ce to the monogram inquired
after in this Query, I think I have seen it, or one very similar, among the
"mason marks" on Strasburg Tower, which would seem a place of Freemason
pilgrimage: for the soft stone is deeply carved in various places within
the tower with such marks as this, together with initials and dates of
visit. I have also marks very similar from the stones of the tower of the
pretty little cathedral of Freiburg, Briesgau. I should incline to think it
a Masonic mark, and not that of an engraver on wood, or of a printer.

A. B. R.

Belmont.

_Shrove Tuesday_ (Vol. ix., p. 324.).--The bell described as rung on Shrove
Tuesday at Newbury, was no doubt the old summons which used to call our
ancestors to the priest to be shrived, or confessed, on that day. It is
commonly called the "Pancake Bell," because it was also the signal for the
cook to put the pancake on the fire. This savoury couplet occurs in _Poor
Robin_ for 1684:

"But hark, I hear the pancake bell,
And fritters make a gallant smell."

The custom of ringing this bell has been retained in many parishes. It is
orthodoxly rung at Ecclesfield from eleven to twelve a.m. Plenty of
information on this subject may be found in Brand's _Popular Antiquities_.

ALFRED GATTY.

_Milton's Correspondence_ (Vol. viii., p. 640.).--A translation of Milton's
Latin familiar correspondence, made by John Hall, Esq., of the Philadelphia
bar, now a Presbyterian clergyman at Trenton, N.J., was published about
eighteen or twenty years ago in this city.

UNEDA.

Philadelphia

"_Verbatim et literatim_" (Vol. ix., p. 348.).--Your correspondent L. H. J.
TONNA, in proposing for the latter part of the above phrase the form _ad
literam_, might as well have extended his amendment, and suggested _ad
verbum et literam_; for I should imagine there is quite as little authority
for the word _verbatim_ being used in the Latin language, as for that of
_literatim_. Vossius is an authority for the latter; but can any of your
correspondents oblige me by citing one for the former, notwithstanding its
frequent adoption in English conversation and writings? Neither _verbatim_
nor _literatim_ will be found in Riddle.

N. L. J.

_Epigrams_ (Vol. vii., p. 175.).--The epigram, "How D.D. swaggers, M.D.
rolls," &c., was written by Horace Smith, and may be found in the _New
Monthly Magazine_ for 1823, in the article called "Grimm's Ghost. Letter
XII."

UNEDA.

Philadelphia.