May 15. 1852.] 



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she survived and was afterwards the wife of 

 Charles Fox, gentleman. In 1721 John Tra- 

 descant is described as son and heir of the said 

 Eobcrt and Martha, both deceased. I have not 

 met with it at a later period. Whether this Ilar- 

 leston family branched from Walberswiclc, or 

 •whether either were actually related to the Lam- 

 beth Tradescants, — for the term " namesake " does 

 not of itself imply relationship — is not certain, 

 but both are at all events probable. I may ob- 

 serve that the prefix Mr. indicated a person above 

 the rank of a tradesman, and such as we should 

 now address upon a letter as " Esquire." G. A. C. 



Movable Organs and Pvlpits (Vol. v., p. 345.). 

 — Of the first-named class of curious ecclesiastical 

 structures I know of no examples ; of one of the 

 latter, the following notice occurs in Mr. Wesley's 

 Journal, vol. Iv. p. 213. : — 



"Aug. 15 (1781). I went to Sheffield : In the after- 

 noon I took a view of the chapol lately built by the 

 Duke of Norfolk. One may safely say, there is none 

 like it in the three kingdoms, nor, I suppose, in the 

 •world. It is a stone building, an octagon, about eighty 



feet in diameter The pulpit is movablo : it 



rolls upon wheels ; and is shifted once a quarter, that 

 all the pews may face it in their turns : I presume the 

 first contrivance of the kind in Europe." 

 This was an episcopal place of worship connected 

 with a noble charity, " The Shrewsbury Hospital," 

 a suite of liberally-endowed almshouses for old 

 people of both sexes. The "chapel" in question, 

 as well as the almshouses, have, many years ago, 

 given place to a large market. But I must add, 

 the charity still flourishes, and its recipients enjoy 

 a suite of beautiful little dwellings, and a com- 

 modious place of worship, in a pleasant and airy 

 part of " Sheflield Park." J. H. 



There is a movable pulpit in Norwich Ca- 

 thedral. J. B. 



Scologlandis and Scologi (Vol. v., p. 416.). — 

 These words are derived from sgolog, a Celtic 

 •word meaning a farmer, a husbandman, and pro- 

 bably denote the husbandlands and husbandmen 

 holding the kirktoun (church lands) of Ellon, or 

 parts thereof. A distinction is drawn between the 

 husbandman and the cottar in an unpublished 

 return to an inquisition in 1450, concerning the 

 payments and services due by certain tenants of 

 some ecclesiastical lands — " that is to say, of ylke 

 husband an thraf (threave) of corn and half an 

 ferlot of meil, and of ylke coter an pek." The 

 husbands of church lands (bondi of Scotch charter 

 Latin ?) were in all likelihood the " Kyndlie te- 

 nantis " of the church, who seem to have had a sort 

 of hereditary right to renewal of their leases on 

 payment of a fine, either taxed or uncertain. In 

 a charter lately before me, a lease of tithes was 

 renewed to the holder as "Kyndlie tenant," on 

 payment of a grassum (equivalent to a fine), and 



it was declared that the said tenant and his an- 

 cestors had held the vicarage land hereditarily, 

 past the memory of man, on payment of a rent, 

 though the said vicarage land belonged in pro- 

 perty to the vicar. Neither sgolug nor bondi are 

 applicable to tenants of church lands exclusively. 

 The compilers of the Highland Society's Gaelic 

 Dictionary do not appear to have met with the 

 word sgolog, or, if they did, have confounded it 

 with scalog or sgolog, a boor, a hind, a countryman. 



De Camera. 



St. Botolph (Vol. v., p. 396.). — Your corre- 

 spondent A. B. has anticipated an inquiry I ■vyas. 

 about to make as to the history of this saint, which 

 I am desirous of learning. It is a rather singular 

 circumstance that three churches dedicated to St. 

 Botolph, and all of ancient foundation, are situated 

 immediately without gates of the city, viz. at 

 Aldgate, Bishopsgate, and Aldersgate. There wa» 

 also before the Great Fire a church similarly dedi- 

 cated at Billingsgate, and a water-gate, called 

 Buttolph's gate (vide Stow). 



I can hardly imagine that this is merely a coin- 

 cidence, and should be glad to know whether any 

 explanation can be given of it. J. E,. J. 



Which are the Shadows? (Vol. v., p. 281.). — 

 An extract from the Memoirs of Wordsworth^. 

 vol. ii. p. 273., will throw some little light on 

 J. C. R.'s perplexities : 



« The anecdote of the saying of the monk, in sight 

 of Titian's picture, was told me in this house ( Rydal 

 Mount) by Mr. Wilkie, and was, I believe, first com- 

 municated to the world in this poem, the former por- 

 tion of which I was composing at the time (' Lines 

 suggested by a Portrait by F. Stone, 1834'). Southey 

 heard the story from Miss Hutchinson, and transferred 

 it to the Doctor ; my friend Mr. Rogers, in a note sub~ 

 sequenily added to his Italy, speaks of the same remark- 

 able words having many years before been spoken in 

 his hearing by a monk or priest in front of a picture of 

 the Last Supper, placed over a refectory table in a 

 convent at Padua." 



It is much to be feared that this goes far towards 

 reducing " the mild Jeronymite's " remark to the 

 established order of stereotype. On which sup- 

 position, one need not wonder that — 

 " his griefs 

 Melted away within him like a dream, 

 Ere he had ceased to gaze, perhaps to speak." 



J. 



Nightingale and Thorn (Vol. iv., pp. 175. 242.; 

 Vol. v., pp. 39. 305.). — Is it known to your cor- 

 respondents who take an interest in this subject, 

 that the nightingale, when she builds her nest, 

 inserts a thorn about an inch long in the centre of it, 

 probably to lean her breast against. 



During my angling excursions I often get com- 

 fortably housed at a little farmer's in Berks, and 



