"_Mairdil_" (Vol. viii., p. 411.).--Is there any affinity between the word _mairdil_, which is used in Forfarshire, to be overcome with fatigue for any oppressive or intricate piece of work, and the word _mardel_ or _mardle_, which signifies to gossip in Norfolk, as stated by MR. J. L. SISSON? What will H. C. K. say to this subject? Jamieson confines _mairdil_ to an adjective, signifying unwieldy; but I have often heard work-people in Forfarshire declare they were "perfectly _mairdiled_" with a piece of heavy work, using the word as a passive verb. _Trachled_ has nearly the same meaning, but it is chiefly confined to describe fatigue arising from walking a long distance. HENRY STEPHENS. _Bell at Rouen_ (Vol. viii., p. 448.).--Your valuable correspondent W. SPARROW SIMPSON, B.A., has probably taken his account of the great bell in the cathedral at Rouen from a note made before the French Revolution of 1792-3, because the George d'Ambois, which was once considered the largest bell in Europe (it was thirteen feet high, and eleven feet in diameter), excepting that at Moscow, shared the destructive fate of many others at that eventful period, and was melted down for cannon. In 1814 the bulb of its clapper was outside the door of a blacksmith's shop, as you go out of the city towards Dieppe. It was pointed out to me by a friend with whom I was then travelling--a gentleman of the neighbourhood, who was at Rouen at the time it was brought there--and there, if I mistake not, but I cannot find my note, I saw it again within the last ten years. H. T. ELLACOMBE. Rectory, Clyst St. George. {234} _Smiths and Robinsons_ (Vol. ix., p. 148.).--Arms of Smith of Curdley, co. Lancaster: Argent, a cheveron sable between three roses gules, barbed, vert seeded, or. Robinson (of Yorkshire): Vert, a cheveron between three roebucks trippant or. Crest, a roebuck as in the arms. Motto, "Virtute non verbis." Robinson of Yorkshire, as borne by Lord Rokeby: Vert, on a cheveron or, between three bucks trippant of the last, as many quatrefoils gules. Crest, a roebuck trippant or. CID. _Churchill's Grave_ (Vol. ix., p. 123.).--If I am not mistaken, there is a tablet to the memory of Churchill, with a more lengthy inscription, within the church of St. Mary, Dover, towards the western end of the south aisle. W. SPARROW SIMPSON. * * * * * Miscellaneous. NOTES ON BOOKS, ETC. Before proceeding to notice any of the books which we have received this week, we will call the attention of the publishing world to two important works which we know to be now wanting a publisher, namely, I. _A Syriac-English Lexicon to the New Testament and Book of Psalms_, arranged alphabetically, with the derivatives referred to their proper roots, and a companion of the principal words in the cognate languages; and II. _A Syriac-English Grammar_, translated and abridged from Hoffman's larger work.