lations of the House of
Commons. Harley was shortly after created Earl of Oxford, by patent
bearing date 24th May, 1711, which recites, _inter alia_,--

"Since, therefore, the two Houses of Parliament have declared
that the fidelity and affection he has expressed in our service
have exposed him to the hatred of wicked men, _and the desperate
rage of a villanous parricide_, since they have congratulated
his escape from such imminent dangers, and put us in mind that
he might not be preserved in vain, we willingly comply with
their desires, and grant him who comes so honourably recommended
by the votes of our Parliament, a place among our peer," &c.
&c.--Collin's _Peerage_, vol. iv. p. 260. edit. 1789.

Guiscard died in Newgate of the wounds which he received in the scuffle
when he was secured.

BRAYBROOKE.

[O.P.Q., who has kindly replied to M.'s inquiry, has appended to
his answer the following Query:--"Is Smollett justified in using
the words _assassin_ and _assassinate_, as applied to cases of
intended homicide, when death did not ensue?"]

_The Darby Ram_ (Vol. ii., p. 71.).--There is a whimsical little volume,
which, as it relates mainly to local matters, may not have come under
the notice of many of your readers, to which I would refer your querist
H.W.

It is entitled,--

"Gimcrackiana, or Fugitive Pieces on Manchester Men and Manners
ten years ago. Manchester, 1833." cr. 8vo.

It is anonymous, but I believe truly ascribed to a clever young
bookseller of the name of J.S. Gregson, since dead.

At page 185. he gives twelve stanzas of this ballad, as the most perfect
copy from the oral chronicle of his greatgrandmother.

In _The Ballad Book_ (Edinb. 1827, 12mo.), there is another entitled
"The Ram of Diram," of a similar kind, but consisting of only six verses
and chorus. And the _Dublin Penny Journal_, vol. i., p. 283., contains a
prose story, entitled "Darby and the Ram," of the same veracious nature.

F.R.A.

_Rotten Row and Stockwell Street._--R.R., of Glasgow, inquires the
etymology of these names (Vol. i., p. 441.). The etymology of the first
word possesses some interest, perhaps, at the present time, owing to the
name of the site of the intended Exhibition from all Nations in Hyde
Park. I sent to the publishers of _Glasgow Delineated_, {236} which was
printed at the University press in 1826, a contradiction of the usual
origin of th