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servants. There were the rat-killer, the mole - taker, yeoman arras - worker, stewer of herbs, &c., but one does not find a " cock - crower." One of the officers of the " Verge," however, besides the Clerk and the Coroner, was the " Cock and Cryer," whose board wages per annum were 201. (See John Chamberlayne's ' Magnse Britannise Notitia,' 1723, pp. 539 and 547.)

J. HOLDEN MACMlCHAEL.

IRISH FOLK-LORE (10 th S. iii. 204). See 7 th S. xii. 306, 376 ; 9 th S. x. 328, 434.

JOHN T. PAGE. West Haddon, Northamptonshire.

An English Catholic priest recently told me that on one occasion a very ignorant Irishwoman was instructing her young son, in his presence, to do what the priest told him, and that she wound up her directions by adding, " If you don't, his reverence will turn you into a green stone." ASTARTE.

An Irish Canadian lady to whom I showed the paragraph on this subject gave me the following legend. A priest called upon a troublesome parishioner for his tithes late one evening. The parishioner was in bed, and, annoyed at being routed out of his slumber, put his head out of window and let loose some blasphemous language. At this the priest made the sign of the cross, where- upon a great pair of horns grew out from the sides of the blasphemer's head, so that it could not be drawn back through the window. Of course, the tithes were promptly paid as the price of release. AVERN PARDOE.

Legislative Library, Toronto.

MARTELLO TOAVERS (10 th S. i. 285, 356, 411, 477; iii. 193, 252). MR. PAGE is correct in his surmise. The old gun of 1706 had been built, muzzle upward, in the centre pier of the tower to form a pivot for the central- traversing platform of the new gun, as was often the case. H. P. L.

FRANCIS DOUCE (10 th S. iii. 223). There is a fine medallion portrait of this distinguished antiquary in Dibdin's 'Reminiscences of a Literary Life,' vol. i. p. 312. Underneath is inscribed "Mrs. D. Turner del. W. H. Worthington sc. Francis Douce, Esq., F.S.A. Born 1762. Died 1834."

JOHN PICKFORD, M.A.

Newbourne Rectory, Woodbridge.

Francis Gosling, mentioned by MR. GOOD- WIN, was a bookseller in Fleet Street and a member of the Stationers' Company, after- wards a banker in the same house, and alder- man ; Elizabeth Miller Rivington was his sister

William Henry Douce practised at 1, Fen- church Buildings, and the Henry Rivington who joined him in partnership was a son of Elizabeth Miller Rivington, whose great- grandsons continue the practice in the same< louse. S. H.

SPRATT FAMILY (10 th S. iii. 227). A similar question appeared at 6 th S. iii. 368 ; but after an interval of twenty-four years, no reply has appeared. The Rev. Devereux Spratt,. in his diary, stated that on his return from' captivity he stayed with his kinsman, the minister at Greenwich, whom your corre- pondent considers to have been the father off the Bishop of Rochester.

EVERARD HOME COLEMAN. 71, Brecknock Road.

I cannot answer the above query, but can only refer AYEAHR to the works of men of ability and research. They give information which intimates that the paternity of Bishop Spratt has not been solved. See 'The Re- gisters of Westminster Abbey,' by J. L. Chester (Harleian Society), note, p. 276> and ' Alumni Oxonienses,' by Joseph Foster. JOHN RADCLIFFE.

DR. JAMES BARRY (10 th S. iii. 228). There- is an interesting, though incomplete, account of Dr. Barry in ' Fifty Years of my Life,' by the Earl of Albemarle (grandfather of the- present earl). There were also several letters on the subject in The British Medical Journal! about fifteen years ago. I cannot remember the date. From these it would appear to- have been the opinion of some members of the profession that Dr. Barry was a herma- phrodite. J. FOSTER PALMER.

8, Royal Avenue, S.W.

In a novel called 'A Modern Sphinx,' by Lieut.-Col. E. Rogers, published by Maxwell & Co., Milton House, Shoe Lane, E.G., in 1881, the author introduces Dr. Barry by the- name of Fitzjames (]). The novel has an- introduction, giving many particulars of his- (her) life, and also contains two portraits.

I heard many particulars of the doctor from my father, to whose regiment, when in St. Helena, he was M.O. He is said to have- fought more than one duel. The officers of tea tried to make him (her) drunk, but he touched nothing but milk and vegetables.

R. W. F.

HASAVELL FAMILY (10 th S. iii. 225). There- is no doubt about mo.sk in the concluding, extract : that, or rather mesh, is the common pronunciation of marsh in the South, where it has the technical meaning of a valley of water meadows with a broad weir-damraed)