Notes and Queries, Number 179, April 2, 1853.. Various

clean within, and the metal gills polished without.

2

His character has suffered by antiquarian research, which tells us that the song was made on a Colonel Horner, intrusted by the last Abbot of Wells with a pie, containing the title-deeds of the abbey, which he was to deliver to Henry VIII., and that he abstracted one for his own purposes, whereupon the abbot was hanged.

3

The old name for pancakes. Slap-jacks is their present name in America.

4

The figure which struck the hour, as on the old clocks of St. Dunstan's, and of Carfax in Oxford.

5

Bron-rhuddyn = "breast-burnt," or "breast-scorched."