"Le Père dira en témoignage de la vérité, que cet homme me força de le faire mourir par la trahison la plus noire qu'un serviteur puisse faire à son maître; que je n'ordonnai sa mort, qu'après l'avoir convaincu de son crime par les lettres en original écrites de sa propre main, et après de lui avoir fait avouer à lui-même, en présence de trois témoins, et du Père prieur de Fontainebleau: qu'ils savent qu'il dit lui-même: 'Je suis digne de mille morts,' et que je lui fis donner les sacremens dont il était capable avant que de le faire mourir."--_Mémoires concernant Christine_, Amst. et Leipzig, 1759, tom. iii. pp. 386-7. Ἁλιέυς. Dublin. Your correspondent will find an account of this affair in the Appendix to Ranke's _History of the Popes_. T. K. H. _Land of Green Ginger_ (Vol. viii., p. 34.).--It is so called from the sale of ginger having been chiefly carried on there in early times. As far as I can recollect, none of the local histories gives any derivation of the name; those of Gent and Frost certainly do not, and this is the one generally received by the inhabitants. Salthouse Lane and Blanket Row are other streets, which may be referred to as having obtained their names in a similar way. R. W. ELLIOT. Clifton. An inhabitant of Hull has informed me that this street was so named by a house-proprietor whose fortune had been made in the West Indies, and I think by the sweetmeat trade. T. K. H. _Unneath_ (Vol. vii., p. 631.).--It strikes me that your correspondents MR. C. H. COOPER and E. G. R., in reply to MR. WRIGHT'S inquiry respecting the {161} use of the word "unneath," used in Parnell's _Fairy Tale_, have fallen into a slight mistake in supposing that the seemingly old words used in this poem are really so. I make no doubt that MR. HALLIWELL is correct in noting the word "unneath" as signifying "beneath," in the _patois_ of Somerset; but I gravely suspect that Parnell had picked up the word out of our older poets, and used it in the passage quoted without consideration. The true meaning of "unneath" (which is of Saxon origin, and variously written "unnethe, unnethes") is _scarcely_, _not easily_. Thus Chaucer says: "The miller that for-dronken was all pale, So that _unnethes_ upon his hors he sat." _The Millers Prologue_, v. 3123. [Tyrwhitt.] And again: "Yeve me than of thy gold to make our cloistre, Quod he, for many a muscle and many an oistre, When other men han ben ful wel at ese Hath been our food, our cloistre for to rese: And yet, GOD wot, _unneth_ the fundament Parfourmed is, ne of our pauement N'is not a tile," &c. _The Sompnours Tale_, v. 7685.