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▼enture. Our chaplain suggested the possibility 

 of some such foolery having been intromitted at my 

 windows, and proposed the visit of a scientific 

 friend, who minutely inspected the parlour, and 

 made the closest investigation, but could not in 

 any way solve the mystery. Subsequently, a pro- 

 fessor of the Black Art favoured me with a call, 

 and undertook to produce my " cylindrical figure," 

 or serpents on the ceiling, or any other appear- 

 ance which I should bespeak, provided that he 

 miffht have his own apparatus on the table, or 

 (with the curtains drawn back) on the seven-gun 

 battery immediately fronting the window, and 

 where, by-the-bye, a sentry is posted night and 

 day. His provisoes were of course declined, and 

 the wizard acknowledged that of himself he was 

 no conjuror. 



Sir John Reresby, who was Governor of York 

 Castle, temp. Jac. II., records in his Memoir,^, that 

 one of the night-sentries was grievously alarmed 

 by the appearance of a huge black animal issuing 

 upon him from underneath a door in the Castle. 

 I have not my copy at hand to transcribe the pas- 

 sage ; but the volume itself is not very difficult 

 of reference. Edmund Lenthal Swifte. 



Sib Patrick Spens (2"^ S. ix. 118. 231.) — I 

 have now ascertained the source from whence the 

 version of this ballad was obtained by Mr. Hamil- 

 ton. A gentleman who was frequently with him, 

 and who is, I may truly say, the most learned gene- 

 alogist that Scotland has hitherto produced, having 

 heard Mr. Hamilton repeatedly singing verses of 

 it, had the curiosity to inquire where he got his 

 version of Sir Patrick, when he was informed 

 that, when a boy, the singer obtained it from an 

 old nurse, a retainer of the^Gilkerscleugh family. 

 This fixes the date about the middle of last cen- 

 tury, and certainly antecedent to the version given 

 by Bishop Percy in his Reliques of Ancient Eng- 

 lish Poetry, where it first of all appeared in a 

 fragmentary state. J. M. 



Coronation op Edward IV. (2"^ S. x. 106. 

 153. 196.) — The difference between St. Leo and 

 "St. Leon" is quite imaginary. There is no 

 saint of the latter name as distinct from St. Leo ; 

 it is merely the French form of the word. The 

 St. Leo of April 11 is the first Pope of that name, 

 known as St. Leo the Great : the St. Leo of June 

 28 is Leo II. ; and that particular day was ap- 

 pointed as his feast because it was, in liturgical 

 language, the day of his " deposition." There is 

 another St. Leo, Bishop of Bayonne, who suffered 

 martyrdom about the year 900. His feast, how- 

 ever, was not kept in England, and therefore need 

 not here be considered. In fact, in a question 

 regarding an English ceremonial, the Sarum Bre- 

 viary ought to he quite decisive. Now its calendar 

 for June contains no saint of the name but St. 

 Leo II. on the 28th, the Vigil of the Apostles. 



As to the volume of ancient MS. Prayers re- 

 ferred to by Dr. Smart, its calendar must have 

 been written by a very ignorant person, as is evi- 

 dent from the palpable blunders contained in the 

 short extract. For example, St. Basil, whom, by 

 the bye, it makes a woman, is assigned to the 12th 

 instead of the 14th ; and stranger still, the solemn 

 feast of tSt. John the Baptist is fixed for the 26 th, 

 instead of the 24th. As for the mixture of French 

 and English in " Sainct pierre and paul," I pre- 

 sume it is an oversight of the transcriber. The 

 same ignorance must, I believe, be attributed to 

 the writer of the Cotton MS. referred to by Sir 

 Harris Nicolas. In fine, there cannot be the least 

 doubt about the 28th June being the only day on 

 which ^was kept the feast of St. Leo. 



John Williams. 

 Arno'a Court. 



Senex's Maps (2"* S. x. 8. 157.) — To the list 

 furnished by your correspondent 'AAt«i»y may be 

 added the following : — 



" An Actual Survey of all the Principal Roads of 

 England and Wales ; described by One Hundred Maps 

 on Copper Plates, on which are delineated all the Cities, 

 Towns, and Villages, Churches, Houses, and Places of 



Note throughout each Road First performed and 



published by John Ogilby, Esq., and now improved, ver\' 



much corrected, and made portable by John Senex. 



London : Printed for and sold by J. Senex, at the Globe, 

 in Salisbury Court, Fleet Street, 1719." 



This work is comprised in two small volumes : 

 the first, " containing all the direct roads from 

 London through England and Wales in 54 plates ;" 

 the second, the cross-roads in 46 plates ; and is 

 dedicated " To the Right Honorable James, 

 Earl of Caemarvan, Viscount Wilton and Baron 

 Chandois." From an advertisement inserted in 

 the above, it appears that Senex was a globe- 

 maker in Salisbury Court. In the Introduction 

 to BeWs Gazetteer, although he is mentioned in a 

 .list of early mapsellers, no note is taken of the 

 above performance. Henry W. S. Taylor. 



Slang Names of Coins (2"^ S. x. 171.)— With 

 regard to the slang names of coins given by your 

 correspondent. Abracadabra, I venture to sug- 

 gest that the word tizzy may be the familiar ab- 

 breviation of tester, the well-known sixpence of 

 Tudor times. As for "Bob," I can conjecture no 

 more plausible origin than that indicated by the 

 analogy of "Joey." The great Sir Robert, of 

 George II.'s reign, is the most likely parent of this 

 slang term, which is certainly older than Sir R. 

 Peel. Slang derivations are generally indirect, 

 turning upon metaphor and fanciful allusion rather 

 than direct etymological connexion. Such allu- 

 sions and fancies are essentially temporary or 

 local, they rapidly pass out of the publfc mind : 

 the word remains, while the key to its origin is 

 lost. Some of our slang terms for coins are of 

 demonstrable origin, unmetaphorical, and gene- 



