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and * Index Eccles.,' &c.). None of the books I have been able to consult confirms the state- ment (ante, p 333) as to (Louisa) Gauntlett's husband being either canon of Winchester or rector of Fairford. The Gentleman's Maga- zine for November, 1814, records the death at Marlborough, Wilts, of "Mrs. Kerby, relict of Rev. L. K., rector of Castle Eaton, Wilts" ; and according to the ' Calendar of Insti- tutions,' a Lancelot Kerby was instituted rector of Castle Eaton in 1762, and Henry Goddard in 1797. Was this Mrs. Kerby Louisa Gauntlett ? H. C.

HARVEST BELL (9 th S. viii. 201, 308). I am reminded by this Driffield custom of two others still extant in the country. One is the tolling of the bell nightly in Stratford- on-Avon about eight o'clock, which local wiseacres tell me is known as the curfew. Another custom obtains in Ripon, where the town crier nightly proceeds to the market- place and to the mayor's residence and blows a horn about seven o'clock. This custom is also locally associated with the curfew. Pos- sibly there may be other towns where similar customs reminiscent of the feudal period still survive. I may mention that on a public building in Ripon the following passage from the Psalter is painted: "If ye Lord wake not ye citie, in vain waketh the wakeman." M. L. B. BRESLAE.

REGINALD HEBER (9 th S. viii. 285, 354). From the advertisements at the end of a copy of " An Historical List of Horse-Matches Run, &c., in 1758 [being vol. viii.], by Reginald Heber. London. Printed for the Author. 1759," it appears that he was not only the publisher and vendor of books and sporting prints, but he also sold "Heber's fine mild York River and Oroonoko Tobaccoes, also the best Strasburg and Dutch Rappee Snuffs, &c., &c., the finest Durham Flower of Mustard and right Woodstock Gloves." And he asks those gentlemen who are indebted to him for sporting^dvertisements to make payment to "Mr. William Smith, Surgeon, on the Pave- ment in York," or to himself at Holborn Bars, London, his place of business.

GEORGE C. PEACHEY.

FORAGE CAPS (9 th S. viii. 361). There is a mistake in this communication ; the word "fife" is printed for the word pipe. The famous Mickey Free had a pipe between his fingers, and not a fife. H. G. H.

AUTHOR OF POEM WANTED (9 th S. viii. 204, 249, 334). I have not seen the query, but, judging from the answer at the last reference, I fancy the following may be of interest. I

find in a volume of poems entitled ' Skizzen- buch,' by Paul Heyse (Berlin, 1877), a poem on this subject. It is called ' Jan ! arrner Jan !' and contains the following lines : Einen theuren Mann hab' ich verlassen Als ich wegging von der schonen Erde.

Engel, wenn du so Viel mir erw irk test, Dass ich diirfte zu ihm niedersteigen, Ihn zu trosten nur ein kurzes Stiindlein, Tausend Jahre langer dann mit Freuden Wollt' ich biissen hier im Fegefeuer.

The angel obtains permission from the " Thron des Lichtes," and the soul returns to earth ; but hardly has one short hour passed when it comes knocking at the door of Purgatory, saying :

Meinen Jan, den ich in Gram verlassen, Singen hort' ich ihn schon aus der Ferae, Sah durchs Fenster ihn am Tische sitzen, Wein vor ihm im Becher, und ein Madchen, &c.

The angel bids the " Seelchen " enter Para- dise, for

Mehr in jenem Augenblick erlittst du, Als zweitausend Jahr' im Fegefeuer.

The legend, I am informed, is of Sclavonic origin. There is a similar idea in a poem by Emanuel Geibel, No. 1 of his * Neugriech- is'che Volkslieder,' in the book of his poems published at Stuttgart, 1873. I will gladly send a copy of either, or both, to your correspondent if he will let me have a post- card. FRED. G. ACKERLEY.

Seemansheim, Libau, Russia.

" POLITICIAN " (8 th S. x. 333, 444, 517 ; xi. 76, 333; xii. 237, 433- 9 th S. v. 499). In the 'Book of Entries, No. I.,' of the borough of Great Yarmouth (see * Ninth Rep. Hist MSS. Comm.' App. i. p. 306b), is a different, but still dyslogistic use, as the late Dr. Fitzedward Hall would have called it, of this word. The then keeper of the records of the corporation appended to a copy of a privy seal (dated 3 December, 9 James I.) demanding a bene- volence of 20. the following note :

"The said Skaath, Graye, Stanton, Cowldham and Crowland, with the assistance of Mr. Hardware, the cheife plotter pollitician and projector with Mr. Gray and Mr. Skaath, the said Skaath being then one of the Baliues, freed themselves from paying any penny thereof."

O. O. H.

USES OF GRINDSTONES (9 th S. viii. 225, 329). I trust that MR. PAGE will kindly pardon me for saying that in some districts "old millstones" are called grindstones. 'N. & Q.' has 'Grindstone and Sapling,' 7 th S. vii. 207, 275, 434, 476 ; ix. 254. The grind- stone alluded to is called "millstone" in 'Essays on Natural History,' by Charles