which is probably a mistake. It bears the following inscription:
"This is drawn from the painting in the hands of Mr. Justice Newton of the Middle Temple."
Can any one inform me when this learned justice lived; or rather, for it concerns me more, when he died? And farther, if it be not too hopeless an inquiry to make, who his existing representatives (if any) may be?
F. Kyffin Lenthall.
36. Mount Street, Grosvenor Square.
Mufti.—I hear military men employ this term, "we went in mufti:" meaning, out of uniform. Whence is it derived?
Maria.
Ryming and Cuculling.—In that very curious volume of extracts from The Presbytery Book of Strathbogie, A.D. 1631-54, which was printed for the Spalding Club in 1843, occurs the following passage:
"George Jinkin and John Christie referred from the Session of Abercherder, for ryming and cuculling, called, compeird not. Ordained to be summonded pro 2o."—P. 242.
Accordingly, on—