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noble abbey ruin and the beauty of the grove adjoining. He preached in the middle of this grove to large congregations on this and his two subsequent visits in the months of June, 1785 and 1789. Wesley's ' Journals ' are pub- lished complete, and are easily accessible.

HADLEY WATKINS. 33, The Watton, Brecon.

The account of John Wesley's visit to Downpatrick in June, 1778, may be found on p. 128 of the fourth volume of Wesley's 'Works,' published by the Wesleyan Book- Room, 2, Castle Street, City Road, or 66, Paternoster Row, Conference Edition, 1872. C. LAWRENCE FORD.

RINGERS' ARTICLES (9 th 8. i. 424). The lines from St. Cleer are curious and quite new to me, and my friend MR. I. C. GOULD deserves our thanks for recording this item of bell literature. The lines, dated 1756, which may be seen in the belfry of All Saints', Hastings, have been so often printed and quoted that it is scarcely necessary to do more than call attention to them. The first time they ap- peared was (I believe) in Moss's ' History and Antiquities of Hastings,' 1824, and they are to be found in nearly all the later guide-books. WALTER CROUCH.

Wanstead, Essex.

The best collection of these rules in rhyme occurs in ' Curiosities of the Belfry ' (Simp- kin, 1883). Variants of the "articles" quoted by MR. I. C. GOULD occur in that little volume. They are to be found at Southill, Beds ; Wendron, Cornwall ; and Calstock, Cornwall. D'ARCY LEVER.

Variants of the lines quoted by MR. GOULD will be found in ' Curious Church Customs ' (Andrews, 1895), p. 73, and in 'A Book about Bells ' (Tyack, 1898), p. 149.

JOHN T. PAGE.

West Haddon, Northamptonshire.

WALTER SCOTT'S 'ANTIQUARY' (9 th S. i. 267, 454). I have always understood that there were only two places on the east coast from which the sun could be seen both to rise and set in the sea, viz., Cromer and Whitby. From the west pier at the latter picturesque old town the sun may be observed to set in the sea. An incised line on the parapet directs to the furthest point at which the sun sets on the longest day. T. SEYMOUR.

9, Newton Road, Oxford.

LA MISERICORDIA : RULE OF LIFE OF THE THIRD ORDER OF FRANCISCANS (9 th S. i. 408, 457). There is an interesting account of the Compagnia della Misericordia at Florence in

vol. ii. pp. 204-7 of ' What I Remember,' by my late friend Thomas Adolphus Trollope, showing the order as it existed perhaps about 1844. The dress seems to have been the same for more than five hundred years from 1348, when the plague devastated Flo- rence : " A loose black linen gown drapes the figure from the neck to the heels, and a black cowl, with two holes cut for the eyes, covers and effectually conceals the head and face." JOHN PICKFORD, M.A. Newbourne Rectory, Woodbridge.

One may mention in this connexion Mrs. Ewing's touching little story for children ' Brothers of Pity,' of which the compagnia supplies the motive.

EDWARD H. MARSHALL, M.A.

SNEEZING (8 th S. xi. 186, 314, 472, 516). I should like to add to what your various corre- spondents have said as to the "custom of salutation" when a person sneezes, that amongst the Pacific islanders (I speak more particularly as to the Fijians) one often hears, upon a person sneezing, a native exclaim, "Bula!" which means "May you live !" or " Bless you ! " J. S. UDAL.

Fiji.

SUPERSTITIONS (9 th S. i. 87, 249, 351). Cen- turies before Milton, Csedmon had made the angel of presumption declare that

He in the north part a home and lofty seat of heaven's kingdom would possess ;

and, again, that " he west and north would begin to work"- while, centuries before Caed- mon, Isaiah had written of Lucifer (xiv. 13), "I will sit also upon the mount of the congregation in the sides of the north." We must remember that on " the north side lieth the city of the great King " (Psalm xlviii. 2). " Le Nord c'etait la zone du Diable, 1'enfer de la nature, tandis que le Sud en etait 1'fiden," says Abbe Plomb in Huysmans's ' La Cathe- drale,' p. 311. I think, with Durtal, though not altogether on the same grounds, that symbolists have made a mistake.

ST. SWITHIN.

A note in the Clarendon Press edition of Milton's poems on the passage referred to ('P. L.,' v. 688-9) says : " Satan is called 'monarch of the north' in '1 Henry VI.,' V. iii. Cf. Isaiah xiv. 12, 13." Knight's note on the above line of Shakspeare is as follows : "'The monarch of the north,' says Douce, 'was Zimmar, one of the four principal devils invoked by witches." Kirke White, in his ' Christiad,' represents the devils as