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three places of that name from which tc select, Pikenham arid Banham are probably Pickenhara and Banham, in Norfolk, while Godestok may be Godstow, Oxfordshire. Haresternes is perhaps Hallystone, North- umberland ; and Christianakelda may be iden- tified with Hallikeld, a " holy spring," in the North Hiding. " Aqua de Gonne," if it is, as I imagine, a mistake or a misreading for "Aqua de Donne," would be the River Don.

ISAAC TAYLOR.

"BUGALUG" (8 th S. xi. 247). This scarcely looks like a genuine Dorset word, but I find I have it (bug-a-lug) in my interleaved copy of Barnes's 'Grammar and Glossary of the Dorset Dialect,' as having much the same significance as that given by the EDITOR OF THE 'ENGLISH DIALECT DICTIONARY.' The meaning I have attached to it is, " A stick placed in the ground covered with clothes to represent a person ; a scarecrow "; and its locality is given as that of Purbeck, which would cover Swanage. J. S. UDAL.

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JOHN STEVENSON, THE COVENANTER (9 th S. i. 46). The tract referred to, written by John Stevenson for his children and grand- children, with a preface by the Rev. Mr. Cupples, of Kirkos wald, vouching for the extra- ordinary and well-known piety of the author, is to be found in the publications of the Wodrow Society. It is marked by the gloom, the self -inspection, the morbid conscience, the superstition, and the frequent Scriptural, more especially Old Testament, allusion which characterized the religion of the day. At the same time it gives a very fair and calm statement of the Covenanters' position and their reason for " taking up arms." It is more a history of the experiences of the inner than of the outer life of the man, but several biographical facts are stated, though always in their relation to the former. When a young man he was present at a conventicle held by the Rev. Thomas Kennedy, Lasswade (Leswalt), in the hall of Killocnan Castle, where he first received serious religious im- pressions, which were afterwards confirmed at a great gathering on the Hill of Craigdow. Next year he was at the battle of Bothwell Bridge, mounted on one of his father's farm- horses. For some years thereafter he was a marked man, and was constantly in hiding, sometimes in his father's stackyard at Cam- regan,in ruined biggings,in Dailly Mill, and in the churchyard, where he often slept sweetly with a grave for his pillow. After the Re- volution settlement, though he had serious scruples, spending a whole day in the fields

with his Bible to settle the matter, he at last felt it to be his duty to join the re-established church and afterwards to become an elder. He represented the Kirk Session for a time in the Presbytery of Ayr and Synod of Glas- gow and Ayr. He died in 1729. The monu- ment referred to by your correspondent was erected some fifteen years ago by the people of the district over his grave, not in a " town," but in the old churchyard where he used to find a hiding-place. The ivied walls of the old church, roofless since the Revolution, are still standing, and on this grand old spot, guarded by ancient trees, where mingles the dust of Crusaders, soldiers of Robert the Bruce, and Covenanters, a modern "con- venticle," largely attended from the surround- ing districts, is held once a year and has been continued now for twenty-eight years.

By the ^ way, Sir Herbert Maxwell and other Celtic etymologists are surely mistaken in saying that the name of this parish Dailly is from a root meaning " thorns." The older form of the present name, which occurs in the old leaden communion tokens, is Daly, and the original name of the parish is Dal- makerran, and this, taken in connexion with strongly marked natural features, is con- clusive that the name indicates the Parish of the Dale. G. T.

WILLIAM PENN (8 th S. xii. 488; 9 th S. i. 50). The DUKE DE MORO will find a list of the persons who accompanied William Penn to Pennsylvania in 1682 in the appendix to 'The Life of William Penn,' by S. M. Janney, sixth edition, published by the Friends' Book Association, Philadelphia.

NEWTON WADE.

Newport, Mon.

MRS. WEBB, ACTRESS (9 th S. i. 128). She was buried in the churchyard of St. Paul's, Covent Garden, and if the registers of that time were not afterwards destroyed by fire, of which I have some doubt, a reference to them would enable her Christian name to be ascertained. I possess a few early Glasgow and Edinburgh playbills in which her name appears. At the former town she seems to tiave played in 1775 Mrs. Snip (' Harlequin's Invasion') 'and Lady Catherine Coldstream (' Maid of Bath '), and at the latter, in January and February, 1777, Queen (' Cymbeline '), Mysis (' Midas '), Lady Mary Oldboy ('School
 * or Fathers '), Mrs. Heidelberg, Chloris (' Re-

learsal '), Lady Dove (' Brothers '), Mrs. Sneak ('Mayor of Garrat'), Queen ('Richard III'), Lady pidham ('Nabob'), Mrs. Mecklin ('Commissary'). The years are not printed an the bills, but have oeen written on after-