As to the antiquity of the name of Lindes or Lindesey, I should say Lindentree must be of comparatively modern nomenclature. I should, however, be glad to have the opinion of some of your better-informed etymologists on the meaning of the word, as it may decide a point of some importance in genealogy. J. L. Berwick. * * * * * Minor Queries. _Smock Marriage in New York._--In a curious old book, entitled _The interesting Narrative of the Life of Oulandah Equiano, or Gustavus Vassa, the African, written by himself_, and published in London, by subscription, in 1789, I find the following passage: "While we lay here (New York, A.D. 1784) a circumstance happened which I thought extremely singular. One day a malefactor was to be executed on a gallows, but with a condition that if any woman, having nothing on but her shift, married the man under the gallows, his life was to be saved. This extraordinary privilege was claimed; a woman presented herself, and the marriage ceremony was performed."--Vol. ii. p. 224. Perhaps some of your New York correspondents can say whether the annals of that city furnish evidence of so extraordinary an occurrence. R. WRIGHT. _The broken Astragalus._--Where was the broken astragalus, given by the host to his guest, first used as the symbol of hospitality? C. H. HOWARD. _Penardo and Laissa._--Who is the author of a poem (the title-page of which is wanting) called _The Historye of Penardo and Laissa_, unpaged, in seventeen caputs, with poems recommendatory, by Drummond of Hawthornden and others, small 4to., containing many Scotticisms? E. D. _St. Adulph_ (Vol. v., pp. 566, 567.).--Capgrave, quoting John of Tynemouth (?), says: "Sanctum igitur Adulphum audita ejus fama ad _trajectensem_[6] ecclesiam in episcopum _rex_ sublimavit." Query 1. Who is the "rex" here mentioned? Query 2. "Trajecteasem:" ought this to be applied to "Utrecht" or "Maestricht," or either? Literally, it is "on the other side of the water." A. B. [Footnote 6: "trajectensem" (passim) corrected from "trajecteasem" by erratum in Issue 170.--Transcriber.] _St. Botulph_ (Vol. v., pp. 566, 567.).--Your correspondent C. W. G. says: "His (St. Botulph's) life was first put into regular form by Fulcard.... Fulcard tells us what his materials were.... An early MS. of _this_ life is in the Harleian Collection, No. 3097. It was printed by Capgrave in the _Legenda Nova_." Query: _Fulcard's_ life of the saint, or the life by some other person: John of Tynemouth to wit? A. B. _Tennyson._--Mr. Gilfillan, in his _Literary Gallery_, speaking of that fine poem "The Two Voices," says that the following line-- "You scarce could see the grass for flowers"-- P. 308. l. 18., 7th edit. is borrowed from one of the old dramatists. Could you or any of your correspondents tell me what the line is? As also the Latin song referred to in "Edwin Morris:"