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of the type more securely in the chases. This would account for some of the lines being slightly shorter the difference never exceeds the sixteenth of an inch in the pamphlet than in the original issue. The small typo- graphical variations that I have noted are not of real importance. I may add that since I wrote my paper I have noticed several of the same description in other books. For instance, in the third part of 'Hudibras,' which was first published in 1678, on p. 249 the numbering is perfect in the earlier -copies, whereas in the later ones the 9 is very badly battered.

Dr. Haney also remarks on the fact that there is no reference, so far as he knows, to the pamphlet of 'Poems' in the letters of ^Coleridge or elsewhere. If any one had gone to the expense of having the poems reset after the type of the ' Poetical Register ' had been distributed, we should probably have .heard of it. W. F. PRIDEAUX.

"BtJGMAN." In reference to replies, 9 th S. xi. 338, 411, s.v. 'Bagman,' the following is of interest. I may add that the present firm of "H. Tiffin & Son, bug and beetle destroyers," advertises as "established 100 .years " :

" The Abbe" Gregoire affords another striking proof of the errors to which foreigners are liable when they decide on the language and customs of another country. The Abbe, in the excess of his philanthropy, to show to what dishonourable offices human nature is degraded, acquaints us that at London he observed a signboard proclaiming the master as tueur des punaises de sa majeste! Bug-destroyer to his majesty! This is no doubt the honest Mr. Tiffin, in the Strand; and the idea which must have occurred to the good Abb6 was, that his majesty's bugs were hunted by the said destroyer and taken by hand and thus human nature was degraded." D'Israeli's 'Curiosities of Literature,' twelfth edition, 1841, p. 117.

ADRIAN WHEELEE.

KIRKLINGTON BARROW. (See ante, p. 219.) In the kindly notice you give of Yorkshire Notes and Queries at the above reference there is an error which perhaps you will allow me to point out. The barrow was stated (in Yorkshire Notes and Queries for August) to have been opened in August, 1903, whereas you say it " took place about ten years ago." This is a mistake.

In connexion with the opening of the Harrow there is one point that has not yet been made public. My friend Mr. H. B. M'Call, author of the ' Wandesford Family of Kirklington,' who discovered the barrow and superintended the excavations, subse- quently pieced together the different por- tions of the cinerary urns found therein,

and, having had a suitable case made as a receptacle, deposited them therein along with other interesting relics found in the barrow, and presented the case and contents to the village club at Kirklington, having first written and affixed to each article a description and the date when found. This laudable work may well be followed by others. CHAS. F. FORSHAW, LLD.,

Editor Yorkshire Notes and Queries. Bradford.

ROBIN HOOD'S STRIDE. This curious pile of rocks may be found not far from Stanton- in-the-Peak. I can find no mention of the hill which it crowns having .been noted as being a prehistoric fort, but on the north- west side there remain very clear traces of a double rampart and ditch, while a number of circular foundations suggest the remains of round stone huts such as may be found in great numbers on the hills above Rothbury in Northumberland.

Not far from Robin Hood's Stride is the " Castle Ring," a splendid example of a British fort with a ring of hut foundations close to and following the line of the inner rampart. Probably there was some con- nexion between the two. There is a good spring of water in the "Castle Ring," but I could find no sign of a spring at the 4 'Stride," which may have been occupied by a small garrison as a look-out post with a line of retreat to the more important works on the neighbouring hill. If there is any connexion between these forts and the stone circle in Nine Stones Close hard by, I am inclined to refer them to a very high anti- quity ; but more probably the circle was there before the forts were constructed.

FRED. G. ACKERLEY.

JOHN LAURENCE, WRITER ON GARDENING. The following notes have been put together too late for the forthcoming volume of errata in the 'D.N.B,' The 'D.N.B.' makes Laurence "a native of Stamford Barnard, Northamp- tonshire." He was -a native of St. Martin, Stamford Baron, of which parish his father was vicar. The 'D.N.B/ states that he "entered at Clare Hall, Cambridge, 20 May, 1665, and graduated B.A. in 1668." These dates are too early by twenty years. The admission book of Clare shows that he was admitted 20 May, 1685, and he graduated B.A. in 1688, M.A. in 1692 (cf. 'Graduati Cantabrigienses, 1659-1823'). The 'D.N.B/ gives a list of his "chief works, apart from sermons," which leaves out his ' Apology for Dr. Clarke.' This was published anony- mously, but Laurence's authorship is ex-