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Robert Cawood, Clerk of the Pipe, and Thomas Smith to refound the [brotherhood connected with the church of St. Botolph without Aldersgate] to the honour of the Holy Trinity."

Concerning the celebrated portrait of Mary, Queen of Scots, in the possession of Blairs College, the following sentence occurs in the description given by the secretaries on the occasion of the Tercentenary Exhibition at Peterborough in 1887 :

"It is very probable that this portrait may have been painted by Amyas Cawood for Jane Kennedy and Elizabeth Curie after their removal to France. The portrait of the decapitated head at Abbotsford is signed Amyas Cawood, and he may have painted this portrait from a drawing made in Queen Mary's lifetime."

JOHN T. PAGE.

West Haddon, Northamptonshire.

THE CHILTERN HUNDREDS (10 th S. ii. 441). A very interesting article upon these appeared in the November issue of the World and his Wife, contributed by Mr. Yoxall, M.P.

W. CURZON YEO.

BIRTH-MARKS (10 th S. -i. 362, 430, 493). See note U to ' Redgauntlet.' Is it known to whom Scott refers in this note 1

JOHN B. WAINE WRIGHT.

BERWICK : STEPS OF GRACE (10 th S. ii. 426). In the history of the town and guild of Berwick-on-Tweed, by John Scott, reference is made to the "Steps of Grace," among the bounds or lands belonging to the freemen.

Lamberton Toll is at the boundaries of the parish with the liberties of Berwick, and here many marriages were celebrated, as at Gretna Green. At the Scottish side of the bridge which crosses the Tweed at Cold- stream, the boundary line there between England and Scotland, it was quite a common thing for similar unions to take place. In an old edition of * Chambers's Gazetteer of Scot- land ' it is stated :

"Coldstream enjoys part of that matrimonial trade which has become so notorious at Gretna Green. The person keeping the chief inn shows, with some pride, the room in which Lord Chan- cellor Brougham submitted to hymeneal bonds." And a foot-note adds :

"It is a remarkable circumstance that three Lord Chancellors of England, out of four in succession, were married in this clandestine manner. We need scarcely mention that the other guilty persons were Erskine and Eldon."

J. LINDSAY HILSON. Jedburgh Public Library.

I well remember the marriages that used to take place at Lamberton Toll in 1853. .The bridge across the Tweed between Coldstream and Cornhill was the resort of young people

at fair time who wanted a hurried and cheap marriage. ALFRED F. CURWEN.

Steps of Grace is the name of a farmhouse near Berwick-on-Tweed. Lamberton Toll Bar was the Gretna Green of the Eastern Border. There is an article, with illustrations of it, in Monthly Chronicle of North-Country Lore and Legend, 1888, p. 320.

W. E. WILSON.

Hawick.

CAPE BAR MEN (10 th S. ii. 346, 397). Is it possible that Lord St. Vincent meant capstan bar men 2 " Capbar " is an obsolete form for "capstan bar." The men who- worked at these bars did probably not belong to the seafaring aristocracy.

C. THIEME.

CHILDREN AT EXECUTIONS (10 th S. ii. 346,. 454). I have heard the present courteous owner of Aldcliffe Hall, on the banks of the Lune, near here (Edward Bousfield Dawson, Esq., J.P.), describe being taken out as a boy from the Royal Grammar School (removed from near the church in 1851) to see criminals executed at the Castle hard by.

T. CANN HUGHES, M.A., F.S.A.

Lancaster.

I remember many years ago an old friend of mine, who died at the age of ninety,, describing to me how, when he was a boy at the old Grammar School, Sheffield, the master gave all the boys a holiday, and took them, in procession to see Spence Broughton gib- beted on Attercliffe Common, 6 February,. 1792. Spence Broughton was executed at York for robbing the postboy who was carrying the mail- bag between Sheffield and Rotherham. It was a general holiday in Sheffield the day that Broughton was gib- beted. CHARLES GREEN.

VERSE TRANSLATIONS OF MOLIERE (10 th S. ii. 448). The six adaptations from Moliere printed in " Morley's Universal Library " are practically all in prose, although in Van- brugh's 'The Mistake' ( l Le Depit Amour- eux') and Wycherley's 'The Plain Dealer' (' Le Misanthrope ') the characters occasion- ally break into verse under the influence of strong emotion. In Fielding's 'The Miser' ('L'Avare') and Cibber's 'The Non- Juror' ('Le Tartufe') a couplet sometimes occurs. Of course songs are inserted in all the plays where needed. A. R. BAYLEY.

AINSTY (10 th S. ii. 25, 97, 455). ST. SWITHIN is referred to Coventry, Dorking, Hiltonr (Dorset), Hindon (Wilts), South Molton, Thurcaston, and Buntingford. The prefix.