There is also another subject of antiquity in Ireland, and closely connected with her early history, of the true origin of which the world seems much in ignorance, viz. her Round Towers. Possibly some of your able correspondents will kindly supply some information on one or both of these subjects.
W. R. M.
Round Robbin.—In Dr. Heylin's controversy with Fuller on his Church History, the following quotation[[1]] occurs:
"That the Sacrament of the Altar is nothing else but a piece of bread, or a little predie round robbin."
In the East Riding of Yorkshire the term is designative of a petition, in which all the names are signed radiating from a centre, so as to render it impossible to discover who was the first to sign it. What is the derivation of it?
R. W. E.
Cor. Chr. Coll., Cambridge.
Footnote 1:[(return)]
Appeal of Injured Innocence, p. 462.
Experto crede Roberto.—What is the origin of this saying?