Nov. 10. 1855.] 



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3SiepUti t0 Minav ^xitriei. 



Scott and the " Waverley Novels " (Vol. xii., 

 p. 342.). — In reference to Mr. Fitz-Patkick's 

 article in the last Number of your interesting 

 journal, headed " Were all the Waverley Novels 

 ivritten hy Sir Walter Scott f " I have now only to 

 say that his statements and arguments are cer- 

 tainly startling; but I am not without hope that 

 in about a fortnight's time I shall be able to col- 

 lect such information as cannot fail to rebut the 

 charge he now so plausibly makes. I request 

 your readers to suspend their judgment. 



Francis Ballantyne. 



Liverpool. 



I have received several communications, some 

 anonymous, some authenticated by a signature, 

 since the appearance of my letter on the author- 

 ship of the Waverleys. Most of those letters are 

 pervaded by a friendly tone, and offer assistance 

 to my inquiry ; while others (the anonymous) 

 abusively defy me to pluck a leaf from Sir Walter 

 Scott's laurel crown. Even in the event of what 

 I consider a mystery becoming elucidated, who is 

 it that imagines the respect entertained for Sir 

 Walter Scott's memory would be impaired ? No 

 one entertains a profounder veneration for the 

 name of that great and good man than I do ; and 

 if he received assistance in his Herculean and 

 generous labour, it is no disgrace. That there 

 still exists some mystery to be cleared up, in con- 

 nexion with the composition of the Waverleys, is, 

 I think, most probable ; and, as the main object 

 of " N. & Q." is to elicit facts, I cannot be blamed 

 for having contributed an inquiry, interesting 

 without being insidious, and certainly not obtru- 

 sive. William John Fitz-Patrick. 



Booterstown, Dublin. 



Vinny Bourne (Vol. xii,, p. 327.). — I am happy 

 to be able, through the pages of " N. & Q.," to 

 supply the information sought for by the Querist, 

 on this subject, in the Illustrated London News. 

 Bourne was buried at Fulham, in Middlesex ; and 

 the entry of his interment stands in the books of 

 that parish thus : 



" 1747. Mr. Vincent Bourne, 5 Dec. " 

 Peace to his manes ! 

 Wandsworth. 



J. K. 



The Running Thursday (Vol. xii., pp. 326. 350.). 

 -—I omitted to suggest, that there is an error 

 either in the manuscript, or in the copy, of the 

 extract made by R. T. The place where the 

 chapel was, pulled down by an Alcester mob, was 

 no doubt Coughton, not Congleton. Coughton 

 was the seat of the Throckmortons, and two'miles 

 from Alcester. I was there in 1829, and, if I 

 remember right. Sir Charles Throckmorton told 



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me that it was from the want of a chapel he had 

 turned the great hall into one. Monson. 



Gatton Park. 



Roman Catholic Bishoprics (Vol. xii., pp. 125. 

 189.). — Of the bishops for whom Mr. P. Thomp- 

 son inquires, I can trace two with certainty : 



1. John Tymnouth, vicar of Boston, and suf- 

 fragan to Smith of Lincoln, as " Episcopus Argo- 

 liensis." 



2. John Bell, ordained in Lichfield Cathedral, 

 during the vacancy of the see, June 10, 1503, as 

 " Episcopus Merionensis." 



The others, I think, will prove to have been the 

 Bishop of Carlisle, and Thomas Barrett of Ardfert 

 and Aghadoe, suffragan of Lincoln, and Edmund 

 Conisburgh of Armagh, suffragan of Ely : he re- 

 signed Armagh in 1477. The R. C. bishops of 

 Scotland will be found in Haydn's Book of Dig- 

 nities. Mackenzie Walcott, M.A. 



Green Rose (Vol. 'xi., pp. 280. 346. 474.). — 

 When in 'Baltimore, Maryland, U. S., in the year 

 1852, I saw two or three young rose-trees, each 

 bearing green roses. This was in a nursery garden ; 

 I should have procured a plant, had not the gar- 

 dener (who came from Scotland) assured me he 

 had seen the same rose in the old country. As it 

 is, I only possess a dried specimen of one of the 

 flowers ; it is a moderate -sized r«ot, with a faint 

 scent. H. A. B. 



Coleridge's " Religious Musings " (Vol. xii , 

 p. 226.). — This is the name of "a desultory 

 poem written at Christmas, 1794." It is to be 

 found in Moxon's edition of his Poems, 1852. 



J.Y. 



Towns in the Crimea and the Caucasus (Vol. xii., 

 p. 266.). — R. J. A. will find notices of some of the 

 towns in the Crimea in Bishop Heber's Journal. 

 See his Life, pages 28. to 55., edition 1829. J. Y. 



Marcaldis '''^ Life of Mary Queen of Scots" 

 (Vol. xii., p. 324.). — Petruci, to whom this Life 

 is dedicated, was the Tuscan resident at the court 

 of France ; and in his ambassadorial reports to 

 Cosmo, Duke of Tuscany, he has given many in- 

 teresting particulars relative to the murder of 

 Riccio. These reports have been printed in Prince 

 Labanoff's Collection of Letters and Documents 

 illustrative of the History of Mary Stuart. Of 

 Marcaldi's History, I am inclined to think, nothing 

 is known in England; and I should be much 

 obliged to Anon of New Orleans, if he would, 

 either directly or indirectly, afford me the means 

 of communicating with him, as I am anxious to 

 obtain any information which may throw new light 

 upon the history of Mary Stuart. 



C. S. Greaves. 



11. Blandford Square, London. 



