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with strong emphasis placed upon the first word of the last line.

There were pleasant tea-gardens behind the hostel at the top of Pentonville Hill; and seats and tables in a bit of a garden in front of an old public-house upon the same side of the road, nearer to Battle Bridge. A corner inn, in the City Road, nearly opposite the ''Eagle," had also the same kind of outdoor accom- modation. In the forties there were enclosed running grounds on the Caledonian Fields where the cattle markets now stand. A public-house was attached to the grounds, the latter carefully boarded in all round, so that outsiders could see nothing that took place within.

The celebrated mineral springs of Islington, Bagnigge Wells, Sadler's Wells, &c., were in their zenith years before my time ; but I possess a quaint and humorous description of the last in a tract believed to contain the earliest mention of any one of these springs. It takes the form of a poem, en- titled "Islington Wells; or, the Threepenny Academy. London. Printed for E. Richard- son, 1691." The particular spring dealt with therein was discovered by a man named Sadler, A.D. 1683, upon the spot where Sadler's Wells Theatre now stands. The water was believed to be of a ferruginous nature, much like the celebrated waters of Tunbridge Wells. The writer, in humorous and picturesque language, describes his walk across London, until at last he

Arriv'd at rails which hem in This famous Well, where two old women Do kindly give the water gratis (What nothing costs, at under-rate is).

Then with great minuteness he pictures the gay company who continually arrive, intent upon making the taking of the waters an excuse for a pleasant day's outing. Amongst them,

In a coach as fine as may-be, Comes old Sir Fumble and his Lady, With the green sickness thing their Daughter, Who thither comes to drink the water.

These fashionable wells, it seems, to quote again from the author, were frequented

Twice or thrice a week most duly In months of May, June, August, July.

HARRY HEMS. Fair Park, Exeter.

4 THE EVOLUTION OF EDITORS ' (9 th S. v. 166). Were not the editors of the Universal and European magazines merely the pub- lishers ( = Fr. editeurs) 1 It seems unlikely that either would have two editors, in the modern sense of the word. Q. V.

"A FAR CRY TO LOCH AWE " (9 th S. v. 67, 130).

"This menace was received with a scornful laugh, while one of the Campbells replied, 'It is a far cry to Lochow,' a proverbial expression of the tribe, meaning that their ancient hereditary domains lay beyond the reach of an invading enemy." ' Legend of Montrose,' chap. xii.

I can find nothing about this saying in the notes to ' Rob Roy.' Is the above passage the one to which the Editor refers ?

GEORGE MARSHALL.

Sefton Park, Liverpool.

SAVOIR-FAIRE will find an account of the legend in the late P. G. Harnerton's l Painter's Camp ' (second edition, revised, Macmillan & Co., 1866, pp 177-9).

E. MANSEL SYMPSON.

"HIRST" (9 th S. v. 107). MR. MAYHEW has apparently not seen the edition of Shirref which he cites. The glossary appended defines (1872) hirst as " a resting - place, small eminence or rising ground." Q. V.

SMOCK MARRIAGES (1 st S. vi. 485, 561 ; vii. 17, 84). Several American examples, from 1717 to 1789, are collected by Alice Morse Earle under the title ' Where Three Towns Meet.' See ' In Old Narragarisett,' Scribners, 1898. RICHARD H. THORNTON.

Portland, Oregon.

ADDERLEY (9 th S. v. 228). G. F. R. B. should consult Burke's 'Landed Gentry,' where he will find that there is a Ralph Adderley of Barlaston and Coton, co. Stafford (my own native county). The same reference contains mention of the Adder-leys of Hams Hall, near the Whitacre Junction (Birming- ham and Derby Railway), co. Warwick. The Adderley who lived at Hams when I used to travel, fifty years ago, between Birmingham and Tamworth (my native town), and could see Hams Hall on passing through Whitacre, was Mr. (afterwards Sir) Charles Bowyer Adderley, K.C.M.G., who was afterwards created Lord Norton (see Burke's ' Peerage '). The above information may enable your cor- respondent by a little inquiry to gain the information he seeks.

EDWARD P. WOLFERSTAN.

George and Richard Adderley were sons of Thomas Adderley, M.P., of Dublin, and of Innishannon, co. Cork. G. F. R. B. will find in ' N. & Q.,' 1 st S. x. 473, mention of them, and in the Journal of the Cork Historical and Archaeological Society for February, 1897 (2nd S. iii. 50), a sketch of their father's life. The latter is, unfortunately, neither free from typographical error nor so complete as it