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by the Bill of Toleration. These are two great works in w h y e being of our Church is concerned, and I hope you will send to y c house for copyes. For tho we are under a conquest, God has given us favor in y e eies of our Rulers ; and we may keep up the Church, if we will. One thing more I have to propose, if Mr. Spencer wait upon yo r Grace to day or to morrow to sign an order for money. In case you think it may be for y e ser- vice of S*. Paul's ; why should you not make him draw y e order to be payable to him and Mr. Rus- sel joyntly ? If you do so, I will be sure to con- cur, as I shall alwaies be,

My Lord, Yo r Grace's most obedient serv*.,

H. LONDON. (Endorsed.) To the Most Reverend the Lord Archbishop of Canterbury.

Narcissus Luttrell (2 nd S. i. 33.) A Genealo- gical Account of the Family of Luttrell, Lotterel, or Lutterell, was privately printed at Milborne Fort in 1774, 4to. W. H. W. T.

Somerset House.

Extermination of the Frasers (2 nd S. i. 32.) The authority he seeks is probably that contained in a note on Miss Strickland's Life of Mary //., vol. vii. p. 350., edit. 1852. She states that the present Lord Lovat has an order to that effect, signed by William. C. D.

Battle of Aughrim (2 nd S. i. 48.) I have read with much interest the account given by your correspondent, MR. DAVIES, of the Battle of Aughrim, a small village about four miles from Ballinasloe, co. Galway. (There are two Aughrims in Ireland.) I visited that part of the country in 1845, and walked over the battle-field with the postmaster (I forget his name) as my guide. This young man I found extremely intelligent and well read, and was only surprised to find him vegetating on the miserable pittance he received from the Post Office. He had to walk into Bal- linasloe every day, and bring out the mail-bag on his back, returning with the local post. On one of these occasions he saw a countryman on the bridge of Ballinasloe with a large shot, which he was offering for sale.

On handling it, the postmaster thought it felt very light in proportion to its bulk, and hence concluded that it was a hollow shot ; and, on that account, bought it for a few pence. The country- man had picked it up at the base of an old castle, that stands in the hollow near the edge of the bay, referred to by your correspondent. On bringing home the shot, and scraping the rust from the

surface, he found a fuse-hole; and on boring it out, discovered that the shot was hollow, and filled with powder ; which had then lost its granu- lated form, and was a brown impalpable powder, like snuff. He offered me the shot, which I de- clined, but I accepted some of the powder, which I have since preserved in a phial ; and puzzle juveniles by asserting, that I have some powder in my possession which was "fired off" at the Battle of Aughrim. The shot was about the size of a twenty-four-pounder, and much larger, I should think, than any hand-grenade, so must have been a small shell ; but whether fired from a mortar or ordinary cannon, I must leave for your readers to judge. In going over the battle-field, my cicerone pointed out gaps in the hedge and dyke that _bounded the field in which St. Ruth was killed, and which gaps were made by St. Ruth for the evolutions of his cavalry. These gaps are now filled up with boulder stones, but they can easily be noticed, as the rest of the edge and dyke is composed of the earth thrown out of the ditch, and surmounted by the edge. I picked up a pistol-bullet in the field where St. Ruth was killed, as the ground had been then newly ploughed. MR. DAVIES mentions the fact that the Jacobite commander was killed by a gun- shot from a field-piece placed in position by an ex- perienced artillery officer; but he does not mention who that officer was. Tradition says that his name was Lawless, and that the lucky lieutenant of artillery was the founder of the House of Clon- curry, whose demesne adjoins the town of Bal- linasloe. The memory of O'Kelly, who gave the information respecting St. Ruth's personal appear- ance, and which led to his death, is still execrated by the peasantry all over Ireland ; and he is said to have " sould the pass " on his countrymen. I forget the expletive applied to his hated name, nor does it much matter, as I dared not write it if I could. R. G.

A Curiosity of Plagiarism. I cannot refrain from sending you a choice morsel, which fell into my way a few days since.

Dr. Bloomfield has lately published a ninth edition of his Greek Testament, enriched, pa- ginatim, from mine. In one place occurs the following :

Afford.

Johnxiii. 21 30.] "An- nouncement of the treachery of Judas : his departure from the supper-room."

Bloomfield.

Johnxiii. 2130.] "An- nouncement of Judas's treachery: our Lord's de- parture from that upper room."

Now, seeing that our Lord did not depart at all, the words are at least startling. But how did