ve," "diffusive," "prelusive," &c.

CUTHBERT BEDE, B.A.

[A reference to Richardson's _Dictionary_ will show that,
however fond Thomson may have been of this word, it is not one
peculiar to him. Whitehead says:

"To me 'twas given to wake _th' amusive_ reed,"

and Chandler, in his _Travels in Greece_, speaks of the wind
"murmuring _amusively_ among the pines."]

_Belfry Towers separate from the Body of the Church._--At Mylor, near
Falmouth, there is an old tower for the bells (where they are rung every
Sunday), separate from the church itself, which has a very low tower.
Are there many other instances of this? I do not remember to have seen
any.

J. S. A.

[If our correspondent will refer to the last edition of the
_Glossary of Architecture_, s. v. _Campanile_, he will learn
that though bell towers are generally attached to the church,
they are sometimes unconnected with it, as at Chichester
cathedral, and are sometimes united merely by a covered
passage, as at Lapworth, Warwickshire. There are several
examples of detached bell-towers still remaining, as at
Evesham, Worcestershire; Berkeley, Gloucestershire; Walton,
Norfolk; Ledbury, Herefordshire; and a very curious one
entirely of timber, with the frame for the bells springing
from the ground, at Pembridge, Herefordshire. At Salisbury a
fine early English detached campanile, 200 feet in height,
surmounted by a timber turret and spire, stood near the
north-west corner of the cathedral, but was destroyed by
Wyatt.]

_An Easter-day Sun._--In that verse of Sir John Suckling's famous
_Ballad upon a Wedding_, wherein occurs the simile of the "little mice,"
what is the meaning of the allusion to the Easter-day sun?--

"But oh! she dances such a way,
No sun upon an Easter-day
Is half so fine a sight!"

CUTHBERT BEDE, B.A.

[It was formerly a common belief that the sun danced on
Easter-day: see Brand's _Popular Antiquities_, vol. i. p. 161.
_et seq._ So general was it, that Sir Thomas Browne treats on
it in his _Vulgar Errors_, vol. ii. p. 87. ed. Bohn.]

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Replies.

HAMILTON QUERIES.

(Vol. vii., p. 285.)

On reference to the Peerages of Sir Harris Nicolas and Wood, I feel no
doubt that the father of Lord Spencer Hamilton, as TEE BEE remarks, was
the fifth Duke