L.
Gloucester Alarm.—In the archives of Lyme Regis is this entry:
"Town Accompt Book.
"1661. For the four soldiers and drummers for service on the Gloucester alarm and candles, 10s. 0d."
What was the "Gloucester alarm?"
G. R.
Where is Criston, County Somerset?—Mr. Vaughan, a young man who was to have joined the Duke of Monmouth, was of that house or place.
G. R.
"There was a Maid of Westmoreland."—"Some fifty summers past," I was in the habit of hearing sung a simple ballad, which commenced—
"There was a maid of Westmoreland,
Who built her house upon the sand:"