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burial (1 S. vi. 433 ; 2 S. xi. 70, 134, 240, 256, 379 ; 8 S. vi. 364, 386 ; viii. 241, 363, 483 ; 10 S. i. 385, 470), which I have read, but nowhere do I find any reference to separated hearts having been found en- tombed in church walls. The heart-shaped niche at Fordwich is empty. I have not seen that at Leybourne, but from a photo- graph I imagine that, too, is " heartless." Can any reader tell me of other churches with similarly traditional niches ?

J. HARRIS STONE. Oxford and Cambridge Club,

" GADAREILIE." The following words occur in a poem, 'The Muses Threnodie,' published at Edinburgh in 1638 :

His cougs, his dishes, and his caps, A Totum, and some bairnes taps ; A gadareilie, and a whisle, A trumpe, an Abercorne mussell.

I should be glad if any reader could tell me the meaning of the word " gadareilie." I have hunted through many dictionaries (including old Scottish ones), but cannot find it. J. G. GRANT.

15, Bartholomew Road, NiW.

WILLIAM MCCARTNEY. I should be much obliged if any of your readers could give me any information about the above, who appears to have been a surveyor of land in Dumfriesshire, and who died in 1793.

HUGH S. GLADSTONE.

Capenoch, Thornhill, Dumfriesshire.

RALPH BEILBY. Can any reader inform me if evidence exists that Ralph Beilby (1744-1817), the engraver of seals and metals, worked on glass or practised painting on glass ? He was Thomas Bewick's master and partner, and engraved extensively on copper. W. H. QUARRELL.

A SUNDIAL. I have a sundial having within the inner circle the inscription " As the long hours do pass away, So doth the life of man decay." At the foot of the hour-circle is " 1630 " and " Long liffe ye King Charles." In the inner circle are a skull and a scythe.

A similar motto occurs in Mrs. Gatty's 'Book of Sundials,' 2nd ed., Nos. 28, 29, and 30, but I have not met with a senti- mental reference to any historical personage. Are there any known ? G. D. LUMB.

63, Albion Street, Leeds.

CLOCKMAKERS. Can any one tell me when Bartley and Eggert of Bristol lived ? I cannot find them in Britten's book.

M.A.

A FLEMISH OIL PAINTING. I have a good old Flemish oil painting, but cannot find out by w^hom it was painted. The subject is a village merrymaking, and on the signboard of an inn in the picture is the following inscription : " Aesabeth Zeldron E peintres de son Aer gr. M. E." Can any reader supply information as to the artist ?

BONHILL.

GOODAMEAVY HOUSE, SOUTH DEVON.

This ancient building, situated near the Dewerstone, close to Shaugh, but I believe actually in the parish of Meavy, all in South Devon, has been in the occupation of the family of Scobell (a former Vicar of Bick- leigh, South Devon, being a member of it) for about a century. I am desirous of find- ing out by what family it was previously owned, and when a change that has proved so lasting was actually made.

W. S. B. H.

" GAS " AS A STREET-NAME. There is a Gas Street in Birmingham, and I read in The Birmingham Weekly Post, 23 Aug., p. 16, that, prior to 1817, there was in that street a small gasworks, which was taken over by the Birmingham Gas Company on its formation. This, 1 suppose, accounts for the origin of the name. Can any of your readers supply other instances of the use of the word " Gas " as a street-name ?

R. B. P.

CATHEDRAL BELL STOLEN (US. viii. 27.)

AN old Japanese instance of a group of rogues making away with a ponderous temple bell through their cunning occurs in the ' Konjaku Monogatari,' written in the eleventh century, torn. xxix. ch. xvii. The story is to this effect :

" Once, In years gone by, there came In. the temple Koyadera, province Settsu, a mendicant apparently eighty years of age. He begged the provost's indulgence to allow him some days' rest therein because of his excessive fatigue, occa- sioned by the long journey which he said he was making from a western province to the capital. The provost fully compassionated the ^ senile traveller, yet he hesitated to comply with his request, inasmuch as he could not easily put himself in mind of a place fit to lodge him. Then, regarding the belfry as quite secure against the inclemencies of weather, the old man asked leave to occupy a mat in its basement until the day of his recovery. This entreaty was granted him at