_Comedy of Errors_, Act v. Sc. 1. In all these passages, as well as in that in _Measure for Measure_, the simple remark, that the poet employed a common grammatical variation, is all that is required for a complete explanation. J.O. HALLIWELL. * * * * * REPLIES TO MINOR QUERIES. _Execution of Charles I.--Sir T. Herbert's "Memoir of Charles I_." (Vol. ii. pp., 72. 110.).--Is P.S.W.E. aware that Mr. Hunter gives a tradition, in his _History of Hallamshire_, that a certain William Walker, who died in 1700, and to whose memory there was an inscribed brass plate in the parish church of Sheffield, was the executioner of Charles I.? The man obtained this reputation from having retired from political life at the Restoration, to his native village, Darnall, near Sheffield, where he is said to have made death-bed disclosures, avowing that he beheaded the King. The tradition has been supported, perhaps suggested, by the name of Walker having occurred during the trials of some of the regicides, as that of the real executioner. Can any one tell me whether a narrative of the last days of Charles I., and of his conduct on the scaffold, by Sir Thomas Herbert, has ever been published in full? It is often quoted and referred to (see "NOTES AND QUERIES," Vol. i., p. 436.), but the owner of the MS., with whom I am well acquainted, informs me that it has never been submitted to publication, but that some extracts have been secretly obtained. In what book are these printed? The same house which contains Herbert's MS. (a former owner of it married Herbert's widow), holds also the stool on which King Charles knelt at his execution, the shirt in which he slept the night before, and other precious relics of the same unfortunate personage. ALFRED GATTY. Ecclesfield, July 11. 1850. _Execution of Charles I._ (Vol. ii., p 72.).--In Ellis's _Letters illustrative of English History_ Second Series, vol. iii. p. 340-41., P.S.W.E. will find the answer to his inquiry. Absolute certainty is perhaps unattainable on the subject; but no mention occurs of the Earl of Stair, nor is it probable that any one of patrician rank would be retained as the operator on such an occasion. We need hardly question that Richard Brandon was the executioner. Will P.S.W.E. give his authority for the "report" to which he refers? MATFELONENSIS. _Simon of Ghent_ (Vol. ii., p. 56.).--"Simon Gandavensis, patria Londinensis, sed patre Flandro Gandavensi natus, a. 1297. Episcopus Sarisburiensis."--Fabric. _Bibl. Med. et Infint. Latin._, lib. xviii. p. 532. _Chevalier de Cailly_ (Vol. ii., p. 101.)--Mr. De St. Croix will find an account of the Chevalier Jacque de Cailly, who died in 1673, in the _Biographie Universelle_; or a more complete one in Goujet (_Bibliothèque Françoise_, t. xvii. p. 320.). S.W.S.