_The Amber Witch_ (Vol. v., p. 510.).--In answer to a Query of A. N., this book is a pure fiction. Some German biblical critics pretending to decide that whole chapters, or whole books, of the Bible are spurious, from internal evidence, Meinhold wrote the _Amber Witch_ to show how little able they were to judge of internal evidence in a much simpler case. Several of them fell into his trap, and then the author avowed the work to be his own. T. _Twyford_ (Vol. v., p. 467.).--There is yet, I am informed, a _double ford_ at Alnmouth, a little above the town. The ancient church, called Woden's Church, stood at the mouth of the Alne. Here was found the cross with the imperfect inscription in Anglo-Saxon runes, now preserved at Alnwick Castle. I am not aware that any local tradition now connects the name of Twyford with Alnmouth. EDWARD CHARLTON. {570} _The Ring Finger_ (Vol. v., p. 492.).--I have met with the following passage in Adam's _Antiquities_ (8vo. ed., p. 429.), which seems to assign another origin to this custom than the one lately proposed in "N. & Q.": "On this occasion" (_i. e._ the signing of the marriage contract) "there was commonly a feast: and the man gave the woman a ring (_annulus pronubus_) by way of pledge, _Juvenal_, vi. 27., which she put on her left hand, on the finger next the least; because it was believed a nerve reached from thence to the heart: _Macrob. Sat._ vii. 15." ERYX. _Brass of Lady Gore_ (Vol. v., p. 412.).--This brass still exists, and commemorates Maria Gore, _Priorissa_, 1436, attired simply as a widow. Owing to its actual existence having been but recently known to collectors of rubbings, no mention was made of it in the _Oxford Manual_. For the same reason there is no notice of a very interesting brass of a bishop or abbot, date end of fourteenth century, at Adderley, Salop. The editor of the above work would take this opportunity of thanking MR. W. S. SIMPSON for his corrections ("N. & Q.," Vol. v., p. 369.). The rubbing, or rather smudging, from which the inscription was copied being nearly wholly illegible, accounts for the mistakes. Any further corrections will oblige THE EDITOR OF THE "OXFORD MANUAL OF BRASSES." Gloucester. _Gospel Trees._--Several Numbers of "N. & Q." have contained interesting notices of trees which are traditionally reported to indicate the standing-places of out-door preachers. To me, there is something very pleasing and picturesque--if nothing better--in these narrations; and I shall therefore be glad to find them recurring in your pages, whether their claims are of ancient or later date. Every reader of the vigorous poetry of Ebenezer Elliott, a true member of the _genus irritabile_, will recollect Miles Gordon "the Ranter" preacher, and how, in the poet's lines,-- "----The great unpaid! the prophet, lo! Sublime he stands beneath the Gospel tree, And Edmund stands on Shirecliffe at his side."