not, _as he was shot apart from the mob at a time when he might, if
necessary, have been apprehended and brought to justice_."

E.B. PRICE.

September 30. 1850.

The Rev. Dr. John Free[2] preached a sermon on the above occasion (which
was printed) from the {334} 24th chapter of Leviticus, 21st and 22nd
verses, "He that killeth a man," &c.; and he boldly and fearlessly
denominates the act as a murder, and severely reprehends those in authority
who screened and protected the murderer. The sermon is of sixteen pages,
and there is an appendix of twenty-six pages, in which are detailed various
depositions, and all the circumstances connected with the catastrophe.

Sec. N.

Your correspondent SENEX will find in Malcolm's _Anecdotes of London_ (Vol.
ii., p. 74.), "A summary of the trial of Donald Maclane, on Tuesday last,
at _Guildford Assizes_, for the murder of William Allen, Jun., on the 10th
of May last, in St. George's Fields."

R. BARKER, JUN.

A long account of this lamentable transaction may be found in every
magazine eighty-two years since. The riot took place in St. George's
Fields, May 10. 1768, and originated in the cry of "Wilkes and Liberty."

GILBERT.

[Footnote 1: A foot-note informs us that "a white-wash is put over these
lines between the crotchets."]

[Footnote 2: Dr. Free was of Christ Church, Oxford, and perhaps some of
your readers may know where his biography is.]

* * * * *

MEANING OF "GRADELY."

(Vol. ii., p. 133.)

For the origin of this word, A.W.H. may refer to Brocket's _Glossary of
North Country Words_, where he will find--

"Gradely, decently, orderly. Sax. _grad_, _grade,_ ordo. Rather, Mr.
Turner says, from Sax. _gradlie_ upright; _gradely_ in Lanc., he
observes, is an adjective simplifying everything respectable. The
Lancashire people say, our _canny_ is nothing to it."

The word itself is very familiar to me, as I have often received a scolding
for some boyish, and therefore not very wise or orderly prank, in these
terns:--"One would think you were not altogether gradely," or, as it was
sometimes varied into, "You would make one believe you were not _right in
your head;_" meaning, "One would think you had not common sense."

H. EASTWOOD.

Ecclesfield.

_Gradely._--This word is not only used in Yorkshire, but also very much in
Lancashire, and the rest of the north of England. I have always understood
it to mean "go