_Barristers' Gowns._--What is the meaning of the lapel, or piece which hangs from the back of the barristers' gown? Has it any particular name? In shape it is very similar to the representations we see in pictures of the "cloven tongues." It is not improbable that it may be intended figuratively to bear reference to them. HENRY T. RILEY. "_Charta Hen. 2. G. G. n. 2. q._"--In Cowell's _Law Dictionary_ (ed. 1727), under the word LUSGUL, I find the following reference: "Charta Hen. 2. G. G. n. 2. q." I should be much obliged to any person who would suggest for what "G. G. n. 2. q." stands. K. _Albany Wallace._--Can any of your correspondents, familiar with the drama, tell me who this gentleman was? In 1827, there appeared _The Death of Mary Queen of Scots_, an historic drama in five acts, by A. W., Esq.: Worthing, printed for the author by W. Verrall. His name occurs again on the title-page of _The Reigns of the Stuarts in England dramatised. The First Part of King James the First_, a play in five acts: London, printed by the author, at his private press, Queen Ann Street, 1835. I naturally turned up Mr. Martin's _Privately Printed Books_, but neither our dramatist nor his press is there alluded to. Touching the latter, Mr. Wallace says in his preface,-- "A certain picture was said by a connoisseur to be 'very well painted for a _gentleman!_' a species of {324} negative praise which gave but little satisfaction to the artist. Should the amateur printer, however, meet with as much, he will be very well contented. All he can himself say for his work is 'that it is legible;' and his type being of a pretty tolerable rotundity, he does not think it will need an additional pair of spectacles to be made out." I am farther desirous of knowing if, in pursuance of his plan, Mr. Wallace _dramatised_ any more of the Stuarts? J. D. _Leslie and Dr. Middleton._--In Dr. McNeile's _Lecture on the Jews and Judaism_, Feb. 14, 1854, the four rules given by Leslie as a test of historical truth are thus quoted: "1. That the matter of fact be such that men's outward senses, their ears and eyes, may be judges of it. "2. That it be done publicly, in the face of the world. "3. That not only public monuments be kept in memory of it, but also that some outward actions be statedly performed. "4. That such observances be instituted, and do commence, from the time at which such matter of fact is done. "_It is said_ that Dr. Middleton endeavoured for twenty years to find out some pretended fact to which Mr. Leslie's four rules could be applied, but in vain." "It is said." Where; when; by whom? H. B. C. U. U. Club.