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were frequently decorated with elaborate ornaments cornices, garlands of flowers in high relief, &c. At the cross-roads at Green- ford Green, near Harrow, is a post box of this description on the top of which are painted the points of the compass. I do not think that this style of decoration is very common.

Old post boxes are usually taller and smaller in diameter than the modern variety. R. L. MOBETON.

D.'s reply at the last reference is dis- appointing : he denies that the original "color" of post boxes was scarlet, but he does not say what " color " they were.

RALPH THOMAS.

BASKISH FOLK-LOBE ABOUT SOULS (10 S. vi. 507). Can the first words of these epitaphs, as quoted in their original, and translated by MR. DODGSON, " Here rest the souls," &c., not also be understoood in a metaphoric sense, viz., "Here rest the persons in their bodily remains " ? Re- member the Homeric usage of i^v^ou, like ai^pwTroc., for instance, ^vyat vro/XAat e(9avov, many souls perished. If Baskish arima is = Lat. anima, and believed to repose within the grave (compare the infernal region of the Hebrew Shgol and Greek Hades, the abode of departed souls or shades), its meaning may be further identified with the psyche of the Pauline Epistles, as the vital principle of man which is perishable, and distinguished from the pneuma of the New Testament, or the regenerated soul, raised to everlasting life by the Holy Spirit. H. KBEBS.

ISLE OF MAN AND THE COUNTESS or DEBBY (10 S. vii. 9). In vol. xxvi. of the Manx Society's Publications (pp. 63-76) is an extract from Mercurius Politicus, No. 75, Nov. 6 to 13, 1651 ; and in pp. 77-81 are extracts from the * Journal of House of English Commons.' These give contem- porary details about the surrender of the Isle of Man to the Parliamentary forces. See also ' The Land of Home Rule,' by Spencer Walpole (pp. 144-60) ; and ' A History of the Isle of Man,' by A. W. Moore (pp. 265-80). EBNEST B. SAVAGE.

S. Thomas', Douglas.

The actual surrender was made by the commander of the insular forces, one Capt. William Christian, against whom treason or cowardice is alleged by more than one writer. Others think the act was done with the secret connivance of the Countess, which seems doubtful. In either case the

Countess received a letter from her unlucky husband, James, seventh Earl of Derby,, written at Chester three days before his death by court martial, in which he advised capitulation.

Eight years only after the event this passage occurs in the * History of the World/ by D. Petavius, 1659, p. 514 :

" Among the places that fell this year [1651] into the possession of Paliament was the Isle of Man r for reducing which three Foot Regiments were; shipped at Chester and Liverpool on the 16th of Oct., and although they were driven into Beau- maris by contrary winds on the 18th, yet, sailing from thence, on the 28th day of the same month they had assurance of an islander of landing in Man without any opposition, all being secured for their reception.'

Christian was placed on trial for a number of offences, including treason, in September, 1662, and condemned to be shot. Execu- tion took place on Hango Hill, Castletown, 2 Jan., 1663.

Particulars of the surrender will be found in the following works, in addition to- Petavius :

Haining (S.), Hist. Sketch of the Isle of Man,, 1822, p. 44.

Thwaites (W.), Isle of Man, 1863, pp. 50 and 229.

Bullock (H. A.), Hist, of the Isle of Man, 1816,

History of the House of Stanley, Manchester,

CluSoner,' Treatise of the Isle of Man, 1863. Cummings (J. S.), Hist, of the Isle of Man, 1848. Manx Society's Publications. Train, Hist, of the Isle of Man, 1845, 2 vols.

WM. JAGGABD. Liverpool.

[MR. J. J. HOGG and MR. J. B. WAINEWRIGHT also thanked for replies.]

"THISTOLOW" (10 S. vi. 469). May easily be a blundered form of " fistula," often called " fistulow " by the unlearned.

J. T. F.

' CANTUS HIBEBNICI ' (10 S. vii. 9). Three of the four sets of initials about which MB. McGovEBN inquires occur in the follow- ing extract from " Anthologia Oxoniensis decerpsit Gulielmus Linwood, M.A.," Lond.,. 1846, p. xiii :

"G. B., Georgius Butler, M.A., Coll. Exon.. Socius.

"W. B. J., Gulielmus Basil Jones, B.A. e Coll. Regin.

"R. R. W. L., Radulphus R. Wheeler Lingen, B.A. Coll. Balliol, Socius."

The other authors given in the list are the Marquis of Wellesley, Lord Grenville, John Ernest Bode, Osborne Gordon, the Hon. William Herbert, William Linwood, Charles Wordsworth (all Christ Church),