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 376 NOTES AND QUERIES. [io» s. iv. NOV. 4. iws. ' Guide to the History and Valuation of the Coins of Great Britain and Ireland in Gold, Silver, Copper, from the Earliest Period to the Present Time,' revised by Mr. Grueber, 1898. Lord Avebury gave _a very interesting lecture at the London Institution some time ago on the history of money, and Sir John Evans contributed a valuable series of papers to The Leisure Hour of November and December, 1882, entitled 'L. S. D.' J. HOLDEN MACMlCHAEL. See 'Annals of the Coinage of Great Britain and its Dependencies' (R. Ruding), 3 vols., London, 1840, 4to, reference number at British Museum 2032 f. E. P. WOLFERSTAN. GIBBETS (10th S. iv. 229, 251, 296, 315).—My father, born in 1818, often mentioned his having been offered—I think in 1844—a gibbet, which was in the corner of a field somewhere in the vicinity of Church Stretton or Bishop's Castle. Unfortunately I cannot be sure which town. He was driving, and, as it was too large for his gig, he could not take it with him, and perhaps had no pleasing feelings in the matter. Soon afterwards he found that it had been destroyed, and he then regretted that he had not obtained it for the Shrewsbury Museum. HERBERT SOTJTHAM. Elsdon is a parish of 75,000 acres in the northern part of Northumberland, eighteen and a half miles from Morpeth, and Carobo is a very small one between it and Morpeth. Upon the remote position of Elsdon the following lines were written :— Hae ye ivver been at Elsdon ? The world's unfinished neeuk. It stands among the hungry hills An' wears a frozen leeuk. The Elsdon folks, like deein' stegs, At ivvery stranger stare ; An' hather broth an' curlew eggs Ye 'II get for supper there. ^ These lines are transcribed from a paper in The Church Monthly Magazine, in which is a small engraving entitled 'The Gibbet,' apparently a pole some fifteen feet in height, having a projecting horizontal bar from which is suspended a bundle which looks like a small woolpack. I regret being unable to verify my quotation, which is pasted in one of my volumes of cuttings. Verbum sap. JOHN PICKFOED, M.A. Newbourne Rectory, Woodbridge. WYRLEY'S DERBYSHIRE CHURCH NOTES (10th S. i. 427).—Through the kindness of Dr. Cox I have found that Will. Wyrley's copy of the Derbyshire Visitation of W. Flower and Robt. Glover in 1569 (made in 1592), with certain Church Notes, &c., is deposited in the British Museum (Harleian MS. 6592). JAS. M. F. FLETCHER. Tideswell Vicarage, Derbyshire. THE DUKE'S BAGNIO (10th S. iv. 24, 115,217, 277).—Full and definite information is to be got from "A Description of the Duke's Bagnio, and of the Mineral Bath and New Spaw thereunto belonging. With an Account of the use of Sweating, Rubbing, Bathing, and the Medicinal Vertues of the Spaw. By Samuel Ha worth, M.D." (117 pp., London, 1683). Dr. Haworth was one of those medical men dubbed "empiric," mostly because they were ready for experimental advances beyond their time. I do not doubt that this was a speculation of his own. The most curious feature of the business was the artificial spa :— " A well of medicinal waters, artificially made, by mineral principles, conveyed into the earth by appropriate vessels, then springing up in a sufficient- quantity to supply all persons that shall have occasion to drink them." Haworth appears to have made some efforts to cure consumption "empirically." EDWARD SMITH. Putney. ROBINA CROMWELL (10th S. iv. 328).— Mr. James Waylen, in his ' House of Crom- well,' 1897, p. 190, says :— " Robina Cromwell, the Protector's seventh and youngest sister, was married to Dr. Peter French, a Puritan divine. Canon of Christchureh, Oxford, who died in 1655, during the dominion of his brother-in-law. In the following year she became the wife of another divine, the learned and eccentric Dr. John Wilkins, afterwards Bishop of Chester: time of her death unknown. By her first marriage she had one daughter, Elizabeth, married in llifri to Dr. John Tillotson, afterwards Archbishop of Can- terbury." The presumption is, I think, that Robin* had but this one child. W. B. GERISH. Bishop's Stortford. _ The Protector's seventh and youngest sister had only one child, a daughter by her first marriage, Elizabeth French, who mar- ried John Tillotson in 1664 and left issue. A. R. BAYLEY. A NAMELESS BOOK (10th S. iv. 123,176, 293). —Something as to this book will be found ia 8th S. xii. 325. WILLIAM E. A. Axox. Manchester. MACDONALD OF MOIDART (10th S. iv. 30S).— Ranald, progenitor of the Clan RaualJ