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on to Kingsland and Mile End Green, receiving charity as they went, and having "a cart load or two of biskett behind them." Thence they proceeded by Aldgate, through Cheapside, Fleetstreet, and the Strand, and on through Westminster. "Many of them brought their wives and berns in with them, yet were many of our scotified citizens so pitifull unto them, that as they passed through the city, they made them, though prisoners at mercy, masters of more money and good white bread than some of them ever see in their lives. They marched this night [Saturday, Sept. 13.] into Tuttle Fields. Some Irishmen are among them, but most of them are habited after that fashion." The contemporary journals in the British Museum would probably state some epidemic which may have caused the mortality that followed. GEO. ORMEROD Sedbury Park, Clepstow. _Long Friday_ (Vol. ii., p. 323.).--T.E.L.L. is not correct in his supposition that "Long Friday" is the same as "Great Friday". In Danish, Good Friday is Langfredag; in Swedish, Laengfredag. I have always understood the epithet had reference to the length of the services. COLL. ROYAL SOC. _The Bradshaw Family_ (Vol. ii., p. 356.).--The president of the pretended high court of justice, a Cheshire man, had no connexion with Haigh Hall, in Lancashire. E.C.G. may satisfy himself by referring to Mr. Ormerod's _History of Cheshire_ (vol. iii. p. 408.) for some valuable information respecting the regicide and his family, and to Wotton's _Baronetage_ (vol. iii. P. 2. p. 655.) for the descent of the loyal race of Bradshaigh. J.H.M. Bath. _Julin, the drowned City_ (Vol. ii., pp. 230. 282.).--I am sorry I did not state more clearly the inquiry respecting the fate of _Julin_, which DR. BELL has been so good as to notice. This is partly the printer's fault. I spoke of the _drowned_, not the _doomed_ city. The _drowning_ was what I desired some account of. "A flourishing emporium of commerce", extant {380} in 1072, and now surviving only in tradition, and in "records" of ships wrecked on its "submerged ruins," does not sink into the ocean without exciting wonder and pity. I knew of the tradition, and presumed there was some probability of the existence of a legend (_legendum_, something to be _read_) describing a catastrophe that must have been widely heard of when it happened. This I conjectured might be found in Adam of Bremen; to whose mention of
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