_Yankee_ (Vol. vii., p. 103.).--I am afraid MR. BELL'S ingenious speculations must give way to facts. Our transatlantic brethren do _not_, either willingly or unwillingly, adopt _Yankee_ as their "collective name." _Yankee_ was, and is, a name given exclusively to the natives of the New England States, and was never therefore applied, by an American, to the people of New Amsterdam or New York. Here, in England, indeed, we are accustomed to call all Americans _Yankees_; which is about the same thing as to call all Englishmen Devonians or Lancastrians. Y. A. _Miniature Ring of Charles I._ (Vol. vi., p. 578.).--One of the four rings inquired for is in the possession of Mrs. Andrew Henderson, of 102. Gloucester Place, Portman Square, formerly Miss Adolphus. It came to her in the female line, through her mother's family. The unfortunate Charles I. presented it to Sir Lionel Walden, on the morning on which he lost his life. It bears (as the other one alluded to in Hulbert's _History of Salop_) a miniature likeness of the king, set in small brilliants. Inside the ring are the words, "Sic transit gloria regum." Mrs. Henderson understood the four rings to have been presented as follows:--Bishop Juxon, Sir Lionel Walden, Colonel Ashburnham, and Herbert his secretary. Which of the four is now in the possession of the Misses Pigott is not mentioned. ANON. _Bishop of Ossory--Cardinal's Hat_ (Vol. vii., p. 72.).--A. S. A. is quite correct, that the _hat_ is common to all prelates, and that the distinction is only in the number of the tassels to the hat-strings; but I think he is wrong in attributing the hat to _priors_. I believe it only belonged to _abbots_, who had _black_ hats and tassels; while the colour of the prelatical hats and tassels was green. (See Père Anselme's _Palais d'Honneur_, chap. xxii. and plate.) C.