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book, the entry concerning the marriage of the Duke is " X. de Lucy, Capitanei f. 1686." The appendix corrects this. Perhaps the date is correct. ROBERT PIEBPOINT.

"STAKE " IN RACING (10 S. viii. 270). No one with any knowledge of racing would speak of the " Derby Stake," or any other. " Stakes " is the word sweepstakes : the stake is the entrance subscription for each horse nominated. This is the usual announce- ment : " The Stakes, a Sweepstakes of

- sovs. each, sovs. forfeit, with

sovs. added, for, &c. ; second horse to

receive sovs., and third to save his

stake." H. P. L.

UMBER BIRD (10 S. viii. 230). H. P. L. refers under this heading to the reading

Hangen und bangen In schwebender Fein,

in Clarchen's song from Goethe's ' Egmont,' as incorrect. That excellent authority ' Gefliigelte Worte ' notes that Langen, which Goethe, I believe, wrote, is often changed into Hangen in Germany, because langen does not usually mean " to long." The interesting thing is that in the authority cited above it is suggested that Beethoven may have been responsible for the emenda- tion. HIPPOCLIDES.

MOTTO: " IN GOD is ALL" (10 S. viii. 270). There is an illustrated article by Mr. J. T. Fowler, F.S.A., in Smith's ' Old Yorkshire,' vol. iii., New Series, entitled ' On a Bell Inscription at Rylstone, York- shire,' from which it appears that the correct reading of the motto on the Rylstone church bell is "In God is all," and not, as was supposed by the Rev. Wm. Carr, B.D., incumbent of Bolton Abbey, " God us ayde." This mistake Wordsworth, at the time the guest of Dr. Carr, perpetuated in his ' White Doe of Rylstone.' Mr. Fowler alludes to the bell at Crofton, and knew of no other examples. Of course the allusion is to St. Luke i. 37, not St. John.

I may mention that the Vernon-Wentworth family motto is " En Dieu est tout."

A. H. ARKLE.

Much has been written in ' N. & Q.' about this motto ; see especially 4 S. ii. 515 ; 7 S. iii. 118. "In God is all" may be found in ' Prince Arthur,' ed. 1816, ii. 37.

W. C. B.

I was the discoverer of the inscription at Crofton, which, like many others of my finding, has since passed into bell literature.

I did not know that it included what is now the Saltoun motto, but was at once struck by its likeness to St. Luke (not St. John) i. 37. I do not think that we need expect to find it in any mediaeval prayer or hymn ; certainly not in a breviary, which was always in Latin. I should rather suppose it to be a rime or jingle made for the bell inscription. In this case, as in most, it is impossible ta date the bell, as the same founders' marks and letters went on from generation to- generation in the same " plant."

J. T. F. Winter-ton, Doneaster.

"THE COMMON HANGMAN" (10 S. viii. 244, 335). Marvel's adventures, to whick I referred last week, were very far from being at an end, and he was again in serious trouble the next year, and this time with extremely unpleasant personal results. In " Mist's " for 26 Sept., 1719, it was recorded that

" on Saturday Night last RobertTsic] Marvel, the late Hangman (who beheaded the Earls of Derwent- water and Kenmure on Tower-Hill, and who was arrested in going to Tyburn with three Male- factors, who by that Means were brought back and not executed, and for which he was turned out of, his Office), was committed to Newgate for Thieving, and being unruly, was put into the Condennvd Hold."

" Applebee's " of the same date gave the following version of the occurrence :

" Last Saturday, William Marvel, late Hangman, who executed the Lords Derwentwater and Ken- mure, and others, for being concern'd in the late Rebellion, was committee! to Newgate, by Sir William Withers, for privately stealing 10 Silk Handkerchiefs, out of the Shop of Nathaniel Simm's in Coleman-Street."

On 16 October The Daily Post reported that

" yesterday, Marvell, the late Hangman, who be- headed the Lords upon Tower-Hill, was try'd upon an Indictment for Thieving, and found Guilty ;.- 'tis said, he will be transported."

But " Applebee's " of the following day stated that

" on Wednesday last the Sessions began at the Old- Bayly, where Seven Persons receiv d Sentence of Death, viz. Five Men and Two Women ; among whom was Constable for the Highway, Marvel, formerly Hangman."

The former journal, however, was correct in its anticipation, " Mist's " of 24 October baldly mentioning that

"yesterday Morning a Cargo of about 80 Malefac- tors, Men and Women, amongst them Richard [sic] Marvel, the late Hangman, were shipped in the River, in order to be transported co the West Indies."