The dance in Scotland called "Bab at the Bowster" is always the winding up at "kirns" and other merrymakings, and is most likely similar to the cushion-dance. The tune to which it is danced has words belonging to it. The beginning lines are-- "There's braw yill, Down at the mill, Bab at the bowster," &c. L. M. M. R. * * * * * OLIVER CROMWELL AND HIS DEALINGS WITH THE DEVIL. (Vol. iii., p. 207.) Among the papers of an old personal friend and correspondent of the "Sylvanus Urban" of his day,--a clergyman of the good old school, who died a quarter of a century ago, aged eighty-six, I find the inclosed. It may possibly lead to the further elucidation of one of the Notes of B. B. It is unfortunate that no date is attached to it, nor any intimation of its history. Its owner was the intimate friend of Bennet, Bishop of Cloyne, of Dr. Farmer, of Burgess, Bishop of St. David's (afterwards Salisbury), and other eminent divines of his time. With this MS. was inclosed another, in more modern writing; but, from the orthography, copied from an older paper, headed "Private Amours of Oliver Cromwell." It is very short, and also without date. It is at your service if desired. S. H. H. {283} A NARRATIVE CONCERNING CROMWELL'S DEALINGS WITH THE D----L "On y^e 3d of Sept., in y^e morning, Cromwell took Colonel Lindsey, his intimate friend, and first Capt. of his regiment, to a wood side not far from y^e army, and bid him alight and follow him into that wood, & take particular notice of what he saw & heard.