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 12 S. VIII. JAN. 29, 1921.] NOTES AND QUERIES. 95 the other strongly against it, having as its leader Andrew Melville. As the rich living! became vacant the Earl of Morton (after wards Regent) overcame men's scruples b^ appointing superintendents or sham bishops and some of the clergy were tempted to accept these so called bishoprics for a verj small endowment, the rest of the revenue? being held by the greedy nobility. It is related that Earl Morton in talking to one Mr. John Douglas said : " Mr. John, listen I shall get you raised to the archbishopric o: St. Andrews, a part of the revenue shall b< yours the rest mine. You understand ? ' and so the deed was done. Mr. John hac the title and part of the revenue, but the bulk of it went to the Earl. The example thus set was soon followed. A crop of (Tulchan) Bishops soon sprang up. They got the droll name of Tulchans, a tulchar being a calf-skin stuffed full of straw se1 down before a cow that will not yield her milk. J. CLABE HUDSON. Woodhall Spa. These were titular bishops in Scotland about the year 1572. As to their real status and the origin of their name see McCrie's vol. i. p. 96 (4th ed., Edin., 1846). C. J. TOTTENHAM. Diocesan Library, Liverpool. T.ie briefest and most lucid explanation of fiat term is in the Introduction to Car lyle's ' I Betters of Oliver Cromwell.' G. B. M. rSeveral other correspondents thanked for re <plies.] A WAKE GAME (12 S. vii. 405). Under a very slightly different name, the " Jenny Jo " game was played twenty to forty years ago by children in the Carolinas and in Mississippi. People I have asked did not know of the game, however, in Texas or Wisconsin. I was much pleased to find a iew months ago that it has been placed upon a phonograph record, along with similar song-games. "Miss Jennia Jones," slightly doctored, I think, from the form in which I knew it as a boy, is in the ' Third Bubble Book,' a printed book with records in pockets, prepared by the Columbia Grapho- phone Co., and published by Harper & Brothers. It is doubtless procurable in England as well as in America. And the i-une is the same I was used to sing : "One player acts the part of the mother and -stands so as to hide the other player, Jennia Jones, behind her. The other players form aline facing the mother and. with hands joined, skip forward and backward (eight steps each way) and bow at the words how is she to-day? ' The mother makes the appropriate motions to indicate washing, ironing, etc. Whenever the players say 'white they all attempt to run away. The first one Jennia catches takes her place and Jennia herself takes the part of the mother. Then the game is repeated. ' The first stanza and refrain are : We've come to see Miss Jennia Jones, Miss Jennia Jones, Miss Jennia Jones, We've come to see Miss Jennia Jones, And how is she to-day ? ( She's washing.) We're right glad to hear it, To hear it, to hear it, We're right glad to hear it, And how is she to-day ? The second stanza repeats, changing the reply to " She's ironing " ; .and the third, to "She's dead." Then the refrain changes "glad" to "sorry," and the query is "What shall we dress her in ? " Blue is for sailors, and will never do ; red is for firemen ; pink is for babies ; but "White is for angels, so that of course will do." For the last line of the refrain, we sang "We'll call another day " ; and instead of being "right glad," we were "very glad.' And we should not have known then what a " wake " is, if we had been asked. R. H. GRIFFITH.
 * Sketches of (Scottish) Church History,
 * CNOLLABE : PULSARE (12 S. vii. 502 ;

viii. 37). It may be interesting, in connexion with H. C.'s important article under this heading, to note that in the early accounts of Queen's College, Oxford (1340-1480) ncla is never used for a bell. Campana is the regular word, tintinndbulum being used twice, both times for a small bell, in the expenses of the chapel, pro factura tintinnahuli iiijd and pro tintinnabulo iiijd ? In view of the suggestion that nola may be a clapper, it is to be observed that under tintinnabuLum Vlaigne d'Arnis gives tintinnabulum campane, as tudicula, battant, i.e.. hammer or clapper. JOHN B. MAGBATH. Queen's College. Oxford. CHARTTJLARIES (12 S. vii. 330, 414 ; Hi. 56). In a handbook drawn up for the se of contributors to the 'Victoria County History ' will be found a list of chartularies ing to Beaulieu are Cottonian MS. Nero A. XII. ; Duke of Portland, 1832 ; Harl. MSS. 3602, 6603. In Sim's 'Manual for the Genea- ogist ' there is also a list of chartularies. t therefore seems that "a bibliography of
 * ounty by county. The chartularies refer -