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A id then he went on to say that his father, w lorn he had succeeded in the guardianship of these sluices, had told him that a similar tl ing occurred at the time of the great Lisbon earthquake, but on that occasion the un- opected tide was larger and much more powerful than the one he had recently wi tnessed.

My father added that he heard afterwards th it there had been shocks of earthquake felt j about the time in Spain and Portugal, but th.it they did not seem to have been of a serious character. I am sorry that I have no (means of fixing the date of this conversation.

EDWARD PEACOCK. Dunstan House, Kirton-in-Lindsey.

An amusing account of this earthquake is ^ven in a letter of Horace Walpole's. It is too long to quote. See Seeley's ' Horace Wai- pole and his World,' ed. 1895, ch. ii. pp. 44-9. bee also John Wesley's ' Journal ' for 8 Feb. and 8 March, 1750. There were two earth - jiuake shocks, a month apart, the second joeing the more violent. Charles Wesley's I Journal ' for 8 Feb., 10 March, 4 April, and > April, 1750, also alludes to this twofold hock, and the panic thereby caused ; and, o improve the occasion, he wrote several lymns on the event. These were published n the same year, and entitled ' Hymns occa- lioned by the Earthquake,' 8 March, 1750. Lmong these is one of Charles Wesley's very .nest hymns, No. 67 in the ' New Wesleyan Ilynm-Book' of 1875, "How weak the jhoughts and vain," &c. Horace Walpole ippantly alludes to sermons and poems arming on the occasion ; perhaps he had ard of these hymns. For a graphic ac- unt of the event see Tyerman's 'Life of tin Wesley,' ii. 71-4.

C. LAWRENCE FORD.

. PAGE will find curious information on is subject in ' The Famines of the World,' Cornelius Walford (London, 1879). Thomas 11 Lancaster published a carefully corn- ed 'List of the More Remarkable Earth- akes in Great Britain and Ireland during e Christian Era,' by William Roper; no ar is given on the title-page, but the pre- e is dated April, 1889. This is a really eful work, as it indicates where fuller in- rmation may be obtained. Burn's 'His- cy of Parish Registers' (London, 1862), aters's ' Parish Registers in England ' (Lon- n, 1883), and Thiselton-Dyer's 'Old English cial Life as Told by the Parish Registers ' ondon, 1898) have references to this sub- 't. WILLIAM ANDREWS.

?he Hull Press.

EARL OF CARNWATH (8 th S. i. 163 ; 9 th S. ii. 447, 515; iii. 271). It may interest MR. RADCLIFFE to know that Robert, the second earl, was not " dead before 19 Jan., 1647," but was buried at St. Margaret's, Westminster, 21 June, 1654, as "Robert, Arle Dalzell of Carnwath." He was, however, " forfeit " as early as 25 Feb., 1645, the Act providing that his only son, Gavin, should enjoy " the title of Earl, as if his Father were dead."

G. E. C.

WILSON AYLSBURY ROBERTS, 1781 (9 th S. iii. 288). There is no one of the name of Aylsbury at Packwood now. There is an old house at Hockley Heath, close to Packwood, known as Aylesbury House. H. K.

ANGLO-SAXON : SCOTCH : SCOTCHMAN (9 th S. iii. 127). The first question appeared in 'N. & Q.,' 6 th S. iii. 208, and the reply, which traces the use of the term, will be found at p. 390 of the same volume. For a further explanation given by PROF. SKEAT see 6 th S. ix. 302. There is 'An Essay on the State of Literature and Learning under the Anglo- Saxons ' in ' Biographia Britannica Literaria,' by Thomas Wright, M.A., pp. 1-112, which should be studied by those interested in the subject. For ' Scotchman ' refer to ' N. & Q.,' 6 th S. x. 353, 526.

EVERARD HOME COLEMAN.

71, Brecknock Road.

NELSON AND FREEMASONRY (9 th S. iii. 247). There is neither impossibility nor improba- bility in the idea that Nelson was a Free- mason. MR. SHEPHARD will find some inter- esting notes on the subject in the ' History of Freemasonry in Norfolk,' by Mr. Hamon le Strange (Norwich, 1896), pp. 379-82.

W. H. R.

CHARADE (9 th S. iii. 187, 237, 296). PROF. SKEAT'S solution is a blindfold one. How is blackleg "a symbolic word for architects' disasters"? (See first reference.) I offer a more likely solution humbug. F. ADAMS.

106A, Albany Road, Camberwell.

' OLD ST. PAUL'S ' (9 th S. iii. 186, 271). Pre- fixed to my edition of ' Rookwood ' (Routledge, 1878) is a memoir of Harrison Ains worth by Laman Blanchard. Therein occurs the fol- lowing paragraph :

"In the first week of 1841 'Old St. Paul's 'was commenced. The proprietors of the Sunday Times newspaper had proposed to Mr. Ainsworth to write a romance to be published in their journal weekly throughout the year, for which they very liberally offered 1,000?. This was a new feature in newspaper management and romance-writing. The offer was accepted ; the tale appeared in successive numbers,