_Howard, Earl of Surrey._--Dr. Percy is said, in Watt's _Bibliotheca Britannica_, to have prepared an edition of the poems of the Earl of Surrey, the whole impression of which was consumed in the fire which took place in Mr. Nicholl's premises in 1808. Can any of your readers say whether Dr. Percy had a copy of the sheets, and whether he had prefixed thereto any life of the Earl of Surrey? or did Sir Egerton Brydges ever print any account of Surrey amongst his numerous issues from the Lee or other presses? G. _Bulls called William._--In looking into the notes in my Provincial Glossary, I find that bulls are in Somersetshire invariably called _William_. Is this peculiar to that county? C.W.B. _Bawn.--Mutual._--In vol. iii. p. 506. of Hallam's _Constitutional History of England_, there occurs the following passage in reference to the colonisation of Ulster in 1612, after Tyrone's rebellion: "Those who received 2000 acres were bound within four years to build a castle and bawn, or strong court-yard; the second class within two years to build a stone or brick house, with a bawn; the third class a bawn only." What was the bawn, which was equally indispensable to the grantee of 2000, 1500, or 1000 acres? Richardson variously describes the term as almost any kind of dwelling, or "an enclosure of walls to keep cattle from being stolen at night;" in fact, a court-yard. This, however, conveys a very unsatisfactory idea, unless I am justified in supposing that a court-yard was insisted upon, even when a house could not be built, as insuring a future residential settlement, and thereby warding off the evils of absenteeism. At page 514. of the same volume, I read,-- "Wentworth had so balanced the protestant and recusant parties, employed so skilfully the resources of fair promises and intimidation, that he procured six subsidies to be granted before a prorogation, without any _mutual_ concession from the crown." Will Dr. Kennedy, or any other strict verbal critic, sanction this use of the word "mutual?" ALFRED GATTY. April 6. 1850. [It is obvious, from the following lines from Swift's poem, _The Grand Question debated whether Hamilton's Bawn should be turned into a Barrack or Malt-house_, 1729, that a Bawn was there used to signify a building, and not an inclosure:-- "This _Hamilton's bawn_, while it sticks in my hand, I lose by the house what I get by the land; But how to dispose of it to the best bidder, For a barrack or malt-house, we now must consider." And in a foot-note on _Hamilton's bawn_, in the original edition, it is described as "a large old house, two miles from Sir Arthur Acheson's seat."] _Versicle and Response._--What is the meaning of the following versicle and its response, which occur in both Morning and Evening Prayer? "Give peace in our time, O Lord, Because there is none other that fighteth for us but only thou, O God!"