with such men as Leslie, Chalon, G. S. Newton, Webster, and others of that ilk. P. A. L. PATRONS OF SCOTCH PARISHES (4th S. i. 172, 328.)-if your correspondent will turn to Dr. Scott's Fasti Ecclesiæ Scoticanæ (part i. p. 134), he will find that in 1737 the Earl of Ruglen was patron of Cramond. The Synod of Perth and Stirling is not yet published, so that I cannot give the name of the patron of Kincardine-inMenteith. T. G. RHYMING LATIN INSCRIPTIONS (4th S. ii. 276.)— In a rather large collection of rubbings of brasses and stones, I have several curious jingling inscriptions, both in Latin and English; but none that would assist in supplying the words wanting in the Bodmin legend. I think, however, that it was intended to be read thus: "Hic qui tumulatur Thomas Le Moyle sic vocabatur Migrans a seculo Petivit a celo Ut hic vermibus spectatus Sit celo levatus." F. C. H. SQUEEZING WATCH (4th S. ii. 276.)-I have no doubt that, by a "squeezing watch," was meant a repeater; and that it was so called from the action of pushing, or squeezing in, the side of the watch in order to make it strike. For the first repeaters, which were made towards the end of the reign of James II., were made to strike by pushing in a piece on one or both sides, which might well have been termed squeezing. F. C. H. The "squeezing watch," concerning which your correspondent makes inquiry, would seem to be no other than the repeater, i. e. the kind of watch which may be made to strike whenever required by the compression of a spring. By "squeezing watch" understand a watch made to be squeezed or compressed. Pope, near the beginning of the Rape of the Lock, though not in his first edition, has "Thrice rung the bell, the slipper knock'd the ground, And the press'd watch return'd a silver sound." SCHIN. PEERS' CHRISTIAN NAMES (4th S. ii. 252.) The late Lord Bayning and the late Lord Rivers always signed their franks with their Christian names prefixed, as "Wm. Powlett Bayning," "G. Pitt Rivers." E. WALFORD. Hampstead, N.W. TINDER BOXES (4th S. ii. 226.)—The earliest mention of the tinder-box is probably where Shakespeare says "Strike on the tinder, ho! but it was certainly used long before this. The word tind is, of course, derived from the Saxon tyndan, to kindle-employed by Wycliff, Milton, and Dryden. Sanderson in his sermons, 1689, says: "As one candle tindeth a thousand." Southey, in his Common-Place Book (third series, p. 49), has: 66 'Featley, Clavis Mystica, 1636, p. 143.-Lights hanging in churches and noblemen's halls, let down to be tinded, i. e. lighted: a pure Saxon word, still used by the common people in the midland and northern counties, and not obsolete, as implied by some lexicographers." Tine is used in Somerset and Wiltshire; tin, tine, tend, or tind, in Cheshire; teen in Devonshire; tind in Derbyshire; and in the latter county tindle is the term used for a fire made by the children on All Souls' night. I should advise your correspondent A. K. G. to read a paper (illustrated) by Mr. Holland in The Reliquary, Oct. 1866 (vii. 65). JOHN PIGGOT, JUN., F.S.A. "THE FARMER AND THE KING" (4th S. ii. 152, 206.)—The study of our old English ballad lore is not a very difficult pursuit, nor one requiring any great amount of acumen, and yet I am often surprised at the mistakes made by writers who venture on the subject. Take an instance of this in the notes gravely furnished by your correspondents as illustrating "Bishop Percy's Manuscript"! Now the song of "The Farmer and the King" is utterly worthless in this point of view, the old ballad) by Tom Hudson, the comic-song as it was written (avowedly upon the subject of writer of fifty years back; the tune being adapted to it by John Blewitt, the well-known composer of scores of such things. It was a great favourite with little Knight, the comedian, who frequently sung it on the stage in character. Becoming very popular, it was multiplied in penny song-books and halfpenny broadsides, and sung by strolling actors all over the country. Hence it is easy to account for its wide-spread fame and local popularity. I remember, when a boy, visiting old Tom Hudson, who (about 1825) kept a little shop for the sale of his songs in the neighbourhood of Bloomsbury market; and from him I received a copy, with many others, of "There was an old chap in the west countrie." It is amusing to find your correspondents giving "various readings" of this modern antique, as if it were a veritable relic of the olden time! EDWARD F. RIMBAULT. Miscellaneous. NOTES ON BOOKS, ETC. The Percy Anecdotes. Collected and edited by Reuben and Sholto Percy. With a Preface by John Timbs, F.S.A. Chandos Library Edition. Vol. I. (Warne.) When the editors of these very popular series of anecdotes undertook their compilation, they resolved "to combine instruction with amusement with a scrupulous regard to truth, to probability, and to morals"; and the result showed they had acted wisely in so doing, for few works of the kind have attained greater or better deserved popularity. Mr. Warne has determined that a new edition of them shall form a portion of his Chandos Library, and the first volume (the second we are informed will be ready in about a fortnight) is now before us, and contains, in a neatly printed form, the first twenty Parts of the original edition. 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