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Egerton, Bay Osborne, Dun Howard, and Grey Frome. The note was endorsed by Edward Reynolds, secretary of the Earl of Essex. A. F. R.

WE must request correspondents desiring in- formation on family matters of only private interest to affix their names and addresses to their queries, in order that answers may be sent to them direct.

" S E G u N D o " In Whyte - Melville's 'Market Harborough,' chap, xvii., is the following passage :

"How rapidly a moderate galloper, with a fine mouth, and quick upon his legs, can slip over a country compared with an animal that may have the pace of a racehorse, but requires a segundo bridle, and a hundred-acre field to turn him in."

What is the meaning of segundo, and what other examples are there of its use in English ? It looks like the Spanish segundo, second (a second or extra bridle?); but appearances may be deceptive. HENRY BRADLEY.

Oxford.

REV. THOMAS DELAFIELD'S MANU- SCRIPTS. There are in the Bodleian Library at Oxford a number of manuscripts which were written by the Rev. Thomas Delafield and had been part of the Gough collection. At 5 S. vi. 165, in an article on Delafield's manuscripts, W. C. B. says that five manu- script volumes by Joseph and T. Delafield were offered for sale in 1876 by T. Hayes of 49, Cross Street, Manchester. He also states that in 1874 Mr. John Skinner of the West Riding Treasurer's office, Wakefield, Yorkshire, had a manuscript book written by Thomas Delafield, relating to church bells and other matters of church interest. Can any one tell me what has become of the five manuscript volumes offered for sale at Manchester, and something about their character and contents ?

The Delafield manuscripts at the Bodleian Library have often been quoted for local historical reference ; and if there are five more manuscripts, these may also contain much of local historical interest.

JOHN Ross DELAFIELD.

New York.

SANCTUARY RINGS. The recent attack made by Dr. Cox, in his ' Sanctuaries and Sanctuary Seekers,' on the popular belief that these rings were in some way associated with the rights of sanctuary, makes it desirable that all known facts connected with their origin and use should be more

carefully examined. Makenzie Walcott in the Transactions of the Royal Institute of British Architects, vol. xi. p. 53, describes the thing as " a ring which the fugitive clung to, as at Durham and at Cologne, where there was an inscription ' Hie stetit magnus reus.' " Unfortunately, he does not give the name of the church at Cologne to which he refers, and for this I am seeking.

J. TAVENOR-PERRY. 5, Burlington Gardens, Chiswick, W.

JAMES BALLANTYNE'S KELSO PRESS. This eminent printer, the friend of Sir Walter Scott, while in Kelso printed and published two well-known books : Lewis, ' Tales of Terror.'

Scott, 'The Minstrelsy of the Scottish Border', vols. i. and ii.

Two other volumes printed by Ballantyne while at Kelso have just come into my hands :

Douglas, 'Journey from Berne to England,' 1802. ' The History o' the Families o' the Farmers arid the Lightbodies,' 1802.

Do any of your readers know of further books printed by Ballantyne while at Kelso ? JOHN GRANT.

Edinburgh.

JUNIUS'S LETTERS TO GEORGE GREN- VILLE AND LORD CHATHAM. Have the anonymous letters, signed C., to George Grenville, which are printed in vol. iv. of ' The Grenville Papers,' been carefully examined in recent years with a view to ascer- tain whether they are in the handwriting of Junius ? Apparently, the anonymous letter to Lord Chatham was penned by " The Great Unknown " ; but I do not remember whether C. W. Dilke was satisfied as to the authorship of the Grenville epistles. Where are the original manuscripts ?

HORACE BLEACKLEY.

HANNAH MORE PORTRAITS. I am anxious to discover the whereabouts of two paintings of Hannah More : the one painted of her at the age of 29 by the sister of Sir Joshua Reynolds Miss Reynolds and one painted by Opie when she was about 41, which was in the possession of Mrs. Boscawen, widow of Admiral Boecawen, till about 1804. Neither of these is in the National Gallery, but I have seen reproductions of them in memoirs of Hannah More. I believe the one by Miss Reynolds was formerly in the possession of Lady Olivia Sparrow.

I shall be greatly obliged if readers of ' N. & Q.' can help me in the matter.

ANNETTE M. B. MEAKIX.