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28 Translation of Luther on the Galatians, edit. London, 4to. 1577. Can any of your readers oblige me by informing me who was their author?

Your obedient servant,

Sir,—I should be glad to obtain answers to any or all of the following Queries:—

1. What is the origin of the name, as applied to a London locality, and when did our kings (if they ever inhabited it) cease to inhabit it?

2. When was first so called, and why?

3. Is there any contemporary copy of the celebrated letter said to have been written by Anne Pembroke, Dorset and Montgomery, to Sir Joseph Williamson? It first appeared in The World.

4. Does a copy exist in MS., or in print, of the sermon which Archbishop Tennison preached at the funeral of Nell Gwynne?

Mr. Editor,—I hope you intend to keep a corner for Etymologies.

Query, the origin of the word "Grog?"—And why do the people in Suffolk call a lady-bird "Bishop Barnaby?"

If you can enlighten me upon either of these points, I shall feel encouraged to try again.

The following bibliographical memoranda, in the well-known hand of Dr. Farmer, occur in a copy of the edition of Drayton's Poems published in 1619, in small folio, by John Smethwick, which contains "The Barons' Wars; England's Heroical Epistles; Idea; Odes; The Legends of Robert Duke of Normandie, Matilda, Pierce Gaveston, and Great Cromwell; The Owle; and Pastorals, containing Eglogues, with the Man in the Moone."

They may be of use to some future editor of Drayton, an author now undeservedly neglected, whose Nymphidia alone might tempt the tasteful publisher of the "Aldine Poets" to include a selection, at least, of his poems in that beautiful series:—

[The stanza in Matilda, celebrating Shakspere's Lucrece, to which Dr. Farmer alludes, is thus quoted by Mr. Collier in his edition of Shakspere (viii. p. 411.):—

Lucrece, of whom proud Rome hath boasted long,
 * Lately revived to live another age,

And here arrived to tell of Tarquin's wrong,
 * Her chaste denial, and the tyrant's rage,