ompound of raw umber and a
small portion of blue-black diluted to the shade required with strong size
in solution: this must be used hot. It is evident that this will not
require the preparatory sizing before the application of the varnish.
Common coal, ground in water, and used the same as any other colour, I have
found to be an excellent stain for roof timbers.

W. H. CULLINGFORD.

Cromhall, Gloucestershire.

_Roger Outlawe_ (Vol. vii., p. 332.).--Of this person, who was Lord Deputy
of Ireland for many years of the reign of Edward III., some particulars
will be found in the notes to the _Proceedings against Dame Alice Kyteler_,
edited for the Camden Society by Mr. Wright, p. 49. There is evidently more
than one misreading in the date of the extract communicated by the REV.
H. T. ELLACOMBE: "die pasche in viiij mense anno B. Etii post ultimum
conquestum hibernia quarto." I cannot interpret "in viiij mense;" but the
rest should evidently be "anno _Regis Edwardi tertii_ post ultimum
conquestum Hiberniae quarto."

May I ask whether this "last conquest of Ireland" has been noticed by
palaeographers in other instances?

ANON.

_Tennyson_ (Vol. vii., p. 84.).--Will not the following account by Lord
Bacon, in his _History of Henry VII._, of the marriage by proxy between
Maximilian, King of the Romans, and the Princess Anne of Britany,
illustrate for your correspondent H. J. J. his last quotation from
Tennyson?

"She to me
Was proxy-wedded with a bootless calf,
At eight years old."

"Maximilian so far forth prevailed, both with the young lady and with
the principal persons about her, as the marriage was consummated by
proxy, with a ceremony at that time in these parts new. For she was not
only publicly contracted, but stated, as a bride, and solemnly bedded;
and after she was laid, there came in Maximilian's ambassador with
letters of procuration, and in the presence of sundry noble personages,
men and women, put his leg, stripped naked to the knee, between the
espousal sheets," &c.

TYRO.

Dublin.

_Old Fogie_ (Vol. vii., p. 354.).--MR. KEIGHTLEY supposes the term of _old
fogie_, as applied to "mature old warriors," to be "of pure Irish origin,"
or "rather of Dublin birth." In this he is certainly mistaken, for the word
_fogie_, as applied to old soldiers, is as well known, and was once as
familiarly used in Scotland, as it ever was or could have been in Ire