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a covered piazza, in which stood those four curi- 
ous bronze tables, or nails, which are now in front 
of the Exchange. In the Itinerary of the old 
Bristolian, William Wyrcestre, the Tolzey is 
called the Tholsylle. If T. E. R. is acquainted 
with Bristol, he will remember the Tolzey Bank, 
which stood opposite the Council House, and had 
on its notes an engraving of Bristol High Cross, 
which was placed at the meeting of the four 
streets, Wine, Corn, High, and Broad Streets. 
F. C. H. (Bristoliensis.) 
Derwentwater Family (2° S. i. 153.) — The 
only child of the Lord Derwentwater, executed 
for rebellion in 1715, married Lord Petre ; from 
her the present lord is lineally descended, and is 
his heir and representative, and possesses the 
clothes in which he was executed. The estates 
were given to Greenwich Hospital. Beak. 
The Great Case of Tithes (24 S. i. 13.) — 
Justice Pearson was a great opponent, not to say 
persecutor, of the Quakers, who began to make a 
noise in England about the middle of the seven- 
teenth century. 
Nicolson & Burn, in their History of Cumber- 
land and Westmorland (vol.i. p. 536.), give an 
amusing examination of the celebrated James 
Nayler before the bench of magistrates, assembled 
in petty sessions at Appleby, a.p. 1652 ; in which 
Justice Pearson figures as a strenuous advocate 
for the payment of tithes: ‘“‘and yet,” say the 
historians above-mentioned “ (to shew how catch- 
ing is enthusiasm), this same Justice Pearson 
afterwards-turned Quaker, and writ a book against 
tithes.” Joun oO’ THE Forp. 
Malta. 
Instinct (2°! §, i. 84. 137.) — Your correspond- 
ent Hermes says, “ he must bea very learned, or 
yery bold man, who would venture to give a de- 
finition of instinct.” Paley, who, without adding 
the adjective very, was a bold and learned man, 
in his chapter on instinct, defines that faculty to 
be a “propensity prior to experience, and indepen- 
dent of instruction ;” which, probably, after all that 
has been written on the subject, is as happy and 
condensed a definition of it as has ever been given. 
That animals, as well as men, have reasoning 
as well as instinctive powers can scarcely be 
doubted. For example, a monkey in the Zoolo- 
gical Gardens will loop a straw to draw a nut 
within his reach, if placed beyond the stretch of 
his arm. ‘This cannot be called instinct, but an 
obvious reasoning faculty. So also the anecdote 
‘told by Darwin, in his Zoonomia, who witnessed a 
wasp, pursuing its flight with a fly in its grasp, 
suddenly alight on the gravel walk in the garden; 
and, after sawing off the fly’s wings, immediately 
continue its journey. This again was an equally 
obyious instance of a reasoning power. 
The infant instinctively turns its mouth to the 
mother’s breast ; and the man instinctively raises 
his arm, if threatened with a blow. Man, in his 
presumption, wishes to monopolise all the reason- 
ing powers; and I have been in company with 
otherwise intelligent men, who have considered it 
almost profane to imagine the Creator has given 
reasoning powers to any other animals but them- 
selves. R. W. 
Sussex Place, Regent’s Park. 
“ Clint” (1% S. xii. 406. ; 274 S. 1. 139.)—There 
is in this parish, Cossey, near Norwich, a Clints 
Gate, at the end of a Clints Lane; and I pre- 
sume that the hill, or long sloping ground at 
the end of which it stands, was formerly called 
the Clint Hill, like those at Diss. Like them, it 
is a sandy eminence, sloping down to the marshy 
ground and the river Wensum. The German 
word Klinse, like Mr. Hauriwetv’s Clint, signi- 
fies a gap or crevice. F, C. H. 
Execution of Putrick Redmond (2° 8, i. 53.) — 
In the account given by a correspondent of “N. 
& Q.” of the resuscitation of this criminal, after 
being hung for some time, the fact is noticed that 
he “went to the playhouse-door the night of his 
execution, to return Mr. Glover thanks, and put 
the whole audience in terror and consternation.” 
It is said, moreover, that Pat never forgot the 
player's kindness ; and for many a year continued 
to pester him for relief, on the ground that— 
“ Sure, his honour had brought him to life again, 
and had therefore the best right to support him.” 
G. 
“A pear year,” &¢c. (1* S. xii. 260.; 2°79 S. i. 84.) 
— These proverbs have long been recorded in 
my note-book. The second, doubtlessly, refers 
to the prevalence of autumnal cholera in years 
when plums are plentiful. Such proverbs are of 
much antiquity, as shown by the following in- 
stances from Halliwell (Archaic, §c., Dict., v. v. 
QuerTeE and QvEeR QUALLE) : 
1, “ That sere shalbe litulle qwete, 
And plenté shalbe of appuls grete.” 
MS. Cantab, Ff. v. 48. f. 75. 
2. “ That xere whete shalbe over alle; 
Ther shalle mony childur over qualle.” 
MS. Cantab, Ff. v. 48. f. 77. 
T cannot help thinking that this Cambridge MS. 
must contain something more to the same effect. 
Perhaps some correspondent there would examine 
Ff, vy. 48., and report its contents to “ N. & Q.” 
E.G. R. 
William Clapperton (2S. i, 113.)— William 
Clapperton was many years in the old respectable 
bank of Sir William Forbes & Co., and afterwards 
a teacher of the French and Italian languages, 
Edinburgh. He died about 1845. J.8 
