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 9-s.VLDEc.29.i9oo.] NOTES AND QUERIES. 509 Flaxen hair has run in her family fo: centuries, but mostly amongst the females She has had two sisters and a brother flaxen haired like herself, and in the families of each of her father's brothers (three) are three females and a male all crowned with flaxen hair like hers. I shall be glad to know more of "King Degnan," whether historical or mythical. THOS. KATCLIFFE. Worksop. " MOGGY."—Is this word familiar to your readers ? It is used in the district wide oi Leeds and Bradford as the name of thai particular form of light-coloured " parkin' or " plot-night" (Guy Fawkes) treacle or gingerbread made of ordinary household flour instead of brown flour. LIONEL CRESSWELL. Wood Hall, Calverley, Yorks. BRASENOSE COLLEGE, OXFORD.—Who was the founder of the above — William Smythe. Bishop of Lincoln, or Matthew Smythei Was the latter related to the former? An inquiry by a Charity Commissioner was lately held at Widnes with reference to Fal- mouth Grammar School, at which it was stated that, according to a printed report of the charities issued in 1829, William Smythe, Bishop of Lincoln 1509, and Matthew Smythe, the founder of Brasenose College, were benefactors of the school. M.A.OxoN. AUTHORS OF BOOKS.—I should like to know the names of the authors of the follow- ing works, if they are known :— 1. " The | Ruin and Recovery | of | Mankind : | or, | An Attempt to vindicate the Scriptural | Account of these great Events upon the I Plain Principles of Reason. | With an Answer to | Various Difficulties | | Whereto are subjoin'd | Three Short Essays, | London: 1740." 2. " A | Letter | to | Edmund Burke, Esq. | on the | Latter part of the report | of the | Select Com- mittee | of the | House of Commons, | on the | State of Justice in Bengal. | With I Some curious Par- ticulars. con- | cerning Maha | Rajah Nund- oomar Bahadar | London : | Printed in the year M.DCC.LXXXII. | Reprinted M,DCC,LXXXIII." A second and third letter on the evidence of the same committee, with same colophon. The volume is marked on back " Price's Tracts. 2." F. M. [The second work is by Capt. Joseph Price.] VISITATION OF SUFFOLK IN 1664.—Pp. 241- 260 of vol. ii. (1780) of Gough's 'British Topo- graphy ' are devoted to Suffolk. It is there stated that "Suffolk was visited by Byshe 1664," and that "John Fenn, esq., of East Dereham. has a copy of Byshe's visita- tion of Norfolk and Suffolk, 1664, with the arms, folio." What has become of this (? unique) copy ? The original is in the College of Arms. The greatest service that could be rendered to Suffolk genealogy would be to print this Visitation of 1664. If Mr. Fenn's copy could be found, this might be done. A mere index would be very useful. An index to the Norfolk^ Visitation of 1664 was contributed by the~Richmond Herald (then Bluemantle Pursuivant) to the East Anglian (New Series, i. 20-1, 45-6, 52, 73-4, 87-8). The Essex Visitation of 1664-8 was printed by the Harleian Society in 1888. CHARLES PARTRIDGE, Jun. Stowmarket, Suffolk. BISHOP BERKELEY. (9th S. vi. 449.) IN 1710 Berkeley published at Dublin what he proposed to be the first part of a ' Treatise concerning the Principles of Human Know- ledge, wherein the chief Causes of Error and Difficulty in the Sciences, with the Grounds of Scepticism, Atheism, and Irreligion, are in- quired into.' He meditated a continuation of the work, and had actually made some pro- gress with it when his MS. was unfortunately tost. Unlike Carlyle when Mill's cook de- stroyed the 'French Revolution' MS.,Berkeley could not face the ordeal of rewriting the Dhilosophical disquisition. Writing to a
 * riend, he says :—

" As to the second part of my ' Treatise concern- ,ng the Principles of Human Knowledge,' the fact a that I had made a considerable progress in it, but the manuscript was lost during my travels in Italy; and I never had leisure since to do so disagreeable a .hing as writing twice on the same subject." Berkeley, plainly, would have made but a X)or shift as a leader-writer in a daily paper, nit. at the same time students of philosophy iave room to regret the incompleteness of a work so acute and suggestive as far as it goes as is the ' Principles of Human Knowledge.' See Prof. Frasers 'Berkeley,' p. 114 (Black- wood's " Philosophical Classics ). THOMAS BAYNE. Two editions of the ' Principles of Human knowledge' appeared in Berkeley's lifetime : with the third edition of ' Hylas ana Philo- nous') in 1734. Your correspondent F. M.
 * he first, Dublin, 1710, and the second (printed
 * an scarcely have seen a modern edition of

Jerkeley, or he would not have asked a ques-