_Sir W. Stanley._--I find in one of the usual history books in use that Sir William Stanley, who was beheaded for high treason, for saying "If Perkin Wabbeck is son of Edward IV., I will supply him with five hundred men," was executed in the third year of Henry VII. Now, in a memorandum of the time in a _Horæ B. Virg._ in my possession, it states: "Memorandum: Quod die lune xvio die Februarii anno Regis Henrici Septimi Decimo Willius Stanley, Miles, Camerarius regis prædicti receptus fuit apud Turrim London, et ductus usque scaffold et ibidem fuit decapitatus. Johannes Warner et Nicholas Allwyn tunc vic. London." Could you help me to the true account? JOHN C. JACKSON. Cross House, Ilminster, Somerset. [The memorandum in the _Horæ_ agrees with the date given in Fabyan's _Chronicle_, p. 685., edit. 1811, viz. February 16, 1495. Fuller, in his _Worthies_, also states that Allwyn and Warner were sheriffs of London in the tenth year of Henry VII.] _Mires--Somerlayes._--In the appointment of a pinder for the town of Hunstanton, Norfolk, dated 1644, these two words occur: "No person shall feed any _mires_ with any beast," &c. _Mire_ is clearly the same as _meer_, i.e. the strip of unploughed ground bounding adjacent fields. "None shall tye any of their cattle upon anothers _somerlayes_ without leave of the owner," &c. I suppose _somerlaye_ to be the same as _somerland_, explained by Halliwell to mean, land lying fallow during summer. I find neither word in Forby's _Glossary_. C. W. G. [Grass laid down for summer pasture, is called in Kent, _lay fields_; doubtless _somerlayes_ are such. Probably a corruption of _lea_, the _lesura_ of Latin charters.] _Wyned._--In an old precedent (seventeenth century) of a lease of a house, I find the words "divers parcels of _wyned_ waynescott windowes and other implements of household." What is _wyned_? C. W. G. [A friend, who is extremely well versed in early records, and to whom we referred this Query, observes, "I have never met with the word, nor can I find a trace of it anywhere. I suspect that the querist has misread his MS., and that, in the original, it is _payned_, for _paned_. In the slovenly writing of that period many a form of _pa_ might be mistaken for _w_. The upstroke of the _p_ is often driven high. I have seen many a _pa_ like this instance."]