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moved from Glasgow, where her position in life 

 gave her access to the best society in that city. 

 It was to these estimable persons that I was in- 

 debted for a knowledge of the Criticism on Qrays 

 Elegy, and from them I learned that it was the 

 veritable production of Professor Conway, with 

 whom both informants were well acquainted, and 

 that this fact was never doubted. 



I have in my library two copies, one (Svo.) 

 privately printed, and apparently between 1780 

 and 1790. The other, the reprint by Ballantyne, 

 who, I rather think, passed the pages through the 

 press. The London published edition I never 

 saw. J. M. 



Scallop Shells (2"'^ S. iv. 150.)— With reference 

 to Pecten Jacobseus (not P. Jacobsea, as written 

 by Mr. Buckton), I can adduce a note from that 

 charming work on conchology of the late Dr. 

 Johnston, published by Van Voorst, 1850 : 



" It is not easj- to account for the origin of the shell as 

 a badge worn by pilgrims ; but it decidedly refers to much 

 earlier Oriental customs than tlie journeys of Christians 

 to the H0I3' Land, and its history will probably be found 

 in the mythology of Eastern nations." — Clarke's Travels, 

 ii. 538., 4to. 



" The abbey of St. James in Reading gave azure, three 

 scallop shells, or. Here I know not what secret sympathy 

 there is between St. James and shells ; but sure I am that 

 all pilgrims that visit St. James of Compostella in Spain 

 (the paramount shrine of that saint) returned thence ob- 

 siti conchis, 'all beshelled about ' on their clothes, as a re- 

 ligious donative there bestowed upon them. — Fuller, Ch. 

 Hist. ii. 228. 



In Woodward's Mollusca there is a note from 

 Moule's Heraldry of Fish as follows : 



" When the monks of the ninth century converted the 

 fisherman of Gennesaret into a Spanish warrior they as- 

 signed him the scallop-shell for his ' cognizance.' " 



F. S. 



Churchdown. 



St. James the Greater is represented as a pil- 

 grim with a staff, and with scallop shells on his 

 cloak and hat, in token of his great zeal in passing 

 into Spain to preach the Gospel, It is simply an 

 emblematic and conventional mode adopted by 

 artists to represent this Apostle, but has no con- 

 nexion with any part of his history, save his cross- 

 ing the sea, and making his way into Spain. 



F. C. H. 



The Devil and Church Building (2"'' S. iv. 25. 

 144. &c.) — The builders of the parish church at 

 Kidderminster endeavoured to erect it on the brow 

 of the rising ground on the Bewdley side of the 

 river Stour ; but their day's work was always de- 

 stroyed in the night. As, therefore, it was very 

 evident that the devil interfered with their designs, 

 they left him in full possession of his territory, and 

 removed the site of their church to the rising 

 ground on the opposite side of the Stour. They 

 there completed their work without farther inter- 



ference, and named the scene of their failure the 

 " Curst Field," which is now corrupted into 

 •♦Cusfield." 



A somewhat similar legend is told of the Galilee 

 at Durham Cathedral, with the exchange of St. 

 Cuthbert for the devil. 



" began to erect a New Work at the East Angle 



of the said Cathedral, for which several Pillars of Marble 

 were brought from beyond Sea ; and the Work being ad- 

 vanced to a small Height, began, through great Clifts 

 visible therein, to fall down ; whence it manifestly ap- 

 peared unacceptable to God and holy St. Cuthbert, espe- 

 cially for the Access Women were to have so near his 

 Feretory ; Whereupon that Work was left off, and a new 

 one begun and soon finished, at the West End of the said 

 Church; into which it was lawful for Women to enter, 

 there being before no holy Place where they might have 

 Admittance for their Comfort and Consolation. It is 

 called the Galiley, by Pieason, as some think, of the 

 Translation thereof; being once begun, and afterwards 

 removed." — Sanderson's Antiquities of Durham Abbey, 

 p. 45. 



Cuthbert Bbde, B.A. 



The Devil looking over Lincoln (2°^ S. ill. 308.) 

 — Among the curiosities of Lincoln College, Ox- 

 ford, enumerated by the Rev. John Pointer, in 

 his Oxoniensis Academia, p. 53., Is — 



" The Image of the Devil, that stood many Years on 

 the Top of this College (or else that over Lincoln Cathe- 

 dral), gave Occasion for that Proverb, To look on one as 

 the Devil looks over Lincoln." — 1749. 



Cuthbert Bebb, B.A. 



Whatever may be the origin of this proverb, I 

 send you an application of It, which is too good to 

 be lost. Some fifty years since a house adjoining 

 the garden of the Deanery at Hereford, with a 

 window overlooking it, was occupied by a Mrs. 

 Lincoln as a ladles' boarding school- A reverend 

 doctor, son-in-law of the then Dean, resided in the 

 Deanery, and felt a strong objection to be gazed 

 upon by so many bright eyes. He required, in- 

 stead of requesting, that the window should be 

 blocked up. As the doctor grew peremptory, the 

 old lady grew angry, and at last she closed the 

 correspondence by saying that there was a well- 

 known proverb, the devil oveHooks Lincoln, but 

 in this case it was reversed, for Lincoln overlooks 

 the devil. Effigy. 



^^ Huntington Divertisement" (2"* S. iv. 31.) — 

 In answer to the query touching this play, of which 

 L'Estrange was only the licenser, " the scene " 

 is placed in " Hinching-brook-Grove-Fields and 

 Meadows : " it might be conjectured that the au- 

 thor, S. M., might be a Montague — Hinchingbrook 

 being the family seat of the Montagues, Earls of 

 Sandwich. The author in his address to the 

 " nobility and the most generous gentry, that are 

 pleased to grace this annual festivity with their 

 presence," commences thus : " Our due resent- 

 ment of your kinde presence at this our annual 

 convention animated us to a resolution for some 



