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vestigated?" This was published in 1837, and 

 has since gone through several editions, but I have 

 not found any necessity to alter the reply that 

 there was no work which attempted to explain or 

 point out the object to be attained by those who 

 endeavoured 'to draw. It is still, I believe, the 

 only " Manual " for sketchers who naturally wish 

 to " make pictures." Frank Howard, 



Liverpool. 



The Mincio (2"'i S. ii. 228.) — It will not be an 

 easy task to answer the inquiry "when the Upper 

 Mincio lost its name, and assumed that of Sarca, 

 by which it is now alone known." But the fol- 

 lowing extract from Fracastorius proves that it 

 had acquired the modern name more than three 

 hundred years ago : 



" Ereptum jMusarum e dulcibus ulnia 

 Te miserum ante diem crudeli funere, Marce 

 Antoni, setatis primo sub flore cadentem 

 Vidimus extrema positura Benacide rip^, 

 Quain media inter saxa sonans Sarca abluit undd." 



Fracastorii Syphilis, lib. i., near the end. 



Fracastorius was born a.d. 1483, and died 1553. 



J. W. Farrer. 



Name (Rev. William, of Dysart) (2"'» S. ii. 

 209.) — There can be little doubt as to the ex- 

 treme rarity of copies of the Pearle of Prayer. I 

 have never seen a copy, or even heard of one 

 being for sale since 1818 or 1819, when it ap- 

 peared in a catalogue of an exceedingly valuable 

 and curious collection of books belonging to " Mr. 

 William Laing, Bookseller, South Bridge Street, 

 Edinburgh." The copy which he had for sale 

 wanted the title-page, and was priced 7s. 6d. 



The Kev. William Name was the author of 

 another work of much greater rarity, entitled 

 Christes Starre. Some curious particulars of him 

 will be found in a privately printed volume, en- 

 titled Notices from the Local Records of Dysart, 

 4to. 1853. He is also mentioned in Charters' 

 Catalogues of Scotish Wnters, 8vo. 1833, and 

 The Chronicle of Fife, 4to., 1810 and 1830. 



T. G. S. 



Edinburgh. 



The Ducking Stool and Jenny Pipes (2"'^ S. ii. 

 38.) — I remember some forty years since seeing 

 this curious instrument of torture at Leominster, 

 being put in repair and painted red, after which 

 it was taken to the water side near a mill in the 

 Marsh, a street called by that name, and experi- 

 mented upon in order to see if it worked properly. 

 I have also a letter before me from a very old and 

 intimate friend who knew Jenny Pipes well, as 

 not one of the best of characters, and whose habits 

 of sobriety were not of the highest order ; he also 

 speaks of a resident of that town, still living, who 

 has a perfect recollection of the circumstance of 

 Jenny's ducking, having been an eye-witness of 



the scene, and who states that she was the last 

 person who went through that peculiar wet ordeal, 

 and that it is as near sixty-eight years agone as 

 may be. In the autumn of last year, being on a 

 visit to that ancient town, I had the curiosity to go 

 in search of the said ducking stool, and found it 

 still in existence, being stowed away in the church, 

 in a corner of what once was a very greatly orna- 

 mented chapel of small dimensions, the walls of 

 which were then covered with the remains of un- 

 distinguishable paintings, notwithstanding the 

 barbarous whitewash, the colours being still in 

 many places in tolerable preservation. Is there 

 any Leominster antiquary who could give us 

 some account of this chapel or chantry, and its 

 paintings ? In my remembrance this place was 

 merely a receptacle for rubbish and coals. It is a 

 portion of the very ancient priory church spared 

 from the destructive fire which occurred on the 

 18 th of March in the year 1700. Could these 

 paintings be deciphered much light may, no doubt, 

 be thrown on its former use, and the period of 

 its erection, probably, ascertained. Is the duck- 

 ing stool used at Kingston-on-Thames in the year 

 1738 still in being? and are there any others yet 

 remaining in this country ? J. B. Whitbobne. 



Battle of Brunnanhurg (2"'i S. ii. 229. 277.) — 

 Sharon Turner's authorities for the statement 

 that " Anlaf commenced the warfare by entering 

 the Humber with a fleet of 615 ships," and more 

 especially concerning the circumstance of his sail- 

 ing up the Humber, are to be found in the Chro- 

 nicle of Melrose : 



" A.D. 936. Anlaf, King of Ireland, entered the mouth 

 of the river Humber with six hundred and fifteen ships." 



Another authority is to be found in Simeon of 

 Durham's History of the Kings, a.d. 937 : 



" Anlaf the Pagan, King of the Irishmen, and of many 

 islands, stirred up by his father-in-law Constantino, King 

 of the Scots, entered the mouth of the river Humber with 

 a powerful fleet." 



Again it is mentioned in the Chronicle of Florence 

 of Worcester, a.d. 938 : 



"Anlaf, the Pagan King of the Irish and of many 

 islands besides, at the instigation of his father-in-law 

 Constantino, King of the Scots, entered the mouth of the 

 river Humber with a powerful fleet." 



The extracts are from the translations of the 

 Rev. Joseph Stevenson in the Church Historians 

 of England. Charles S. S. 



Bath Characters (2»^ S. ii. 253.) —I have a Key 

 to these characters agreeing with your printed 

 one, and written at the time of publication on the 

 fly-leaf by a constant visitor of Bath. It contains 

 also the names of the " virtuous widow," and of 

 the two baronets, the military officer and younger 

 man, alluded to in pp. 18, 19, which are best for- 

 gotten. Lancastriensis. 



