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sufficient height. AVhen the whole is dry enough, 

 it is pared smooth with a tool something like a 

 spade. A cob wall must have a high stone foun- 

 dation, and be protected from the weather at top. 

 The workmen declare that " a cob wall will last 

 for ever, if it has a good hat and a good pair of 

 boots." P. H. 



Visit of an Angel (2'«> S. iv. 384.) — The visit 

 of the angel to Samuel Wallas is given in full in 

 that curious, and I believe somewhat rare, old 

 folio, Turner's Hintory of Divine Providences^ 

 chap. ii. p. 9., in the section that treats " of the 

 appearance of good angels." The book, as the 

 title-page states, was begun by Mr. Pool, author 

 of the Synopsis Criticonim, and was completed by 

 Wm. Turner, M.A., Vicar of Walberton, Sussex. 

 It is divided into three parts; the first and largest 

 is occupied with accounts of all sorts of super- 

 natural events, including a history of the New 

 England witches ; the second part treats of the 

 "Wonders of Nature;" and the third is devoted 

 to the curiosities of art. My copy was " printed 

 for John Dunton, at the Raven in Jewin Street, 

 1697." On the title-page is the autograph of the 

 Rev. Samuel Madden, D.D,, who was either Pro- 

 vost or Vice-Provost of Trinity College, Dublin, 

 to which, I believe, he bequeathed a considerable 

 portion of his library. Francis Rob. Davies. 



Moyglas Mawr. 



This story is given by Ennemoser in his History 

 of Magic, but the apparition was surely not taken 

 for an angel. The visitor was evidently the " W^an- 

 dering Jew." W. J. Bebnuabd Smith. 



Temple. 



Rood Loft Staircases (2^"^ S. iv. 99. 409.) — I 

 beg to correct some inaccuracies in Mr. Macken- 

 zie Walcott's list of rood lofts and rood stairs. 

 There is no rood loft remaining at Hinxton ; nor 

 at Littleport, nor at Cherry Hinton, Cambridge- 

 shire. Nor is there one at Hawstead in Sufiblk ; 

 the original sacring bell, however, remains, and is 

 hung over the rood screen. K. K. K. 



St. John's College, Cambridge. 



A staircase exists in the south pillar of the 

 chancel arch in Girton Church, Cambridge, and 

 in the north pillar of the chancel arch in Bellean 

 Church, Lincolnshire. M. W. C, B.A. 



Alnwick. 



Inedited Verses by Cowper (2°'* S. iv. 259. 375.) 

 — Tour correspondent P. H. F. (p. 375.) admits 

 that " these verses do not read like Cowper's ; " 

 but doubts whether they should be regarded as 

 tbe compilation of an indifferent plagiary. With- 

 out going farther into the question, let your 

 readers compare the so-called " Verses by Cow- 

 per" with the hymn beginning with "Jesus, I my 

 cross have taken," and judge for tkemselves. 



P. H. F. says that I am mistaken in attributing 

 this hymn to James Montgomery. "It is not," 

 he says, " in Part v. of the Chi'istian Psalmist, 

 which comprises the original hymns;" and he 

 states that, in the Index, the letter G marks tlie 

 author. In reply, I beg to say — speaking on the 

 authority of three editions of the Christian Psalmist 

 now before me ^ that in neither of them does the 

 Index mark G, as the author of that or of any 

 other hymn : all of them attach the letter M as 

 indicating the author of this hymn ; and at the 

 head of each Index, is prefixed the following inti- 

 mation : — 



" The Hymns marked M, are the original compositions 

 of the Editor. The authors of those which are not 

 marked, he has not been able to ascertain." 



I conclude, therefore, that I am not mistaken 

 in assigning the authorship of the hymn in ques- 

 tion to James Montgomery. X. A. X. 



The hymn beginning, " Jesus, I my cross have 

 taken," is neither written by Montgomery nor by 

 Graham, but by Lyte. Your correspondents will 

 find it in Lyte's Poems., chiefly Religious (Nisbet, 

 1833), p. 41. 



My edition of Montgomery's Psalmist (the 5th 

 Glasgow, 1828,) contains it ; and in the Index it- 

 is marked M, to indicate that it is the composi- 

 tion of the editor. This is evidently, Ixowever, a 

 printer's error, or an oversight of the e<litor : for 

 he does not classify it in Part V. with his original 

 hymns, nor has he included it in his Original 

 Hymns., published in 1853 (Longman). On the 

 other hand, it is distinctly claimed by Lyte. 



H. A. 



Canonbury. 



Arched Instep (2"'» S. iv. 289.) — The idea ex- 

 pressed by Currer Bell is not local. It is a com- 

 mon notion that a high instep is a sign of gentle 

 blood: but whether on any better foundation 

 than the similar one as to a diminutive hand, I 

 do not pretend to say. The reference to slavery 

 in the passage quoted may also be traced to the 

 general impression that negro slaves are flat- 

 footed. Anatomists may settle that point. 



M. H. R. 



This is one of Lady Hester Stanhope's eastern 

 notions. Who ever heard of an Englishman of 

 any county boasting that his family had not been 

 slaves for 300 years ? The difficulty would be to 

 convince him that slavery existed in England as 

 long as it legally did. P. P. 



Triforium, Derivation of (2"* S. iv. 269. 320.) 

 — It appears to me that your correspondent F. 

 Phillott, in his able and ingenious reply to this 

 inquiry, has overlooked a very simple etymology. 

 The Italian verb traforare, " to pierce through," 

 might not improbably give rise to the term ; es- 

 pecially when we regju-d tUe mode ift wbkb the 



