"The wight an' doughty captains a',
Upo' their doups sat down;
A rangel o' the commoun fouk
In bourachs a' stood roun."
I think Forbes states that his place of business on Tower Hill was "hard by the shop of Robbie Mill." (See Chalmers' Life of Ruddiman.) Forbes is supposed to have died about the year 1750.
Hypadidasculus.
Gold Chair found in Jersey.—I find in Lowndes' Bibliographer's Manual the following:
"The most wonderfull and strange Finding of a Chayre of Gold, neare the Isle of Iarsie, with the true Discourse of the Death of eight seuerall Men: and other most rare Accidents thereby proceeding. London, 1595, 4to. 14 pages, including not only the title-page, but a blank leaf before it, as was frequent about this time."
Can any one inform me where I can obtain a sight of this tract? I have searched the multivoluminous catalogue of the British Museum, that of the Bodleian, Grenville, Douce, and other collections, but in vain; and can find no trace of it anywhere.
R. P. M.