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white cattle, we suppose bulls, with the black markings peculiar to the race now preserved in parks, also crests and arms which have red or black cattle. Whether white, red, or black, the crests and arms show sometimes an animal complete and sometimes the head only. Such crests and arms have a legendary origin. If those who bear the white bull won their right to bear it for some redoubtable deed when hunting the wild white bull (!), did the others who bear a black or red bull also win their right on the hunting field? If so, were the wild bulls of all colours? As will be seen from these disjointed notes, there are many lines of inquiry to be followed up in an attempt to trace the origin and history of the white cattle preserved in parks down to our own time. The threads are so many that I would appeal to those interested in inquiries affecting customs, superstitions, and tradi- tions to afford me the assistance of their specialised knowledge and studies ; and it is with this hope I venture to lay this outline of the information I am looking for before them.

R. Hedger Wallace. Sea View, Lower Largo, Fife.

LixcoLN Minster, Lincoln College Oxford, and the

Devil.

(Vol. ix., pp. 272, 364.)

The late Rector of Lincoln College in his edition of Pope's Satires and Epistles, to illustrate the line " Half that the dev'l o'erlooks from Lincoln town " (Hon, Epist., II., ii., 245), quotes Fuller's explanation ( Worthies, vol. ii., p. 6), " the ill aspects of malevolent spectators ... as the devil overlooked the cathedral of Lincoln, when first finished, with a lowe and tetrick counte- nance." Two other quotations will be found in the New Eng. Diet., s.v. "Devil," viz. : " 1562, J. Heywood, Frov. and Epigr. (1867), 75. Than wold ye looke ouer me, with stomake swolne, Like as the diuel lookt ouer Lincolne;" and " 1738, Swift, Polite Convers., 86. She looked at me, as the Devil look'd over Lin- coln." To these may be added a citation from Taylor, the "Water Poet" {Reliquary, vol. xviii., p. 200), who in 1639 rode from