merry Lincoln" is a large heath celebrated for its cherries. If a
person meets one of the cherry-growers on his way to market, and asks
him where he comes from, the answer will be, if the season is
favourable, "From Lincoln Heath, where should 'un?" but if, on the
contrary, there is a scarcity of cherries, the reply will be, "From
Lincoln Heath, God help 'un."

"DISS" informs us, too, that this saying is not confined to Tickhill,
Melverly, or Pershore, but is also current at Letton, on the banks of
the Wye, between Hereford and Hay. And "H.C.P." says the same story is
told of the inhabitants of Tadley, in the north of Hampshire, on the
borders of Berkshire.

_Robert Long_ (No. 24. p. 382.).--Rear-Admiral Robert Long died 4th
_July_, 1771, having been superannuated on the half-pay of rear-admiral
some time before his death. His seniority in the navy was dated from
21st March, 1726, and he was posted in the Shoreham. He never was _Sir_
Robert. An account of the charity he founded may be seen in the
_Commissioners' Reports on Charities_, vol. iii. iv. vi.

G.

_Transposition of Letters_ (No. 19. p. 298.).--Instances of shortened
names of places. Bensington, Oxfordshire, now called Benson;
Stadhampton, Oxfordshire, now called Stadham; and in Suffolk the
following changes have taken place; Thelnetham is called Feltam; Hoxney,
Oxen.

C.I.R.

_The Complaynt of Scotland_.--I believe there has not been discovered
recently any fact relative to the authorship of above-mentioned poem,
and that the author is,

"Sir David Lyndsay of the Mount,
Lord Lyon King-at-Arms."

W.B.

_Note Books_ (No. 3. p. 43., and No. 7. p. 104.)--I beg to state my own
mode, than which I know of none better. I have _several_ books, viz.,
for History, Topography, Personal and Family History, Ecclesiastical
Affairs, Heraldry, Adversaria. At the end of each volume is an alphabet,
with six columns, one for each vowel; in one or other of which the word
is entered according to the vowel which first appears in it, with a
reference to the page. Thus, _bray_ would come under B.a; _church_ under
C.u.; and so forth.

S.S.S.

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MISCELLANIES.

_MSS. of Casaubon._--There is a short statement respecting certain MSS.,
now existing, of the great critic Casaubon, in a recent volume of the
Parker Society--Whitaker's _Disputation on Holy Scripture_, edited and
translated by Professor Fitzgerald, Professor