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 266 NOTES AND QUERIES. [12 S.VHI. APRILS 1021. 18. "JEtm more to George the Skavellman mcli the 18 th . . . . . . . . 00 04 06 Itni the same day to Tho Somers . . 00 12 08 Itm the same day to young pownd . . 00 00 06 Itni the same day to George the Skavell- man 03 00 09' 21. Itm to John Taylor for his mans worke mche 21 . . . . . . . . 00 04 00 Itm more for a dales work . . . . 00 00 06 Itm to Thomas Somers for lendinge the sluce . . . . . . . . . . 00 01 00 24. Itm to yaxleys svant for work . . 00 01 06 ,Itm for a shulve that was broken . . 00 00 08 .Itm for half a daies work . . . . 00 00 06 Itm more for a dales work . . . . 00 01 00 Htm for cuttinge heath in Sizewell Comon . . . . . . 00 03 04 Itm to Boothe for tendinge the sluce 00 06 00 .Itm to Wolnoughe for caryinge half a load of brome . . . . . . 00 00 04 Htm to M. r hayward for ii loads and half of broms . . . . . . 00 01 00 I Itm to him for a gune of bere . . 00 03 06 Itm for two cans and tapps. . . . 00 00 07 !ltm to Mathewe Goodinge for 3 forks 00 00 06 Itm for a payre of tynes for a fork. . 00 00 06 .Itm to Thomas Somers for fynishing the breach. . . . . . 10 00 00 Htm paid to the widow Gildersleeves for the .use of a lyter. . . . . . 00 09 00 Aldeburgh, Suffolk. 18 09 04 ARTHUR T. WINN. DEATHS. The following notes may be found useful : At Edinburgh, Dec. 30, 1788, Hon. Geo. Cranstoun. At London, Dec. 28, 1788, Rev. John Logan. At Cork, Dec. 16, 1788, Mary Welsh, wife of John Anderson. At Tanfield, Jan. 3, 1.789, Margaret Grant, widow of George Cowan, cabinet -maker in ^Edinburgh. At Campbeltown, Jan. 2, 1789, Ronald XU^mpbell. At Captaintown, Jan. 2, 1789, William McKinnell, merchant in Dumfries. At London, January, 1789, William Maude, Esq., Army agent in Downing Street. J* At London, January, 1789, William Da-vson, Esq., formerly a captain in the 57th Regiment of Foot. At Alderston, Jan. 8, 1789, Alexander -Orme. At Leith, Jan. o, 1789, Isabel Mitchel, iwidow of Capt. Robert Robb. At Edinburgh, Jan. 8, 1789, Anne Hay, wife of Alexander McDougal, surgeon in Edinburgh. At Spatt, East Lothian, Jan. 6, 1789, Rev. William Crombie, minister of Spott. (12/1 /y.) JAMES SETON-ANDERSON. 39 Carlisle Road, Hove. Sussex. LABRADOR FANCIES. In 'A Labrador Doctor,' Wilfred Thomason Grenfell, M.D., states (pp. 143, 144): " There is a great belief in fairies on the coast. .... More than one had given currency if not credence to the belief that the reason why the bull's-eye was so hard to hit in one of our running deer rifle matches was that we had previously charmed it. If a woman sees a hare without cutting out and keeping a portion of the dress she is then wearing, her child will be born with a hare lip. When stripping a person for examination I noticed that he removed from his neck what appeared to be a very large scapular. . . .It was a haddock's fin-bone a charm against rheuma- tism. The peculiarity of the fin consists in the fact that the fish must be taken from the water and the fin cut out before the animal touches anything whatever, especially the boat. Any one who has seen a trawl landed knows how difficult a task this would be, with the jumping squirming fish to cope with." The difficulty of getting the remedy is naturally a safeguard of its reputation. ST. SWITHIN. PILGRIMS. In the discussion on London street " grottoes " (12 S. vii. 209, 237, 238, 316) and in the earlier one on Eng- lish Pilgrimages with special reference to Santiago de Compostela (12 S. i. 275, 396, 455 : ii. 379) no one referred to Dante's ' Vita Nuova,' which contains this passage (I quote from Rossetti's translation) :- " And I wrote this sonnet, which beginneth ' Ye pilgrim folk.' I made use of the word pilgrim for its general signification ; for ' pilgrim ' may be understood in two senses, one general, and one special. General, so far as any man may be called a pilgrim who leaveth the place of his birth ; whereas, more narrowly speaking, he only is a pilgrim who goeth towards or frowards the House of St. James. For there are three separate denominations proper unto those who undertake journeys to the glory of God. They are called Palmers who go beyond the seas eastward, whence often they bring palm-branches. And Pilgrims, as I have said, are they who journey unto the holy House of Gallicia ; seeing that no other apostle was buried so far from his birthplace as was the blessed Saint James. And there is a third sort who are called Romers ; in that they go whither those whom I havv? called pilgrims went : which is to say unto Rome." fe. JOHN B. WAINEWRIGHT.