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NOTES AND QUERIES. [9 th s. VIL APRIL is, 1901.

Luttrels of Dunster (an old friend of Sir Cloudesley's), and one who was a descendant of the Saundersons ? The story, so far as I can make out, is that a man was convicted for stealing the watch, the loud ticking of which betrayed him, and I believe he was hanged. From whom did he steal it ?

THE UNMISTAKABLE.

Lusus NATURE. Representations of human faces and other objects sometimes occur in the polished sections of agates and other minerals. I shall be greatly indebted to any of your readers who may have knowledge of any specimens of these curious and rare productions in this country or abroad, or of any allusions to them in old books, and who will kindly inform me of such. I am acquainted with the remarks on this sub- ject of the late Mr. C. H. King, with the catalogue of the Hertz collection, with the single specimens in the British Museum and Natural History Museum, and with those of Kircher in his ' Mundus Subterraneus ' and of Happel in his ' Relationes Curiosse,' but there must be much more information to be gamed if one knew where to look for it

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" YOCKYNGGALE." Stephen Pyne, of Mares- neld, in the county of Sussex, fuller, in his will, dated 1 February, 1558/9, proved 2 March, 1558/9, bequeaths to John Kydder

halte a yockynggale of silver and a hate." Ine word does not appear to be in the

i fc, 1( S^ ies of Prof - Skeat and Halli- well-Phillipps under any spelling. If the

yockynggale "had been undivided, one might have guessed it to be an associate in some way ot the hat. I have no recollection of meeting with the word before, and shall be glad to learn what it means.

HAMILTON HALL, F.S.A.

GLAMIS MYSTERY. (See 6 th S. xi. 35.) Can any one give the name and date of the magazine in which, M. GILCHRIST says, " a rela-

tion of the whole matter appeared" f I have k M. GILCHRIST'S descrip-

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every reason to think M. ^ WJajMOi ouu^nu- tion is correct, as it accords with what a venerable Scottish peeress told me in the early seventies, and which she had from Lord btrathmore himself. He told her "that he should never forget what he had to see

mfeht ?r S M! fTT' and that however the heir ?Sflp ? g Y i" S ^Proachmg trial, he became a different person afterwards."

What he saw he did not say, nor did the venerable countess ask. We cannot wonder at this when we know what It was. If one might, one would like to know if "the being had power of speech or any sort of

mental power, and what its ways of life were. One could better understand the case if the body from the waist upwards had been human. Its being the reverse makes it a curious problem, which doubtless some still alive could explain ; but that would be too delicate a matter even for C N. & Q.,' perhaps.

I take this opportunity of renewing my acquaintance with 'N. & Q.,' having corre- sponded on the above subject at the reference above given. I had also the pleasure of correspondence direct, on family matters, with the lady who signed M. GILCHRIST ; but I fear the lapse of years has brought its inevitable change, else I should have written to her now. I do not see her name in the recent indexes. F.S.A. SCOT.

[We have not heard of Miss GILCHRIST for some years.]

" DARAYNE." What is the meaning of " darayne " in the following passage from Bar- clay's ' Ship of Fools,' sub-title ' Of Hym that is Jelous,' vol. i. p. 168 of the Edinburgh edition of 1874 ? The glossary to the work ignores the passage, arid no meaning given to the word in the ' New English Dictionary ' (which refers to " deraign ") makes anything but nonsense of it. Indeed, I hardly see how a verb can fit there at all, while I have gone over all the original classical authorities for the story without finding any proper name of which it can be a corruption. The toure of bras that callyd was darayne

Coude not the damsell (by name Danes) defende, But that Jupiter fonde a cautell and trayne

In a golden shoure into her to discendn."

F. M.

[" Darayne "=d'airain, brazen.]

GATES OF CAROLINE PARK, EDINBURGH. - These beautiful hammered - iron gates, which were taken away by a tenant from Caroline Park at the beginning of the last century and placed at Gogar Lodge, on the Glasgow road, where I have often seen them, have apparently been removed again. Last May I went to take a photograph of them, but found they were gone ; nor could Edinburgh friends tell rne anything about their present situation. Perhaps ' N. & Q.' will enlighten me on the subject. IBAGUE.

GREAT EXHIBITION. What was the price of a season ticket for the Great Exhibition of 1851 ? J. J. B.

WELLMERE DECOY, LINCOLNSHIRE. Can any of the readers of ' N. & Q.' tell me the whereabouts of this old decoy in Lincoln- shire ? It is said to be haunted by the ghosts of a former 'coyman and his dog, who were