"If it be demanded why I labour so much in the Trinity and Passion of Christ to depaint in this chamber, this is the principal instance thereof; That at my last being hither committed[1], and I usually having my servants here allowed me, to read nightly an hour to me after supper, it fortuned that Fulcis, my then servant, reading in the _Christian Resolution_, in the treatise of _Proof that there is a God, &c._, there was upon a wainscot table at that instant three loud knocks {513} (as if it had been with an iron hammer) given; to the great amazing of me and my two servants, Fulcis and Nilkton." D. JARDINE. [Footnote 1: This refers to his commitments for recusancy, which had been frequent.] * * * * * Minor Notes. _Bond a Poet, 1642, O.S._--In the _Perfect Diurnall_, March 29, 1642, we have the following curious notice: "Upon the meeting of the House of Lords, there was complaint made against one Bond, a poet, for making a scandalous letter in the queen's name, sent from the Hague to the king at York. The said Bond attended upon order, and was examined, and found a delinquent; upon which they voted him to stand in the pillory several market days in the new Palace (Yard), Westminster, and other places, and committed him to the Gatehouse, besides a long imprisonment during the pleasure of the house: and they farther ordered that as many of the said letter as could be found should be burnt." His recantation, which he afterwards made, is in the British Museum. E. G. BALLARD. _The late Harvest._--In connexion with the present late and disastrous harvest, permit me to contribute a distich current, as an old farmer observed to-day, "when I was a boy:" "When we carry wheat o' the fourteenth of October, Then every man goeth home sober." Meaning that the prospect of the "yield" was not good enough to permit the labourers to get drunk upon it. R. C. WARDE. Kidderminster. _Misquotation._--In an article entitled "Popular Ballads of the English Peasantry," a correspondent of "N. & Q." (Vol. v., p. 603.) quotes as "that spirit-stirring stanza of _immortal John_," the lines: "Jesus, the name high over all," &c. These lines were not written by _John_, but by _Charles Wesley_. Here is the proof: 1st. A hymn of which the stanza quoted is the first, appears (p. 40.) in the _Collection of Hymns_ published by John Wesley in 1779; but in the preface he says, "but a small part of these hymns are of my own composing." 2nd. In his _Plain Account of Christian Perfection_, he says: "In the year 1749, my brother printed two volumes of _Hymns and Sacred Poems_. As I _did not see them_ before they were published, there were some things in them which I did not approve of; but I quite approved of the main of the hymns on this head."--_Works_, vol. xi. p. 376., 12mo. ed. 1841.