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iprisoned in the Tolbooth till Wednesday next' id that Day to be taken from thence, and put jn the Pillory, to stand for the Space of an Hour, rith half a Dozen Herrings about his Neck, and lereafter to be banished the City and Liberties >r ever."

ALFRED F. BOBBINS.

WE must request correspondents desiring in- formation on family matters of only private interest to affix their names and addresses to their queries, in order that answers may be sent to them direct.

TERRACE. When was this name first applied to a row of houses, on a site more or less elevated above the level of the street or road, or on the face of a slope ? When were such " terraces " first introduced in London, Bath, Edinburgh, and other cities or towns ? A correspondent thinks that they date to a little later than the Napoleonic wars. I should be glad of. examples, with reference before 1839. This I think is the latest of the many senses of the word, which in the sense of the ambulatory or gallery round a cloister open on the inner side, as at Magdalen and New Colleges, Oxford, is found in 15. J. A. H. MURRAY.

Oxford.

" SECULAR TREES." The new edition of Webster's dictionary gives " secular oaks " as an example of the use of the adjective in the sense " aged, centuried." I have a quotation dated 1876 from Sir Richard Burton for " secular trees," and several of the same kind from later writers. Can any earlier instances of this use be found in English, or is it a recent Gallicism ? The closely related sense " lasting through ages" has, of course, long been common.

HENRY BRADLEY.

" SEDULOUS APE." Where does this ex-

?ression occur ? I have an impression that have met with it either in Milton's prose or in Sir Thomas Browne, but cannot recall the context. HENRY BRADLEY.

Oxford. [Used by Stevenson in * A College Magazine. ']

"SEEKERS," RELIGIOUS SECT. I wish to know where I can find the fullest and clearest account of the religious sect known as, or calling themselves, " the Seekers " a set to which Sir H. Vane the younger belonged. Is there any book which under- takes to give an account of the various reli- gious sects which sprang up in the time of the Commonwealth ? J. WILLCOCK.

MACAULAY'S ALLUSIONS. Macaulay, in the essay on Ranke's ' History of the Popes,' has this paragraph on the vagaries of super- stition :

" We have seen men, not of mean intellect or neglected education, but qualified by their talents and acquirements to attain eminence either in active or speculative pursuits well-read scholars, expert logicians, keen observers of life and manners prophesying, interpreting, talking unknown tongues, working miraculous cures, coming down with messages from God to the House of Commons."

I shall be glad of suggestions as to what persons Macaulay had in his mind. The "cures," I presume, were those of Prince Hohenlohe. GEORGE SAMPSON.

[" Prophesying, interpreting, talking unknown tongues," allusions to the scenes connected with Edward Irving's ministry at the Scotch Church, Regent Square, circa 1829-30.]

BEDFORDSHIRE EPITAPHS : REV. ROBERT SMYTH. In a foot-note on p. 132 of/ Fuller's Worthies,' vol. i. (4to Edition, published in 1812), the editor, John Nichols, F.A.S., says:^-

" I have also a good collection of the Epitaphs in this County, taken before the year 1750, in the handwriting of that industrious antiquary, the Rev. Robert Smyth of Woodston. N." Can any of your readers say whether this collection is still in existence, and, if so, where it is to be found ?

S. M. EGGANS.

GEFFERY LE BAKESTER DE LOFFITHE. This baron, according to information given me by Sir George Baxter, did homage to Edward I. in 1296. Is anything known of his ancestry or of his descendants ? Or any other details about himself ? Loffithe is now Lochfeithie, near Forfar.

RONALD DIXON.

46, Maryborough Avenue, Hull.

BOOK INSCRIPTIONS. Will some reader kindly give me the author of the following : Goe, little booke ; God send thee good passage, And specially let this be thy prayere Unto them all that thee will read or hear : Where thou art wrong, after their help to call, Thee to correct in any part or all. I have seen it attributed to Chaucer, but am unable to trace it. EGERTON GARDINER.

' WAVERLEY ' : DEPARTED HERO AND THE SUN'S LINGERING LIGHT. Can any one help me to recover a passage in Scott's ' Waverley ' which compares the memory of a departed hero (Dundee, I think) to the lingering light of the sun after it has sunk below the horizon ? A. S. P.