"Many of them brought their wives and berns in with them, yet
were many of our scotified citizens so pitifull unto them, that
as they passed through the city, they made them, though
prisoners at mercy, masters of more money and good white bread
than some of them ever see in their lives. They marched this
night [Saturday, Sept. 13.] into Tuttle Fields. Some Irishmen
are among them, but most of them are habited after that
fashion."

The contemporary journals in the British Museum would probably state
some epidemic which may have caused the mortality that followed.

GEO. ORMEROD
Sedbury Park, Clepstow.


_Long Friday_ (Vol. ii., p. 323.).--T.E.L.L. is not correct in his
supposition that "Long Friday" is the same as "Great Friday". In Danish,
Good Friday is Langfredag; in Swedish, Längfredag. I have always
understood the epithet had reference to the length of the services.

COLL. ROYAL SOC.


_The Bradshaw Family_ (Vol. ii., p. 356.).--The president of the
pretended high court of justice, a Cheshire man, had no connexion with
Haigh Hall, in Lancashire. E.C.G. may satisfy himself by referring to
Mr. Ormerod's _History of Cheshire_ (vol. iii. p. 408.) for some
valuable information respecting the regicide and his family, and to
Wotton's _Baronetage_ (vol. iii. P. 2. p. 655.) for the descent of the