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reside, co. Norfolk. This contains some twenty parishes. My plan is this : I have a stout cover for each of these, with a pocket the whole lined in the inside with writing-paper on which is an index of all I have been able to collect on the history of that parish, arranged under the different heads of heraldry, biography, archaeology, eccle- siology, botany, natural history, portraits, en- gravings, &c. The pocket contains the scraps and cuttings, and the covers are of uniform size, and of the dimensions of my intended MS. The whole are placed in two cloth boards, procured from the bookbinders, the exuvicR of some tome promoted to Russia and the front shelves. A pair of strings and a bit of coloured paper pasted over the old title, and the name of the hundred written thereon, and all is complete. It would be very desirable that a list of topographical col- lectors should be allowed in " N. & Q.," with their districts, to facilitate (he interchange of informa- tion, &c. E. S. TAYLOR.

William Kennedy (2 nd S. i. 113.) I remember meeting with this gentleman in London, about the time when he published a small volume of poems, under the title of Fitful Fancies, Edinburgh, 1827. Besides the work mentioned by your correspon- dent, Mr. Kennedy published The Continental An- nual and Romantic Cabinet for 1832, 8vo., London, 1831. I understood that shortly after 1831, Mr. Kennedy was appointed to some post or office abroad, I think a Vice-Consulship. His poems were much praised in the reviews of the day.

JOHN MACRAY. Oxford.

P. S. I observe the following works in the Bod- leian Catalogue, under the name of William Ken- nedy :

1. "The Siege of Antwerp, an Historical Piny, 8vo. London, 1838."

2. " Texas : The Rise, Progress, and Prospects of the Republic of Texas, 2 vols. 8vo. London, 1811."

" Scottish Pasquils" (2 nd S. i. 4.) Your corres- pondent MR. MARKLAND is in error, when he states that the "Scottish Pasquils are comprised in two volumes." They consisted of three volumes, which were published by the late Mr. John Ste- venson, of Edinburgh, in 1827-28. Copies of the 2nd and 3rd volumes of this singularly curious and interesting collection of Lampoons (which were chiefly printed from original MSS.) are oc- casionally to be picked up, but complete sets are certainly very scarce indeed. A "large paper" copy, in small 4to., produced at the sale of the late Mr. Robert Pitcairn's library, the other month, the sum of 21. 10s. T. G. S.

Edinburgh.

Reference is made to a scurrilous poem on the Stuir family, which was printed for the first time

in Mr. Maidment's collection of Scottish Pasquils. MR. MARKLAND does not, however, appear to have known that there were three, not two volumes, and this is by no means surprising, as very little in- terest seems to be taken by our southern friends in Scottish literary matters. The MS. from which the satire was printed belonged to Sir Walter Scott, and was communicated by him to Mr. Maidment for the express purpose of being in- cluded in the Pasquils. A copy occurred amongst the Mylne MSS., and the text was ultimately printed from a collation of the two. Lady Stair, the Lady Ashton of the romance, was of the Ross family. She was reputed a witch. She lived to a great age, and before dying, desired that her coffin should be placed on end, above the ground in Kukliston Church, as so long as it stood in that position the Dalrymple family would flourish. The master of Ravenswood was the last Lord Rutherfurd. Lucy's husband was the Laird of Baldoon, who, shortly after his unhappy mai-riage, broke his neck by a fall from his horse.

J. M. (2.)

Earthenware Vessels found in Churches (2 nd S. 5. 83.) I beg to inform W. S., that about four years since, I obtained permission to have the vault at the east end of the parish church of Wed- nesbury opened, and at the end, immediately under the altar, were two earthenware vessels containing, as I thought, some human remains. ,

In the same vault there was an embalmed body of a lady lying in a leaden coffin, from which the outer coffin had fallen through decay. The vault was nearly full of human remains and pieces of coffins. I believe the lady before alluded to be- longed to the noble family of Ward, for I dis- covered the first, two letters of that name on the coffin-lid, and this vault was their burial-place for some years after they succeeded the Parkes family at Wednesbury. I may as well mention, that the altar at Wednesbury Old Church consists of a stone slab (I believe fastened to the wall) sup- ported on iron legs. JOHN N. BAGNALL.

Charlcmont Hall, near ^Yednesbury.

" Seal " (2 nd S. i. 73.) This is probably the Anglo-Sax. Sal, or Sel, a hall, mansion, &c. ; and would thus indicate the part of the parish in which the principal mansion stood in Anglo-Saxon times. E. G. R.

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