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very month the 28th clay of which terminated his ex- 

 istence and saved the lives of millions. I was confined 

 •with fifty-thr^e innocent individuals (whose fate I was to 

 share), doomed to suffer on a scaffold, and expected every 

 hour the mandate of that tribunal which was at once the 

 accuser, the judge, and I may add, the executioner; 

 which assumed the forms of justice; but to be acquitted 

 by which was more degrading than to die, in such a mo- 

 ment, had been painful." 



K. Ingms. 



Archbishop Abhot (P' S. xli. 74.) — I believe 

 tlie Rev. Wm. Gilpin, vicar of Boldre, had some- 

 thing to do with the authorship of the work in- 

 quired after by your correspondent G., viz. T'h7-ee 

 Dialogues on the Amusements of Clergymen, 2nd 

 edition, 1797. J^- Inglis. 



Translation of Oessners Worhs (P' S. xii. 

 383.) — The translation of Gessner's Worhs, pub- 

 lished at Liverpool in 1802, was by Mrs. Law- 

 rence, author of Recolleclions of Mrs. Hemans 

 and other works. Mrs. Lawrence is the sister of 

 the late General Sir Charles D'Aguilar, and, I 

 think, is still living. R. Inglis. 



Portrait of George III. (2"^ S. iii. 447.) — I am 

 much obliged by C. L.'s communication. ^ The 

 portrait in oil, which he saw at Hamburg, is evi- 

 dently the original (or a copy of the) portrait 

 from which the engraving in my possession was 

 taken. The blindness and mental alienation con- 

 stitute the "other peculiarities" which I hinted 

 at in my query. I ought to have mentioned that 

 the print is 10| X 8 inches. It is strange that 

 such a portrait should be the work of an inferior 

 hand. The engraving is not so ; and I may add 

 that, notwithstanding the physical infirmities de- 

 lineated with such apparent truthfulness, the old 

 King is represented as having a finer head and 

 nobler features than in any other portrait of him 

 that I have seen. W. W. W. 



Tiverton. 



''My dog and /" (2"'^ S. iii. 509.) — These 

 verses are taken from an ancient song in the 

 Gloucestershire dialect, which is still sung at the 

 anniversary dinners of the Gloucestershire Society 

 in London. The entire song, in extenso, is given in 

 the Hon, Grantley Berkeley's Historical Novel, 

 Berkeley Castle, vol. iii. p. 1 60, The novelist, with 

 what may be not unfairly called poetical license, 

 gives this song as sung before a baronial battle be- 

 tween the retainers of the Marquis of Berkeley and 

 those of Lord Lisle, in which the latter was killed, 

 in 1469, This song, however, though ancient, 

 cannot, if all the verses were written at the same 

 time, be of so early a date as 1469, as the verse 

 which follows " My dog and I " begins, — 

 " When I ha' dree sixpences under my thumb." 



Now, I believe that there were no sixpences 

 before those of 1551, issued by King Edward VL 



The song was probably written in the reign of 

 Queen Elizabeth, in whose reign sixpences were 

 common, as is quite manifest from the number of 

 her sixpences met with now. F. A. Cabbington. 



Ogbourne St. George. 



" Think what a woman should be — she was that'' 

 (2"'* S. iii. 507.) — In the Venus and Adonis of 

 Shakspeare is this verse, which has a line some- • 

 what parallel or coinciding to the above : 



" Round hoof d, short jointed, fetlocks shag and long, 

 Broad chest, full eye, small head, and nostril wide, 

 High crest, short ears, straight legs, and passing strong, 



Thin mane, thick tail, broad buttock, tender hide : 

 Look what a horse should have, he did not lack, 

 Save a proud rider on so pro'ud a back." 



H. J. Gatjntlett. 



Banks and his wonderful Horse (2"^ S. iii. 391.) 

 — Your correspondent H. T, Rilet will, I think, 

 inquire in vain for any particulars of the " trial 

 and execution " of either of the above culprits ; 

 although, as the affair is stated to have taken 

 place at Rome, one would think that " the archives 

 of the Roman see," so lightly spoken of, would, 

 supposing them attainable, be the best possible 

 authority. The accuracy of the statement has 

 always been doubted, and Mr, Halliwell has now 

 set the question at rest. If your correspondent 

 will refer to that gentleman's noble folio edition 

 of Shakspeare (in the notes to Love's Labours Lost) 

 he will find that Banks was a thriving vintner in 

 the city of London many years after the date of 

 the supposed burning at Rome. L. A. B. W. 



Colour (2"d S. iii, 513.) — Would Mh, E. S. 

 Taylor be so good as to say whether Weale, in 

 his Papers, gives any authority of ancient date 

 for his assertion that " colours were very early 

 adopted as symbols." I should be especially 

 thankful for references. Of course I know all 

 Durandus has said. As to there being any "con- 

 ventional " adoption of certain colours by medieval 

 artists and painters, I totally deny it : the very 

 contrary is, In my opinion, an undoubted fact. 

 (Vide Ecclesiologist, Nos. 117, 118, and 119.) 



J. C. J. 



Orts (P* S. xii. 55.) —Besides the remains of 

 victuals, this word is used in Forfarshire to de- 

 signate the light corn blown aside by the thrash- 

 ing and winnowing machines. Stufhuhn. 



Trailing Pikes (2"-! S. Iii. 448,)— In the " Illus- 

 trations of the Pikeman's Exercise," of the time of 

 the civil wars, given by Capt, Grose In his Mil. 

 Ant. (vol. I. p. 356. pi, 4. fig. 29), the pikeman 

 trayles his pike ; he holds it with his right hand 

 just below the blade, resting the hand on his right 

 hip ; the residue of the pike being straight behind 

 j him, with the butt on the ground, Capt, Grose 

 gives, in the same volume, engravings of the ex- 



