"Crist gave his life for hise brether, and so rewled hise shepe; thei wolen not _gyue her moke_ to help _here_ nedy brethern, but leten _here shep_ perishen, and taken of hem." In allusion to their not feeding their flock, but suffering their sheep to perish, he prefers to mention an eatable object. N. L. BENMOHEL, A.M. 2. Trinity College, Dublin. [MR. BENMOHEL is wrong in supposing the word _Beghard_ to signify _bekehrt_, conversus, and to be a name given to the Fratres Conversi of monasteries, who, by the way, were not "secular begging monks," nor necessarily monks at all. Any person, by a donation to a convent, could be enrolled amongst its _fratres_ or _sorores_, entitled to the prayers of the monks, and to a share of their superabundant merits; and, being clothed at his death in the habit of the order, was a _frater conversus_. Another class of _conversi_ were lay monks (not necessarily _begging_ monks), who attended on the other monks, and performed certain lay duties in monasteries. MR. BENMOHEL will see some account of them in Dr. Todd's _Introduction to the Book of Obits and Martyrol. of Christ's Church Cathedral, Dublin_, p. xxvii. The _Beghards_, on the other hand, were not, properly speaking, monks at all, inasmuch as they were not under any monastic vow. They professed poverty, and lived on alms generally; but in other respects their mode of life was various, and their orthodoxy and morality very doubtful. They are generally denounced by the ecclesiastical authorities; and, except in some few places and under certain regulations, were never recognised by the Church. The best account of them will be found in Mosheim's posthumous and unfinished treatise, _De Beghardis et Beguinis_. The name is evidently, as Mosheim shows, a compound of _beg_ (from the old Saxon _beggen_, mendicare) and _hard_, or _hart_, a servant, famulus, servus: the same word which we still use in the composition of such words as shepherd, cow-herd, swine-herd. So that _Beghard_ is not otherwise different from our word _beggar_, than in so far as it was formerly applied to a religious sect. MR. BENMOHEL'S explanation of _Rehetour_ is very ingenious, and may very possibly be true. His interpretation of _Muck_ is not so satisfactory.] PLAGUE STONES. (Vol. v., p. 226.) At the bottom of a street leading from Bury St. Edmunds to the Newmarket road, stands an octagonal stone of Petworth marble with a hole in it, which is said to have been filled with water or vinegar in the time of the small-pox in 1677, for people to dip their money in on leaving the market. What truth may attach to the traditionary use of the stone I know not; but the stone is the base of a cross called St. Peter's Cross, and the hole is the socket for the shaft. BURIENSIS.