106. 161. 213.).--I think that the towns and parishes of _Tawstock_, _Culmstock_, _Tavistock_, _Plymstock_, _Stockton on Tees_, _Severn Stoke_, _Stoke in Teignhead_, _Stoke on Tern_, _Stoke on Trent_, must have received their names from a _stockade_ of some kind _in_ the rivers near which they are situated. There is at a ford across the river Severn, about half a mile from Welsh Pool, a weir made of stakes and brushwood erected a few yards above the ford, for the sole purpose of diminishing the force of the current, and spreading the water into a stream of an uniform depth. I conjecture that in ancient times the fords of our larger rivers were kept in a passable state during the winter season by weirs of this description, and that there were fords in the rivers at the places above mentioned. There is near Nuneaton the chapelry of _Stock in Ford_, but I am not sufficiently acquainted with that place to be able to conjecture from what circumstance it may have derived its name. I infer that one meaning of the word _stoke_ is _wood_ of any kind, from the fact that the opening through which coals are introduced under the larger boilers in our houses is called a _stoke-hole_, from the wood formerly used for fuel. S. S. S. (2). _King's College Chapel Windows_ (Vol. v., p 276.).--See Blomefield's _History of Norfolk_, vol. i. p. 406., and vol. ii. p. 388. At the latter reference, under the head of Richard Nykke or Nix, Bishop of Norwich, 1500, occurs this passage: "This bishop incurred a premunire for extending his jurisdiction over the Mayor of Thetford, and was fined for it. With part of the fine, it is said, the beautiful windows in King's College Chapel, Cambridge, were purchased." The statement is given at greater length at the first of the above-quoted references. I never heard of the story before I met with it in Blomefield. T. H. L. Mr. Blomefield, referring to Richard Nykke, Bishop of Norwich (1500-1535), says he incurred a premunire for extending his jurisdiction over the Mayor of Thetford, "and was fined for it, with part of which fine _'tis said_ the beautiful painted glass windows in King's College Chapel at Cambridge were purchased."--_Hist. of Norfolk_, 8vo. edit., ii. 52.; iii. 546. There is good foundation for the statement that this bishop "was condemned in the premunire" (Coke's _Reports_, xii. 40, 41.); but I question if there be authentic evidence that he "redeemed the punishment of that offence by the glasing of the King's College Chappell windows in Cambridge." Bishop Nykke is no doubt the prelate to whom Ferne alludes.