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the grave and gave the length of Little John's remains. With the trowel in question I dug up the foot-stone, and then, making a hole a foot or so further eastward, fixed the stone therein, thus surreptitiously adding another cubit to the supposed measurement of the legendary giant's stature. After care- fully filling up the original hole I trudged home again to Sheffield with my garden trowel, much pleased, I greatly fear, with the mischief done by this boyish freak. Whether the sacrilegious act was ever found out, and the stone replaced in its. original position, I have no idea.

Not very far from Hathersage, but high up and away on the wild moorside, in the midst of frowning crags called Stanage Rocks, there exists a curious subterranean chamber known locally as Robin Hood's Cave. It is a fairly large den, entered by a side path from above. It opens out in the higher part of the cliffs, and a person standing therein looks down upon the imme- diate low lands. The stones in front of the cave form a remarkable natural balcony. The spot is somewhat difficult to find, even by those who have been over the ground before, and it is quite within the bounds of possibility that in days gone by it provided a refuge for outlaws. I have many a time, during sudden showers, been grateful for the shelter the cave afforded me. HARRY HEMS.

Fair Park, Exeter.

ROYAL PERSONAGES (9 th S. viii. 184, 252). Octavius, so called from being the eighth son of George III., was born 23 February, 1779, died 2 May, 1783 ; Alfred, ninth son of George III., born 22 September, 1780, died 26 August, 1782. Both were buried in Henry VII. 's Chapel at Westminster Abbey, and subsequently exhumed and buried in the royal vault at Windsor. There is a fine en- graving by Sir Robert Strange of the apotheo- sis of the two princes, with Windsor Castle in the background.

The Duke of Sussex was buried in the cata- comb at Kensal Green Cemetery on 4 May, 1843, and there is an engraving of the funeral ceremony in the Illustrated London News of that date, together with several portraits of him and his attendants.

JOHN PICKFORD, M.A.

Newbourne Rectory, Woodbridge.

STORY CONCERNING THE ATHANASIAN CREED (9 th S. iv. 269). This refers to the damnatory clauses : " Which faith except every one do keep whole and undefiled, without doubt he shall perish everlastingly," and " This is the Catholick Faith, which except a man believe

'aithfully he cannot be saved." You have to believe the creed. J. G. WALLACE- JAMES. Haddington.

'KATHLEEN MAVOURNEEN' (9 th S. vii. 389, 430). Frederick William Nicolls Crouch, a native of London, where he was born in the stone, Lincoln, and Lord Tennyson, composed 1835. He was the son of a musician, and at an early age became a singer and a violinist n the orchestra of Drury Lane Theatre. In 1849 he came to the United States, and served in the Confederate army during the American Civil War. About the close of L865 Crouch established himself in Baltimore, [nd., as a music teacher, and died in Port- and, Maine, 19 August, 1896. 'Kathleen \Iavourneen ' was his most famous compo- sition. Cora Pearl, a celebrated character of Paris in the days of Napoleon III., was his Idest daughter. J. G. W.
 * amous year 1809, which gave birth to Glad-
 * he music to ' Kathleen Mavourneen ' about

New York.

" A BUMPER OF GOOD LIQUOR," &C. (9 th S. viii.

284). In 'The Duenna,' by R. B. Sheridan. ALFRED F. CURWEN.

"GHETTO "(9 th S. viii. 186). The account of this word in the ' Century,' 'Stanford,' and other dictionaries is very meagre. None of them gives its origin. In W. W. Story's 'Roba di Roma' (1876) it is said to be from the Talmudic word ghet, meaning segregation, separation, as being the quarter of the banned or excommunicated (p. 401). Another origin is assigned by I. Abrahams, 'Jewish Life in the Middle Ages '(1896), who adopts the account of Dr. Berliner, that the first ghetto was established in 1516 at Venice near a foundry (ghettum\ Italian getp, whence it ictionary entitled ' A New World of Words ' (1611), gives ghetto, "a place appointed for the lewes to dwell in, in Venice and other cities of Italy," and ghetta, "properly the first founding of mettales." These are evidently only different spellings of getto, " the arte of casting or founding of rnettals " ; gettare, "to cast, found or melt as founders doe," also in Florio. This latter is from Latin jectare, jactare, to cast, but probably influenced by Dutch gieten, to found, Anglo- Saxon ge6tan, Goth, giutan, to pour.
 * ot its name (p. 62). Florio, in his old Italian

A. SMYTHE-PALMER.

South Woodford.

ROWE OF CORNWALL (9 th S. viii. 305). MR. ROWE may gather information from the parish registers of Lamerton, Devon, near the borders of Cornwall. Though Rowe of