The editor of the Parker Society's edition of Jewel cannot discover the argument in the works of Gerson; but if any of your readers can point out where it may be found, I shall be much obliged. N. E. R. (a Subscriber). 71. _Inscription in Ely Cathedral._--M. D. (Great Yarmouth) is anxious to have the meaning of the following inscription explained. It is on a tombstone in Ely Cathedral. Human Redemption 590 [x] 590 [x] 590 Born [o] Sara [o] Watts Died 600 [x] 600 [x] 600 30 [x] 00 [x] 33 Aged Y 30 [x] 00 [x] 33 M 3 [x] d 31 - 3 h 3 [x] 3 [x] 3 [x] 12 Nations make fun of his Commands. -------- S. M. E. Judgements begun on Earth. In memory of JAMES FOUNTAIN. Died August 21, 1767. Aged 60 years. 72. _Cervantes--what was the Date of his Death?_--In the Life prefixed to a corrected edition of Jarvis's translation, published by Miller, 1801, it is stated to be April 23, 1616; and it is added: "It is a singular coincidence of circumstances, that the same day should deprive the world of two men of such transcendent abilities as Cervantes and Shakspeare, the latter of whom died in England on the very day that put an end to the life of the former in Spain." Dr. Christopher Wordsworth, in his Life of his uncle, the poet, remarks on his decease on the anniversary of the death of Shakspeare, but makes no allusion to the double anniversary; and in the Life of Cervantes prefixed to Smollet's translation of _Don Quixote_, the day of Cervantes' death is somewhat differently stated. GEO. E. FRERE. 73. _"Agla," Meaning of._--I have in my possession a silver ring, found some time since at a place called "Grungibane" in this neighbourhood. The hoop is flat both inside and out, about a quarter of an inch broad. On the outside, occupying about half the length, is the following inscription: "+ AGLA." I should feel great obliged by some of your learned correspondents decyphering the above. JOHN MARTIN. Downpatrick. 74. _Murderers buried in Cross Roads._--Though the lines of Hood's, "So they buried him where the cross roads met With a stake in his inside." occur in one of his comic poems, I have often heard it gravely stated that it was formerly the custom to bury murderers with a stake driven through the body, where cross roads meet. Was this ever a _custom_, and when was "formerly?" Are there many such tragic spots in England and can I find them enumerated anywhere? P. M. M.