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 s. m. MAY 20, ion.] NOTES AND QUERIES.

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Ballantyne while in Kelso printed for Sir Walter Scott ' Apology for the Tales of Terror.' According to Allibone, the booklet, of which only 12 copies were printed, bore an Edinburgh imprint ; but it is evident from Lockhart's ' Life of Scott ' that the printing was done solely at the Kelso press. The third volume of ' Minstrelsy of the Scottish Border,' bearing also the Edinburgh imprint, was for the most part printed at Kelso before Ballantyne removed to Edin- burgh. Separate copies of some of Scott's minor poems were also produced at the Kelso press. * Sir Tristram,' which did not appear till 1804, was in part, at least, the work of Ballantyne's Kelso press.

The situation is somewhat complicated by the fact that in the end of the eighteenth century and the beginning of the nineteenth Kelso boasted two printers. Ballantyne's rival, a man named Palmer, edited a news- paper called The British Chronicle from 1783 to 1803. I have a note of .some of his publications issued in 1782, 1784, 1789, and 1803. These are not to be mistaken for Ballantyne's work. As is generally known, Ballantyne started The Kelso Mail in 1796, which still continues to be pub- lished.

Would MR. GRANT oblige by stating the nature of the publication ' The History o' the Families o' the Farmers and the Light- bodies ' ? W. S. S.

MAY DAY : MAY-GAMES : MAY-POLES (11 S. iii. 321, 371). The quotation from Glover's ' Kingsthorpiana ' (1883) may perhaps be admitted in full. It is the 78th item among the " Ordinances and Statutes made by the consent of all the inhabitants of the Towne of Kyngesthorpe (North- amptonshire) in tie tyme of Robert Coke, Bayly there, anno primo Edwardi sexti {1547)" :

"78 Itm, that the chosynge of the kynge and <iuene for the May Gayraes shalbe chosin uppon Eastern day after Evynsonge and he or she that do refuse the election shall forfaytt vis. viiirf., and the Bay lye to distresse immediately for the same, and tor to have the one halfe for his labor and the other halfe to the Churche. ; '

JOHN T. PAGE.

ROBERT ROLI.O GILLESPIE AT VELLORE (11 S. iii. 348). COL. PEARSE'S question

fives me the opportunity of asking where can find an account of what happened at Vellore.

In ' Battles of the Nineteenth Century ' Gillespie is incidentally referred to as " the hot-headed soldier who, single-handed, had

galloped a few years before to help the besieged residents of Vellore." And mention is made in ' The Ingoldsby Legends ' of his monument in St. Paul's, as that of " Gilles- pie, who escaped from the row at Vellore." This is all that I have been able to learn. On the said monument he is not, if my memory serves me, described as K.C.B. ; I suppose, therefore, that he was gazetted to that honour before news arrived of his death. E. L. H. TEW.

Upham Rectory, Hants.

CHURCH OF ENGLAND c. 1750 (11 S. iii. 349). The book inquired for is " Thesaurus Rerum Ecclesiasticarum. Being an Account of the Valuations of all the Ecclesiastical Benefices in the several Dioceses in England and Wales, by John Ecton. Second edition, by Browne Willis. Published in 1754." It can often be purchased second-hand very cheaply. T. CRAIB.

The pages of the book referred to belong to the ' Thesaurus Rerum Ecclesiasticarum ' of John Ecton, London, 1763. An improved edition of this work was issued by John Bacon in 1786, and is known as ' Bacon's Liber Regis.' The dioceses of Carlisle, Chester, and Durham there occupy pp. 1189- 1277. Under Manchester, p. 1233, are mentioned, besides the Collegiate Church, St. Anne's, St. John's, St. Mary's, and St. Paul's. " Manchester " is indexed only under " Collegiate Church." J. T. F.

Durham.

[MR. R. AUSTIN, MR. W. P. COURTNEY, and the REV. W. D. MACBAY also refer to Ecton.]

LONDON REMAINS (11 S. iii. 346). The interesting note by SYL VIOLA prompts me to ask what became of the fine flagstones on the space at the eastern end of the Royal Exchange between the entrance to " Lloyd's" and Royal Exchange Buildings. They were removed many years ago and replaced with asphalt, much to the regret of workers thereabouts. CECIL CLARKE,

Junior Athenseum Club.

WALTON AND COTTON MEDAL (11 S. iii. 329). I have in my possession a medal somewhat similar to the one described by W. B. H. The description is as follows. The medal is bronze, slightly larger in dia- meter than a half-crown, and is boldly and well modelled. Obverse : bust of Walton, with " Izaak W^alton " round it. At the bottom the date MDCCCXXII., and *' Avern F." Reverse : a tomb surmounted by an urn, on each side of the tomb being trees and foliage, whilst leaning against the tomb