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When the tower was completed the child was kept 
in close confinement within its walls; but a viper 
having unfortunately been carried into the castle 
in a faggot of wood, the dream was fulfilled, and 
the child perished. A similar story is told of the 
tower called “ Cook’s Folly,” on the banks of the 
Avon, near Bristol. Joun Pavin Puinuirs. 
Haverfordwest. 
Minster Lovel (2™! S, i. 230.) — Andrews in his 
History of Great Britain (1794-5), vol. ii. p. 180. 
note 17., after mentioning the report of Sir Tho- 
mas Broughton’s escape from the battle, and living 
incognito among his tenants at Witherstack, in 
Westmoreland, states : 
“A more singular fate is said to have attended the 
Lord Lovel. On the demolition of a very old house (for- 
merly the patrimony of the Lovels), about a century ago, 
there was found in a small chamber (so secret that the 
farmer who inhabited the house knew it not) the remains 
of an immured being; and such remnants of barrels and 
jars as appeared to justify the idea of that chamber hav- 
ing been used as a place of refuge for the lord of the 
* mansion, and that, after consuming the stores which he 
had provided in case of a disastrous event, he died, un-~ 
known even to his servants and tenants, As the author 
cannot call to mind the topographical work in which this 
eccentric incident is recorded, it might perhaps have been 
better omitted. Lord Verulam, however, sanctions the 
tradition by an intimation of Lovel’s living long after in 
a cellar or vault.” 
W. H. W. T. 
Somerset House. 
Consecrations (2"4 S. 1.314.) —The Rev. Walter 
Kerr Hamilton, D.D., Merton College, Oxford, 
was consecrated Bishop of Salisbury, in the chapel 
of Lambeth Palace, on Sunday, May 14, 1854, by 
the Archbishop of Canterbury and the Bishops of 
Oxford, Winchester, Chichester, and New Zealand. 
I regret Ihave no minute of the consecration 
of the Bishop of Chester. He succeeded the pre- 
sent Archbishop of Canterbury about March or 
April, 1848. Patonce. 
Felo-de-se (2°° S. i. 313.— The forfeiture of 
chattels in the case of felo-de-se is an ancient 
right of the crown, earlier than the introduction 
of the feudal principle, which seems to be in- 
sinuated in the term Felonia. It belonged to the 
Anglo-Saxon kings, and an example of it occurs 
in a yet unpublished charter in my possession. I 
think it is a grant of the manor of Battersea, made 
to Westminster. Of course this passed with all the 
other regalia, as Zreasuretrove, Wreck, &c. &e., 
with the grant of a manor. I. M. K. 
Kentish Proverb (2° §. i. 331.) — The saying 
referred to by J. Y. appears to be a modification 
of a couplet frequently quoted by the peasantry 
in Norfolk : 
“Tf the snake could hear and the slow-worm could see 
Neither man nor beast should e’er go free,” - 
The slow-worm (Anguis fragilis) or blind- 
worm is believed to be venomous, and conse- 
quently a war of extermination is waged against 
it, although its sting is as fabulous as its blindness. 
G. Sexton, M.D., F.R.G.S. 
Kennington Cross. 
A similar proverb to the one quoted by J. Y. 
exists in the county of Pembroke ; but as it libels 
the character of that harmless reptile, the blind or 
slow-worm, the persecution which it experiences 
at the hand of man may in some degree be ac- 
counted for; our proverb runs thus : 
“Tf the adder could hear, and the blind-worm could see, 
No poor man’s children could go their way free.” 
Joun Pavin Pairs. 
Haverfordwest. 
“ The eagle suffers litile birds to sing,” §¢. (2°°S. ; 
i. 353.) —I beg to inform Unepa is to be found 
in Titus Andronicus, Act LV. se. 4. H.C. K. 
“ Sir” as a Clerical Prefix (2"4 S, i. 234.) — 
For a further illustration of this old custom, see 
the comedy All for Money, printed in 1578, 
wherein is this dialogue : 
“ Sinne. I pray thee what,is thy name? Art thou 
either vicar or parson? 
“ Sir Laurence. Sir Laurence Livingles, without either 
living or mansion. 
“ Sinne. In faith, Sir Laurence, I think you must play 
the carter, or else you must be a hedge priest, beggers to 
marie. 
“ All for Money. Do not fear, my priest, for wanting of 
any living; my chaplin thou shalt be, for here I do thee 
make. A benefice thou shalt have, none shall from thee 
it take. 
“ Sir Laurence. Now God rewarde your lordship, in 
heven may you it finde.” 
e 
Jno. D. Auicrort. 
The Right Man in the Right Place (2™ S. 
i. 294.) — It is said that Chaucer in his day had 
heard of an architect in whose mouth these words 
were, and who, when he quitted the globe, took 
to politics ; hence he wrote: 
“ Ever sith that the world * began, 
Who s0 liste looke, and in story rede 
He shall aye finde that the trewe man 
Was put abacke, whereas the falshede 
Y furthered was.” 
The Complaint of the Black Knight. 
: W. D. 
Systems of Shori-hand (2° §. i, 152. 263.303.) — 
The following is the substance of a note on the 
subject made from Earle’s “ Microcosmography.” 
Short-hand writing was first introduced into 
this country by Peter Bales, who, in 1590, pub- 
* Some copies read “ globe.” 
