the return home, all dead, except a few which were turned white.
(Vide Stonehouse's _History of the Isle of Axholme_.)

As for the "Doncaster Daggers" and "Hatfield Rats," also inquired after, I
have no information, although those places are in the same neighbourhood.

W. H. L.

_Effects of the Vox Regalis of the Queen Bee_ (Vol. vii., p. 499.).--Dr.
Bevan, than whom there is probably no better authority on apiarian matters,
discredits this statement of Huber. No other naturalist appears to have
witnessed these wonderful effects. Dr. Bevan however states, that when the
queen is

"Piping, prior to the issue of an after-swarm, the bees that are near
her remain still, with a slight inclination of their heads, but whether
impressed by fear or not seems doubtful."--Bevan _On the Honey Bee_, p.
18.

CHEVERELLS.

_Seneca and St. Paul_ (Vol. vii., p. 500.).--

"The fourteen letters of Seneca to Paul, _which are printed_ in the old
editions of Seneca, are apocryphal."--Dr. W. Smith's _Dict. of
Mythology_, &c.

"SENECA, Opera, 1475, fol. The second part contains only his letters,
and _begins with the correspondence of St. Paul and Seneca_."--Ebert's
_Bibl. Dict._

B. H. C.

_Hurrah_ (Vol. vi., p. 54.; Vol. vii., p. 595.).--Wace's _Chronicle of the
Norman Conquest_, as it appears in Mr. Edgar Taylor's translation, pp. 21,
22, mentions the war-cries of the various knights at the battle of Val des
Dunes. Duke William cries "Dex aie," and Raol Tesson "_Tur aie_;" on which
there is a note that M. Pluquet reads "Thor aide," which he considers may
have been derived from the ancient Northmen. Surely this is the origin of
our modern _hurrah_; and if so, perhaps the earliest mention of our English
war-cry.

J. F. M.

_Purlieu_ (Vol. vii., p. 477.).--The etymology of this word which Dr.
Johnson adopted is that which many others have approved of. The only other
derivation which appears to have been suggested is from _perambulatio_.
Blount, _Law Dict._, s. voc., thus explains:

"_Purlue_ or _Purlieu_ (from the Fr. _pur_, i. e. _purus_, and _lieu_,
locus) is all that ground near any forest, which being made forest by
Henry II., Richard I., or King John, were, by _perambulation_, granted
by Henry III., severed again from the same, and became _purlue_, i. e.
pure and free from the laws and ordinances of the forest. Manwood, par.
2., For. Laws, cap. 20.; see the stat