=Treachery of the Long-Knives= (_The_). Hengist invited the chief British nobles to a conference at Ambresbury, but arranged that a Saxon should be seated beside each Briton. At the given signal, each Saxon was to slay his neighbor with his long knife, and as many as 460 British nobles fell. Eidiol, earl of Gloucester escaped, after killing seventy (some say 660) of the Saxons.--_Welsh Triads._ Stonehenge was erected by Merlin, at the command of Ambrosius, in memory of the plot of the “Long-Knives.”... He built it on the site of a former circle. It deviates from older bardic circles, as may be seen by comparing it with Avebury, Stanton-Drew, Keswick, etc.--_Cambrian Biography_, art. “Merddin.” =Trecentisti=, the Italian writers of the “Trecento” (thirteenth century). They were Dantê (1265-1321); Petrarch (1304-1374); Boccaccio (1313-1375), who wrote the _Decameron_. Among the famous artists were Giotto, Lorenzo Ghiberti, and Andre Orcagna. (See CINQUECENTO, SEICENTO.) In Italy he’d ape the Trecentisti. Byron, _Don Juan_, iii. 86 (1820). =Tree= (_The Bleeding_). One of the superstitous tales told of the marquis of Argyll, so hated by the royalists for the part he took in the execution of Montrose, was this: “That a tree on which thirty-six of his enemies were hanged was immediately blasted, and when hewn down, a copious stream of blood ran from it, saturating the earth, and that blood for several years flowed out from the roots.”--Laing, _History of Scotland_, ii. 11 (1800); _State Trials_, ii. 422. _Tree_ (_The Poet’s_), a tree which grows over the tomb of Tan-Sein, a musician at the court of [Mohammed] Akbar. Whoever chews a leaf of this tree, will be inspired with a divine melody of voice.--W. Hunter. His voice was as sweet as if he had chewed the leaves of that enchanted tree, which grows over the tomb of the musician, Tan-Sein.--Moore, _Lalla Rookh_ (1817). _Tree_ (_The Singing_), a tree, each leaf of which was musical, and all the leaves joined together in delightful harmony.--_Arabian Nights_ (“The Story of the Sisters who envied their Younger Sister”). In the _Fairy Tales_ of the Comtesse D’Aunoy, there is a similar tale of a tree which bore “the singing apple,” but whoever ate of this fruit received the inspiration of poetry as well.--“Cherry and Fairstar.” =Tregeagle=, the giant of Dosmary Pool, on Bodmin Downs (Cornwall). When the wintry winds blare over the downs, it is said to be the giant howling. =Trelawny Ballad= (_The_), is by the Rev. R. S. Hawker, of Morwenstow.--_Notes and Queries_, 441 (June, 1876). =Tremor= (_Sir Luke_), a desperate coward, living in India, who made it a rule never to fight, either in his own house, his neighbor’s house, or in the street. This prudent desperado is everlastingly snubbing his wife. (See TRIPPET.)