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of St. Mary, Bee Hellouin, Eure, France, of "a messuage in the parish of St. Botolph without Aldrichesgate in the suburb of London, sometime of William de Gayton, called 'le Taborer ' : ('Cal. 1354-8,' p. 105). It thus appears that Timbs was mistaken in assigning the inn to St. Martins- Je-Grand, no portion of that thoroughfare having been at any time comprised within the parish of St. Botolph.

WILLIAM MCMTJRRAY.

" HAYWRA," PLACE-NAME (11 S. iii. 487). There is no difficulty, because the place is not only near Harrogate (Yorkshire), but gave its name to that well-known resort.

The road from Knaresborough to Otley .passed near it, and was consequently named Haywra-gate, i.e., the road passing near Haywra. It is named Haverah Park in some maps, where Haverah represents the Norman form of Haywra. Hay repre- sents A.-S. hege and A.F. haie, and means " enclosure " or " park " ; and wra is the A.-S. wra, a corner. That is to say, the road passed near the corner of an old enclosed park, a portion (it is said) of the old Forest of Knaresborough. The names Haverah and Haywra are still familiar ones at Harro- gate. WALTER W. SKEAT.

Haywra is now known as Haverah, a few miles south-west of Harrogate, co. York. It was formerly a royal chase. It will be found under ' Haverah Park ' in Lewis's [F. B. M. also suggests Haverah.]
 * Topographical Dictionary.' T. CBAIB.

WILL WATCH: JOHN GALLOT (11 S. ii 269, 353 ; iii. 492). Gallot, who is mentioned by MB. RALPH THOMAS at the last reference, was an actor at the Haymarket and Coburg Theatres, and ultimately became prompter at the old Adelphi during Webster's manage- ment.

I was present at the opening of the new Adelphi in December, 1858, and remember a line in an address written by Edmund Yates, and spoken by Mrs. Alfred Mellon, which ran thus : At seven John Gallot should ring up the curtain.

WM. DOUGLAS. 125, Helix Road, Biixton Hill.

SCOTS Music (US. iii. 349, 496). What- ever may have been Robert Fergusson's deeper motive in his ' Elegy on the Death of Scots Music,' it is manifest that the immediate purpose was to pay a tribute to Macgibbon, the Edinburgh violinist. In ' The Life and Death of the Piper of Kil-

barchan,' by Robert Sempill of Bel trees (1599-1670), he had a standard exemplar, which he utilized ably and well. Even as Sempill declared that piping was done because Habbie Simson was no more, so his youthful follower concludes that Macgibbon' s death creates a sorry outlook for national song, as there is none to " fill his s*ead." Sempill thus opens his lament :

Kilbarchan now may say, Alas !

For she hath lost her game and grace,

Both Trixie, and the Maiden Trace : But Avhat remead ?

"For no man can supply his place Hab Simson 's dead 1

The same spirit pervades Fergusson's monody, as these stanzas illustrate :

Macgibbon 's gane : Ah, wae 's my heart 1 The man in music maist expert, Wha cou'd sweet melody impart,

And tune the reed Wi' eic a slee and pawky art ;

But now he 's dead. Ilk carline now may gruct and grane, Ilk bonnie lassie make great mane ; Since he 's awa', I trow there 's nane

Can fill his stead ; The blythest sangster on the plain !

Alake, he 's dead !

It is interesting to note that the musician thus eulogized, who was for many years leader of the orchestra of the " Gentlemen's Concert " at Edinburgh, was considered by contemporaries " to play the music of Corelli, Geminiani, and Handel with great execution and judgment." Even he, apparently, had felt the foreign influence without giving it pre-eminent position in determining his preferences. Without him, the poet fears, national song will lose its prestige and be routed by " sounds fresh sprung frae Italy." THOMAS BAYNE.

" THE GAG," " GUILLOTINE," AND "KAN- GAROO " AS PARLIAMENTARY TERMS (11 S. iii. 468). With regard to the first of these expressions there is a Parliamentary note in a letter from Henry Brougham to Thomas Creevey, dated 1814 :

' Now, there is not a pretence for keeping these sources of patronage open. Besides the gag is gone, which used to stop our mouths as often as any reform was mentioned ' Revolution ' first, and then ' Invasion.' These cues are gone." - ' The reevey Papers,' 1905, p. 192.

A. RHODES.

The terms "gag," "guillotine," and " kangaroo," as used in Parliament, are tolerably familiar, but the question as to who first used them is a more difficult matter to determine. Perhaps " gag " may ooast a Miore venerable antiquity than the