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NOTES AND QUEEIES. 



[2nd s. N« 91., Sept. 26. '57. 



Blood that will not wash out (1" & 2"^ S. pas- 

 sim.^ — 



"At Barmborough, a village between Doncaster and 

 Barnsley in Yorkshire, there is a tradition extant of a 

 serious conflict that once took place between a man and 

 a wild cat. The inhabitants say that the fight com- 

 menced in an adjacent wood, and that it continued from 

 thence into the porch of the church. It ended fatally to 

 both combatants, for each died of the wounds received. 

 A rude painting in the church commemorates the event : 

 and (as in many similar traditions) the accidentally 

 natural red tinge of the stones has been construed into 

 bloody stains, which all the properties of soap and water 

 have not been able to efface." — Bingley's Annual Bio- 

 graphy. 



K. W. Hackwood. 



Dring's List (2"'* S. iv. 151.) — The original 

 papers for these compositions are in the State 

 Paper Office, and are very interesting from the 

 petitions, &c., of the persons compounding. A 

 very useful work might be produced by arranging 

 the names in counties with biographical remarks, 

 &c. Such a work has more than once been con- 

 templated. The names of persons and places are 

 most incorrectly printed in the list. 



W. H. Lammin. 



NOTES ON BOOKS, ETC. 



Among the most interesting objects to be found in the 

 Isle of Man are the inscribed stones, which were formerly 

 to be seen there in very considerable numbers, though 

 those numbers have been reduced partly by direct theft, 

 partly by their exposure to the influences of a very moist 

 climate, and partly by the more destructive influence of 

 mischievous and ignorant persons. Of the principal of 

 those now existing, a very excellent account has just 

 been published in a small quarto volume, entitled The 

 Runic and other Monumental Remains of the Isle of Man, by 

 the Rev. J. G. Gumming, M.A., Head Master of the Gram- 

 mar School, Lichfield. The author states that his primary 

 object has been to exhibit in its rude character the orna- 

 mentation of the Scandinavian Grosses in the Isle of Man, 

 and that probably the proper designation of the book 

 would be Reduced Rubbings of Runic Monuments. Ger- 

 tainly one glance at the illustrations will show how 

 earnest have been Mr. Cumming's endeavours to give 

 truthful representations of the objects he has undertaken 

 to describe. The same excellent spirit is displayed in 

 the letter-press, and the whole work is one well calcu- 

 lated to please archjeological students, now a very exten- 

 sive class. Let us at the same time direct their attention 

 to a small unpretending volume, also by Mr. Gumming, 

 in which he tells us The Story of Rushen Castle and 

 Rushen Abbey in the Isle of Man. Mr. Gumming had, in 

 these ancient remains, materials which a less judicious 

 antiquary would have swollen into a heavy lumbering 

 quarto ; but, with excellent judgment, Mr. Gumming has 

 concentrated instead of diluting his materials, and pro- 

 duced a little volume which will be read with interest 

 by all, but especially by those who visit the Gastle 

 and Abbey which Mr. Gumming has so pleasantly de- 

 scribed. 



While on the subject of antiquities we must call atten- 

 tion to a work for which all lovers of such objects are in- 

 debted to the Royal Irish Academy. We allude to the 



admirably drawn up, and recently published. Descriptive 

 Catalogue of the Antiquities of Stone, Earthen, and Vege- 

 table Materials in the Museum of the Royal Irish Academy, 

 by W. R. Wilde, Secretary of Foreign Correspondence to 

 the Academy. The work is one most creditable to the 

 liberality of the scientific body who undertook the cost of 

 its publication, and to the learning and zeal of their 

 Foreign Secretary, by whom the task of classifying and 

 arranging the Museum, and preparing the Gatalogue, has 

 been gratuitously undertaken. The book is profusely 

 illustrated, and will be found an indispensable handbook 

 to the keepers of the various local museums now scat- 

 tered throughout the country, and most useful to all the 

 secretaries and working-men of our now numerous Ar- 

 chffiological Societies. 



Talking of which Archaeological Societies, we may an- 

 nounce that another has been added to the list ; for, as 

 will be seen by our advertising columns. The Kent Ar- 

 chceological Society has been duly formed, with the Mar- 

 quess Gamden for President, and a list of Vice-Presidents 

 well calculated to ensure that the important objects for 

 which the Society has been established will be zealously 

 and judiciously worked out. This being now the case, 

 the good taste and right feeling of the Surrey Society 

 will, we are sure, lead them at once to abandon their pro- 

 jected incursion into Kent, and to content themselves 

 with a generous rivalry as to whether the Kent or Surrey 

 antiquaries shall best accomplish the important task they 

 have undertaken. 



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An- Old Sudscribeb. Tennyson's allusion is to Margaret Roper and 

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