This accounts for the _Mons_; but whence comes the _Meg_? The tradition of the Edinburgh people is different from that of Sir Walter: and Black, in his _Tourist of Scotland_, pp. 51. 341., says, it was forged at Threave Castle, a stronghold of the Black Douglases; was used by James II. in 1455; and that it was called _Mons Meg_ after "the man who cast it and his wife." The date in the above must be a mistake, as I believe James II. was killed in A.D. 1437. There is another cannon of similar caliber, and bearing the name of _Roaring Meg_, presented by the Fishmongers' Company of London to the city of Londonderry in 1642 (Simpson's _Annals of Derry_, chap. vii. p. 41.). Can any of your readers explain the origin of the name, and say whether the phrase "A roaring Meg" occurs in any English author earlier than Burton? W. W. E. T. Warwick Square, Belgravia. _Cardinal Pole._--In 1513 Sir Richard Pole, a Welsh knight, married Margaret, daughter of George Duke of Clarence, who was drowned in the butt of Malmsey. Can any of your readers assist me in tracing his pedigree? If of Welsh extraction, the name was probably Powell, that is, ap Howel. Or can a connexion be shown with the old family of Pole, Poole, or Pull, of Cheshire? I. J. H. H. _Theoloneum._--In an agreement made A.D. 1103, before Henry I., between the Abbott of Fécamp, in Normandy, and Philip de Braiosâ, the Lord of Bramber, mention is made of a "theoloneum, quod injustè recipiebant homines Philippi, de hominibus de Staningis." What is a _theoloneum_? M. T. _Sterne in Paris._--I should feel extremely obliged to any of your correspondents who would refer me to any contemporary notices of Sterne's residence at Paris in 1762. The author of _Tristram Shandy_ must have been somewhat lionized by the Parisian circles, and allusions to his wit probably occur among the many memoirs of the period. T. STERNBERG. _King Robert Bruce's Watch._--In Dalyell's _Fragments of Scottish History_, I find the following:-- "The oldest known English watch was made, it is said, in the sixteenth century. There exists a watch, which, antiquarians allow, belonged to King Robert Bruce."--_Preface_, p. 3. Can any correspondent of "N. & Q." give information regarding such an interesting relic of antiquity? R. S. F. Perth. Minor Queries Answered. _Hornchurch; Wrestling for the Boar's Head._--I have extracted from the _Daily News_ of the 5th instant, the following paragraph, which appears to have been quoted from the _Chelmsford Chronicle_, relative to this custom:-- "By ancient charter or usage in Hornchurch, a boar's head is wrestled for in a field adjoining the church; a boar, the property of the parish, having been slaughtered for the purpose. The boar's head, elevated on a pole, and decorated with ribbons, was brought into the ring, where the competitors entered and the prize awarded."