ighbourhood of Rostinoth.[6]

DE CAMERA.

[Footnote 6: Dr. Jamieson has a note on King David II.,
brother, in his edition, of Barbour's Bruce; but does not
quote the words of the charter so fully as they are here
given.--_The Bruce and Wallace_, 4to., Edin. 1820, vol. i. p.
485.]

_Scott, Nelson's Secretary._--Can any of your readers give me
information as to the pedigree and family of John Scott, Esq., public
secretary to Lord Nelson? He was killed at Trafalgar on board the
Victory; and dying while his sons were yet very young, his descendants
possess little knowledge on the subject to which I have alluded. He was,
I _think_, born at Fochabers, near Gordon Castle, where his mother is
known to have died.

A SUBSCRIBER.

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_The Axe which beheaded Anne Boleyn._--A friend of mine has excited my
curiosity by stating, that in his school-boy readings of the history of
England, he learned that the axe which deprived Henry VIII.'s second
wife (Anne Boleyn) of her head was preserved as a relic in the Northgate
Street of Kent's ancient citie, Canterbury. I have written to friends
living in that locality for a confirmation of such a strange fact; but
they plead ignorance. Can any of your numerous readers throw any light
relative to this subject upon the benighted mind of

PHILIP WEST.

_Roger Outlawe._--A friend of mine in Germany has met with some ancient
rolls, said to have been from the Irish Court of Common Pleas, chiefly
of the time of Edward III., and headed thus:

"Communia placita apud Dublin coram fratre Rogero Outlawe
priore hospitii sancti Johannis de Jerusalem in hibernia
tenens locum Johannis Darcy le Cosyn Justiciarii hiberniae apud
Dublin die pasche in viiij mense anno B. Etii post ultimum
conquestum hiberniae quarto."

Can any person state who this _Roger Outlawe_ was? And is it not
singular that a prior of a religious and military establishment should
be qualified to sit as _locum tenens_ of a judge in a law court?

H. T. ELLACOMBE.

Clyst St. George.

"_Berte au Grand Pied._"--I should be glad to know what is the history
or legend of the goose-footed queen, whose figure Mr. Laing, in his
_Norway_, p. 70. 8vo. edition, says is on the portals of four French
cathedrals.

THOS. LAWRENCE.

Ashby-de-la-Zouch.

_Lying by the Walls._--What is the origin of the phrase "Lying by the
walls," an euphemism for _dead_? It was very commonly use