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entitled 'Heffle Cuckoo Song, 'which appeared in Pearson's Weekly, No. 1000, and is re- printed in ' Heathfield Memorials,' cited above ; and of a poem by Mr. Charles Dalmon. SUSSEX.

PORT HENDERSON : CORRIE BHREACHAN (11 S. iv. 10, 58). Port Henderson, named only in Longman's ' Gazetteer of the World,' as a small bay on the Ross-shire coast, near Gairloch, and a few miles distant from Loch Maree. It is indicated on Ordnance 'Survey maps, but is not mentioned by Scottish geographical writers.

Corrie Bhreachan, or " Brecan's Cauldron," is the strait between the Argyllshire islands of Jura and Scarba. W. S. S.

Murray's ' Handbook for Scotland ' (1868), p. 175, says:

" To the north of Jura is the small island of Scarba, separated by the terrible gulf Where Corryvreckan's surges driven, Meet, mount, and lash the breast of heaven. 'Corryvreckan or Coriebhrencain, ' the cauldron of the spectred sea,' is the terror of light craft sailing these seas, although, as in all cases of so-called whirlpool, the effects of it are immensely exag- gerated The poet Campbell declares that the

sound of Corryvreckan can be heard for many leagues on the mainland, and that it is like the sound of innumerable chariots .... The passage between Scarba and Lunga is called in Gaelic Dog, but the sailors call it the Little Gulf."
 * Bheallaich a Choin Ghlais,' Pass of the Grey

T. SHEPHERD.

"TERTITJM QUID" (11 S. iii. 67, 131). As the dictionary whose definition of this term has been cited gives no illustrative quotation, the following may be of use :

A tertium quid, that 's both betwixt, And yet, in fact, is neither.

Stanza 48 in " The Riddle, by the Late Unhappy George-Robert Fitzgerald, Esq. With Notes, By W. Bingley, formerly of London, Bookseller," London, n.d.

The Editor's Preface is dated June, 1787. The Fitzgerald to whom the piece is attri- buted is " Fighting Fitzgerald " (hanged in 1786, see 'D.N.B.'). According to the editor, " it was written during his residence in Dublin New Prison, about the year 1782." EDWARD BENSLY.

SIR JOHN ARTJNDEL OF CLERKENWELL (11 S. iii. 367, 415, 491 ; 'iv. 32). Surely it is incorrect to describe the first Lord Arundell of Wardour as a grandson of Sir John Arundell of Lanherne. According to Burke, this peer was the son of Sir Matthew Arundell, and grandson of Sir Thomas Arundell of Wardour. Sir Thomas was him-

self the second son of Sir John Arundell of Lanherne, and his elder brother was also Sir John Arundell of Lanherne. It is probably to one of these two father and son that MR. A. R. BAYLEY refers, and it will be seen that they were respectively

treat-grandfather and grand-uncle of the rst Lord Arundell of Wardour. It is virtually impossible for the senior Sir John to have been alive in 1588, and from the junior Sir John the first Lord Arundell of Wardour did not apparently descend.

B. B. Manila.

" THOUGH CHRIST A THOUSAND TIMES BE SLAIN" (11 S. iv. 28). " Angelus Silesius " was the name adopted by Johann Scheffler (1624-77), of whom an account will be found in Julian's ' Dictionary of Hymnology.' The hymn beginning " Though Christ a thousand times be slain " does not seem to be mentioned in the ' Dictionary,' and I have not met with it in any collection of hymns accessible to me. S. W. S.

"LE WHACOK" (11 S. i. 88, 278, 316). A recent visit to the old-fashioned village of Wansford enables me to add to the notice at the last reference. I was told the legend narrated by Dr. Neale in his ' Hierolo^us ' (p. 41), the teller correctly saying "Hay- cock" instead of "Haystack." Drunken Barnaby in his ' Journal ' describes himself but without any authority as the hero of the legend, reversing the course, however, by saying he was carried from, instead of to, Wansford Bridge, as in the legend. Curiously enough, his version is in the ' Beauties of England and Wales ' under Huntingdonshire (vol. vii. pp. 538-9), and the peculiar Wans- ford Bridge over the Nen connects the county of Huntingdon with that of Northampton. It may be at once stated that the bridge bears a striking resemblance to the Essex Bridge at Great Haywood, Staffordshire.

The last reference also contains a bit of prophesy, certainly qualified by the word " probably," that the sign would last as long as the world. For some time the sign has been a thing of the past ; the brackets which supported it are still there, but the sign itself, with the legend pictorially repre- sented and the address " Wansford in Eng- land," has been taken away for preservation by the Duke of Bedford. The old house was a noted posting-house on the Great North Road, and was known all over Europe as a hunting centre when kept by a Mrs. Percival. Hungarian princes, German