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CORRIGENDA FOR VOL. II.

Page 121, col. 1, lines 2 and 3. The mode of death attributed to St James the Great was that of St James the Less. 229. Some inaccuracies in the account of Eugene Aram are pointed out in the following interesting letter from a correspondent:

1. In the first place, the defence of that most extraordinary individual-which will ever delight the man of taste, the antiquary, and the scholar; of the authorship whereof an attempt has been very recently made to deprive himwas not delivered extempore, but was read before the court by the cruelly used prisoner, who, at the conclusion of the trial, or on the following day, handed over, on request, the original and only genuine manuscript copy of it to Mr Wharton, who is believed to have been the governor of York Castle at that time. In Chambers's Edinburgh Journal, No. 233, July 16, 1836, p. 194, wherein the defence is given nearly in extenso, it is stated correctly to have been delivered in writing.

2. The extreme penalty of the law was carried into effect at York and not in London. Was it likely the authorities would be at the expense of carrying a poor schoolmaster nearly 200 miles for the purpose of hanging him, and then bringing his body back again to be gibbeted? A coincidence in the names of places appointed in former times for the awful sacrifice of human life to offended laws at York and London has probably led to the mistake. For many years before and after Eugene Aram suffered, the place of execution at York was a short distance out of Micklegate Bar, and is thus described by Hargrove in his history of that city, vol. ii. p. 512, 8vo. York, 1818 :-" A little beyond the Mount, on the right of the road, stands a White House, formerly called Gallows House, which was, till within the last four years, used as a manufactory for starch. Beyond it, on the opposite side of the road, a gallows, for the execution of criminals, was erected during the night, in March 1708; prior to which time, capital punishment was effected in the area of the castle. Its form was the same as Tyburn, near London, and it went by the same name. The culprits were conveyed as public spectacles, in a cart from York, surrounded and followed by immense multitudes and this barbarous custom, with its brutal concomitants, disgusting to the feeling mind, was continued till August 1802, when the new drop was erected behind the castle. The hillock, where the unfortunate offenders of the laws forfeited their lives, may yet be seen."

3. The trial and conviction of Eugene Aram took place at York, on Friday the 3d August 1759, and his execution on the Monday following, being the 6th of that month, and not the 16th, as stated in your most interesting work. 'I may add that the judge who tried, and (for anything which appears in print), upon the unsupported evidence of a guilty accomplice-a perjured monster, who, according to all accounts, " was a big, broad-shouldered, square knave," consigned the ingenious and accomplished, though ill-fated scholar to the scaffold, was William Noel, Esq., younger brother of Sir Clobery Noel, Bart., and the second son of Sir John Noel, Bart., of the family of that name-Viscounts Wentworth. "He was," says Collins in his Peerage, vol. vi. p. 211, ed. 1812, “one of the M.P.'s for Stamford, Lincolnshire, in 1722, 1727, 1734, and 1741, of which corporation he was also recorder. In 1747 and 1754 he was returned to parliament for Westlow (or Portpignam), in Cornwall. In 1750 he was appointed chief-justice of Chester, and continued in that office till March 1757, when he was constituted one of the judges of the Court of Common Pleas. He died December 8, 1762."

'His colleague upon the Northern Circuit in 1759, was Henry Bathurst, Esq., also of the Common Bench.' Page 437, col. 1, line 3: for Guanahani or San Salvador, read Watling's Island. The recently-ascertained fact is indicated on p. 171 of the same volume.

717, 2, 13. A correspondent gives us a preferable etymology for Holborn—the Saxon Hulbourne, ‘the stream at the foot of the hill.'

718. The above correspondent points out that Queen Square was so named in honour of Caroline, the consort of George II. (col. 1, line 49); that the words 'architect of the Bank of England' should be deleted (col. 1, lines 65 and 66); that for Denvil Street should be read Denzil Street, the reference being of course to Denzil Holles (col. 1, line 57); and that Gatherum should be Guthrum (col. 2, line 69). Ho also, in p. 719 (col. 1, lines 13 and 22), corrects Cealchylle into Cealchythe, and Stebenhythe into Stebonhethe.