_English Bishops deprived by Queen Elizabeth_ (Vol. vii., pp. 260. 344. 509.).--The following particulars concerning one of the Marian Bishops are at A. S. A.'s service. Cuthbert Scot, D.D., sometime student, and, in 1553, Master of Christ's Church College, Cambridge, was made Vice-Chancellor of that University in 1554-5; and had the temporalities of the See of Chester handed to him by Queen Mary in 1556. He was one of Cardinal Pole's delegates to the University of Cambridge, and was concerned in most of the political movements of the day. He, and four other bishops, with as many divines, undertook to defend the principles and practices of the Romish Church against an equal number of Reformed divines. On the 4th of April he was confined, either in the Fleet Prison or the Tower, for abusive language towards Queen Elizabeth; but having by some means or other escaped from _durance_, he retired to Louvain, where he died, according to Rymer's _Foedera_, about 1560. T. HUGHES. Chester. _Gloves at Fairs_ (Vol. vii., _passim._).--To the list of markets at which a glove was, or is, hung out, may be added Newport, in the Isle of Wight. But a Query naturally springs out of such a note, and I would ask, Why did a glove indicate that parties frequenting the market were exempt from arrest? What was the glove an emblem of? W. D--N. As the following extract from Gorr's _Liverpool Directory_ appears to bear upon the point, and as it does not seem to have yet attracted the attention of any of your correspondents, I beg to forward it:-- "Its (_i.e._ Liverpool's) fair-days are 25th July and 11th Nov. Ten days before and ten days after each fair-day, a hand is exhibited in front of the Town-hall, which denotes protection; during which time no person coming to or going from the town on business connected with the fair can be arrested for debt within its liberty." I have myself frequently observed the "hand," although I could not discover any appearance of a fair being held. R. _St. Dominic_ (Vol. vii., p. 356.).--Your correspondent BOOKWORM will find in any chronology a very satisfactory reason why Machiavelli could not reply to the summons of Benedict XIV., unless, indeed, the Pope had made use of "the power of the keys," to call him up for a brief space to satisfy his curiosity. J. S. WARDEN. _Names of Plants_ (Vol. viii., p. 37.).--Ale-hoof means useful in, or to, ale; Ground-ivy having been used in brewing before the introduction of hops. "The women of our northern parts" (says John Gerard), "especially about Wales or Cheshire, do tunne the herbe Ale-hoof into their ale ... being tunned up in ale and drunke, it also purgeth the head from rhumaticke humours flowing from the brain." From the aforesaid tunning, it was also called Tun-hoof (_World of Words_); and in Gerard, Tune-hoof. {137}