alse lights prefer, and hate the intruding day. }
Oh, shun the tempting shore, the dangerous coast,
Youth, fame, and fortune, stranded here, are lost!"

J. S. S.

Bath.

_Gesmas and Desmas_ (Vol. vii., pp. 238. 342.).--The names of the two
thieves crucified with our blessed Saviour are variously written. In the
verses quoted by A. B. R. (p. 238.) they are written _Gesmas and Desmas_.
In the edition of the Gospel of Nicodemus, quoted by W. C. H. (p. 342.),
_i.e._ the edition of "William Hone, Ludgate Hill, 1820," the names are
written _Gestas and Dimas_. He also gives an authority for the spelling
"_Dismas and Gestas_." I find them written in the edition I have of the
Gospel of Nicodemus, _i. e._ "Hutman's, London, 1818," _Dismas and Gesmas_
(pp. 87, 88.). Elsewhere I have met with them written as in the following
verse, _Gistas and Dismas_:

"Gistas damnatur, Dismas ad astra levatur,"

which I have ventured to translate:

"Gistas to hell--with Dismas all goes well;"

or perhaps better thus:

"Gistas goes down, Dismas receives a crown."

The names of these two men in early life is said to have been _Titus_ and
_Dumachus_: see the _Evangelium Infantiae_, quoted by Hutman (p. 13.).

CEYREP.

_Lode_ (Vol. v., pp. 345. 350.).--There is in Gloucester a church and
parish called Saint Mary de Lode, touching which Mr. Fosbroke (_History of
City of Gloucester_, p. 341.) observes:

"This parish is said to have derived the adjunct of _Lode_ from the
Severn formerly running near it; and this may have been the fact, but
it is not easy to give a satisfactory explanation of the term."

I would remark, that as the term _Lode_ may be considered a general name
for any navigable river, that if it be a fact that the river Severn did
formerly run near the parish in question, it appears to me not difficult to
give a satisfactory explanation of the term by which such parish is
distinguished from St. Mary de Crypt and St. Mary de Grace.

C. H. COOPER.

Cambridge.

_Epitaphs imprecatory_ (Vol. vii., p. 256).--I have no doubt that the
churchyards of Scotland will furnish many examples of the embittered
feelings which religious persecution produced, during the latter half of
the seventeenth century; and as a specimen I forward the following, which
is found in the churchyard of Dalgarnock, in Dumfriesshire. The Duke of
York alluded to was afterwards James II.; and the descendants of Mr.
Harkness are still mos