_Proclamation of Langholme Fair_ (Vol. iii., p. 56.).--MONKBARNS wishes the meaning of the choice expressions in the proclamation. They may be explained as follows:--_Hustrin_, hustling, or riotously inclined, being so consonanted to make it alliterate with _custrin_, spelt by Jamieson, _custroun_, and signifying a pitiful fellow. Chaucer has the word _truston_ in this sense. _Land-louper_, one who runs over the country, a vagabond. _Dukes-couper_ I take to be a petty dealer in ducks or poultry, and to be used in a reproachful sense, as we find "pedlar," "jockey," &c. _Gang-y-gate swinger_, a fighting man, who goes swaggering in the road (or _gate_); a roisterer who takes the wall of every one. _Swing_ is an old word for a stroke or blow. _Durdam_ is an old word meaning an uproar, and akin to the Welsh word _dowrd_. _Urdam_ may be a corruption of _whoredom_, but is more probably prefixed to the genuine word as a co-sounding expletive. _Brabblement_ seems to be a derivative from the Scotch verb "bra," to make a loud and disagreeable noise (see Jamieson); and _squabblement_ explains itself. _Lugs_, ears; _tacked_, nailed; _trone_, an old word, properly signifying the public weighing-machine, and sometimes used for the pillory. _A nail o' twal-a-penny_ is, of course, a nail of that size and sort of which twelve are bought for a penny. _Until he down of his hobshanks, and up with his muckle doubs_, evidently means, until he goes down on his knees and raises his hands. _Hobshanks_ is, I think, still in common use. Of _doubs_ I can give no explanation. W. T. M. Edinburgh, Jan. 29th. _Burying in Church Walls_ (Vol. iii., p. 37.).--To {157} the examples mentioned by N. of tombs in church walls, may be added the remarkable ones at Bottisham, Cambridgeshire. There are several of these in the south aisle, with arches _internally and externally_: the wall between resting on the coffin lid. They are, of course, coeval with the church, which is fine early Decorated. They are considered, I believe, to be memorials of the priors of Anglesey, a neighbouring religious house. They will, no doubt, be fully elucidated in the memoir of Bottisham and Anglesey, which is understood to be in preparation by members of the Cambridge Antiquarian Society. At Trumpington, in the same county, is a recessed tomb of Decorated date, in the south wall of the chancel, externally. C. R. M. _Defender of the Faith_ (Vol. ii., pp. 442. 481.; Vol. iii., pp. 9. 94.).--Should not King Edward the Confessor's claim to _defend the church as God's Vicar_ be added to the several valuable notices in relation to the title _Defender of the Faith_, with which some of your learned contributors have favoured us through your pages? According to Hoveden, one of the laws adopted from the Anglo-Saxons by _William_ was: