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was made to his proceeding ; but if he said " keow," he was hustled back as a convicted Abolitionist. Meanwhile, the Kansans tied a bear on their side of the river, and welcomed those who called it a " bear," but those to whom i\i was a " bar " were hurried back to Missouri to join their pro-slavery friends.

M. C. L. New York.

Coulton's ' Chaucer and his England ' seems to give another parallel on p. 90 ; this quotes ' Chronicles of London ' (ed. Kingsford, p. 15) as to the Wat Tyler riot in 1381, as follows :

"And many Flemings lost their head at that time, and namely [specially] they that could not say ' Bread and Cheese,' but 'Case and Erode.' "

ROCKINGHAM.

Boston, Mass.

"BOBBERY" (10 S. xi. 187) is an example of the capture and retention of a word essen- tial to the trade of the comic versifier. Not only does it fit " robbery," but, as in the case .of the Hon. F. Cadogan, also the excellent word which that man of fashion did not venture to pronounce.

This young rascal, not caring For Dilke, or for Baring, Or The Time*, who all kicked up a bobbery, Said, "The Executive knew 'Twas a regular do."

(The proper word would have been Jobbery !)

B. A. E.

POTTER'S BAR : SEVEN KINGS (10 S. xi. 89, 154). A place nearer Hatfield is called Bell Bar, and it seems fair to assume that in both cases " bar " was a gate or toll-bar. The prefix Potter is a not uncommon one Potter's Crouch, Potter Street, and so forth ; but whether these places mark the sites of ancient pottery kilns it is impossible to state. In this particular instance it may be that an estate of some two hundred acres in the adjoining parish of North Mimms, called Potterells, may have given its name, in an abbreviated form, to the bar.

But will not PROF. SKEAT give us the benefit of his wide knowledge, and settle the matter beyond dispute ?

W. B. GERISH. Bishop's Stortford.

Some sixty years ago the freshwater stream which runs close by Seven Kings was known to old inhabitants and their predecessors as Seven Kings's Watering. Tradition said that at the time of the Heptarchy, seven kings, after hunting in Hainault Forest, tarried here to refresh

themselves and their steeds. This name is corroborated as far back as 1670 by Thomas Cartwright, Vicar of Barking, and subse- quently Bishop of Chester ; for in his original tithe-book of the lands in Barking parish he makes one entry of this particular spot, which he describes as Kings's Watering, and in another he describes the same spot as Seven Kings. Both entries apply to the farm which he calls Crackbones.

W. W. GLENNY. Barking.

INDEX SAYING (10 S. x. 469 ; xi. 76, 194). Was any writer followed by The Athenaeum in the paradoxical remark that any one might write an " author's " book, but that the author alone could if he ever would construct its index ? D.

MACATJLAY'S ' FREDERIC THE GREAT ' : PELLETIER (10 S. xi. 127). "Young Cre- billon" (Crebillon fils, 1707-77) and Colle. with Piron, Gallet, and others, were members of the " Gaveau," a reunion of writers and chansonniers of the epoch. This evidently does not answer PROF. REIMANN'S question, but may possibly afford some clue.

F. A. W.

Paris.

" FALSEHOOD OF EXTREMES " (10 S. xi. 189).

Turning to scorn with lips divine The falsehood of extremes

are the last lines in Tennyson's seven-stanza poem which begins

Of old sat Freedom on the heights (p. 64 in the one vol. ed. of 1887).

Some interesting remarks of Aubrey do Vere on this and the immediately preceding piece (" You ask me, why, tho' ill at ease ") are to be found in Lord Tennyson's ' Memoir' of his father (vol. i. Appendix, p. 506).

EDWARD BENSLY. Aberystwyth. [Many other correspondents thanked for replies. ]

' THE MONSTROUS REGIMEN OF WOMEN ' (10 S. xi. 188). John Knox was the author of this vigorous and uncompromising dia- tribe, of which the full title is 'The First Blast of the Trumpet against the Monstrous Regiment of Women.' Both in title and text " regiment " is the form used by the author in connoting regimen or government. Throughout the disquisition, as one of his early biographers avers, Knox illustrates at once his erudition and his eloquence ; and it has to be said also that, after the manner characteristic of him, he is straight