land.
The race was extinct before my day, but I understand that formerly the
permanent garrisons of Edinburgh, and I believe also of Stirling, Castles,
consisted of veteran companies; and I remember, when I first came to
Edinburgh, of people who had seen them, still talking of "the Castle
fogies."

Dr. Jamieson, in his _Scottish Dictionary_, defines the word "foggie or
fogie," to be first, "an invalid, or garrison soldier," secondly, "a person
advanced in life" and derives it from "Su. G. _fogde_, formerly one who had
the charge of a garrison."

This seems to me a more satisfactory derivation than MR. KEIGHTLEY'S, who
considers it a corruption or diminutive of _old folks_.

J. L.

City Chambers, Edinburgh.

_Errata corrigenda._--Vol. ii., p. 356. col. 2., near the bottom, for Sir
_William_ Jardine, read Sir _Henry_ Jardine. Sir William and Sir Henry were
very different persons, though the former was probably the more generally
known. Sir H. was the author of the report referred to.

Vol. vii., p. 441. col. 1. line 15, for _Lenier_ read _Ferrier_.

J. L.

City Chambers, Edinburgh.

_Anecdote of Dutens_ (Vol. vii., pp. 26. 390.).--

"Lord Lansdowne at breakfast mentioned of Dutens, who wrote _Memoires
d'un Voyageur qui se repose_, and was a great antiquarian, that, on his
describing once his good luck in having found (what he fancied to be) a
tooth of Scipio's in Italy, some one asked him what he had done with
it, upon which he answered briskly: 'What have I done with it? Le
voici,' pointing to his mouth; where he had made it supplemental to a
lost one of his own."--Moore's _Journal_, vol. iv. p. 271.

E. H. A.

_Gloves at Fairs_ (Vol. vii., p. 455.).--In Hone's _Every-day Book_ (vol.
ii. p. 1059.) is the following paragraph:--

"EXETER LAMMAS FAIR.--The charter for this fair is perpetuated by a
glove of immense size, stuffed and carried through the city on a very
long pole, decorated with ribbons, flowers, &c., and attended with
music, parish beadles, and the mobility. It is afterwards placed on the
top of the Guildhall, and then the fair commences: on the taking down
of the glove, the fair terminates.--P."

As to Crolditch, _alias_ Lammas Fair, at Exeter, see Izacke's _Remarkable
Antiquities of the City of Exeter_, pp. 19, 20.

C. H. COOPER.

Cambridge.

At Macclesfield, in Cheshire, a large glove was, perhaps is, always
suspended from the outsid