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photography, T saw prints of " The Noted Wes- 

 tons," and was told a long rambling story of their 

 misdeeds as highwaymen, — that they formerly 

 resided in the great house in the town, where they 

 were much respected, gave large parties, and were 

 looked upon as quite the principal people of the 

 place. It was told me that they were subse- 

 quently executed for a highway robbery, and that 

 their detection was occasioned in consequence of 

 a deformity of the thumbs of one of them. As I 

 find*no mention of them in Mr. Durrant Cooper's 

 excellent and interesting History of Winchelsca, 

 I venture to ask whether there is any known 

 foundation for the story ? II. W. Diamond. 



Lightfoot : Pocock : Thorndike : Upcott. — Can 

 any of your correspondents furnish me with in- 

 formation respecting — 



1. The correspondence and papers of Dr. Light- 

 foot, which were in the hands of his son-in-law, 

 the Rev. Mr. Duckfield, incumbent of Aspeden, 

 in Herts, in 1684, and were employed in that year 

 by Dr. Bright in writing the Life prefixed to Light- 

 foot's Works ? 



2. The correspondence and papers of Pocock 

 the Orientalist, which were in the hands of his 

 son, the Rev. Edward Pocock, rector of Milden- 

 hall, near Marlborough in Wilts, in 1740, in which 

 year Dr. Twells had the use of them for his Life 

 of Pocock, "prefixed to the latter'a Theological 

 Works, published in that year. 



There were some letters of Herbert Thorndike 

 among both these collections, which it is my' object 

 to recover. 



Any information about other letters or papers 

 of HI Thorndike would be esteemed a favour by 

 Abthue Wbst Haddan. 



Trinity College, Oxford. 



P. S. — The collection of autograph letters for- 

 merly in the possession of the late Mr. Upcott 

 may possibly contain letters to or from Thorndike. 

 Is it known what became of them on Mr. Upcott's 

 decease ? 



Slaughtering Cattle in Toions. — Can any one 

 inform me of the date of the earliest enactment 

 against slaughtering cattle in cities, &c. ? The fol- 

 lowing I have copied out of a folio black-letter in 

 my possession, entitled A Collection in English of 

 the Statutes now in force, continued from the Begin- 

 ning of Magna Charta untill the 35th Yeare of the 

 Reigne ofoure Orations Queen Elizabeth, imprinted 

 at London by Christopher Barker, anno 1594 : 



" No butcher, nor his servant, shall flea no manner of 

 beast within the said house, called the scaulding-house, 

 or within the Aval of London." 



Then follow the fines and penalties, and it pro- 

 ceeds : 



" And over this it is, &c., that the sanae ordinance, act, 

 and lawe extend and be observed, and kept in every citie, 



borough, and town, walled, within this realme of Eng- 

 land and in the town of Cambridge (the townes of Bar- 

 wike and Carlile onelie except and foreprised)." — An. 

 4 Hen. VII., cap. 3. 



Also, why should Cambridge be particularised, 

 and the towns of "Barwike and Carlile" excepted ? 



T. W. 

 Halifax. 



Who is General Pnm f — Occasionally " General 

 Prim" flashes like a comet across the field of 

 Eastern warfare: his "splendid uniform" — 'his 

 "train of aides-de-camp" — excite the admiration 

 of the beholders, and swell the descriptions of 

 " our own correspondent." I confess he has ex- 

 cited more of my curiosity than all or any the 

 commanders-in-chief of the Turkish or Allied 

 armies. At last, however, he finally quits the 

 " seat of war," and it is announced that he is on 

 his way back to Spain. Query, Is the gallant 

 general a Spaniard born, or only naturalised ? I 

 know of one family of the name in Ireland (co. of 

 Kilkenny). Can General Prim be an Irishman 

 or of Irish descent, as the no less conspicuous 

 General O'Donnell undoubtedly is ? 



James Graves. 



Mudie's " Propositions." — There has lately come 

 into my possession a pamphlet, of which the fol- 

 lowing is the title-page : 



" Ileport of the Committee appointed at a Meeting of 

 Journeymen, chiefly Printers, to take into Consideration 

 certain Propositions submitted to them by Mr. George 

 Mudie, having for their Object a System of Social Ar- 

 rangement, calculated to effect P]ssential Improvements in 

 the Condition of the Working Classes, and of Society at 

 large. London : published and sold at the Medallic 

 Cabinet, 158. Strand. Price Ninepence. 1821." 



Mr. Mudie's propositions seem to have been 

 made with the intent to get up communities for 

 working men and their families, similar to the 

 " model lodging-houses," recently commenced in 

 various towns. At the end of the pamphlet is an 

 appeal by the "Committee" to the wealthier por- 

 tion of the nation, to assist them in raising 1 2,000/. 

 to make a commencement. For this capital 7^ 

 per cent, interest was to be paid. Was there any 

 attempt at that time (1821) to carry out these 

 " propositions ? " and if so, where ? Y. 



Monastery of Nutcelle. — Where was the monas- 

 tery of Nutcelle, Nutscelle, Nhuts-celle, Nuthcelle, 

 or Nhutstelle (Pertz, Mon. Germ. Histor., vol. ii. 

 p. 336.), of which St. Boniface was an inmate ? 

 It is said to have been in Hampshire ; and the 

 Dean of St. Paul's, in his late important work 

 (vol. ii. p. 109.), identifies it with Netley. This, 

 however, seems questionable, as the charter of 

 Netley Abbey, in the reign of Henry III., says 

 nothing of any earlier foundation in the same 

 place ; and, moreover, the name Netley seems to 

 be a corruption, not oi' Nutcelle, but ufLetley {Lcetus, 



