Simon Bache

*Simon Bache* (Vol. iii., p. 105.).—*Thesaurarius Hospitii*.—The office of "Thesaurarius Hospitii," about which A. W. H. inquires, means, I believe, "Treasurer of the Household." In Chauncy's *Hertfordshire*, vol. ii. p. 102., the inscription on Simon Bache is given in the same terms as by your correspondent. The learned author then gives, at p. 103., the epitaph on another monument also in Knebworth Church, erected to the memory of John Hotoft, in which occur these two lines: "Hospitii regis qui Thesaurarius olim Henrici sexti merito pollebat honore." At p. 93. of the same volume, Sir Henry C…