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the minister got 100 guineas from the bride- groom. The married couple took up their abode in Paris ; and The Gentleman's Maga- zine says that Hughes died at St. Germains on 13 March, 1863.

JOHN MILNE, LL.D. Aberdeen.

SANCTUARY SEATS. I am writing a short article on ' Sanctuary,' and am desirous of information as to where the ancient "sanctuary seats" or "Fridstols" re to be found. I am aware of Hex ham and Beverley. There are also seats at Cor- hampton, Chewton Mendip, and Halsham. Can any reader supply me with information re the last-named three ?

ARTHUR W. MILLAR.

226, St. Margaret's Road, Bradford.

COOPER'S ' ATHENE CANTABRIGIENSES.' I should be glad if any one having notes or corrections to this work would com- municate with me. I have the notes of the late Henry Bradshaw and Prof. John E. B. Mayor, which 1 am incorporating with others, and these will bo printed and pub- lished along with the portion of vol. iii. the Coopers had printed, but not published. To these will be added a new Index.

G. J. GRAY.

1, Trinity Street, Cambridge.

MAXIMILIAN I. OF BAVARIA : FRIEDRICH, DUKE OF SAXE-ALTENBURG. I hope some courteous fellow -reader will kindly furnish me with the names of the parents and grand- parents (on both sides) of (a) Maximilian I., King of Bavaria, and his wife, Wilhelmina of Hesse -Darmstadt ; (b) Friedrich, Duke of Saxe-Altenburg, who died in 1834, and his wife, Charlotte of Mecklenburg-Strelitz. I should also be glad to know (c) the con- necting links between the above-mentioned Maximilian I. and his (paternal) great- grandfather (?), Count Christian II. Replies will be gratefully acknowledged.

(Miss) MARSCHALL.

18, Horton Road, Platt Fields, Manchester.

IMPRISONMENT IN JERSEY, SCILLY ISLES, &c. Can any of your readers inform me why, in the seventeenth century, political prisoners were so often sent to various islands such as Jersey, the Scilly Isles, &c. ? Was it because they might there be im- prisoned for indefinite periods without being brought to trial ? I think I have seen somewhere that these places were in some sense, or to some extent, outside the juris- diction of the law courts of the mainland.

If this was the case, I should like to know if the Isle of Wight belonged to the same category. Sir Henry Vane was imprisoned there by Cromwell without being brought to trial. JOHN WILLCOCK.

Lerwick.

THE SUFFIX " SHIRE." I shall be very much obliged if you will kindly advise me as to the correct use of the suffix " shire." I have referred to several atlases and encyclopaedias, but find that they do not agree in regard to this point. For example, in ' Chambers's Encyclopaedia ' " shire " is added to the whole of the Welsh counties (except Anglesey), but only to two of the English counties (Hampshire and Shrop- shire), and to none of the Scottish counties. I should feel very much indebted to you for any information on the subject that you could give me. P. STRZELECKI.

WHARTON FAMILY. Who were the parents of Thomas Wharton (1735-1810)who married, 13 July, 1774, Lady Sophia Henrietta Duff, and to what family of Wharton did he belong ? Thomas Wharton was appointed Solicitor of the Excise in September, 1765, and one of the Commissioners of the Excise in Scotland in November, 1771. Unless these two appointments, which are taken from The Scots Magazine, refer to different in- dividuals, Thomas Wharton must have been married twice, as on 24 November, 1766, the same periodical announces the death at Edinburgh of Mrs. Henrietta Wharton, wife of Mr. Wharton, Solicitor of the Excise, and eldest daughter of Sir Alexander Mackenzie of Coul. H. A. P.

" DIGGY DOGGYS." In a child's diary (believed to be that of Mrs. Sherwood, the author of ' The Fairchild Family ') of 1779 occurs this very cryptic passage : " Beer diggy doggys were written with a candle in a certain place at Stanford. Mine were black monkeys behind the Church." Can any reader throw light on this ? What are " Beer diggy doggys " ?

A. FRANCIS STEUART.

' THE SHEPHERD'S CALENDAR,' 1496. Could one of your readers inform me if Wynkyn de Worde or Pynson printed ' The Shepherd's Calendar ' in the year 1496 ? The Calendar for 1497 is often quoted (e.g., Thos. Wright, Macmillarfs Mag., 1862), but Verard's in 1503 is the earliest I can find in many lists, including that of the Biblio- graphical Society.

HERBERT G. HAYNE.