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literary career and writings. The informa- tion is needed for literary purposes.

J. B. McGovERN. St. Stephen's Rectory, C.-on-M., Manchester.

AN ANTI-JEWISH SURVIVAL IN BARCELONA: An anonymous writer, describing Lent and Easter in Spain in the Church Times of 16 March, states that

" on Holy Saturday and Easter Sunday all the children [in Barcelona], armed with wooden mallets, amuse themselves by beating the pavement and the walls of the houses. This is an old custom very much in vogue. The blows of the mallet are supposed to kill any Jews who may be hiding inside the houses or cellars."

Is this amiable custom followed elsewhere ; and is any fuller account of it to be found ? It calls to mind the priest of Cordova who told Borrow that "nothing gave so much trouble to the Santa Casa as this same Judaism" ('Bible in Spain,' ch. xvii.).

JAMES HOOPER. Norwich.

glad to receive some authoritative confirma- tion of the above theory, if true, and to learn the position of the remaining examples, as these relics appear to possess considerable archjeological interest The maze at Hampton Court and others similar in type are obviously of a different origin, and serve a widely

JOHN WILKES, M.P. for Aylesbury, co. Bucks. Is there any plan of the estate he owned in Bucks, and, if so, where can it be seen 1 Who owns it now 1 I much wish to know its position and extent. Can and wil MR. W. D. PINK kindly help me 1

C. MASON. 29, Emperor's Gate, S.W.

" SALUTATION TAVERN," NEWGATE STREET Can any contributor give the name of the landlord at Christmas, 1794 the date of the celebrated meetings between Coleridge anc Charles Lamb 1 I suspect him to have been the "May " of Lamb's early letters (27 May, 1796 and 24 June, 1797), who has been dubbed a "tailor" by a certain editor, apparently because " clothes " are mentioned in prox- imity to his name. If my conjecture be right an amusing side-light is thrown on that episode in Coleridge's erratic career.

J. A. RUTTER.

MAZES CUT IN TURF. I shall be much obliged if any of your readers can throw some light on the origin and purpose of mazes cut in the turf, of which it is believed that four only exist in England, the single example known to me being found at Wing, a village near Uppingham. It is supposed that these mazes were constructed before the Reformation for the purposes of penance, the offender having to make the whole tour of the maze on his knees saying Pater nosters. The one at Wing is carefully preserved by the villagers, who periodically recut the outline and remove all weeds I shall be

different purpose. H. C. WEST.

21, Gipsy Hill, S.E.

" REDNECK." I should be much obliged for information concerning the word "red- neck " as applied to Roman Catholics in Lancashire. In 'N. & Q.,' 4 th S. xi. 98, an inquiry about the word was made, but so far as I can find no answer has yet been given. People of the "red letter" are mentioned in Hardwick's 'Traditions, Superstitions, and Folk-lore,' as throwing pins in St. Ellen's Well, Brindle. I have heard it said that Roman Catholics in Lanca- shire, during the reign of Elizabeth, were compelled to wear a " red collar " as a form of punishment. It is also stated that, as many recusants were executed by the rope and axe, the term had some meaning in this connexion. Rooinek is at present applied to our soldiers in Africa. None of the ordinary books of reference give any information.

JOHN THOMPSON.

MRS. HANNAH MORE. Did Mr. and Mrs. Jacob More share their daughter's Bristol home ? Were the affectionate relations between parents and children continued during the lives of the former 1 Where can the verses be found said to have been sent by Mr. More to Hannah when he was eighty years old 1 When and where did Mrs. More die? Why was her (Mrs. More's) life "soli- tary " after her husband's decease ? It seems strange that so good a mother should not, so far as I can discover, be mentioned in letters. T. B. KNIGHT.

47, Apsley Road, Clifton.

GROSVENOR MANUSCRIPTS. Where are the Grosvenor MSS. quoted in Ormerod's 'His- bory of Cheshire ' ? They are not known in the Manuscript Room at the British Museum or at the Chetham Library, Manchester.

M. ELLEN POOLE. Alsager, Cheshire.

ESCAPE OF ADMIRAL BRODRICK. In the Continuation of the History of England,' by he Rev. Thomas Smart Hughes, a noted lassie in his day at Cambridge, is a small vignette entitled 'The Escape of Admiral B rod rick.' The admiral is represented as wimming to a boat from which a sailor is browing out a rope to rescue him. In the