is a curious incident, and I have never heard of anything of the sort
taking place in modern times. Would some of your readers who study natural
history be good enough to give me another instance? I am at present
inclined to think that the account is one of the many myths which Stow
doubtless believed.

EUSTACE W. JACOB.

_Sandford of Thorpe Salvine, Co. York._--Wanted, the arms and crest of the
Sandfords of Thorpe Salvine. Also any particulars of the family, from the
commencement of their residence at High Ashes, in the parish of
Ashton-under-Lyne, co. Lancashire, until the termination of that residence.
Were they of the same family with Sandford, Baron Mount Sandford?

J. B.

"_Outlines of the History of Theology_," 8vo., London, 1844, said to be
privately printed. Any information as to the author, &c. will oblige

JOHN MARTIN.

Woburn Abbey.

_"Mawkin."_--Is this word, which signifies here "a scarecrow," merely a
Norfolk pronunciation of _mocking_? i. e. an imitation of a man--composed
of coat, hat, &c. hung upon a cross bar of wood?

J. L. S.

_"Plain Dealer."_--Can any one of your readers inform me where I can see a
copy of Aaron Hill's _Plain Dealer_, as originally published, and before it
was collected and printed in two volumes?

D.

_Hymn attributed to Handel._--Can any of your readers give information
concerning a hymn which commences thus:

"We'll proclaim the wond'rous story
Of the mercies we receive,
From the day-spring's dawn in glory,
To the fading hour of eve."

It has been attributed to Handel. On what authority?

W. P. STORER.

Olney, Bucks.

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_Degrees in Arts._--In the diploma of Master of Arts which I obtained from
the University of Edinburgh, occur the words:

"Cunctaque consecutum esse Privilegia, Immunitates, Jura, quae hic aut
usquam alibi Bonarum Artium Magistris concedi solent."

What are (or rather _were_, for I suppose they do not now exist) these
_privilegia_, _immunitates_, and _jura_?

ANNANDALE.

_"Goloshes"--"Kutchin-kutchu."_--What is the origin of _goloshes_, as the
name of water-proof shoes? It is, of course, of American derivation. But
has it any connexion with the tribe of North American Indians, the
Goloshes? They are the immediate neighbours of those tribes of Esquimaux
who form water-proof boats and dresses from the entrails of the seal; and a
confusion of names may easily have occurred.

The expedition of Sir John Richard