him in Halgaver Court,’ being old Cornish proverbs. A similar institution has existed from time immemorial at the little town of Penryn in Cornwall, at the annual festival of Nutting, when the ‘Mayor of Mylor’ is chosen. According to popular opinion, says Mr Hunt, in his _Romances of the West of England_, ‘there is a clause in the borough charter compelling the legitimate mayor to surrender his power to the “Mayor of Mylor” on the day in question, and to lend the town-sergeant’s paraphernalia to the gentlemen of the shears.’ At the yearly fair, too, held in the village of Tarleton, a mock-mayor was until a very few years ago elected, this ceremony forming part of the after-dinner proceedings. ‘Three persons,’ says a correspondent of _Notes and Queries_, ‘were nominated, and it was the rule that each candidate on receiving a vote should drink a glass of wine—a “bumper” to the health of the voter—so that the one elected was not very steady on his feet when all the company had polled and the newly elected mayor had to be installed.’ Lastly, referring to the days on which fairs were formerly held, it appears from _The Book of Fairs_ that they were kept up on Good-Friday at St Austell, Cornwall; Droitwich, Worcestershire; Grinton, Yorkshire; High-Budleigh, Devonshire; and at Wimborne, Dorsetshire. A correspondent of _Notes and Queries_ says that he saw a ‘brisk fair going on in the little village of Perran’s Porth, Cornwall, not far from the curious oratory of St Piran, on Good-Friday in 1878.’ In some places, too, Sunday seems to have been selected; for in Benson’s _Vindication of the Methodists_ we find the following paragraph, with special reference to Lincolnshire: ‘Wakes, feasts, and dancing begin in many parishes on the Lord’s Day, on which also some fairs and annual markets are held.’ THE LAST OF THE STUARTS. A MODERN ROMANCE. I.—THE DISINHERITED PRINCE.