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a board on the staircase. But of all those nume- rous refuges in times of religious persecutions, by far the most interesting and celebrated are those two in Staffordshire, where the fallen and the flying royalty of England found safety. Milner, after telling us, that " on two occasions the king (Charles II., after the battle of Worcester) owed his life to the care and ingenuity of priests, who concealed him in the hiding-hole provided for their own safety," adds, in a foot-note :

"The above mentioned hiding-hole is still to be seen at the present Mr. Whitegrave's house, at Mosely, near Wolverhampton ; as is also the priest's hiding- hole (which concealed the king, whilst he did not sit in the oak-tree), at White-ladies, about ten miles from that town." Letters to a Prebendary, 7th edit., p. 217.

CEPHAS.

Moustache worn by t Clergy Episcopal Wig (I* S. xi. 53. ; xii. 202.) I have a copy I had made of an original miniature of Adam Loftus, Archbishop of Dublin, and also Lord Chancellor of Ireland, who died in 1605. He is there repre- sented with a short moustache and a flowing beard, both of them nearly white. His counte- nance displays the intellect one would expect to see in this talented prelate, whose abilities ob- tained, and for such a long period retained, the favour of his royal mistress. The archbishop has no wig, though his hair appears scanty.

Y. S. M.

Dublin.

Saunders's " Physiognomy " (2 nd S. i. 55.) The book referred to by ME. TEMPLE is evidently the first edition of Richard Saunders's curious work. I possess a copy of the " second edition, very much enlarged," folio. The dedication to Ashmole has no date, but the Preface to the Header is dated from " The Three Cranes, in Chancery Lane, October 13, 1670." It is pub- lished at London, by Henry Brugie, for Nathaniel Brook, in 1671 ; and, besides dedication and pre- face, contains 377 pages, a brief table of the chapters contained in this volume, of four pages, and a leaf of errata. There is a very fine en- graving of Saunders prefixed, and the work is considered as of uncommon occurrence. I pur- chased it several years since at the sale of the very valuable library of the Earl of Mar.

J. M. (2.)

William Kennedy (2 nd ;S. i. 113.) PATHICIUS asks where he may see The Arrow and the Rose, by this poet ; also, for information of him. He was connected with the daily press in Paisley ; but, I believe, afterwards went to London, and died there. "Ned Bolton" is one of the pieces in a volume, entitled, Fitful Fancies, published by poor Kennedy in 1827, and dedicated to "the Right Hon. Robert Peel." The publishers are Oliver & Boyd, Edinburgh. If this information

assists your correspondent to a better knowledge of Kennedy, I shall be glad. His inquiry will send me a-seeking also for The Arrow and the Rose. DOOWRIF.

Eleven Thousand Pounds Reward for the Dis- covery of a Will (2 nd S. p. 88.) In reply to MR. FITZ-PATRICK'S inquiry whether Mr. Walker's will ever came to light, I beg to inform him that, unfortunately for the interests of the charitable institutions, and of the members of my grand- father's family who were to have benefited by it, the will has not been discovered.

GEO. RICH. WEBB.

Barker of Chiswick (2 nd S. i.. 94.) This is an an- cient family, long settled in the parish of Chiswick. Scory Barker, Esq., M.P. for Middlesex, lived at Grove House in 1705, a noble mansion within a quarter of a mile of the Chiswick Station of the South Western Railway, and which, some years ago, was bought by the Duke of Devonshire ; and what had been the seat, for more than a century, of great hospitality and unbounded charity to the very populous and poor hamlet of Strand-on^-the- Green, in the parish of Chiswick, where

" One only master grasp'd the whole domain." And the mansion has remained tenantless ever since. Inscriptions on two monuments of the Barker family, in Chiswick Church, will be found in Bowack's Antiquities of Middlesex, pp. 44, 45. (fol., 1705-6); namely, to Anne Barker, widow, ob. 1607 ; and Thomas Barker, Esq., ob. 1630.

Grove House was once the residence of Sir John Denhain, K.B., the poet, and also of a great sportsman and benevolent and somewhat eccentric old English gentleman, of a good family, the Right Hon. Humphrey Morice, M.P., Lord Warden of the Stannaries, Steward of the Duchy of Cornwall, &c., who died at Naples, Oct. 18, 1785 ; bequeathing these premises as a provision for thirty old hunters, dogs, &c., which lived, some of them, a great many years to the age of forty and fifty.

George Col man, the younger {Random Records, 2 vols., London, 1830). gives an account of Mr. Humphrey Morice, and his horses and dog?, &c. ; which however has, as may be expected from that author, a good deal of the caricatura in it. *.

NOTES ON BOOKS, ETC.

After half a century spent in the service of the British Museum, Sir Henry Ellis has retired from the important omVe of Principal Librarian and Secretary. To few men has it been given to take part for so many years in the progressive development of an institution of such Tast magnitude arid importance; and to his thorough business habits, no less than to his varied literary acquirements,