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 316 NOTES AND QUERIES. [10‘“ S.IV»0Cf-14.1905 was told that they were for hanging lights to on dark winter ni hts. In every case bricks or pieces of wood were suspended to keep the ropes in place over the pulleys. I venture to throw out the suggestion t at it was an old-time lamp- ost of this kind that General Booth saw. it will be noticed that “ on a. hill a few yards from the road ” is a likely enough position for a light. Carving the piece of wood used to keep the rope in place into the form of a ma.n’s head would easily suggest itself. W. R. B. PRIDEAUX. The gibbet which General Booth saw stands on the roadside between Elsdon and Cambo, at a place called Sting Cross, a wild and lonely spot in the northern uplands of Northumberland. The present gibbet is not old, but was erected by Sir Charles Trevelyan (father of the biographer of Macaulay) on the spot where stood “ Winter’s Stob.” This was the gibbet on which hung the body of William Winter, who was executed for murder at Newcastle on 10 August, 1792. The details of the story will be found in T/ze illofnt/ily Chronicle of Nort/1.-Country Lore and Legend, vol. i. pp. 106, 186. Winter had murdered an old woman, and after being hanged at Newcastle his body was suspended on the gibbet until through decomposition every vestige of it disa peared. Its place was supplied by a woodnen efli8Y» of which eventually only the head remained. The gibbet itself fell to decay, and, as I have remarked above, the present erection is modern. Even now it is an uncanny enou h sight ; but what must it have been to the so itary traveller a century( ago, when the decaying body and the crea in chains came suddenly within view just wxhen darkness was coming on 'I I have a photograph of Winter’s Stob, and also one of the Caxton gibbet, which I believe is still standing in Cambridgeshire. Both are at the disposal of your corre- spondent. W. E. VVILSON. Hawick. On 1 August, 1832, Wm. Jobling was tried at Durham Assizes for the murder of Nicholas Fairless, a magistrate, and sentenced to be hanged and his body hung in chains near the scene of the murder, which took place on a road leading from South Shields to Jarrow, round Jarrow Slake, a large expanse of mud f1ats,dry at low tide,stretching from the Tyne. A Eortion of these mud flats was taken to ma e the Tyne Dock of the North-Eastern Rail wa% Company-the most important dock on the yne. The gibbet was set up on the slake at a little distance from the road, and the “stob” remained until the dock was made, somewhere about the middle of the last century. The cage in which the body was encased, made of hoop-iron. is now in the collection of the Society of Antirgaaries of Newcastle, in their museum at the lackgate in that city. For an account of the trial and gibbeting see Sykes’s ‘ Local Records,’ vol. ii. p. 388. R. B-R. The date in my reply should have been 1847, D015 1849. A. N. AUTHOR or QUOTATION WANTED (10“* S. iv. 249).-The lines “ She never found fault with you” are from Mrs. E. B. Browning's poem ‘ My Kate.’ BLANCHE HULTON. Ducnsss or CANNIZARO (10*“ S. iv. 265).- The Duke of Cannizaro lived in the mansion on the west side of Wimbledon Common which had been occupied previously l?' Henry Dundas, first Viscount Melville. t was afterwards called Cannizaro House. Mr. Bartlett, in his ‘History of Wimbledon] p. 164, writes: “The Duke of Cannizaro, originally Count St. Antonio, was a refugee. who married a rich English heiress, and became immortalized in one of the ‘ Ingoldsby Legends?" W. P. Courmnrr. If E. M. will make a search among the marriages given in ‘The Annual Re °ster’ or The Gentlema/n’s Magazine, in or begre 1831, he will perhaps get the name of the lady in question. EDWARD SMITH. Putney. “TINTERERO” (10“' S. iv. 267).-Judgingylg its form. I think this is a Spanish w _, though I cannot find it in any Spanish dic- tionary. It appears to be derived from tinta., ink, and may be a popular name for those huge cuttle~Iish which emit a black fluid like ink when in dangler of being taken. Compare the term “ink-iis ” applied to them by English sailors. J As. PLATT, J un. I would suggest that there is no such vor!! in French, or in any other of the continental languages, and that it is simply a mispnnt for the Spanish word tintorera. The dictionary of the Spanish Acadeg gives tintorera. as the female of tiburon, wb it describes as a marine fish, a species of 508 or wolf, but of monstrous size, reaching 2| 20 ft. in length, and of corresponding bulk. It gives some further particu ars, and ai it is most voracious of human flesh. _ In Velazquez’s ‘ Spanish Dictionary ’ nbmgs is given as the equivalent of shark ;_and'l9 the ‘Imperial English Dictionary' 1161110 13