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painter of the Eastern Counties. It was removed 

 for a time and exhibited along with his less pub- 

 licly known works, soon after the artist's death ; 

 and it has now (for many years) been taken 

 away, and the name of the inn changed into the 

 Boar's Head. It was a very spirited painting, 

 and the proprietor of another Greyhound Inn, jn 

 Ber Street, had it copied for his sign, and I be- 

 lieve a descendant of that copy is yet to be seen 

 there. B. B. Woodwabd. 



Usshers Britannicarum Ecclesiarum Antiqui' 

 tales (2"** S. vii. 121.) — My copy of Elrington'a 

 republication, like that of AetebuS, has no date 

 or separate titles, and I learn from Dublin that 

 none are expected. 



Abtsbus gives 1639 as the date of the first 

 edition, and 1687 as that of the second, and states 

 that Dr. E.'s is the third, and that it "2« at most 

 hut a reprint." 



I think that there is a mistake somewhere : Dr. 

 E. repeats the original date of 1639 in his prefixed 

 leaf, and attaches the same date in capitals to 

 the end of Ussher's Latin preface, at vol. i. p. 9. 

 At the end of vol. ii. is Ussher's Chronological 

 Index with this prefix : — 



" Quod ab authore in hac Epiatola de addendis dictum 

 est, de editionibus prioribus * est intelligendum. Haec 

 enim suo cuique loco inserta jam exhibeutur." 



If this passage is a reprint from the second edi- 

 tion of 1687, it is absurd; for it speaks of previous 

 editions in the plural number, and Abtebus states 

 that there was only one such, that of 1639. 



If it is Elrington's own prefix it would seem 

 that his edition is not merely "a/ most but a re' 

 print" as Abtebus states it to be. 



The work is a national one, and the source of 

 the text of Elrington's republication should be ex- 

 plained. Lancastbiensis. 



The Minstrels' Gallery, Exeter Cathedral (2"** 

 S. vii. 496.) — Your correspondent ii. J. K. states 

 that " no other example occurs in England of 

 such a gallery ; " but in this particular he is in 

 error. I distinctly remember to have seen a min- 

 strels' gallery at the western extremity of the 

 north aisle of Winchester Cathedral (vide Mil- 

 ner'a WiTichester, ii. p. 83.). A smaller and less 

 ornamental minstrel gallery than that of Exeter 

 Cathedral is attached to one of the clerestory win- 

 dows on the south side of the nave of Wells Ca- 

 thedral (Britton's Cathed. Antiq., " Wells," p. 

 116., pi. xii,). W. J. Pinks. 



Blowing from Cannon (2»* S. iv. 365.) —The 

 recent mutiny in India has made descriptions 

 of this terrific death-punishment familiar to every- 

 body. But can anybody inform me when, and 



[* " De editione priore est intelligendum," is the read- 

 ing of the edition of 1687, which is expressly stated on 

 the title-page to be Editio Secunda. — Ei>.] 



where, it was first introduced ? The earliest men- 

 tion of it that I have yet met with is in Sir John 

 Malcolm's Life of Lord Clive, vol. ii. p. 299. : — 



" The army, both European and native, bad fallen into 

 a very insubordinate and mutinous state. The ofHcera 

 evinced this spirit on almost every occasion where they 

 deemed their personal interests affected, and manj' of 

 the privates deserted to the native powers. A most 

 serious mutiny occurred at the period when Major Munro 

 took the command of the army (in 1764) at ratna. A 

 battalion of sepoys left camp to join the enemy : they 

 were intercepted by a body of troops, and twenty-four of 

 the ringleaders were brought before a native court-mar- 

 tial, and sentenced to death. They were all executed ; 

 and we are informed by an officer who was present, that 

 an incident occurred on this occasion which not only 

 created a great sensation at the moment, but left a lasting 

 impression on the native soldiers of Bengal, l)eing truly 

 characteristic of their proud and dauntless spirit. When 

 the orders were given to tie four of these men to the 

 guns, from which they were to be blown, four grena- 

 diers stept out, and demanded the priority of suffer- 

 ing, as 'a right,' they said, 'which belonged to men 

 who had always been first in the post of danger.' The 

 calm manner in which the request was made, and the 

 anxiety that it should be granted, excited great sym- 

 pathy in all who beheld it. The officer (Captain Wil- 

 liams, in Memoirs of tlie Bengal Native Army'), on whose 

 authority this fact is stated, and who was an eye-witness 

 of the scene, observes : ' 1 belonged on this occasion to a 

 detachment of marines. They were hardened fellows, 

 and some of them had been of the execution-party that 

 shot Admiral Byng ; yet they could not refrain from tears 

 at the fate and conduct of these gallant grenadier sepoys.' " 



It will be observed that the sentence was that 

 of a native court-martial, but I infer that it was 

 executed by the English troops. 



Has this punishment ever been resorted to by 

 any other European nation than the English, 

 and has it ever been resorted to by the latter 

 elsewhere than in India ? When, and from what 

 source, was artillery first brought into use in, and 

 among the natives of, India ? Ebic. 



Ville-Marie, Canada. 



Hugh Stuart Boyd (2"'' S. v. 88. 175.) —The 

 Rev. William Boyd, rector of Ramoan, co. An- 

 trim, had an eldest son, the celebrated Colonel 

 Hugh Boyd of Ballycastle, who had with two sons 

 as many daughters ; the elder daughter, Margaret 

 Boyd, married Alexander McAulay, Esq., a bar- 

 rister and Vicar-General of the diocese of Dublin, 

 by whom she had two sons and a daughter. The 

 elder son, Hugh McAulay, assumed the addi- 

 tional surname of Boyd, and was the friend of 

 William Pitt, and by some supposed to have been 

 the author of Junius. He married a Miss Mor- 

 phy, and with one daughter had an only son, 

 Hugh Stuart Boyd, the gentleman about whom 

 your correspondent makes inquiry. For the last 

 twenty years of his life Hugh Stuart Boyd was 

 quite blmd ; he lived for many years at Hamp- 

 stead, and married a lady of Jewish extraction, by 

 whom he left an only child, Henrietta Boyd, who 

 married Mr. Henry Hayes, an Irish Roman Ca- 



