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The passage referred to in the ' Life of St. Paternus ' is :

" Tune Paternus monasteria et ecclesias per totam Cereticam regionem edificavit, quibus duces statuit, idem Samson. Guinnius, Guipper, Nimanauc." 'Cambro-British Saints,' 191.

Of a saint of whom so little is known as of Genewys it is possible to believe anything. DAVID SALMON.

One wonders, and ventures an hypothesis as to this saint with the professed Scotton dedication in co. Lincoln is he a possible variant of Genys, Bishop and Martyr ? According to Fisher and Gould's ' Lives of British Saints,' vol. iii., he is connected with the church deanery of Trigg Minor in North- East Cornwall, and is supposed to be a substitute for Gwynys, son of Brychan. Llandough in Glamorganshire was formerly dubbed Llangenys. Identity remains un- solved. ANEURIN WILLIAMS.

Miss Arnold-Forster discusses the question in ' Studies in Church Dedications,' vol. i. pp. 477-8, and assumes, " in the absence of more particular knowledge," that this saint is Genesius, Bishop of Clermont.

JOHN B. WAINEWRIGHT.

MARY, QUEEN or SCOTS (12 S. ii. 311). The best account of the battle of Langside ("Langdyke") is to be found in 'The Battle of Langside, 1568,' by the late Alexander M. Scott (Glasgow, Hugh Hopkins, 1885). Besides a detailed account of the battle itself, this narrates the events that led up to it ; gives a description of the disposition of the Queen's and the Regent Moray's forces ; the roads leading to Langside from Hamilton and Glasgow ; of the battlefield itself ; and of the subsequent events. There are also chapters on the armour and weapons of the period, relics of the battle, and last (but not ^east) an excellent map of the locality.

It may interest those who are not ac- quainted with the locality to know that the battlefield, though now actually in the city of Glasgow, and largely built over, can stiil be traced. One can- follow the road by which the Queen's forces advanced, and walk up the actual road, formerly the " Lang Loan," but now dignified with the name of Battlefield Avenue, which her army pushed up to come to grips with Moray s men. It is only a few years since one could see the hedges, or rather the successors of the hedges, behind which Kirkaldy of Grange posted his hagbutters ; and portions of the buildings where Moray drew up his left wing still exist. T. F. D.

HOUSE AND GARDEN SUPERSTITION'S (12 S. ii. 89, 138, 159, 214). 5. It io generally believed in this part and my repeated ex- periments tend to its confirmation that the cuttings of the sweet-potato stems, if planted upside down, will unerringly bear copious flowers and en revanche poor roots.

KUMAGUSU MlNAKATA. Tanabe, Kii, Japan.

MEWS OR MEWYS FAMILY (12 S. ii. 26, 93, 331). I should like to ask DR. J. L. WHITE- HEAD, after thanking him for his deeply interesting communique, why he says that Peter Mewys or Mews died before 1597.

Was his will proved in that year ? And if so, where ? STEPNEY GREEN.

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Proceedings of the Cambridge Antiquarian Society, October, 1914 May, 1915. No. LXVII. (7s. 6d. net.)

Outside the Bamirell Gate : Another Chapter in the Intimate History of Mediceval Cambridge. By the Hev. H. P. Stokes. (Cambridge, Bowes & Bowes ; London, G. Bell & Sons, 5s. net.)

DR. STOKES'S pamphlet is printed for the Cam- bridge Antiquarian Society, a learned body which finds, doubtless, a sufficient local public for its transactions, but which is well worth the attention of the outside world. The papers in the number before us offer several points of interest. Prof. McKenny Hughes returns to a subject he has already discussed in a paper ' On Some Objects found in the King's Ditch under the Masonic Hall.' Cambridge, owing to its low-lying position on the river, was from early times abundantly provided with ditches, and older plans of the town show how numerous they were. In the days when sanitation was not in vogue, these ditches gradually filled up with either mud or rubbish, or were strengthened with more solid matter in order to bear a building. When cleaned out, the ditches began to fill in again, and some- times received some of their old contents. So the succession of objects left for archaeologists is not always a regular sequence by date. The King's Ditch has a very respectable pedigree, for it was ordered to be cleaned by Henry IV. The portion examined in 1914 is close to Pem- broke. It included an extraordinary number of horses' heads, the animals being, the Professor suggests, killed for food. The remains of sheep, and a blade of a pair of shears, he refers to a Scotch form of a dish praised by Sir Walter Scott, " sheep's head," in which the wool was first clipped and then singed off. Some tobacco pipe- stems were found embedded in earthenware, and are illustrated, but the most curious discovery u-.-is that of two book-covers, which have been identified as the work of Garrett Godfrey, 1525-30. The design on them shows the gateway <>t the castle of Castile and the pomegranate of Catharine of Aragon.

In her Notes on ' Cambridgeshire Witchcraft ' Miss ('. E. Parsons explains the practices of this