75. _Wyle Cop._--This is the name of a street, or rather bank in Shrewsbury, leading from the English Bridge to High Street. It has always struck me as being a curious name; and I should feel obliged to any of your readers who could inform me what is the origin of the place being so called, or if there is any meaning in the words beyond being the name of a place. SALOPIAN. 76. _The Devil's Knell._--In the _Collectanea Topographica_, vol. i. p. 167., is the following note: "At Dewsbury, Yorkshire, there is a bell called 'Black Tom of Sothill:' the tradition is, that it is as expiatory gift for a murder. One of the bells, perhaps this one, is tolled on Christmas-eve as at a funeral, or in the manner of a passing-bell: and any one asking whose bell it was, would be told that it was the _devil's knell_. The moral of it is, that the devil died when Christ was born. The custom was discontinued for many years, but was revived by the vicar in 1828." Is the gift of a bell a common expiatory gift for crime? And does the custom of tolling the _devil's knell_ on Christmas eve exist in any other place at the present time? EDWARD F. RIMBAULT. 77. _Queries on Poems of Richard Rolle_ (Vol. iv., p. 49.).--I should be glad to ask a question or two of your Cambridge correspondent, touching his very interesting contribution from the MS. remains of Richard Rolle of Hampole. What language is meant by the _deuenisch_? What is a _guystroun_? How does the word _chaunsemlees_ come to mean shoes? An expression very strange to English verse occurs in the line, "Hir cher was ay _semand_ sori." I can think of nothing to throw light upon this intensive adverb, except the Danish _saamænd_, which is generally used in that language (or rather _was_ used, i.e. when Holberg wrote his comedies) as an affirmatory oath. Native authorities explain it to mean "_so_ it is, by the holy _men_," or in other terms, "by the saints I swear." I have no doubt that the same kindness which led your correspondent to communicate those delightful extracts, will also make him willing to assist the understanding of them. J. E. Oxford. 78. _Did Bishop Gibson write a Life of Cromwell?_--Mr. Carlyle, in treating on the biographies of Oliver Cromwell, says that the _Short Critical Review of the Life of Oliver Cromwell_, by a gentleman of the Middle Temple, was written by a certain "Mr. Banks, a kind of a lawyer and playwright," and that the anonymous _Life of Oliver Cromwell, Lord Protector of the Commonwealth, impartially collected, &c._, London, 1724, which Noble ascribes to Bishop Gibson, was by "one Kember, a dissenting minister of London." On the other hand, Mr. Russell, in his _Life of Oliver Cromwell_, 2 vols. 12mo. 1829, says: