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play of "Barnavelt" in the British Museum, I 

 think amongst the Additional MSS. ; and more- 

 over, will find it well worth his reading. I have 

 somewhere other notices of the play, and its effect 

 on the court, but cannot put my hand on them. 



G. H. KlNGSIiEV. 



Atoub (2""' S. X. 413.) — In the old French 

 court, the "Dame d'Atour" handed the articles of 

 dress, at the queen's toilet, to the lady whose 

 office it was to put them on. She, therefore, 

 stood apart from her majesty ; probably near the 

 wardrobe or cabinet. On certain occasions, this 

 office was filled by the first Princess of the Blood. 



F. C. B. 



Orientation (S""^ S. x. 432.) — Conceiving that 

 A. A. is incorrect in stating that the churches 

 abroad generally stand in any direction which 

 may best suit the locality, and that orientation, as 

 it is called, is quite unknown, I beg to ask the 

 following question : — 



Can a dozen instances be adduced of churches, 

 to the north of the Alps, built before the year 

 1500, in which the altar is turned elsewhere than 

 towards the east ? Meletes. 



" Thomas Caret, a Poet of Note " (2"^ S. x. 

 424.) — In my collection of medals, relating to 

 English medals, is a very beautiful one of Thomas 

 Gary by " Warin," diameter 3 in. and f : legend, 

 " Tho. Gary, B,. Carol Cubicular Etatis sue 75, 

 1633." The description of this medal, in the Me- 

 dallic History of England, is "Thomas Carew, a 

 Gentleman of the Bedchamber to Charles 1", in his 

 75 year, 1633 (Warin)." The 75 is surely a mis- 

 take for 35 ; and this must be the poet, Thomas 

 Carew, one of the Gentleman of the Privy Cham- 

 ber, and Sewer in ordinary to his Majesty, as the 

 title of his Poems bears, London, 1640. See a 

 specimen of them \n Reliques of Ancient English 

 Poetry (vol. iii. p. 246.), where it is mentioned 

 that he died in the prime of his age in 1639. 

 There is a fine medal of his wife : legend. " 1633, 

 Margarita vxor Tho. Cary, -S^tatis sue 25 (Wa- 

 rin) " ; described in the Medallic History, " Mar- 

 garet, the wife of Thomas Carew, in the 25 year 

 of her age, 1633." This sometimes occurs as the 

 reverse of her husband's medal. 



W. D. Haggard. 



Windsor. 



"Drunken Barnabee's Journal" (2°* S. x. 

 421.) — In the latter part of the admirable de- 

 scription of this poem and its author, Mr.Yeowell 

 has given the date of the 4th edition as 1786 : if 

 he will refer to the " History of Richard Brath- 

 wait," given in the Worthies of Westmoreland, by 

 George Atkinson, Esq., he will find that the date 

 of the 4th edition is 1774, in support of which 

 assertion I beg to say I have a copy bearing that 

 date. Mr. Atkinson also gives 1815 as the date 

 of the 7th edition ; as to the correctness of this, I 



am not able to speak. Perhaps I may be allowed 

 to add, that Mr. J. Russell Smith, of Soho Square, 

 announced in his Catalogue for March 23, 1860, 

 No. 41., that he had a small 8vo. edition, with 

 plates, bearing date 1822: an edition not men- 

 tioned by Mr. Yeowell, and probably unknown 

 to him. J. Braithwaite. 



Christopher Ebdon (2"* S. x. 368.) — I find 

 that C. Ebdon was an exhibitor at the Great 

 Room of the Society of the Artists of Grea 

 Britain : — 



1767. No. 237. A View of the Inside of Durham Ca- 

 thedral. 



ir70. No. 198. Plan and Elevation of St. Cuthbert's 

 Shrine, Durham. 



1783. Mr. C. Ebdon, F.S.A., 

 and styled "Director." At Earl Cowper's, George 

 Street, Hanover Square, are several stained draw- 

 ings of Temples, Jupiter Stator, Concord, Vesta, 

 &c., &c. J. H. A. 



Sawney Bean (2"'» S. x. 386. 457.) — I am 

 much obliged to R. V. for the reference he has 

 given me to Johnson's Lives of Highwaymen, Sfc, 

 and I shall most certainly consult its pages the 

 first time I have an opportunity ; but I fear that 

 Johnson's book would not help me much, unless 

 he refers to his authority as to how much depen- 

 dence can be placed on this marvellous tale. The 

 relation in the Terrific Register is full enough ; 

 and all I want to know, is, from whence it origi- 

 nally came — whether from an author of credit or 

 not ? May I repeat my Query : Is the cave he 

 inhabited now known ? A Constant Reader. 



Riding the Stang (2"^ S. x. 477.) — The fol- 

 lowing is taken from the Caledonian Mercury 

 newspaper of 29th March, 1736 : — 



" George Porteous Smith, at Edmiston (a village near 

 Edinburgh), having severely beat and abused his wife, 

 thought himself so highly affronted by the neighbours 

 riding the stang for him, that taking remorse, he went and 

 hanged himself the day after. What is most remarkable 

 is, that his hands were' tied behind his back, and a cloth 

 upon his face." 



" He who beats bis wife (says Dr. Jamieson) is some- 

 times set astride on a long pole, which is borne on the 

 shoulders of others. In this manner he is carried about 

 from place to place. A henpecked husband was also 

 sometimes subjected to this punishment." — Scottish 

 Dictionary, voce " Stang." 



G. 



Edinburgh. 



Gleaners' Bell (2"'' S. x. 476.) — Some few 

 years ago, the curate of Gillingham, Norfolk (the 

 next parish to Aldeby, mentioned by one of your 

 correspondents), was requested to give notice in 

 church, that the gleaners were not to go into the 

 fields before a certain hour in the morning, I 

 think it was 8 o'clock. On suggesting that it was 

 an unusual thing, and not very fitting to be given 

 in church, he was told that it was the custom ; 



