Perhaps I may be more fortunate in obtaining some information respecting another Scot of the same name: James Adamson, for thirty-one years rector of Tigh, in Rutlandshire, who is described in the inscription upon his tombstone as "natu Scotus, Anglus vita, moribus antiquis, cum rege suo in prosperis et adversis." I believe he was the father of John Adamson, M.A., Rector Of Burton Coggles, in Lincolnshire: the author of two sermons; one published in 1698, and entitled _The Duty of Daily frequenting the Public Service_ {258} of the Church; another in 1707, being the _Funeral Sermon for Sir E. Turnor of Stoke Rochford_[6] (whose chaplain he was), a great promoter of pious and charitable undertakings. Can these sermons be now procured? Is anything further known respecting the author or his family? E. H. A. [Footnote 6: This sermon is in the British Museum.--ED.] _Crassus' Saying_ (Vol. vii., p. 498.).--MR. EWART will not easily extract his English from the Latin, which is simply, "Fit salad for such lips." S. Z. Z. S. _Stanzas in "Childe Harold"_ (Vol. iv. _passim_).--This stanza has already occupied too many of your pages; will you, however, allow me to put a ryder on it, by referring your correspondents to Lord Byron's _own_ ignorance of the meaning of an expression in this stanza, expressed in a letter to Murray, published in Moore's _Life_, Letter 323, dated Venice, 24th September, 1818, when, after pointing out an error in the same canto, he says: "What does 'thy waters _wasted_ them' mean? _That is not me._ Consult the MS. always." And in a note by Moore on this letter, he says, "This passage retains _also_ uncorrected." At the end of this letter Byron writes, "_I saw the canto by accident._" Query: If Byron only saw his cantos by "accident," would not a new edition of his works collated with his MSS. be "a consummation devoutly to be wished." S. WMSON. Glasgow. _"Well's a fret"_ (Vol. viii., p. 197.).--This is one of a class which will be lost if not recorded. Forty years ago, in the West of England, and perhaps elsewhere, a servant, when teased by a child to know where such a person was, would answer-- "In his skin When he jumps out, you may jump in." The answer to _Eh_? was always _Straw_. I dare say more of these things will be produced. What ought they to be called? M. _Tenet or Tenent_ (Vol. vii., p. 205.).--We speak of the _tenets_ of a sect. Somewhat less than a century ago the formula would have been their _tenents_; and was not this the more correct? BALLIOLENSIS.