"_The King's Booke_" (Vol. v., p. 389.).--The printer's account supplied by MR. BURTT does not relate, except possibly to a very trifling extent, to the _Basilicon Doron_; but it is evidently Robert Barker's bill, mainly in the matter of King James's _Apologie for the Oath of Allegiance_. R. G. _Key Experiments_ (Vol v., pp. 152. 293.).--In an edition of _Hudibras_ of 1704 appears the following "annotation" to the line "As Friar Bacon's noddle was:"-- "The tradition of Friar Bacon and the Brazen-head is very commonly known, and considering the times he lived in, is not much more strange than what another great philosopher of his name has since deliver'd of a ring that, being ty'd in a string, and held like a pendulum in the middle of a silver bowl, will vibrate of itself, and tell exactly against the sides of the divining-cup the same thing with, Time is, Time was, &c." I have tried this experiment with the ring, and find the oscillation takes place as described by AGMOND with the shilling. If, however, the thread is tightly pressed between the finger and thumb, the vibration ceases. This latter circumstance appears to support AGMOND'S idea, that the motive power is due to the pulse, the circulation of the blood ceasing by pressure. C. N. S. _Rhymes on Places_ (Vol. v., p. 404.).--The places mentioned in the following lines are all within about four miles of each other in the county of Gloucester, and twenty years ago the adjectives exactly described the condition of the people; but the great civiliser, the steam-engine, has now taken away the force of the description; and although the first and third lines may be as true as ever, the second and fourth are not:-- "Beggarly Bisley, Strutting Stroud, Hampton poor, And Painswick proud." W. H. BAXTER. _Old Scots March, &c._ (Vol. v., pp. 280. 331.).--I have to thank both MR. CROSSLEY and DR. RIMBAULT for their information regarding the _Ports_, of which I have willingly availed myself by consulting the various works to which they refer; and I have been fortunate enough to see a _translation_ of the greater portion of the Straloch lute-book. Hitherto, however, I have failed in my endeavours to discover two of the _ports_ mentioned by MR. TYTLER namely, Port _Gordon_ and Port _Seton_, both of which I am anxious to obtain. E. N. _Ecclesiastical Geography_ (Vol. v., p. 276.).--Allow me to add to the list of books on this subject, _Atlas sacer sive ecclesiasticus_, Wiltsch, published at Gotha in 1843. W. S. "_Please the Pigs_" (Vol. v., p. 13.).--I am inclined to think that this phrase has more to do with the animate than the inanimate. It is a common saying in Devonshire "please the _pixies_," or _fairies_, and this reference is much more likely; as our ancestors were most particular in their superstitious attentions to the requirements of this most mischievous fraternity. C. R.