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Dr. Tut ham's Bampton Lectures in 1789. It is not likely that the Kritih der Eeinen Vernunft, published at Riga in 1781., and which for some years was almost unknown in Germany, should have reached Oxford in its first year. H. B. C. U. U. Club.

Cuckoo Superstition (2 nd S. i. 386.) The popular belief in Norfolk is, that whatever you arc doing the first time you hear the cuckoo, that you will do most frequently all the year. Another is, that an unmarried person will remain single as many years as the cuckoo, when first heard, utters its call.

Milton says, in his sonnet to the nightingale : " Thy liquid notes that close the eye of clay First heard before the shallow cuckoo's bill

Portend success in love "

Gamekeepers believe that hawks in the spring turn into cuckoos, and reassuine their proper form when he ceases to be heard. This belief must have prevailed in Sweden, for Linnaaus says of the Cuculus Canorus in his Regnum Animate : "In lUlconein transformari perperarn asseritur."

E. G. R.

Ague (2 nd S. i. 386.) A friend, to my know- ledge, has cured persons of this disease by ad- ministering a pinch of candle-snuff, not as a charm, but as a potent medicine. In the last visitation of the cholera, a paragraph went the round of the papers, recommending charcoal from a burnt cork us an efficacious remedy. Carbon may prove a very powerful drug when properly administered.

E. G. R.

Olympia Morata (2 nd S. i. 455.) The version of the epitaph of Olympia Morata, given by I Sonnet, being inaccurate, I send a copy of the transcript I made of it in 1844, in the church of St. Peter at Heidelberg.* F. C. B.

" Deo Imm. S.

Et virtuti ac memorise Olympian Morataa Fulvij

Morati Ferrariensis plrilosophi filiae Andrea; Gruntle

rj Medicj cojugis, lectissiaa feminae, ctii ingeniu ac sin

^ularia utriusq ; lingua; cognitio, in morib' autc probitas

sumumq; pietatis studiu supra comunem modum scper

existimata sunt. Quod de eius vita hominu iudicium

Beata mors, sanctissime ac pacatissime ab ea obita di

vino quoq; confirmavit testimonio : Obiit mutato solo A. salutis d. 1. v. sup. inilles. Jitat.

xxix. hie cu marito et JEmilio fre sepulta Gulielm' Rascalo

nus M.D. B.B. M.M. P.P."

Inn, frc., Signs (2 nd S. i. 372.) The Fortunes (f Nigel (vol. ii. ch. iv. p. 54.). The following forms the motto to the chapter ; and whether authentic or apocryphal, it is worth noting, even with the

[* Our correspondent's version of the epitaph is also given, without the abbreviations, iu Noltenii, Comment. Hist. Crit.ica dc Olympia Morata: Vita. Francof. 1775,

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"old play" before one's eyes, Jed. Cleisbotham, Cap. Clutterbuck, Dr. Dryasdust, &c., not for- gotten, as the possible rhyming sign to a possible ale-house :

" CHAPTER IV.

" Eove not from pole to pole the man lives here Whose razor's only equall'd by his beer; And where, in either sense, the cockney-put, May, if he pleases, get confounded cut.

On the sign of an alehouse kept by a Barber"

C. D. LAMONT.

Occasional Forms of Prayers (2 nd S. i. 247.) The following is a supplementary list to those be- fore given :

Fast for supplicating Almighty God for Pardon of our Sins, and imploring his Blessing and Protection in the Preservation of His Majesty's Sacred Person, and the Prosperity of his Arms at Land and Sea. By order of the Lords Justices. June 26. 1696.

Fast. War. Dec. 18. 1745.

Thanksgiving. Signal Success by Sea and Land. De- feat of the French Army in Canada, and particularly by the taking of Quebec, and abundant Harvest. Nov. 29. 1759.

Thanksgiving. Battle of Waterloo. July 2. 1815.

Coronation Service. George IV. July 19. 1821.

Ditto. King William IV. and Queen Adelaide. Sept. 8. 1831.

Prayers to be continued during His Majesty's Indisposi- tion. 1837.

Thanksgiving. End of War with Russia. May 4. 1856.

The notices of those from the reign of William and Mary to Geo. III. in " N. & Q." are particu- larly scanty, as the most attention appears to be given to the earlier forms. E. S. TAYLOK.

Ormesby St. Margaret.

Reprieve for Ninety-nine Years (2 nd S. i. 465.) ME. ANDREWS inquires if any instance can be adduced of a person, capitally convicted, having experienced the grace of a suspension of his sen- tence for ninety-nine years? In the year 1834, being at Gibraltar, an officer of the military staff of that garrison was pointed out to me as having i obtained a respite under such circumstances for

that period. His name was G, and having

been engaged in a fatal duel, had placed him in that predicament. This was the report, and if I was misinformed, the recentness of the date will admit of its being contradicted. A.

Punishment of a Scold (2 lld S. i. 490.) I would refer J. DE W., for a very interesting paper on this and other ancient customs of Wiltshire (and other counties of England) in the 2nd part of the Journal of the Wiltshire Archaeological Society, by a learned archasologist, Mr. F. A. Carrington, who therein describes the " cucking-stool " and the "trebuchets " used for regulating the tem- perament of the " ungentle portion of the gentler sex." According to this author, "coking-stools" were used at Wootton Basset, Kingstou-upon-