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the Pierpont Morgan Library, and the others probably copies of the printed text, in the possession of Dr. George Neilson and Mr Brown of Glasgow.

We are anxious to ascertain whether any other manuscripts of Bellenden are known to exist, and should be very much obligee if you could find room for this inquiry in ' N. & Q.', in order that any readers who know of manuscripts of Bellenden may communicate with us at University College London. WALTER D. SETON.

University College Hall, Baling, W.

HARRIS FAMILY OF ESSEX (Southminster Creeksea, Woodham-Mortimor and Maldon) Can any one kindly give information (1) as to where the second wife of Sir Arthur Harris of Creeksea, Anne Salter, widow oi Sir Henry Bowyer, and her son Salter Harris, were buried. Sir Arthur was buriec in 1632 at Creeksea, and his eldest son Sir Cranmer Harris in 1674 at Woodham- Mortimor, and (2) what family bore the coat of -Argent, guttee de larmes, usually blazoned 3, 2, 3, but also 4, 3, 2, 1, quartered with that of Harris in the seventeenth century. H. C. FANSHAWE.

METHOD OF REMEMBERING FIGURES. Mr. Stokes lectured on Memory at Cam- bridge in 1872, and had a figure alphabet. Has he left any trace of his system behind him ? H. PELHAM BURN, Major.

National Club.

BATMANSON [OR BATMISON] OLIVER, of Gilligate, near the city of Durham, land- owner in West Auckland, co. Durham ; over whose estates there were suits in the Durham Chancery Court on Feb. 19, 1619, Apr. 6, 1619, and Dec. 2, 1620, is said to have entered into Religion at the Charterhouse. Can any reader give further details of him ?

J. W. F.

CLERGYMEN AT WATERLOO. It is said that there were eight clergymen present at the battle of Waterloo. What were their name-;, and what is known of them ?

J. W. F.

SIR ROBERT BELL OF BEAUPRE, Lord Chief Baron of the Exchequer, bore for arms, Sa., a fess ermine between three church bells arg. In the earlier editions of Burke' s ' Landed Gentry ' the family of Bell of Woolsington are shewn as possessing the same arms ; while from a " trick " to be seen in Warburton's MSS. in the Lansdown Collection at the British Museum, the arms of the Bells of Thirsk are also seen to have

been the same in the early eighteenth; century. Was the above coat granted to a common ancestor of all three families, and if so which is the senior branch of the three ? Sir Robert himself was not the ancestor. LEBEL.

HALLOWE'EN. Can any reader kindly give particulars, or direct to sources of information concerning the old superstition that on the night of Hallowe'en the appari- tions of those persons who are to die in the course of the year always appear in the churchyard of the place where they dwell ? (Rev.) H. CHAPMAN.

The Vicarage, Forest Gate, E.7.

JAMES. The Rt. Rev. William James, Master of University College, Oxford, 1572, Dean of Christ Church, 1584, Dean of Durham, 1596, and Bishop of Durham, 1606-17, married as his third wife Isabel, widow of Robert Atkinson, Alderman of Newcastle. Who were the parents of Isabel? When was the bishop born ?

H. PIRIE- GORDON. 20 Warwick Gardens, Kensington, W.14.

SCANDINAVIA, ICELAND, FINLAND : BIB- LIOGRAPHY WANTED. I am compiling a list of books in English relating to Scandi- navia, Iceland and Finland and should be glad if any of your readers would write to me and suggest the names of books of travel in these countries or of works dealing with their customs, folk-lore, history and litera- ture. HERBERT WRIGHT. University College, Bangor.

T. FORSTER, M.B. Can any of your readers refer me to further data concerning T. Forster, M.B., Corpus Christi Coll., Cam- bridge, who revised and edited The Perennial Calender, published London (Harding, Mavor & Lepard), 1824 ; and inform me who was " Philostratus," who wrote ' Fides Catho- ica,' apparently during the life-time of Vtalthus ? MORE ADEY.

CHARLES PARKER is described in the-

Concertatio Ecclesiae ' as " nobilis sacerdos,

xul, doctor theologiae, et frater Baronis de

Vtorleio, electus episcopus." The ' D.N.B.'

xliii. 239) says that he was born Jan. 28 r

.537, and was a younger brother of Henry,

ninth Lord Morley.

From Gough's ' Sepulchral Monuments,' ol. i. p. 216, it appears that Charles Parker de Morley in the year 1590, being the thirtieth year of his exile for the Catholic faith, put up a monument to Lionel of Ant- werp, Duke of Clarence, second son of King