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was “ evidently the river Po, though the Adige, not 
_the Po, runs through Milan;” and it is observed 
that it could not have occasioned Dr. Jamieson 
much trouble to conjecture as he did that “ Mirry- 
land toune” was a corruption of “Merry Lin- 
colne,” and that, in fact, in 1783, Pinkerton 
commenced his version of the ballad thus — 
“ The bonnie boys o’ merry Lincoln ;” 
and it is added, very truly, that with all his haste 
and petulance, Pinkerton’s critical acumen was 
far from inconsiderable. Now, there appears to 
me to haye been a very simple solution of the 
above words, so simple that perhaps it was beneath 
the critical acumen of the said commentators. 
My note on the subject is, that Mirry-land toune 
means nothing more than Miry-, Muddy-land 
-Town, a designation that its situation certainly 
entitles it to; and Pa’ is certainly not the Po, but 
an abbreviated form of Pall, i.e. a place to play 
Ba’ or ball in, of which we have a well-known 
instance in Pall Mall. 
Since writing the above, I recollect that Romsey, 
in Hampshire, has been designated ‘“ Romsey-in- 
the-Mud.” J.R.E. 
Richard Greene of Lichfield. —H.'T.E. is in- 
formed that there is a medal or token (not difficult 
to obtain) of this zealous antiquary. Obv. his 
bust, in the costume of the period; legend, 
“ Richard Greene, collector of the Lichfield Mu- 
seum, died June 4. 1793, aged 77.” Rev. a Gothic 
window, apparently; legend, “West Porch of 
Lichfield Cathedral, 1800.” BLN. 
The Lobster in the Medal of the Pretender. — 
The ‘‘ Notes” by your correspondents, Mr. Edward 
Hawkins and Mr. J.B. Yates, relative to this medal, 
are very curious and interesting, and render it 
probable that the device of the Lobster has a reli- 
gious rather than a political allusion. But it strikes 
us that the double introduction of this remarkable 
emblem bas a more important signification than 
the mere insidious and creeping characteristics of 
Jesuitism. The lines beneath the curious print in 
Brandt’s Stultifera Navis throw no light on the 
meaning of the Lobster. We think the difficulty 
yet remains unsolved. B.N. 
Marescautia, —Your correspondent “D. S.” 
who asks (in No.6.) for information upon the 
word “ Marescautia,” may consult Du Cange with 
advantage, s. v. “ Marescallus;” the “u,” which 
perhaps was your correspondent’s difficulty, being 
often written for “1,” upon phonotypic principles. 
‘It was anciently the practice to apportion the re- 
venues of royal and great monastic establishments 
to some specific branch of the expenditure; and 
as the profits of certain manors, &c., are often de- 
scribed as belonging to the “Infirmaria,” the 
“ Camera Abbatis,” &c., so, in the instance referred 
to by “D.5§,” the lands at Cumpton and Little 
Ongar were apportioned to the support of the 
royal stable and farriery. J.B. 
Macaulay's “ Young Levite.”— 'The following 
is an additional illustration of Mr. Macaulay’s 
sketch, from Bishop Hall's Byting Satyres, 1599 :— 
“ A gentle squire would gladly entertaine 
Into his house some Trencher-chapelaine ; 
Some willing man, that might instruct his sons, 
And that would stand to geod conditions, 
First, that he lie upon the truckle-bed, 
While his young maister lieth o’er his head ; 
Second, that he do, upon no default, 
Never to sit above the salt ; 
Third, that he never change his trencher twise ; 
Fourth, that he use all common courtesies, 
Sit bare at meales, and one half rise and wait; 
Last, that he never his yong maister beat, 
But he must aske his mother to define 
How manie jerks she would his breech should line ; 
All these observ’d, he could contented be, 
To give five markes, and winter liverie.” 
R. 
Travelling in England. —I forward you a note 
on this subject, extracted, some years ago, from 
a very quaintly-written History of England, with- 
out title-page, but apparently written in the early 
part of the reign of George the First. It is 
among the remarkable events of the reign of | 
James the First : — 
“A.D. 1621, July the 17th, Bernart Calvart of | 
Andover, rode from Saint George’s Church in South- 
wark to Dover, from thence passed by Barge to 
Callais in France, and from thence returned back to 
Saint George’s Church the same day. This his jour- 
ney he performed betwixt the hours of three in the 
morning and eight in the afternoon.” 
This appears to me such a surprising feat, that I 
think some of your correspondents may be in- 
terested in it; and also may be able to append 
farther information. Davin STEVENS. 
Warning to Watchmen. — The following Warn- 
ing, addressed to the Watchmen of London on the 
occasion of a great fire, which destroyed nearly 
100 houses in the neighbourhood of Exchange 
Alley, Birchin Lane, the back of George Yard, &c., 
among which were Garraway’s, the Jerusalem 
Coffee House, George and Vulture, Tom’s, &c. &c., 
is extracted from the Zondon Magazine for 
1748, and is very characteristic of the then state 
of the police of the metropolis : — 
“ Mr. Touchit’s Warning to the Watchmen of London. 
From the Westminster Journal, April 2nd, No. 331. 
(1748). 
« Whereas it has been represented to me, Thomas 
Touchit, Watchman Extraordinary of the City of 
Westminster, that the Watchmen of London were very 
remiss during the dreadful Fire on J’riday morning, 
March 25, in not giving timely Notice of that Calamity 
over their several Beats, whereby the Friends of many 
