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NOTES AND QUERIES. [11 s. vn. MAB. 29, 1913.

RICHARD SIMON : LAMBERT SIMNEL (11 S. vii. 129, 194). I beg to thank MR. BAYLEY for his reply, and am inclined to think with him that the date given in Reg. Morton, f. 33 et seq., as Feb., 1486/7, is an error for February, 1487/8. Since seeing MR. BAYLEY'S reply, I find the same thing is given in Wilkins's ' Concilia Mag. Brit.,' iii. 618, and the names of many bishops are mentioned as being present at the Convoca- tion, which may possibly assist in putting the matter beyond doubt. What points still further to possible error is that in this report there appears to be a reference to Lord Lovell at " Fuvnesotts " (Simnel's landing with Lovell, at Furness, not taking place until June, 1487).

If MR. BAYLEY can throw any more light upon this question, I shall be still more obliged to him.

I take this opportunity to point out an error in the ' D.N.B.' re Lambert Simnel. Henry, in his letter to Pope Innocent VIII. of 5 July, 1487, refers to him as " spurium quemdam puerum .... puerum ipsum ducis quondam Clarentiae filium esse " (Arch. 27). It is in the Pope's reply to this letter, dated 1487-8, Non. Jan., that he is spoken of as " quendam puerum de illegitimo thoro natum " (Rymer, vol. xii. p. 332). There is certainly a mystery somewhere. G. W.

CHRISTMAS RIMERS IN ULSTER (11 S. vii. 81, 173). Like the Editor of The Irish Book Lover, I recognized an old friend's name differently spelt in MR. LEPPER'S interesting communication. At Sheffield, so long as three score years ago, with black- ened face and armed with an old besom, I have many a time taken the part of the Little Devil. But I had no suspicion the words Were also in use in Ireland. I re- member them distinctly. They ran : Here comes little Devil Doubt. If you don't give me money I'll sweep you all out. Money I want, and money I crave ; If you don't give me money I'll sweep you all to the

grave. Fair Park, Exeter.

HARRY HEMS.

THE * LONDON,' ' BRITISH,' AND ' ENG- LISH ' CATALOGUES (US. vii. 127, 196, 238). I have

"The London Catalogue of Books, with their sizes and prices, corrected to September MDCCXCIX. London : Printed for W. Bent, Paternoster Row, by M. Brown, St. John's Square, Clerkenwell, 1799,"

and also the lists from 1812 to 1849.

W. B. S.

RICHARD BULL (US. vii. 70, 170). MR. COURTNEY in his interesting reply says that Bull was born in 1721. According to the entry of his admission to Westminster School, he was aged 10 in June, 1735.

I should be glad to ascertain the exact date of his birth if possible. I might, perhaps, add that Bull remained at the school until 1741, and that he was admitted to Lincoln's Inn 13 April, 1742, but was not called to the Bar there. G. F. R. B.

INSCRIPTION AT WETHERAL (US. vii. 169,. 234). One may easily blunder in trying to explain an inscription without the aid ( f a facsimile. Is it certain that the final letter of the second word is M ? Could it be read as A ? It is tempting to suggest GRATVS

SVA : MANY

= " Gratus sua manu [scripsit]," " Gratus [there are instances of this as a Roman name] wrote this with his own hand."

No. 922 in vol. vii. of the ' Corpus Inscript. Latin.,' an inscription on the face of a lofty cliff on the south bank of the Eden in the vicinity of Wetheral, has MAXIMVS SCRISIT ( = scripsit), with the title of the 20th Legion.

With regard to the " rough figure which may be a fish," it can be noted that on the rock just referred to, where Maximus cut his name, is " the awkward figure of a buck or stag " ; while on the " Written Rock of the Gelt,"* near Brampton, there is the representation of a human face above one of the inscriptions. Does the fish denote anything more than a rough pictorial instinct on the part of Gratus ?

" SEX HORAS SOMNO " (11 S. vi. 411, 474 ; vii. 71, 136). There is an anonymous Greek epigram of two lines in the * Anthologia Palatina,' x. 43, beginning


 * E <0/)CU /AOX$OIS IKai/WTaTCU.

In this the first six hours of the day are assigned to work, and we are reminded that the seventh, eighth, ninth, and tenth hours- are indicated (on the sundial) by the letters ZH6I (" live ! ").

I have heard that the tutor of a certain college at Cambridge used to tell his men to work six hours a day, warning them that seven hours were worth no more than six, and "that eight were worth only five. EDWARD BENSLY.

Hath left crag-carven o'er the streaming Gelt. Tennyson, ' Gareth and Lynettes.
 * In letters like to those the vexillary