"And careful hours, with time's _deformed_ hand,
Have written strange defeatures in my face."

_Comedy of Errors_, Act v. Sc. 1.

In all these passages, as well as in that in _Measure for Measure_, the
simple remark, that the poet employed a common grammatical variation, is
all that is required for a complete explanation.

J.O. HALLIWELL.

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REPLIES TO MINOR QUERIES.

_Execution of Charles I.--Sir T. Herbert's "Memoir of Charles I_." (Vol.
ii. pp., 72. 110.).--Is P.S.W.E. aware that Mr. Hunter gives a
tradition, in his _History of Hallamshire_, that a certain William
Walker, who died in 1700, and to whose memory there was an inscribed
brass plate in the parish church of Sheffield, was the executioner of
Charles I.? The man obtained this reputation from having retired from
political life at the Restoration, to his native village, Darnall, near
Sheffield, where he is said to have made death-bed disclosures, avowing
that he beheaded the King. The tradition has been supported, perhaps
suggested, by the name of Walker having occurred during the trials of
some of the regicides, as that of the real executioner.

Can any one tell me whether a narrative of the last days of Charles I.,
and of his conduct on the scaffold, by Sir Thomas Herbert, has ever been