_Scott, Nelson's Secretary._--Can any of your readers give me information as to the pedigree and family of John Scott, Esq., public secretary to Lord Nelson? He was killed at Trafalgar on board the Victory; and dying while his sons were yet very young, his descendants possess little knowledge on the subject to which I have alluded. He was, I _think_, born at Fochabers, near Gordon Castle, where his mother is known to have died. A SUBSCRIBER. {332} _The Axe which beheaded Anne Boleyn._--A friend of mine has excited my curiosity by stating, that in his school-boy readings of the history of England, he learned that the axe which deprived Henry VIII.'s second wife (Anne Boleyn) of her head was preserved as a relic in the Northgate Street of Kent's ancient citie, Canterbury. I have written to friends living in that locality for a confirmation of such a strange fact; but they plead ignorance. Can any of your numerous readers throw any light relative to this subject upon the benighted mind of PHILIP WEST. _Roger Outlawe._--A friend of mine in Germany has met with some ancient rolls, said to have been from the Irish Court of Common Pleas, chiefly of the time of Edward III., and headed thus: "Communia placita apud Dublin coram fratre Rogero Outlawe priore hospitii sancti Johannis de Jerusalem in hibernia tenens locum Johannis Darcy le Cosyn Justiciarii hiberniæ apud Dublin die pasche in viiij mense anno B. Etii post ultimum conquestum hiberniæ quarto." Can any person state who this _Roger Outlawe_ was? And is it not singular that a prior of a religious and military establishment should be qualified to sit as _locum tenens_ of a judge in a law court? H. T. ELLACOMBE. Clyst St. George. "_Berte au Grand Pied._"--I should be glad to know what is the history or legend of the goose-footed queen, whose figure Mr. Laing, in his _Norway_, p. 70. 8vo. edition, says is on the portals of four French cathedrals. THOS. LAWRENCE. Ashby-de-la-Zouch. _Lying by the Walls._--What is the origin of the phrase "Lying by the walls," an euphemism for _dead_? It was very commonly used in this county some years ago. Instead of saying "Poor M. or N. is _dead_," they always said "Poor M. or N. _lies by the walls_." R. P. St. Ives, Hunts. _Constables of France_ (Vol. vi., pp. 128. 254.).--Has no person been appointed to fill that high office since the death of the Duc de Luynes, in 1621? A. S. A. Wuzzeerabad. _St. John's Church, Shoreditch._--The church of St. John, within the priory of Holywell, Shoreditch, and the chapel adjoining it, built by Sir Thomas Lovel, treasurer of the household to King Henry VII., knight of the most noble Order of the Garter, &c.