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prison, September Sessions, 1781, H. Jones and T. Davis).

We next hear of Madan at the December Sessions, 1780, when, with John Bailey and W. Cheetham, he was capitally convicted of privately stealing from the person to the value of 33Z. 18s., but was respited. He was -acquitted at the same sessions of larceny in a dwelling-house.

On the trial of Thomas Limpus, Septern^ ber, 1783, for returning from transportation, evidence was given of several "transports," including Madan, being shipped off in Oct- ober, 1782, on board the Benkiesa, to Goree, where the Governor was most unwilling to receive them, as he lacked victuals for his troops. The " transports " left the island -at the time it was ceded to the French.

I do not seem to have any note of Madan after this date, or of his conviction for return- ing from transportation. Frequently as he appears to have stood in the dock, his record will not in this respect compare with those of his contemporaries in crime, Patrick and Thomas Nowland. ERIC R. WATSON.

Inner Temple.

ILLUSTRATORS OF GOLDSMITH (11 S. xii. 160). Here are names of artists I have been able to decipher on the drawings of my own copy of Goldsmith's ' Works,' of the same edition as MR. ANEURIN WILLIAMS' s v(with Introduction, notes, and a Life of O. G. "by J. F. Waller, LL.D., R.I.A., printed in London by Cassell, Fetter & Galpin) : Percy Justyne, W. J. Allen, L. Gilbert, H. Anelay, R. P. Leitch, T. Morten, and T. H. Wilson.

This is, however, a very incomplete list, AS it accounts for but 49 of the 103 illustra- tions, not to mention the engrossed headings of chapters and the framing of every page.

Many of the drawings, indeed, are signed but with initials (A. W., T. S., R. L., and -J. T. B.). The majority have been engraved by J. Cooper. It is to be noticed that Pannemaker has contributed three of the finest engravings (pp. xxix, 161, and 169), in which are displayed once more the famous master's skill and ability.

I have dared to send this rather poor reply, after having waited for a better one to be published, as I fear this interesting query might be forgotten. It would be strange that such a recent publication (MR. WILLIAMS dates it from the fifties or the sixties) should be so unknown in its most notable features.

JOHN TH. ROBY. Montreal.

FOLK-LORE AT SEA : THE RABBIT IN

BRITAIN (12 S. i. 66, 154, 235, 317). The rabbit was in Orkney long before 1502. In the King's Rental of that date (Peterkin's ' Rentals,' No. 1) tenants of links and farms in the islands of Sandey, Papey-Westrey, and Burrey, and in the parishes of Sandwick and Deernes on the Mainland, paid rent in " cunnings " or cuniculi and " cunningis skinnis " or pellium cuniculorum, at the same rate as had been paid antiquitus, viz., 114 rabbits and 1,314 rabbit-skins in all.

There is no Old Norse word for rabbit, the modern Icelandic being kanina, Danish kanin. The ' Orkneyinga Saga ' relates that in 1155 the earl went at veffia hera, to catch hares, in a " small island " ( ? ). As hares do not frequent small islands, and as there was no Old Norse word for rabbits, possibly rabbits were meant by hera.

Chelsea.

ALFRED W. JOHNSTON.

THE COUNTESS OF HUNTINGDON'S CHAPELS (12 S. i. 247, 352). Several early chapels of the body that was financially supported by the Countess of Huntingdon are still used for public worship, although of these some have passed from the possession of the Connexion to other ownership.

The Tabernacle at Norwich, in which James Wheatley preached, is still standing, I believe. It was built on Timber Hill in 1751, and the ministrations of Wheatley, William Cudworth, and Mr. Silverthorne led to extraordinary riots between Nov. 25 and Dec. 17 of that year. The opposition to the new Evangelicalism, which was identified with Whiggism, was organized by the Jacobite " Hell-Fire Club," which met at the Blue Bell on Orford Hill, and extraordinary processions were organized, wherein the persons of the Blessed Trinity were sym- bolized in a revolting fashion, and in which a coffin was carried to the house where Mr. Silverthorne lay dying, and thence to Castle Hill and the Dikes, where it was burnt.

In 1754 a second Tabernacle, now used by Baptists, was erected at Forncett End. For the congregation there Cudworth wrote his preface to a printed sermon on St. Luke xii. 32, in that year. On the morning of March 25, 1759, he preached there in person, and was followed in the afternoon by Mr. John Wesley. Local tradition, in the con- gregation, affirms that Mr. Wesley was requested to refrain from further ministra- tions there, and certain asperities in his ' Journal ' would indicate that his visit to Forncett End was not entirely free from occasions of irritation.