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F JOHN JAMES PARK, 1794-1833. A book- seller friend has, after many years' persistent search, been able to secure for me a large number of autograph letters of this justly esteemed historian of Hampstead. They are nearly all addressed to Sir Egerton Brydges, and belong to the writer's last period, when, as Prof. Park, he had consider- able reputation as a lecturer and examiner at Lincoln's Inn. The letters show that he was trying to clear the involved financial difficulties of his correspondent, who had suffered from avaricious and dishonest solicitors and pleaders. Much interesting comment on contemporaries, many recollec- tions of Hampstead, and autobiographical notes are also provided. Park's judgment of the world is tinged with the acerbity natural in a man who has found the com- mon standards of his profession less generous than his own. I intend later on to have these letters privately printed for distribu- tion amongst my friends.

Their number, as at present known to exist, is not great, nor, with but few excep- tions, are they very interesting. Perhaps this notification will lead to the discovery of others. I shall be greatly obliged if any one owning letters of John James Park would allow me the use of them for the little pamphlet I am preparing.

ALECK ABRAHAMS. 51, Rutland Park Mansions. N.W.

AUTHORS OF QUOTATIONS WANTED.

1. Nullo penetrabilis astro.

2. Coelum ipsum petimus stultitia.

3. Prayers that e'en spoke and Pity seem'd to call, And issuing sighs that snioak'rl along the wall ; Complaints and hot desires, the Lovers' Hell, And scalding tears that wore a Channel where

they fell.

T.

JOHNSTON FAMILY. 1 . Is anything known of the descendants of George Johnston, who was the miller of Bonshaw Mill on the River Kirtle, in Annandale, Dumfriesshire, about 1748-88 ? He had a son Thomas (who married a Harkness) and six grand- children, viz., George and Jean of Mill- town, who married a brother and a sister Rickerby ; Thomas of Birmingham, who married a Woodiwiss of Wirksworth, direct descendant of Thomas Woodiwiss, born in 1580 ; John of Edinburgh ; Alexander ; and Anne of Milltown, who married a Brice.

2. Sir Walter Scott in his ' Journal,' on 13 June, 1826, wrote that he had come across " a curious thing " : that three brothers of

the Johnston family had fled to the North in consequence of feuds, and taking refuge on the side of the Soutra Hills had changed their names to Sowter-Johnston. It has been suggested that this Sowter-Johnston eventually became corrupted into St. John- ston. Is anything known to-day of the So wter- Johnstons ?

3. What is " the Annandale Beef-stand " mentioned by Scott in another part of the same passage from the ' Journal ' ?

T. R. ST. JOHNSTON. Kennington, Leckhampton Road, Cheltenham.

BLACK-LETTER TESTAMENT. Can any one help me to identify an edition of the New Testament in which Colossians iv. 14 is rendered (exactly) as follows : " Deare Lucas the Phisition, and Demas greeteth you " ? The title-page is wanting, but the following details may suffice : size 8vo, 5 J in. x 3 J in. (this limits the inquiry con- siderably). The verses are numbered, so the edition cannot be earlier than 1557. The first verse of each book begins with an orna- mental Roman capital. There are 45 lines to a full page. After the ' Actes,' and beginning on leaf P. iii, is ' The order of Times,' i.e., the chronology of Paul's journeys. The Table at the end, to find Epistles and Gospels, is in double columns. The volume resembles, in some respects, Testaments printed by Richard Jugge. At the end is Sternhold and Hopkins's complete version of the Psalms, with tunes, which cannot be earlier than 1562.

R. S. HARPER.

WIEST FAMILY, WURTTEMBERG AND U.S. In hope that some of your German corre- spondents n\&y be able to enlighten me on the following subject, I write to you.

My ancestor was a Johannes Wiest from Wiirttemberg, who arrived in America 19 Sept., 1738, with his wife and two sons, viz., Jacob and Johannes. They arrived penniless, and he sold his sons as ser- vants for $30 each until they became of a certain age. Johannes sen. meanwhile located at Oley, Berks co., Penn., and settled on a 100-acre tract of land, which he bought. Jacob returned, but the father could not locate John. By corresponding with his descendants, we found out that he (Johannes or John, jun.) settled at Esopus (near Kingston), New York, and his family intermarried with such names as Du Bois, Osterhoudt, Eelsech, Freer, Van Alsen, Elmendorf, &c. From two branches of the family which have been separated for five generations I learn that Johannes Wiest