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-enough to send Jack yards high in any direction. THOS. RATCLIFFE.

Worksop.

In Warwickshire over twenty years ago Spring-heeled Jack became a terror in lonely country districts. On dark nights a youth, in ghostly disguise of mask and long white sheet, secreted himself behind hedges abut- ting on the highway near churchyards. His shoes were fitted with powerful and noiseless springs, enabling him to leap hedgerows with ease in case of pursuit. On the approach of a lonely wayfarer the " ghost " suddenly appeared. After several women and children had been nearly shocked to death a hunt for the culprit was organized. He was eventually captured, and found to be the son of a local coal-merchant, a youth not overburdened with common sense.

In Berkshire, some time before this, a similar foolhardy escapade cost a relative of mine her sanity "for life through shock.

WM. JAGGAKD.

SlNDBAD THE SAILOR: MONKEYS AND

COCOA-NUTS (10 S. vi. 209, 256, 312; vii. 271). One classic instance of the story occurs in ' The Swiss Family Kobinson,' of which book I can, alas ! only now find a copy edited, and, perhaps to the thinking of some folk improved, by William H. G. Kingston. In chap. ii. Fritz was so much provoked by the gestures of a party of monkeys at the top of some trees that he raised his gun.

"'Stay!' cried I; 'never take the life of any animal needlessly. A live monkey up in that tree is of more use than a dozen dead ones at our feet, as I will show you.' Saying this, I gathered a handful of small stones, and threw them up towards the apes. The stones did not go near them, but, influenced by their instinctive mania for imitation, they instantly seized all the cocoa-nuts within their reach, and sent a perfect hail of them down upon us."

ST. S WITHIN.

" CHEVESEL " = PILLOW (10 S. vii. 268). This is probably a form of the French chevet, which means bolster. With regard to the embroidered collar, both have to do with the neck, and probably find a common origin in the Latin cervix. E. E. STREET.

' THE KINGDOM'S INTELLIGENCER ' (10 S. vii. 148, 238, 270). The Parliamentary Intelligencer was issued in 1659. No. 1 dates from 19-26 December, and the periodical continued under the manage- ment of Marchamont Nedham until the issue of the sixteenth number, 9-16 April, 1660. About this time his services as a

writer of news were dispensed with. The latest issue that I have seen of this paper is No. 53, 24-31 Dec., 1660. The Kingdomes Intelligencer succeeded.

The Newes was issued on Thursdays, No. 1 appearing on 3 Sept., and the number- ing continued until No. 18, 31 Dec., 1663. The following issue was called No. 2, and appeared on Thursday, 7 Jan., 1663/4, being succeeded by No. 4, on Thursday, 14 Jan. The paper continued until No. 93, 16 Nov., 1665.

The first issue of The Intelligencer was called No. 2, and appeared on Monday, 7 Sept., the numbering continuing until No. 18, 28 Dec., 1663. The succeeding issue was on Monday, 4 Jan., 1663/4, and called No. 1. No. 3 appeared 11 Jan., and so on until 2 Dec., 1665.

There may have been later issues of The Newes and The Intelligencer.

MERCURIUS.

There is considerable probability that The Kingdom's Intelligencer became after 24 Aug., 1663, The Intelligencer, which was published alternately with The Newes (vide Chalmers's ' Life of Ruddiman,' p. 422). The Hope CoUection at the Bodleian has only a single issue of the first named, but of its presumed successor there is a short run. I quote from the catalogue of this collection published in 1865 :

"29. The Intelligencer, published for the Satisfac- tion and Information of the People: No. 1, Monday, Au<*. 31, 1663, continued weekly; No. xviu., Dec. 28.

"30 The News; No. 1, Thursday, Sept. 3, 1663; No xviii., Dec. 31. Continued alternately with The Intelligencer, Nos. i. to cii. inclusive, Ibb4, and Nos. i. to xcv., Nov. 18, 1665 ; 4to.

" The Intelligencer and The Newes were printed by Sir Roger L'Estrange, in defence of the Govern- ment, against the Mercumus Pubhcu*. They were continued to Nov., 1665, on the 7th of which month The Oxford Gazette began to be published, &c.

Has not Chalmers in the note referred to by W. J. C. (ante, p. 148) named this paper, prefixing "Weekly" to indicate its peri- odicity. In the same manner it is possible that Hugo Arnot has, by the confusion of titles, been led to make the statement that The Kingdom's Intelligencer "subsisted at least seven years."

There was The Kingdom's Weekly Intelh- qencer, first issued 20-27 Dec., 1642.

ALECK ABRAHAMS.

39, Hillmarton Road, N.

WILLIAM TALMAN, ARCHITECT : HAMPTON COURT PALACE (10 S. vii. 288). C think there is very little doubt that William Talman acted as Wren's representative (or,