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during the fair at the common ground of South- 

 ampton, and was told, that while it was there 

 debtors were free from arrest within the town. 



Anon. 



In returning my thanks to your correspondents 

 who have given instances of this custom, allow me 

 to add that a friend has called my attention to the 

 fact that Mattishall Gant, or fair, takes place in 

 Kogation or Gavg week, and probably takes its 

 name from the latter word. Forby says that 

 there are probably few instances of the use of this 

 word, and I am not aware of any other than the 

 one he gives, viz. Mattishall Gant. E. G. R. 



Popular Sayings. — The Sparrows at Lindholme 

 (Vol. vii., p. 234.). — The sparrows at Lindholme 

 have made themselves scarce here, under the fol- 

 lowing circumstances: — William of Lindholme 

 seems to have united in himself the characters of 

 hermit and wizard. AVhen a boy, his parents, on 

 going to Wroot Feast, hard by, left him to keep 

 the sparrows from the corn ; at which he was so 

 enraged that he took up an enormous stone, and 

 threw it at the house to which they were gone, but 

 from throwing it too high it fell on the other side. 

 After he had done this he went to the feast, and 

 when scolded for it, said he had fastened up all the 

 sparrows in the barn ; where they were found, on 

 the return home, all dead, except a few which were 

 turned white. (Vide Stonehouse's History of the 

 Isle of Axholme.') 



As for the " Doncaster Daggers " and " Hatfield 

 Rats," also inquired after, I have no information, 

 although those places are in the same neighbour- 

 hood. W. H. L. 



Effects of the Vox Regalis of the Queen See 

 (Vol. vii., p. 499.). — Dr. Bevan, than whom there 

 is probably no better authority on apiarian mat- 

 ters, discredits this statement of Huber. No other 

 naturalist appears to have witnessed these won- 

 derful effects. Dr. Bevan however states, that 

 when the queen is 



" Piping, prior to the issue of an after-swarm, the bees 

 that are near her remain still, with a slight inclination 

 of their heads, but whether impressed by fear or not 

 seems doubtful." — Bevan On the Honey Bee, p. 18. 



Cheverells. 

 Seneca and St. Paul (Vol. vii., p. 500.) 



" The fourteen letters of Seneca to Paul, whic/i are 

 printed in the old editions of Seneca, are apocryphal." — 

 Dr. W. Smith's Diet, of Mythology, &c. 



" Seneca, Opera, 1475, fol. The second part con- 

 tains only his letters, and begins with the correspondence 

 of St. Paul and Seneca." — Ebert's Bibl. Diet. 



B. H. C. 



Hurrah (Vol." vl., p. 54. ; Vol. vii., p. 595.). — 

 Wace's Chronicle of the Norman Conquest^ as it 



appears in Mr. Edgar Taylor's translation, pp. 21, 

 22., mentions the war-cries of the various knights 

 at the battle of Val des Dunes. Duke William 

 cries " Dex aie," and Raol Tesson " Tur aie ; " on 

 which there is a note that M. Pluquet reads "Thor 

 aide," which he considers may have been derived 

 from the ancient Northmen. Surely this is the 

 origin of our modern hurrah ; and if so, perhaps 

 the earliest mention of our English war-cry. 



J. F. M. 



Purlieu (Vol. vii., p. 477.). — The etymology of 

 this word which Dr. Johnson adopted is that which 

 many others have approved of The only other 

 derivation which appears to have been suggested 

 is from perambulatio. Blount, Law Diet, s. voc, 

 thus explains : 



" Purine or Purlieu (from the Fr. pur, i.e. purus, and 

 lieu, locus) is all that ground near any forest, which 

 being made forest by Henry II., Richard I., or King 

 John, were, by perambulation, granted by Henry III., 

 severed again from the same, and became purlue, i.e. 

 pure and free from the laws and ordinances of the forest. 

 Man wood, par. 2., For. Laws, cap. 20. ; see the statute 

 S3 Edw. I. Stat. 5. And the perambulation, whereby 

 the purlieu is deafForested, is called pourallee, i.e. peram- 

 bulatio. 4 Inst. fol. 303." 



(See also Lye, Cowel, Skinner, and especially 

 Minsha3us.) B. H. C. 



Bell Inscriptions (Vol. vi., p. 554.). — In Weever's 

 Ancient Funeial Monuments (London, 1631) are 

 the following inscriptions : 



*' En ego campana nunquam denuncio vana; 

 Laudo Deum verum, plebem voco, congrego clerum. 

 Defunctos plango, vivos voco, fulmina frango. 

 Vox men, vox vitas, voco vos ad sacra, venite, 

 Sanctos collaudo, tonitrus fugo, funera claudo." 



" Funera plango, fulgura frango, Sabbatha pango, 

 Excito lentos, dissipo ventos, paco cruentos." 



There is also an old inscription for a " holy water" 

 vessel : 



" Hujus aqufe tactus depelllt Demonis actus. 

 Asperget vos Deus cum omnibus Sanctis suis ad vitam 

 aeternam. 



Sex operantur aqua benedicta. 

 Cor mundat, Accidiam fugat, venalia tollit, 

 Auget opem, removetque hostem, phantasmata 

 pellit." 



At page 848. there is a beautiful specimen of an 

 old font in the church of East Winch, in the dio- 

 cese of Norwich. Clericus (D). 



Dublin. 



Quotation from Juveiwcl (Vol. vii., pp.166. 321.). 

 — My copy of this poet being unfortunately with- 

 out notes, I was not aware that there was authority 

 for " abest " in this passage ; but my argument 

 still remains much the same, as regards quoters 



