_Archbishop King_ (Vol. vii., p. 430.).--A few days since I met with the following passage in a brief sketch of Kane O'Hara, in the last number of the _Irish Quarterly Review_: "In the extremely meagre published notices of O'Hara (the celebrated burletta writer), no reference has been made to his skill as an artist, of which we have a specimen in his etching of Dr. William King, archbishop of Dublin, in a wig and cap, of which portrait a copy has been made by Richardson." This extract is taken from one of a very interesting series of papers upon "The Streets of Dublin." ABHBA. _Devonianisms_ (Vol. vii., p. 544.).--_Pilm_, _Forrell_.--_Pillom_ is the full word, of which _pilm_ is a contraction. It appears to have been derived from the British word _pylor_, dust. _Forell_ is an archaic name for the cover of a book. The Welsh appear to have adopted it from the English, as their name for a bookbinder is _fforelwr_, literally, one who covers books. I may mention another Devonianism. The cover of a book is called its _healing_. A man who lays slates on the roof of a house is, in Devonshire, called a _hellier_. N. W. S. (2.) _Perseverant, Perseverance_ (Vol. vii., p. 400.).--Can MR. ARROWSMITH supply any instances of the verb _persever_ (or _perceyuer_, as it is spelt in the 1555 edition of Hawes, M. i. col. 2.), from any other author? and will he inform us when this "abortive hog" and his litter became extinct. In explaining _speare_ (so strangely misunderstood by the editor of Dodsley), he should, I think, have added, that it was an old way of writing _spar_. In Shakspeare's Prologue to _Troilus and Cressida_, it is written _sperr_. _Sparred_, quoted by Richardson from the _Romance of the Rose_, and _Troilus and Creseide_, is in the edition of Chaucer referred to by Tyrwhitt, written in the _Romance_ "spered," and in _Troilus_ "sperred." Q. Bloomsbury. "_The Good Old Cause_" (Vol. vi., _passim_).--Mrs. Behn, who gained some notoriety for her licentious writings even in Charles II.'s days, was the author of a play called _The Roundheads, or the Good Old Cause_: London, 1682. In the Epilogue she puts into the mouth of the Puritans the following lines respecting the Royalists: "Yet then they rail'd against _The Good Old Cause_; Rail'd foolishly for loyalty and laws: But when the Saints had put them to a stand, We left them loyalty, and took their land: Yea, and the pious work of Reformation Rewarded was with plunder and sequestration." The following lines are quoted by Mr. Teale in his _Life of Viscount Falkland_, p. 131.: "The wealthiest man among us is the best: No grandeur now in Nature or in book Delights us--repose, avarice, expense, This is the idolatry; and these we adore: Plain living and high thinking are no more; The homely beauty of _The Good Old Cause_ Is gone: our peace and fearful innocence, And pure religion breathing household laws."