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grow in stunted patches throughout its extent. 
Has their presence ever been noticed or accounted 
for? If we again allow tradition to give its evi- 
dence, we are told they were planted on the graves 
of the fallen combatants. Perer H. Jennines. 
Tadcaster. 
A Peal of Beils. 
Mr. Editor,— The following question was put 
to me by a clergyman and a scholar, who, like 
myself, takes an interest in the subject of Bells. 
At first sight I fancied that a satisfactory answer 
could easily be given: but I found that I was mis- 
taken, and I shall be very glad if any of your 
correspondents will favour me with a solution of 
the difficulty. 
Can you define what is a Peal? Of course we 
know what is meant by a Peal of Bells, and to 
ring a Peal; but I want it defined as to duration, 
mode of ringing it, &e.&c. None of the old writers 
explain what they mean by ringing a Peal. 
ALFRED GATTY. 
Ecclesfield Vicarage, Dec. 11. 1849. 
Lines quoted by Goethe. 
If any of your readers can inform me who is the 
author of the following lines, quoted by Goethe in 
his Autobiography, he will greatly oblige me : — 
«“ Then old age and experience, hand in hand, 
Lead him to death, and make him understand, 
After a search so painful and so long, 
That all his life he has been in the wrong.” 
TREBOR. 
King’s College, Dec. 8. 1849. 
MS. Sermons by Jeremy Taylor. 
I venture to send you the following note, as 
embodying a query, which I am sure deserves, if 
possible, to be answered. 
“ Southey, Omniana, i. 251. Coleridge asserts ( Lite- 
rury Remains, i. 203.), that there is now extant, in MS., 
a folio volume of unprinted sermons by Jeremy ‘Taylor. 
It would be very interesting to learn in what region 
of the world so great a treasure has been suffered to 
rust during a hundred and fifty years.” — Willmott’s 
Life of Bishop Jeremy Taylor, p. 87. 
OxonIeEnsis. 
Papers of John Wilkes. 
John Wilkes, it is well known, sent to the news- 
pepers copies of Lord Weymouth’s and Lord 
arrington’s Letters respecting the riots in St. 
George’s Fields in 1768. We can easily conjec- 
ture how he did, or how he might have, got pos- 
session of a copy of Weymouth’s Letter, which 
was addressed to the magistrates of Surrey; but 
Barrington’s Letter was strictly official, and di- 
rected to the ‘ Field officers, in staff waiting, for 
the three regiments of Foot Guards.” Has the 
circumstance ever been explained? If so, where ? 
Can any of your readers inform me the exact date 
of the first publication of Barrington’s Letter in the 
newspaper? Is it not time that Wilkes’ Letters 
and MSS. were deposited in some of our public 
libraries? They would throw light on many ob- 
scure points of history. They were left by Miss 
Wilkes to Mr. Elmsley, “to whose judgment and 
delicacy” she confided them. They were subse- 
quently, I believe, in the legal possession of his 
son, the Principal of St. Alban’s; but really of | 
Mr. Hallam. W. 
John Ross Mackay. 
The following is from a work lately published, 
Chronicles and Characters of the Stock Exchange, 
by John Francis : — 
«“¢ The Peace of 1763,’ said John Ross Mackay, 
Private Secretary to the Earl of Bute, and afterwards 
Treasurer to the Ordnance, ‘ was carried through and 
approved by a pecuniary distribution.’ ” 
Will Mr. Francis, or any of your contributors, 
inform me where I can find the original state- 
ment ? 1D} 
NOTES ON BOOKS, CATALOGUES, SALES, ETC. 
Dr. Darling is preparing for publication a new 
edition of his Bibliotheca Clericalis, a Guide to 
Authors, Preachers, Students, and Literary Men. 
The object of this very useful publication, which 
deserves to be made a Note of by all who may have 
Queries to solve in connection with the biblio- 
graphy of theology, cannot be better described 
than in Dr. Darling’s own words, namely, that 
it is intended to be “a Catalogue of the Books in 
the Clerical Library, greatly enlarged, so as to 
contain every author of any note, ancient and 
modern, in theology, ecclesiastical history, and 
the various departments connected therewith, 
including a selection in most branches of litera- 
ture, with complete lists of the works of each 
author, the contents of every volume being 
minutely described; to which will be added an 
entirely new volume, with a scientific as well as 
alphabetical arrangement of subjects, by which a 
ready reference may be made to books, treatises, 
sermons, and dissertations, on nearly all heads of 
divinity, the books, chapters, and verses of Holy 
Scripture, the various festivals, fasts, &c., observed 
throughout the year, and useful topics in literature, 
philosophy, and history, on a more complete system 
than has yet been attempted in any language, and 
forming an universal index to the contents of all 
similar libraries, both public and private.” The 
work will be published in about 24 monthly parts, 
and will be put to press so soon as a sufticient 
number of subscribers are obtained to cover the 
expense of printing. 
Mr. Jones, the modeller, of 125.Drury Lane, who, 
as our readers may remember, produced some time 
