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Houlder, Copland and one Rouse had their ears cut off. One Harris who came from Barbadoes was whipped twice in one week. Two Quakers named Southwick were fined 10Z. for not coming to church, and refusing to pray or to work in gaol were ordered to be sold to the plantations. William Brand and William Leddra, two foreigners, were whipped at Boston. William Robinson of London, merchant, Marmaduke Santanzen of Yorkshire, yeoman, and Mary Dyer, returning after banishment on pain of <Jeath, Endicott the governor sentenced them to death and they were accordingly hanged. Lawrence Southwick, Cassandra Southwick, S. Shallock and N. Phillips were also banished, but Wm. Leddra who had been several times whipped, again returning after banishment was finally executed.

The Witch, Plague Tumba, an Indian woman, was imprisoned for bewitching the daughter of Mr. Paris, the minister of Salem. Mr. George Burrows, minister of Falmouth, was indicted for bewitching Mary Walcot and others of Salem, and was hanged. Bridget Bishop was also condemned : she had been accused twenty years before by Samuel Gray for bewitching him, but he -confessed at his death that his accusation was false. Sarah, Good was accused by Mr. Npyes, the minister of Salem, of being a witch. Rebecca Nurse so vehemently asserted her innocence at her trial that the jury returned a verdict of "Not guilty," ,t>ut the witnesses (the bewitched) made such an outcry against the verdict that she was again tried, and found "guilty." John Willard was hanged on the evidence of a ghost or "spectral witness" as it was called. George Jacobs was condemned on the evi- dence of his grand -daughter, who to save her own life confessed herself a witch, and was forced to appear against her grand- father. She afterwards recanted her con- fession. Martha Corey, wife of Giles Corey, was hanged, and protesting her innocence to the last, concluded with a beautiful prayer on the ladder. Eight other women were condemned, but had the good fortune to be reprieved. There were at the same time 150 other victims of the same prosecu- tions, and above 200 more under accusation.

M. N.

' ' THE TOMMY - KNOCKERS. ' ' American and Canadian mining papers have recently published a short poem under the above title by Samuel B. Ellis. In a foot-note we .are told that the tommy-knocker is the

gnome of the underground, who is often heard tapping the rock in mines, and super- stitious miners do not like to work alone for fear of meeting him. In the 'N.E.D.' he is simply called " knocker " and described as a spirit or goblin imagined to dwell in mines and to indicate the presence of ore by knocking. Judging by the personal de- scription of him given in one of the three quotations in the 'N.E.D.', the superstition about him has evidently been imported into this country by German miners in past centuries. L. L. K.

THE STRAND LAW COURTS. A more or less complete bibliography of the fairly voluminous literature which was evoked by the "battle of the sites " which raged in the 'sixties, and the hardly less violent criticism of the designs selected and carried out in the succeeding years, might now be of some interest. If so, these will make a modest commencement ;

1869. Correspondence relating to the site of the New Courts and Offices of Law, reprinted from The Times, with plans of the Caiey Street and Thames Embankment sites, as' they now are, and as they are proposed to be. Published by John B. Day, 3 Savoy Street, Strand, W.C., 8vo., pp. 40, two folding plans.

1872. The New Courts of Justice. Notes in reply to criticisms. By George Edmund Street, R.A., Bivingtons, Waterloo Place, 8vo., pp. 21.

W. B. H.

EPITAPH. In the churchyard of Church Stretton, Salop, is the following curious Epitaph :

" In Memory of Ann the Wife of Thomas Cook, who died June 9, 1814, aged 60 years. On a Thursday she was' born On a Thursday made a bride On a Thursday her leg was broke And on a Thursday died."

JOHN B. WAINEWRIGHT.

ARMS OF ENGLAND AND FRANCE. At 12 S. iii. 419 I wrote stating that 1 had found over the south door of the church of Church Brampton, Northants, a shield cut in stone with England in the 1st and 4th quarters, the date being pro- bably about 1340, when Edward III. claimed France. Recently looking over some photographs taken during a commission in the Mediterranean, 1893-6, I found one of the castle built by the Knights of St. John early in the fourteenth century at Budrum, the ancient Halicarnassus, the site of the tomb of King Mausolus. The south- east tower was added to the castle by