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failed to extinguish life and the fatal blow which cut through the veins and the cartilage."

According to the book published by the late Rev. Samuel Kinns relating to Holy Trinity, Minories, and entitled ' Six Hun- dred Years,' the head was discovered by Lord Dartmouth in 1852 when he was inspecting the vaults of his ancestors.

See also 8 S. viii. 286, 393 ; x. 72, 144. JOHN T. PAGE.

Long Itchington, Warwickshire.

" BABLEYMOW " : ITS PRONUNCIATION (12 S. iv. 74, 196). In Hampshire the public-house name of "Barleymow" is pro- nounced as if it rimed with " how." In Hampshire dialect the word " mow " has three meanings.

1. A stack of corn in a barn, as distinct from one out of doors.

They tied him to a cart,

And carried him to a barn ; And there they made a mow of him To keep him free from harm.

' Ballad of John Barleycorn,' Hampshire version.

2. The wooden division separating the parts of a barn.

3. The part so separated.

JOHN HAUTENVILLE COPE,

Ed Proceedings of the Hampshire

Field Club and Archaeological Society

HAMPSHIRE CHURCH BELLS (12 S. iv. 188). In Walters's 'Church Bells of England' (Frowde, 1912) it is said that John Higden, whose bells are to be found in Hampshire, flourished between 1616 and 1652 ; and the unknown R. B. between 1571 and 1624. ' Both men were probably resident at Win- chester or Southampton" (p. 221).

ARCHIBALD SPARKE.

ROMAN MILESTONES IN CORNWALL (12 S. iv. 245). Mr. J. Harris Stone in ' England's Riviera ' at p. 268, referring to Sancreed, writes :

" From the top of Caer Bran the remains of an old Roman road run north, called locally Grassy Lane."

At p. 224 he writes :

" Roman roads in Cornwall are conspicuous by their absence .... There is .... some slight evidence that a road ran as far as the River Fal, but we have no proof that any regular Roman road ran to Land's End. Indeed, I find Carew (1602) noticing the absence of Roman roads in Cornwall : ' for highways, the Romans did not extend theirs so far.' "

So probably there were no milestones.

JOHN B. WAINE WRIGHT.

BEES IN THE TROPICS : Do THEY GENER- ALLY NOT STORE HONEY ? (12 S. iv. 215.) This will be found, for one place, in a book published some six or seven years ago, ' Recollections of a Beachcomber.' The author's name is forgotten. He imported honey bees into an island he had bought or rented from the New Zealand or Australian Government, and found after a season that, with the profusion of flowers, they lived only for themselves, and got mixed with the native insects, if my memory is right, , and refused to make honey for him.

S. L. PETTY.

Ul version.

[The book referred to is doubtless Mr. Safrpni- Middleton's ' Sailor and Beachcomber : Confessions of a Life at Sea, in Australia, and amid the Islands of the Pacific ' (Grant Richards, 1916).]

STEVENSON'S 'THE WRONG Box' (12 S. iv. 159, 224, 257). 2. Obliterated voyagers. Possibly R. L. S. meant that " the cus- tomary freight of " voyagers in the train as it " travelled forth into the world " would be obliterated from the gaze of any who saw it pass. J. R. H.

AUTHORS OF QUOTATIONS WANTED (12 S. iv. 304). 3. A protracted correspondence on the subject of the genesis of this prophecy took place in The Observer in November and December,, 1915, but nothing defitiite resulted. The version in the memory of an elderly lady who started the correspondence, and who remembered reading the lines at the time of the Crimean War, ran as. follows :

In 1854 the Bear

The Crescent shall'assail ;

But if the Bull and Cock unite

The Bear shall not prevail.

In three score years again, I ween,

Let Islam know and fear,

The Cross shall wave [sic], the Crescent wane,

Dissolve, and disappear.

One writer suggested that the author was Nostradamus, the pseudonym of a French Jew, who was born in 1503 and who wrote a collection of prophecies (some 1,200) between 1555 and 1558 which attracted the attention of Catherine de Medicis. But another writer had searched this author's works in vain for the lines ; and yet another pointed out that they could not have been written by Nostradamus, as England, was not known as the Bull till after the time when Arbuthnot published his ' History of John Bull ' in 1712.

I may, however, observe parenthetically that Nostradamus seems to have been gifted with wonderful foresight. Take tins example, for instance :

" One shall arise who shall cause the God of the infernal Huns to live again, the terror of mankind Never were greater horrors nor more evil days than those that shall come to the Latins by this scion, of Babel." WILLOUGHBY MAYCOCK.