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78 NOTES AND QUERIES. [i2s.ix.jm.Y23. 1021. (12 S. viii. 471, 518). William Gates of Pontefract lived, at the time of the Hearth Tax, in a house in the Nant Market, one of the largest and best in the town, and therefore would probably contain 7 hearths. The house was called "The Leaden Porch." I shall be glad to give R. G. S. further information of the Gates family of Pontefract if he cares to write direct to me.

(12 S. viii. 511; ix. 39, 59). In any bibliography of books on sundials, the following should certainly find a place 'Primitive Sundials, or Scratch Dials, Containing a list of those in Somerset.' By Dom Ethelbert Home, with a Preface by [the late] Dr. J. Charles Cox, F.S.A., Taunton: Barnicott and Pearce, The Wessex Press, 1917 ; pp. xii. and 90 ; 8vo., with 17 plates. This work is a delightful specimen of a learned enthusiast on ancient sundials, and should be better known. J. CLARE HUDSON. Woodhall Spa. The enclosed clipping, from Rochdale Observer, Aug. 12, 1916, re a noted sundial may prove serviceable in the history of sundials. A REMARKABLE SUNDIAL. INTERESTING TIME INDICATOR AT BAGSLATE. Writing to us yesterday, Mr. James Kershaw Grindrod, of Ivy Cot, Oulder Hill, directed attention to an extremely interesting old time- teller which may be seen at Bagslate. In the letter Mr. Grindrod said : In these days of day- light saving and altered clock time, it might interest your readers to know of the remark- able sundial at Clay Lane House, Bagslate, the old home of the Kershaw family, for some time occupied as' Norden Vicarage, and the tem- porary home for crippled children before their removal to the picturesque mansion erected by the munificence of Mr. Walter Scott, J.P. On this sundial the " time shadow " from the ; gnomon at noon is contrasted with the time at distant places on the earth's surface, such j as Jerusalem, Surat, Siam, Ispahan, the Bar- badoes, New York, Lisbon, &c. The sundial I bears the name of the owner, John Kershaw, j and the date, 1807. Thus it is dated two years after the great naval battle of Trafalgar, and eight years previous to the Hundred Days j Campaign which closed at Waterloo. The stonedial measures 22 J inches square and is 3J inches thick. Its Latin inscriptions are cut deep, but are somewhat obscure through old paint or other " filling." They appear to read in the left-hand corner " Vegetate f orate, Tempus Mors," and in the right-hand corner " Tempus Obit, Fugit, Venit." The John Kershaw mentioned was interred in St. James's Church, Ashworth, which is more widely known as " Ashworth Chapel," and is in the gift of the Rt. Hon. Earl Egerton of Tatton. Inside this church there also rest the remains of John Milne and his Wife, relative of John Kershaw, and grandfather and grand- mother of the late Professor John Milne, the world-famed seismologist, and a native of Rochdale. FRED I.. TAVABE. 22, Trentham-street, Pendleton, Manchester. DE BBTJS TOMB AT HABTLEPOOL. (12 S. ix. 30). The town and haven of Hartle- pool were once defended on every side with , walls, except where the abrupt eastern cliffs and rocky coast rendered all defence needless. In the time of some of the earlier historians Hartlepool exhibited a perfect and interesting specimen of the fortifications , of former times, having a long extended wall, strengthened by demi-bastions at intervals, some rounded, others square ;
 * gates and sally-ports, secured by machicola-

tions and the portcullis, some of the gates defended by angular, others by square tur- rets in short, displaying all the variety in fortifications which had grown into use in those days. These walls appear to have been originally reared by Robert De Brus in the latter part of the thirteenth century. The early history of this place is very scanty, and relates chiefly to a religious establishment noticed in Bede's ' Life of St. Hilda,' but which finally perished during the Danish invasion. Who was this Robert Da Brus ? No doubt the tomb is that of his family JAMES SETON-ANDEBSON. 39, Carlisle Road, Hove, Sussex. PENZANCE FAIR : ' CAPUT JOHANNIS IN Disco ' (12 S. ix., 30). There are long letters on this subject in The Tablet for July 2 and 9, and no doubt the correspondence in that paper will continue. HARMATOPEGOS. WILLOW PATTEBN CHINA (12 S. viii. 496). The Willow Pattern, an opera in two epi- sodes, by Basil Hood, music by Cecil Cook, was produced at the Savoy Theatre on Nov. 14, 1901. ARCHIBALD SPARKE. RUSTIC NAMES FOR FLOWERS (12 S, ix. 29). I have heard White Arabis called "Snow on the Mountain," and the Red Garden Hawkweed " Grim the Collier." Both of these, I think, are quaint descrip- tive names. C. B. E.