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feelings on passinn; it after nigbtfull. The tra- 

 dition was of course received by the intelligent as 

 a piece of superstitious folk-loi-e, and the story of 

 the "only honest miller" was regarded as a mere I 

 myth, imtil about twenty-five years ago, when a i 

 labourer employed in digging sand near the roots 

 of the scraggy oak tree, discovered a human 

 skeleton. This part of the history I can vouch 

 for, having seen, when a schoolboy, some of the 

 bones. I must not omit to mention that the 

 honest miller of Chalvington owned tlie remarkable 

 peculiarity of a " tot" or tuft of hair growing 

 in the palm of each hand ! 



Mark Antony Lowee. 



Armorial Bearings (Vol. iv., p. 58.) — The coat 

 of arms described by F. I. E. is given by Robson 

 and by Burke to the family of Kelley of Ter- 

 rington, co. Devon, and the crests are similar, but 

 I can find no authority for the coat in any work 

 relating to that county. The ancient family, Kelly 

 of Kelly, in Devon, bore a very different coat and 

 crest. There is no such place as Terrington in 

 that county, unless Torrington be meant, but no 

 family of note bearing the name of Kelley had pos- 

 sessions there. I conclude, therefore, that there 

 must be a mistake as to the county. S. S. S. 



"■Life of Cromweir (Vol. iv., p. 117.). — No 

 life of Cromwell was ever written by " one Kem- 

 her ;" there is a Life of Olioer Cromwell, Lord 

 Protector of the Commonwealth of England, Scot- 

 land, and Ireland, the second edition (London, 

 1725) of which, greatly enlarged from the first, is 

 now before me, and which has the autograph of 

 Malone, who has on the fly-leaf asserted it to have 

 been " written by Isaac Kimber, a Dissenting 

 minister, who was born at Vantage in Berkshire, 

 Dec. 1, 1692. His son, Edward Kimber, refers 

 to it as the work of his father, in a history of 

 England in ten volumes, which he published." 



Kimber's life is a much better one than Car- 

 lyle's ; but the best biography of that most extra- 

 ordinary man is by TliDUias Cromwell, published 

 some twenty or thirty years since, and of which 

 there was a second edition. J. Mx. 



Harris, Paiider in Water Colours (Vol. iii., 

 p. 329.). — In answer to the inquiry of T. C. AV., 

 relative to a Bible (Reeves, 1802) in the posses- 

 sion of his friend, I beg leave to state that the said 

 Bible was illustrated with original drawings by my 

 father, J. Harris of Walworth, who died seven- 

 teen years since, and that I am his only son sur- 

 viving him in his profession. Any further com- 

 munication relative to him I shall be most happy 

 to give on a personal interview. J. Harris. 



40. Sldmoutli Street. Regent Square, 

 Sept. 27. 1851. 



" Son of the Morning' (Vol. iv., p. 209.). —An 

 OLD Bengal Civilian is informed that, no matter 



whom Byron may have intended to designate by 

 the above glorious appellation, there is but One 

 to whom it properly belongs. If your correspon- 

 dent will consult the llOtli Psalm, he will find 

 David representing God the Father as thus ad- 

 dressing God the Son, the Lord Jesus Christ ; 

 '• The dew of Thy birth is of the womb of the 

 morning." G. L. S. 



Pemb. Coll. Oxon., Sept. 20. 1851. 



This seems to be an invocation to the personifi- 

 cation of Light, Lucifer, or <pw(r(fiopoi, the " son of 

 the morning," by which intellectual light is indi- 

 cated, through whose assistance we are enabled to 

 discover the true faith. 



The poet enters a caveat that the latter do not 

 act the part of an Iconoclast, as has too often been 

 her wont. At least this appears to me to be the 

 interpretation. 



E. I. U. S. Club. 



Grimsdyke or Orimesditch (Vol. iv., p. 192.). — 

 Your Querist Nauticus describes the vallum or 

 ditch called " Grimsdyke, or Grimesditch, or the 

 Devil's Ditch," running from Great Berkhamp- 

 stead, Hants, to Bradenham, Bucks, and then puts 

 two Queries. 



Nauticus assumes that this ditch had, at some 

 distant day, been an artificial earthwork; but at 

 the same time he points out that, " from its total 

 want of flank defence, it could hardly liold an 

 enemy in check for long ; and that it does not 

 seem to have been a military way." He asks, 

 " Are there other earthworks of the same name 

 (Grimsdyke) in England?" I find no trace of 

 any other earthwoi-ks of that name in England ; and 

 it may be very questionable whether this ditch be 

 of ancient earthwork, or of its original natural 

 formation. 



But there is, in Cheshire, a brook or rivulet in 

 its pristine state, called Grimsditch. This brook 

 or rivulet is one of the contributory streams of 

 Cheshire to tlie great rivers, the Mersey and the 

 Weaver; and is described by the author of iir«ng-'« 

 Vale Royal of England, or the County Palatine of 

 Chester illustrated, published in 1()56, as follows: 



" The Grimsditch comcth from the Hall of Grims- 

 ditch, by Preston, Daresbury, Keckwith, and so falleth 

 into the Marsey." 



Here then we have the name of a place which 

 gives the name of Grimsditch to the brook or rivu- 

 let; and it is, moreover, shown by the Coimty 

 History that the place (the hamlet or lands of 

 Grimsditch) has been in the possession of a 

 family of the name of Grimsditch from the time of 

 Henry III. 



From the words of the original grant of this 

 hamlet, by which Thomas Tuschet, in 10 Hen. III. 

 1226, grants to Hugo de Grimsditch " totam terram 

 deGrimsdich pertinentem ad villam de AViteleigh " 



