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 252 NOTES AND QUERIES. [io» s. iv. s«w. 23.1905. gibbet was erected was still standing in the neighbourhood of the present Gibbet Lane, and the axe was for a long time preserved in the house of the lord's bailiff (J. S. Fletcher's ' Picturesque York- shire ')• Parts of the irons which were used in the execution of the highwayman Spence Bronghton, on Attercliffe Common in 1792, are still preserved at Doddington Hall, near Lincoln. This was again in Oibbet Lane; and there was a Oibbet Lane near Saxilby, in Lincolnshire. The Halifax gibbet is now preserved in the museum of the Society of Antiquaries, Edinburgh. Mr. Hartshorne, in consequence of the raritjr of representations of gibbets, thought it desirable to mention examples in the works of Thomas Bewick, ' British Birds,'edit. 1832, vol. i. In a tail-piece to the account of the Alpine vulture, p. 53, a gibbet is shown in the distance ; and in five other tail-pieces gibbets are represented in the distance. Mr. Hartshorne distinguishes the (/allows, as the thing upon which men suffer, from the mbbet, the object on which they are set forth. Hence to 'i/'ii.: i a person by calling attention to delinquencies. J. HOLDEN MACMICHAEL. FRENCH REVOLUTION POTTERY (10th S. iv. 228).—See Catalogue of Musee Carnavalet (Ville de Paris), where there is a fine collec- tion of this well-known earthenware. There are enormous numbers of series of this pottery, for no other was in use in Revo- lutionary France. D. About the beginning of August last I saw in a curiosity-shop window at Christchurch, Bournemouth, close by the old Priory church, a small collection of similar plates with these revolutionary mottoes in French, and I remember wondering how they came to be for sale in such an old-world quiet corner of England. J. HOLDEN MACMICHAEL. [MR. A. R. BAYLKY and MR. R. PIEBPOINT also refer to the Musee Carnavalet.] J. H. CHRISTIE (10th S. iv. 189).—The duel between J. H. Christie and J. Scott took place on 16 February, 1821, in a field between "Chalk Farm" Tavern and Primrose Hill. Scott received a wound, from the effects of which he died on the following 3 March. The cause of the quarrel was a series of articles which appeared in The London Maga- zine, of which Scott was the avowed editor, discussing the conduct and management of Jilaekwooas Magazine, which its editor, J. Q. Lockhart, regarded as offensive to his feelings and injurious to his honour. In all the attendant circumstances relating to the quarrel Christie acted as the friend of Lock- hart. The duel, the evidence at the coroner's inquest, and the trial of Christie at the Old Bailey, when a verdict of "Not guilty" was returned, will be found described at length in 'The History of Duelling,' by J. G. Milligen (1841), ii. 244-52. T. N. BRUSHFIKLD, M.D. Salterton, Devon. This duel is noticed in Walford and Thorn- bury's 'Old and New London,' 1875 (i. 64), and is also chronicled in Haydn's 'Dictionary of Dates,' 1881 (Thimm, 'Bibliography of the Art of Fence,' 1891). W. C. B. A full report of the trial and evidence of the witnesses would be given in the ' Old Bailey Session Papers,' from 1730 to 1_834, in 116 vols., which may be consulted in the Corporation Library, Guildhall, E.G. EVERARD I IHMK COLEMAN. By far the best account of the whole circumstances of this duel was contributed by Mr. J. F. George to The Aberdeen Weekly Journal, 9 December, 1903. I once wrote an account of the affair to The Scots Observer. J. M. BULLOCH. MR. SOUTHAM will find a full report of the duel, the trial, and verdict in The Gentle- man's Magazine for March and April, 1821. The extracts would be too long for the pages of ' N. & Q.,' but should MR. SOUTHAM care to drop me a line, I should be very pleased to copy out and forward the story. HERBERT B. CLAYTON. 39, Renfrew Road, Lower Kennington Lane. An account of the duel will be found in ' The Field of Honor : being a Complete and Comprehensive History of Duelling in all Countries,' by Major Ben C. Truman (New York, Fords, Howard & Hulbert, 1884), ch. ix. 6161; and in W. Toone's 'Chronological istorian' (1826), ii. 668-9. ROBERT PIERPOINT. [See also Mr. Lucas's just issued ' Life of Charles Lamb,'ii. 35.] "THE SCREAMING SKULL" (10th S. ir. 107, 194).—MR. MARTIN, in referring to the "screaming skull" of Warbleton Priory, Sussex, asks if this be the only instance of a " screaming skull " known in England. In ray work on 'The Haunted Homes and Family Traditions of Great Britain' he will find some kindred legends, especially of the well-known "screaming skull" of Bettiscombe House, near Bridport, Dorset. Miss Garnett, accompanied by her father, Dr. Richard Garnett, visited and personally inspected the Bettiscombe skull in August, 1883, and