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closely allied. A regiment was raised for the English army in 1760, which was known as " The 103rd Volunteer Hunters," dis- banded in 1763 (Trimen, ' Regiments of the British Army ; 103 Foot '). A short time before the formation of the late Volunteer force, a suggestion was made in The Times, 27 April, 1859, to establish a corps composed of hunting men, " Volunteer Hunting Corps," after the model of " Hudson's Guides " and carried out. A. RHODES.
 * ' Jacob's Horse," but the project was not

EARL FERRERS (10 S. xi. 209, 335, 434). It is rather a gruesome reference to give, but in an old volume of the ' Newgate Calendar ' 1 am speaking of an edition which I have not seen for many years, in several volumes is a portrait of Earl Ferrers, accompanied by a memoir. George II. is reported to have said, when asked to alter the punishment from hanging to beheading, " No ; he has done the deed of the bad man, and he shall die the death of the bad man." His execution took place only a few weeks before the death of George II., which occurred on 25 Oct., 1760.

It may be worth noting that at the trial of Earl Ferrers the gentleman gaoler of the Tower stood with the axe on the left hand of the prisoner, with the edge turned from him. The Earl drove to Tyburn in his landau drawn by six horses, and the journey is said to have taken two hours and three- quarters. The body, after being dissected, was buried in a grave under old St. Pancras Church, twelve or fourteen feet deep. This information is chiefly taken from Burke's ' Celebrated Trials connected with the Aristocracy.'

Lord Ferrers gave his watch to Mr. Sheriff Paul Vaillant, who was a bookseller in London, and a friend told me that he had seen it in the possession of a descendant to whom it belonged, and who treasured it as an heirloom. JOHN PICKFORD, M.A.

Newbourne Rectory, Woodbridge.

" PUT - LOG " : " PUDDING " : BUILDING TERMS (10 S. xi. 328). A "put-log" or " put-lock " is a part of the scaffolding, one end inserted in the building, the other end roped to the scaffold. " Pudding " is an- other term for " puddling," and is connected with foundation work in building con- struction, where the foundations are to be laid in wet or loose ground. The puddling consists in ramming into a double founda- tion wall, or in a trench, clay or other material to keep out water and " running " THOS. RATCLTFFE.

"THOUGH LOST TO SIGHT," &c. (10 S. xi. 249, 317, 438). Pope's couplet,

Absent or dead, still let a friend be dear (A sigh the absent claims, the dead a tear),

is from 11. 13, 14 of his 'Epistle to Robert, Earl of Oxford and Earl Mortimer,' sent with Parnell's poems in 1721. In the same piece are the well-known lines beginning A Soul supreme in each hard instance try'd.

(Vol. vi. pp. 173, 174 in small 10-vol. ed. of rope's Works, 1757.)

EDWARD BENSLY. Aberystwyth.

MR. H. ANDERSON will find the lines he quotes from Pope in the ' Epistle to Robert, Earl of Oxford and Earl Mortimer,' 11. 13, 14.

R. A. POTTS.

For MR. ANDERSON'S quotation see Pope ' Moral Essays,' v. 13. It does not seem to be identical with the passage originally the subject of question, but rather its model. ' T. N.

At the last reference two lines are quoted from Pope. The 'Concordance' tells us that they are from Pope's ' Epistle to Robert, Earl of Oxford,' lines 13, 14.

WALTER W. SKEAT.

GLAMORGAN (10 S. xi. 306). " Glamorgan- shire " is an old error. The county is so named in Darton's ' County Atlas,' the date of which must be early in last century.

C. C. B.

MECHANICAL ROAD CARRIAGES (10 S. xi. 305, 374, 431). In this connexion reference should be made to a series of five illustrated papers on ' Early Mechanical Carriages,' by Mr. Rhys Jenkins, in The Antiquary for 1896 (vol. xxxii. pp. 232, 260, 293, 325, 357). G. L. APFERSON.

ETHELREDA, VISCOUNTESS TOWNSHEND (10 S. xi. 429). She is mentioned in the well- known ' Abbey of Kilkhampton,' p. 96. A search through the volumes of The Toivn and Country Magazine might repay the trouble. HORACE BLEACKLEY.

J. BEW, BOOKSELLER (10 S. xi. 188, 256, 416). 'Fanatical Conversion ; or, Methodism Displayed ' is the correct title of the satirical poem published by J. Bew in 1779. " Fan- tastical " was a misprint. M. A. M. M.

GERMAN LIFE (10 S. xi. 428). The title of J. K. Jerome's work dealing with Germany is 'Three Men on the Bummel,' 1900.

WILLIAM JAGGARD.