_Stops, when first introduced_ (Vol. v., p. 1.).--The semicolon had been freely used in England some years before the date (1589) of Puttenham's _Arte of English Poesie_. If Sir Henry Ellis will turn to the first edition of Archbishop Sandys' Sermons, _Sermons made by the most reuerende Father in God, Edwin, Archbishop of Yorke_: At London, printed by Henrie Midleton, for Thomas Charde, 1585, he will find semicolons in abundance. I see that the note of interrogation occurs in _A Compendiovs and very frvtefvl treatyse teachynge the waye of Dyenge well_, _by Thomas Lupsete;_ London, 1541. It is no doubt to be found at an earlier date, but my poor library does not afford an older English book. The same mark, I may add, was used as a note both of interrogation and of exclamation. A. J. H. _Force of Conscience_ (Vol. iii., p. 38.).--The relation given by your correspondent J. K. is also to be found in a volume entitled _The Providence of God illustrated_, 12mo., London, 1836, pp. 386. 387., in very similar words, but no authority is given. Many anecdotes equally extraordinary are to be found in this work; it would be very desirable to authenticate them. W. SPARROW SIMPSON, B.A. _Monton in Pembroke_ (Vol. iv., p. 371.).--I have to remark that this mountain, or monton (the meaning of which B. B. finds it difficult to explain), is situated outside the walls of Pembroke on the adjoining hill; and there is now the remains of a priory in or about the midst to which this village belonged, and that in old deeds it is written Monkton, or Moncton. Perhaps this may solve his difficulty. J. D. _Catterick for Cattraeth_ (Vol. iv., p. 453.).--I understand MR. STEPHENS to insinuate that Cattraeth means Catterick or _vice versâ_. That both names begin with _cat_, and so much only, I am able to concede. Catterick was Cataractonium, or Cataracta, a Latin word of Greek derivation, alluding to the rapids of the Swale. No man can dispute that Cat-traeth is a compound of regular and truly idiomatic formation. Therefore the best meaning I can surmise is this: that Aneurin, wishing to play upon the syllable _cat_, the battle, and disregarding the falsehood and inapplicability of _traeth_, therefore travestied Cataracta into Cattraeth. For the meaning of _traeth_, in topography, see Giraldus, _Itin. Cambr._ lib. ii. cap. 6., and the common sources of information.