_Saint Thomas of Lancaster_.--Not having Brady at hand, I cannot tell what authorities he cites; but, as Mr. Milnes (No. 12. p. 181.) does not mention Rymer, he perhaps may not know that he will find in that collection some documentary evidence on the subject of this saint, if saint he was; for instance-- "_Super rumore Thomam nuper Comitem Lancastriæ miraculis corruscuri_."--Rym. Foed. iii. p. 1033. A.D. 1323. "Quod," adds the king, "moleste gerimus." But Edward III. was of quite another mind, and urged his canonization of the Holy See. Witness Rymer:-- "_Ad Papam; pro canonisatione Thomae nuper Comitis Lancastriæ_."--Foed. iv. p. 2. A.D. 1326. And again-- "_Pro custodi_" (Weryngton mentioned by Mr. Milnes), "_Capellæ ad montem ubi nuper comes Lancastriæ decollatus fuit_."--Ib. p. 291. It seems that the bodies of some of Thomas's accomplices were also supposed to have worked miracles; for we find an ordinance-- "_Contra Fingentes miracula fieri per inimicos Regis_." --Rym. Foed. iv. p. 20. A.D. 1323. Andrews says (_Hist_. i. 342.) that Richard II. renewed the application for Thomas's canonization; but he does not give his authority, and I have not time to look further through Rymer. p. 184. _Jhon-John_.--I wonder Mr. Williams does not see that the _h_ is not "_introduced_" for any purpose; it is an integral part of the original name _Johannes_, which was contracted into _Johan_, and in French into _Jehan_. p. 185. _Slang Phrases_.--"_A Rowland for an Oliver_" is no slang phrase of the eighteenth century; it is a proverbial expression as old as the days of the romances of _Roland_ and _Olivier_. The other two were phrases put into the mouths of two characters (Dr. Ollapod, in Colman's _Poor Gentleman_, and Young Rapid, in Morton's _Cure for the Heart-ache_), which grew into vogue only from the success of the actors Fawcett and Lewis, and had no meaning or allusion beyond what the words obviously meant. C. {235}_Full of Rain in England._--"ROYDON" (No. 11. p. 73) will find the average quantity of rain fallen at Greenwich, for twenty-five years, 1815 to 1839, in a very useful and clever pamphlet, price 1s., by J.H. Belville, of the Royal Observatory, published by Taylor, Red Lion Court, Fleet Street, called _Manual of the Mercurial and Aneroid Barometers._ HENRY WILKINSON _Judas Bell_--(No. 13, p. 195). In the "Flyting of Dunbar and Kennedie," a singular Scotch Poem, composed in the former half of the 16th century, and printed in Ramsay's _Evergreen_, the following passage occurs (_Everg._ vol. ii. p. 74.):-- "A Benefice quha wald give sic a Beist, But gif it were to jingle _Judas bells_? Tak thee a Fiddle or a Flute to jest, Undocht thou art, ordained for naithing ells." The Judas bells may probably have been used in the Easter-eve ceremonies, in connexion with which we find _Judas candles_ mentioned. See Brand's _Popular Antiq._ by Sir H. Ellis, vol. i. p. 29. C.W.G.