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tenements, &c., in North Tawton, Monkeoke hampton, Bowe, Nymet Tracy, Collump ton, &c.

In 1547 (Fines Divers Com. Pasc., 1 Ed. VI Martin Slader and Humf. Colles, ar., held ir More, Bearehed, and North wod in the parisl of North Tawton.

In Chancery Pro., Ser. II., B. 93, 50, w find Ric. Hey wood of N. Tawton plaintiff against Mark Slader of same parish, who wa " appointed to be collector for the second pay

ment of the [torn away] graunted in the

1st year [of Queen Elizabeth] in the Hundred of Blacktoriton, N. Tawton, Winkleigh, anc Hertland, Devon."

A reference to another Chancery Pro. in which Mark Slader was plaintiff is Ser. II. Eliz. 162, 53. ETHEL LEGA-WEEKES.

DESIGNATION OF FOREIGNERS IN MEXICO (9 th S. vii. 389, 496). A printer's error in my communication under the above heading may possibly create perplexity in the minds oi some readers. " Green grow the rashes, oh ! ' should be " Green grow the rushes, oh ! "

H. JOHNSON.

[There is no printer's error. The alteration made was editorial, and on the strength of what seemed to us due knowledge and investigation. In the first Edinburgh edition. 1787, it is "rashes," not rushes. The Centenary Edition of Messrs. Henley and Hen- derson (Edinburgh, Jack, 1896), the Clarendon Press Mr. J. B. Reid (Glasgow, Kerr & Richardson), have the same reading. We ourselves know of no other. We do not alter a signed communication without what seems to us conclusive authority.]
 * Burns ' of the same date, and the ' Concordance ' of

GLADSTONE VOLUME (9 th S. vii. 488). Is not MR. MACLEOD mistaken when he refers to "articles" by Mr. Gladstone in the Daily Telegraph on Arthur Henry Hallam? One only appeared in that journal, under date 5 January, 1898, bearing the title ' Personal Recollections of Arthur H. Hallam.' It was the last lengthy composition that fell from the pen of the aged author, and, in my judgment, the most beautiful of all his pro- ductions. In this respect it bears a close analogy to Tennyson's 'Crossing the Bar,' and, to quote the words of the leader which synchronized with its appearance in the columns of the above paper, "by reason of its subject, as well as on account of the charm of its style and the deep interest of its details, cannot fail to be considered a conspicuous event in literature." It deserved a less ephemeral existence than in a daily paper. The Americans have apparently recognized this, while we have been content to let it lie in unworthy oblivion. J. B.'McGovERN. St. Stephen's Rectory, C.-on-M., Manchester.

A GAME OF BATTLEDORE (9 th S. vii. 469). The paragraph from my review of Mr. C. S. Roundell's book has been handed to me for comment. Unfortunately (by imperious necessity) I was taken from school at the age of tnirteen and a half ; but I may add to the record of my school experiences that I was sent for two years to another school in a private house where girls were taught, there Deing two rooms adjoining. At this school the discipline was lax, and as the former school had broken up, we boys (transfers) were found to be better taught than those we joined, and the cane was less used, and the battledore was invisible, if there was one. I have seen battledore applications, and have felt them also. A big, strong man in a temper, and a small boy in a terror and a torment, were not exhilarating. The place was Newark ; the name of the schoolmaster was Squires ; the time was in 1830 to 1831. I am afraid I am the sole survivor of this ancient method of imparting knowledge and driving it home. JNO. HAWKINS.

35, Avenue Road, Grantham.

FUNERAL CARDS (9 th S. vii. 88, 171, 291,332, 414). The ancient building at Bury St. Edmunds known as Moyses Hall has been jonverted into a museum, and lately I noticed n it a large funeral card, or rather " ticket," on which were printed the following words:

" You are desired to accompany the Corps of Mr. Thomas Moody, from Armourers-hall in Coleman Street, to the Burying Ground on Bun Hill, on ?riday, May the 18th, 1716, by Five of the Clock in he Afternoon Precisely.

And bring this Ticket with you."

The ticket is about as large as a page of

N. & Q.,' and is perfectly fresh and clean.

At the top are the words " Memento mori,"

and at the bottom "Remember to die." A

r uneral procession is engraved on the ticket,

and there are figures of the King of Death

md the Angel of Death, with skulls, cross-

>ones, and cherubs. Stars are shining in a

lack sky, as if the funeral were to take place

>y night. The building is full of interesting

bjects, and I never saw a better country

museum. The ticket was lent by G. Milner

Gibson Cullura, Esq. S. O. ADDY.

'RABBATING" (9 th S. vii. 407). Your cor- espondent is confusing two quite different rords. Rabbating has nothing to do with abbeting. By rabbating Puttenham means bating. His actual words are (Mr. Wynd- am appears to quote him loosely) : "A Word as he lieth in course of language is mny wayes figured and thereby not a little altered i sound, which consequently alters the time and armonie of a meeter as to the eare. And this