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more correct ; and perhaps that gentleman may 

 now, in accordance with his promise, favour us 

 with the " authority " upon which he expressed it. 



William Bates. 

 Birmingham. 



King James Brass Money (Vol. x., p. 385.). — 

 I subjoin a list of the gun-money coinage, com- 

 piled partly from books, but mostly from my own 

 and such other collections as I have had access to. 

 The authorities are very conflicting, and I should 

 be glad of any corrections, if there are any re- 

 quired, as I had a design (not entirely laid aside) 

 of publishing the complete series of the copper 

 coinage of England, with all the varieties, colonial 

 types, &c., including the leaden mixed metal spe- 

 cimens, &c., temp. Charles II., James II., and 

 William and Mary : 



1689. Sixpence. June, July, August, Sep- 

 tember, 7ber, November, December ; none of 

 October. 



1689. Shilling. June, July, August, Septem- 

 ber, October, 8ber, November, 9ber; ditto, with a 

 castle under king's head ; December, lOr. 



1689. Hal/crown. July, August ; ditto, with 

 date under the crown ; September, October, 

 8ber, November, December ; none of June. 



1690. Sixpence. January, February, and a 

 unique one of May in the Dean of Lismore's col- 

 lection. 



1690, Shilling. January, February, March, 

 ditto smaller size ; April, ditto smaller size ; May, 

 June, August, September ; none of July or Oc- 

 tober known. 



1690. Halfcrown. January, February ; March, 

 ditto smaller size ; April, ditto smaller size ; May, 

 ditto smaller size ; June, July, August, October ; 

 none of September. 



1690. Crown. Only one type. 



E. S. Tatlob. 



Ormesby St. Margaret, Norfolk. 



This extraordinary monthly coinage appears to 

 be little known in England, though there is a 

 tolerable account of it in Simon's Essay on Irish 

 Coins, and in Ruding's Annals of the Coinage. 

 Simon says, " some of these coins, for every month 

 from June, 1689, to April, 1690, inclusive, are in 

 the hands of the curious." For the information 

 of your correspondent J. R, G., I have in my 

 possession King James brass money from January, 

 1689, to May, 1690, inclusive ; and if this last of 

 this infamous monthly issue would assist or satisfy 

 J. R. G., I will inclose it to a friend in Dublin 

 for his inspection. F. J. W. 



Greenwich. 



Of these pieces the British Museum possesses 

 eight varieties of the twelve dated May 1690, 

 three of June, one of July, one of August, and 



one of September ; of the six 1690, it possessed 

 two of May, and one of June. 



Edward Hawkins. 



English Proverbs (Vol. x., p. 389.). — In your 

 list of the collections of English proverbs, with 

 parallels from other European languages, you 

 have omitted one which ought not to be passed 

 over. The following is the title : National Pro^ 

 verbs in the principal Languages of Europe, by 

 Caroline Ward : London, J. W. Parker, 1842. 



'AA.tet5y. 



Dublin. 



Genoa Register (Vol. x., p. 393.). — Your cor- 

 respondent has somewhat misunderstood my 

 Query. I wish to know how a Genoa register 

 (of 1790) may be procured. D. 



Pulpit Hour-glasses (Vol. ix., p. 252.). — The 

 earliest reference to the pulpit glass known to me 

 occurs in the churchwardens' accounts of St. 

 Helen's, Abingdon ; where, under date mdxci, is 

 the following : " Payde for an houre-glasse for the 

 pulpitt, Ad." Charles Reed. 



Paternoster Row. 



Brasses of Notaries (Vol. x., pp. 165. 474.). — 

 I think that Mr. Manning must have been mis- 

 taken in supposing the brass of the notary, c. 1475, 

 in the church of St. Mary Tower, Ipswich, to have 

 been stolen, as it has no appearance of ever having 

 been removed from its matrix; it may possibly, 

 however, have been for a time concealed under a 

 pew, as has been the case with another brass in 

 that church, described in Manning's List as " A 

 man and his wife," but which should have been 

 "A man and his two wives, c. 1510." This was 

 discovered in March, 1853, on the removal of the 

 pews in the chancel. W. T. T. 



Ipswich. 



Milton's Widow (Vol. viii., pp. 12. 134., &c.).— 

 In Nichols's Literary Anecdotes, vol. ii. p. 534., 

 art. No. 6. on Dr. Zachary Grey, it is stated : 



" He (Dr. Grey) had one brother George, born in 1610, 

 a Chamber-counsellor at Newcastle." 



To this is appended a note : 



" I have a number of this gentleman's MS. letters to 

 Dr. Grey, &c. The following little circumstance, in a 

 letter dated July 30, 1731, may be worth preserving : 



« ' I had a letter lately from aunt Milton, who is very 

 well, and lives at Namptwich. There were three widow 

 Miltons there, viz. the poet's widow, my aunt, and another. 

 The poet's widow died last summer.' " 



This note may be of use to some of your corre- 

 spondents. 0. DE D. 



Tallies (Vol. x., p. 485.).— The use of tallies 

 in this locality is now, I think, confined to the 

 dyers, who regularly furnbh their small tally of 



