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corners, and troops were present to defend them in large numbers."

This is not actual evidence of firing having taken place, and I cannot trace any reference to an encounter between the mob and the soldiers ; but I have examined only the ordinary works on London and ' A Narrative of the Proceedings of Lord George Gordon,' &c., 1780, and Vincent's report of his trial. ALECK ABRAHAMS.

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BRUCE AND FLEMING (10 S. viii. 310). Robert Fleming (probably son of Sir Mal- colm, Sheriff of Dumbartonshire) assisted at the slaughter of Comyn, and was one of the associates of King Robert I., &c. From that monarch he had a grant of the lands of Lenzie and Cumbernauld, then in the Crown by the forfeiture of the Comyns. He died before 1314. His grandson Sir Malcolm Fleming was created Earl of Wigton by King David II. See Sir Robert Douglas's ' Peerage of Scotland ' (ed. J. P. Wood, 1813), ii. 628. A. R. BAYLEY.

MEDIAEVAL GAMES OF CHILDREN (10 S. viii. 369). Among references which I have noted are the following :

'Les Jeux et Plaisirs de 1'Enfance,' 4to, by Jacques Stella (with 47 plates of children's games and recreations engraved by Claudine Stella). Paris, 1657.

' Churchyard Games in Wales,' Reliquary, 1895, p. 136 ; 1897, p. 48.

R. C. Maclagan's 'Games and Diversions of Argyleshire/ 1901.

' Games, Ancient and Oriental, and How to Play Them,' by Edward Falkener.

' Games and Forfeits, with Plain Directions for Crying the Forfeits,' 8vo, frontisp. (?Cruikshank), ii.d.

' Christmas Games, Old and New,' Daily Tele- graph, 23 Dec., 1899.

'Round Games,' Leimre How, Dec., 1889, p. 144. Ardern Holt on 'Christmas and Winter Games' in The Queen (circa 1870); p. 374, but vol. not noted.

' Festivals, Games, and Amusements,' by Horatio Smith.

'Pastimes and Players,' by Robt. MacGregor, F.S.A., 1881.

'Nursery Rhymes and Children's Games,' by S. J. Adair FitzGerald, in The Lady, beginning 15 Feb., j.y<ju.

'Auntient Customs in Games used by Boys and Girls, merrily sett out in Verse,' Harl. MS. 2057.

'Children's Pastimes,' Strutt's 'Sports and Pastimes,' 1898, pp. 485-513.

'Sports and Games,' in Brand's 'Antiquities (Eohn, 1854), vol. II., pp. 391 to 449. 'Christmas Games,' ibid., vol. I., pp. 461-74-97. 'Games among the Anglo-Saxons and in the Middle Ages' (hoodman-blind, hot-cockles, frog in-the-middle, ball-play, &c.). Thos. Wright's ' Domestic Manners and Sentiments,' 1862, pp 195 i 36, 432, 433 ; and, at a later period, pp. 483-90.

See review of 'The Traditional Games of Eng- and, Scotland, and Ireland.' by Alice Bertha, jiomme, in The Atheiuvum, 7 Jan., 1899.

J. HOLDEN MACMlCHAEL. Deene, Streatham.

See an article by Micklethwaite in The Archceological Journal of Dec., 1892.

J. T. F. Durham.

GOAT'S BLOOD AND DIAMONDS (10 S. viii.. 270, 356). For the idea of other intractable substances yielding to blood, cf. Tac.,. Hist.,' v. 6:

"Bitumen non abscindere sere ferrove possis; iigit cruorem vestemque infectam sanguine quo eminae per menses exsolvuntur."

This Josephus (' Bell. Jud.,' iv. 8, 4) cor- oborates. H. K. ST. J. S.

" MORS JANUA VIT^ " (10 S. viii. 231, 334). The following are extracts from ' Symbola EEeroica,' by Nicolas Reusner, tenth edition, 1664 :

"Quid enim aliud est vita vitse mortalis quam spes, et expectatio vitse immprtalis ? et quid aliud jst mors vitae hujus mortalis, quam finis mortis- lujus vitalis, et janua vitae immortalis." Classis. Secunda, Symb. xlvi. p. 354.

" Quippe quse [i.e. morsj vere est, ut Bernardus- loquitur finis laborum, et victorias consummatio, et vitae janua, et perfect* securitatis aditus." Classis. Tertia, Symb. xviii. p. 457.

" Ut Sotades vult, iravrwi' At/z^v TO>V fj.ep6iru>v o Odvaros. Bonus omnium mortalium mors portus est : eamque ob causam non tarn mors est, quam vita vel potius janua vitae, non quidem mortalis,.

sed immortalis Pretiosa plane mors, ut Bernard!

verbis utar, tanquam finis laborum, tanquam vic-

toriae consummatio, tanquam vitae janua, et per-

fectae seciiritatis ingressus." Ibid. Symb. xxx.

p. 521.

The preface of ' Symbola Heroica ' is dated

1587.

If St. Bernard wrote the saying " Mors janua vitae " I presume that Bernardus means St. Bernard it would be a great labour to find the reference. The edition of his works which I have before me (Paris,. 1863) has no Index Rerum et Verborum.

For the phrase, &c., see 2 S. ix. 445, 513 ; x. 55 ; 3 S. vii. 250 ; 6 S. xi. 151 ; 7 S. viii, 12 ; xi. 333. ROBERT PIERPOINT.

X. wishes to know whether this dictum has Scriptural warranty. Most assuredly so, albeit " direct " references in the O.T. are not very numerous, since the doctrines of resurrection and of immortality were really post-Biblical. The Rabbins drew them thence inferentially. Job xix. 26 is open to several equally significant meanings, including the doctrine of resurrection. The