nd if he failed, the
spur-bearer was entitled to exemption.

E.J.H.

_Spur Money._--I beg to offer the following humble illustration of
spur-money, which I copied from the belfry wall of All Saints Church at
Hastings:--

1.
"This is a belfry that is free
For all those that civil be:
And if you please to chime or ring,
It is a very pleasant thing.

2.
"There is no musick play'd or sung,
Like unto bells when they're well rung:
Then right your bells well, if you can--
Silence is best for every man.

3.
"But if you ring in _spur or hat_,
Sixpence you pay--be sure of that:
And if a bell you overthrow,
Pray pay a groat before you go."

(dated) 1756.

ALFRED GATTY.

Ecclesfield, April 6. 1850.

_Note Books._--Looking at what your correspondent says about "Note
Books," I think the following hint may be useful to others, as it has
been to myself. Many persons never get so far as the formality of a
common-place book, and do not like to write in their books. Let them
follow my plan. The envelope maker will procure them any number of
little slips of white paper, with a touch of isinglass at each of the
four corners. Let the note be written on one of these, and then let the
slip be stuck into any book which is sure to be wanted in connection
with the subject when it comes up again; either by one, two, or four
corners, as convenient. The isinglass will not hurt the book, if ever it
be wanted to remove the slip. A note is more in the way, when attached
to a book which suggested it, than when buried among unindexed
miscellanies; and there are few who index themselves. Your motto is good
as far as it goes; but the other half is wanting:--

"When made a note of,--find if you can."

M.

* * * * *

LADY RACHAEL RUSSELL.

Mr. Dyce has admitted Lady Rachael Russell among his _British Poetesses_
on account of the following verses:--

TO THE MEMORY OF HER HUSBAND.

"Right noble twice, by virtue and by birth,
Of Heaven lov'd, and honour'd on the earth;
His country's hope, his kindred's chief delight,
My husband dear, more than this world's light,
Death hath me reft. But I from death will take
His memory, to whom this tomb I make.
John was his name (ah, was! wretch must I say),
Lord Russell once, now my tear-thirsty clay."

Now "John" was not the Christian name of William Lord Russell, so that
these verses could not have c