_Parish Clerks and Politics_ (Vol. viii., p. 56.).--In the excitement prevalent at the trial of Queen Caroline, I remember a choir, in a village not a hundred miles from Wallingford, Berks, singing {576} with great gusto the 1st, 4th, 11th, and 12th verses of 35th Psalm in Tate and Brady's New Version. WM. HAZEL. _Phantom Bells--"The Death Bell"_ (Vol. vii. passim).--I have never met, in any work on folk-lore and popular superstitions, any mention of that unearthly bell, whose sound is borne on the death-wind, and heralds his doom to the hearer. Mickle alludes to it in his fine ballad of "Cumnor Halle:" "The _death-belle_ thrice was heard to ring, An aerial voice was heard to calle, And thrice the raven flapp'd its wing, Arounde the towers of Cumnor Halle." And Rogers, in his lines "To an Old Oak:" "There once the steel-clad knight reclined, His sable plumage tempest-tossed: And as the _death-bell_ smote the wind, From towers long fled by human kind, His brow the hero crossed." When ships go down at sea during a terrible tempest, it is said the "death-bell" is often distinctly heard amid the storm-wind. And in tales of what is called Gothic superstition, it assists in the terrors of the supernatural. Sir W. Scott perhaps alluded to the superstition in the lines: "And the kelpie _rang_, And the sea-maid sang The dirge of lovely Rosabelle." EIRIONNACH. _Porter Family_ (Vol. viii., p. 364.).--Full particulars of the existing branch of this ancient family can be afforded by the Rev. Malcom Macdonald of South End, Essex, chaplain to Lady Tamar Sharpe, the aunt and guardian of the representatives of Sir R. K. Porter. M. H. J. Thavies Inn. _The Mitred Abbot in Wroughton Church, Wilts_ (Vol. viii., p. 411.).--The figure was painted in fresco, not on a pillar, but on the spandril-space between two arches. The vestments, as far as I can make out, are an alb, a tunicle and a cope, and mitre. The hands do not appear to hold anything, and I see nothing to show it to represent a mitred abbot rather than a bishop. The colours of the cope and tunicle were red and green, the exterior of the cope and the tunicle being of one colour, the interior of the cope of the other. The figure was the only perfect one when I visited the church, and the rain was washing it out even as I sketched; but there had been one between every two arches, and there were traces of colour throughout the aisle, and the designs appeared to me unusually elegant. I believe my slight sketch to be all that now remains; and shall be glad to send a copy of it to your correspondent if he wishes for it, and will signify how I may convey it to him. _Passage in Virgil_ (Vol. viii., p. 270.).--Is this the passage referred to by Doctor Johnson? "Nunc scio, quid sit Amor: duris in cotibus illum Aut Tmarus, aut Rhodope, aut extremi Garamantes, Nec generis nostri puerum, nec sanguinis, edunt." Virgil: _Bucolica_, Ecl. viii. l. 43.