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aspbaltura m boiling turpentine is a very good stain 

 to dye deal to imitate oak. This must be applied 

 when cold with a brush to the timbers : allowed to 

 get dry, then size and varnish it. 



The dye, however, which I always use, is a com- 

 pound of raw umber and a small portion of blue- 

 black diluted to the shade required with strong 

 size in solution : this must be used hot. It is 

 evident that this will not require tlie preparatory 

 sizing before the application of the varnish. Com- 

 mon coal, ground in water, and used the same as 

 any other colour, I have found to be an excellent 

 stain for roof timbers. W. H. CctLiNGroRD. 



Cromhall, Gloucestershire. 



Boger Outlawe (Vol. vii., p. 332.). — Of this 

 person, who was Lord Deputy of Ireland for many 

 years of the reign of Edward III., some par- 

 ticulars will be found in the notes to the Proceed- 

 ings against Dame Alice Kyteler, edited for the 

 Camden Society by Mr. Wright, p. 49. There is 

 evidently more than one misreading in the date 

 of the extract communicated by the Rev. H. T. 

 EiLAcoMBE : " die pasche in viiij mense anno 

 B. Etii post ultimum conquestum hibernia quarto." 

 I cannot interpret " in viiij mense ; " but the rest 

 should evidently be " anno Regis Edwardi tertii 

 post ultimum conquestum Hibernia; quarto." 



May I ask whether this " last conquest of Ire- 

 land" has been noticed by palaeographers in other 

 instances ? Anon. 



Tennyson (Vol. vii., p. 84.). — Will not the fol- 

 lowing account by Lord Bacon, in his History of 

 Henry VII., of the marriage by proxy between 

 Maximilian, King of the Bomans, and the Princess 

 Anne of Bi-itany, illustrate for your correspondent 

 H. J. J. his last quotation from Tennyson ? 



" She to me 

 Was proxy-wedded with a bootless calf, 

 At eight years old." 



" Maximilian so far forth prevailed, both with the 

 young lady and with the principal persons about her, 

 as the marriage was consummated by proxy, with a 

 ceremony at that time in these parts new. For she 

 was not only publicly contracted, but stated, as a 

 bride, and solemnly bedded ; and after she was laid, 

 there came in Maximilian's ambassador with letters of 

 procuration, and in' the presence of sundry noble per- 

 sonages, men and women, put his leg, stripped na:ked 

 to the knee, between the espousal sheets," &c. 



Ttbo. 



Dublin. 



Old Fogie (Vol. vii., p. 354.). — Me. Keight- 

 XEY supposes the term of old fogie, as applied to 

 " mature old warriors," to be " of pure Irish 

 origin," or " rather of Dublin birth." In this he 

 is certainly mistaken, for the word fogie, as ap- 

 plied to old soldiers, is as well known, and was 

 once as familiarly used in Scotland, as it ever was 



or could have been in Ireland. The race was 

 extinct before my day, but I understand that for- 

 merly the permanent garrisons of Edinburgh, and 

 I believe also of Stirling, Castles, consisted of 

 veteran companies ; and I remember, when I first 

 came to Edinburgh, of people who had seen them, 

 still talking of " the Castle fogies." 



Dr. Jamieson, in his Scottish Dictionai'y, defines 

 the word "foggie or fogie," to be first, "an in- 

 valid, or garrison soldier," secondly, " a person 

 advanced In life ; " and derives It from " Su.G. 

 fogde, formerly one who had the charge of a 

 garrison." 



This seems to me a more satisfactory derivation 

 than Mr. Keightlby's, who considers it a cor- 

 ruption or diminutive of old folks. J. L. 

 • City Chambers, Edinburgh. 



Errata corrigenda. — Vol. vii., p. 356. col. 2., 

 near the bottom, for Sir William Jardine, read 

 Sir Henry Jardine. Sir William and Sir Henry 

 were very different persons, though the former 

 was probably the more generally known. Sir H. 

 was the author of the report referred to. 



Vol. vii., p. 441. col. 1. line 15, for Lenier read 

 Ferrier. J. L. 



City Chambers, Edinburgh. 



Anecdote of Dutens (Vol. vii., pp. 26. 390.). — 



" Lord Lansdowne at breakfast mentioned of Dutens^ 

 who wrote 3Iem.oires d'un Voyageur qui se repose, and 

 was a great antiquarian, that, on his describing once 

 his good luck in having found (what he fancied to be) 

 a tooth of Scipio's in Italy, some one asked him what 

 he had done with it, upon which he answered briskly : 

 ' What have I done with it ? Le voici,' pointing to his. 

 mouth ; where he had made it supplemental to a lost 

 one of his own." — Moore's Journal, vol. iv. p. 271. 



E. II. A. 



Gloves at Fairs (Vol. vii., p. 455.). — In Hone's- 

 Every-day Book (vol. ii. p. 1059.) is the follow- 

 ing paragraph : — 



" Exeter Lammas Fair. — The charter for this fair 

 is perpetuated by a glove of immense size, stuffed and 

 carried through the city on a very long pole, decorated 

 with ribbons, flowers, &c., and attended with music, 

 parish beadles, and the mobility. It is afterwardS^ 

 placed on the top of the Guildhall, and then the fair 

 commences : on the taking down of the glove, the fair 

 terminates. — P. " 



As to Crolditch, alias Lammas Fair, at Exeter, 

 see Izacke's Remarkable Antiquities of the City of 

 Exeter, pp. 19, 20. C. H. Coopek. 



Cambridge. 



At Macclesfield, in Cheshire, a large glove was, 

 perhaps is, always suspended from the outside of 

 the window of the town-hall during the holding of 

 a fair ; and. as long as the glove was so suspended, 

 every one was free from arrest within the town- 



