se"?

The same author uses the word _designed_ several times in the sense of
_designated_. I should be glad of a few authorities for the use of the word
in this sense.

W. A.

_Lady Fights at Atherton._--A poem, published in 1643, in honour of the
King's successes in the West, has the following reference to a circumstance
connected with Fairfax's retreat at Atherton Moor:

"When none but lady staid to fight."

I should be glad to learn to what this refers, and whether or not the real
story formed the basis of De Foe's account of the fighting lady at Thame,
laid about the same period, viz. the early part of the year 1643.

JAMES WAYLEN

_Sketches of Civil War Garrisons, &c._--During the civil war, sketches and
drawings were, no doubt, made of the lines drawn about divers garrisons.
Some few of these have from time to time appeared as woodcuts: but I have a
suspicion that several remain only in MS. still. If any of your readers can
direct me to any collection of them in the British Museum or Oxford, they
would shorten a search that has long been made in vain.

JAMES WAYLEN.

_"Jurat? crede minus:" Epigram._--Can any of your learned readers inform me
by whom the following epigram was written? I lately heard it applied, in
conversation, to the Jesuits, but I think it is of some antiquity:--

"Jurat? crede minus: non jurat? credere noli:
Jurat, non jurat? hostis ab hoste cave."

F. R. R.

_Meaning of Gulls._--What is the origin of the word "gulls," as applied in
Wensleydale (North York) to hasty-pudding, which is a mixture of oatmeal
and milk or water boiled?

D. 2.

_The Family of Don._--Can any of your correspondents furnish me with
information regarding the family of Don, of Pitfichie, near Monymusk,
Aberdeenshire; or trace how they were connected with the Dons of Newton
Don, Roxburghshire?

A. A.

Abridge.

_Wages in the last Century._--I should like to have any particulars of the
price of labour at various periods in the last century, especially the
wages of domestic servants. May I be permitted to mention that I am
collecting anecdotes of the manners and customs, social and domestic, of
our grandfathers, and should be much obliged for any curious particulars of
their ways of living, their modes of travelling, or any peculiarities of
their daily life? I am anxious to form a museum of the characteristic
curiosities of the century; its superstitions, its habits, and its
diversions.

A. A.