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to offer him the following negative note of such windows that once were existent in the (now) Manchester Cathedral. Hollingworth, one of our earliest local historians, writing in 1654 and describing the (then) Collegiate Church in Manchester, writes that

" at the uppermost end of the outmost north alley was a very rich window, whereby was described our Saviour's arraignment and crucifixion, with some pictures of the Trinity, with these verses :

God that is of mighty most,

Fadur, and Son, and Holy Gost ;

Gyff [grace to them that shal doe well,]

And keep thayr soulis out of Hell,

That made thys wyndowe, as ye may see,

In worshippe of the Trenity."

When these windows disappeared there is no precise information, but gone they have.

RICHARD LAWSON. Urmston.

QUOTATIONS (9 th S. iii. 208).Could not the phrase " the weary Titan" be correctly applied to Atlas, as the name was given not only to the offspring of Uranus and Ge, but also to all their descendants, such as Prometheus, who, according to Apollodorus, was the brother of Atlas? The passage where the phrase occurs is in Matthew Arnold's poem 'Heine's Grave':

Yes, we arraign her ! but she, The weary Titan, with deaf Ears, and labour-dimmed eyes, Regarding neither to right Nor left, goes passively by, Staggering on to her goal, Bearing on shoulders immense, Atlantean, the load, Well-nigh not to be borne, Of the too vast orb of her fate.

T. P. ARMSTRONG. Putney.

May not the phrase " weary Titan " refer to Shelley's 'Prometheus'? It does not occur there verbally, but the sense of it does, in the line :

Dost thou faint, mighty Titan ?

We laugh thee to scorn. Act I. 1. 541.

WALTER W. SKEAT.

" RODFALL " (9 th S. iii. 89, 214). I think the following particulars, taken from my 'Seat in Essex,' p. Ill, may be of interest anc throw some light on the subject. I have no doubt in my mind that the "rodfall" al Horkesley Park is the one OLD SUBSCRIBER speaks of :

" In ancient deeds Horkesley Park is alluded t

as Neyland Park Tradition says that the ok

name was Red Park, called Red because King Johi used to hunt the red deer from here, and there stil stands in the Park an old oak, which is known a 4 King John's Oak.' A great proportion of the Ian

as disparked in the sixteenth century. There is o be seen here what is locally called a ' rod fall ' ; it s quite an archaeological curiosity. The ancient Boundaries of the Park are surrounded by a tre- mendous bank, quite 6 ft., in many places much hicker than this. It is more like a shelter trench ast up by soldiers than anything else we can com- >are it to. The bank is all round the house at a ^ery considerable distance from it, and within its onfines is now arable land which was formerly J ark Land. The tradition is that a rod from the entre of the bank belongs to the Park."

JOSEPH A. RUSH.

"Rodefalla" or "rudefalla" occurs as a neasure of land in the ' Chronica Monasterii le Melsa,' Rolls Series. See the Glossary in ro\. iii. (1868), p. 322, where the reference i. 419 is an error. W. C. B.

CURE BY THE HAND OF A CORPSE (9 th S. ii. 68, 172). There is a tale founded upon this subject in Roby's 'Traditions of Lancashire' fifth cd., 1872), ii. 247, entitled 'The Dead Man's Hand.' See also Harland and Wilkin- son's * Lancashire Folk-lore,' p. 158 ; Brand's Popular Antiquities,' iii. 277 (Bonn's ed.) ; and F. G. Lee's ' The Other World : Glimpses )f the Supernatural,' Lond., 1875, i. 91 (and a foot-note on p. 97). A foreign piece of super- stition on the dead hand is quoted from Grrose's ' Provincial Glossary ' in the notes to Southey's ' Thalaba the Destroyer,' fifth book, stanza xxvii. (new ed., Longman, 1845).

FRANCIS M. JACKSON. .

Bowdon.

'SHAKSPEARE AND THE FAUST LEGEND' (9 th S. iii. 147). I cannot see the likeness between ' The Tempest ' and ' Faust.' In the one case an enchanter enslaves an elementary spirit ; in the other case a man sells himself to the devil. There is no likeness between the plays in language, characters, or story. Shakspeare had freed himself from the influ- ence of Marlowe when he wrote 'The Tem- pest.' Many stories are known, such as those of Circe, Alcina, and Armida, in which acts of magic are performed on an island ; but they bear only a distant resemblance to 'The Tempest.' A German play of the earlier part of the seventeenth century seems to be in its plot somewhat like ' The Tem- pest'; but it cannot be said with certainty that it was written first. I never met with this German play. 1- have only read about it ; and I have not read the article in the Gentleman's Magazine, which perhaps may refer to the German play. E. YARDLEY.

THE PROVINCES (9 th S. iii. 161, 209).-! make no comment on the tone of the con- tribution of SIR HERBERT MAXWELL. My