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jsct, or acquaint me where I can find any account 

 or pedigree of the Morse family, I shall feel much 

 indebted to them. Pursuivant. 



Earl of Shaftesbury. — I have read with great 

 interest Lord Siiafte^bury's letter to Le Clerc, 

 published in No. 6.7. May I ask your x;Qr- 

 respondents Jajsus Dousa and Professor des 

 Amories Van der Hoven, whether the Remon- 

 strants' library of Amsterdnm contains any papers 

 relating to the first Earl of Shaftesbury, which 

 might have been sent by the thii-d Earl to Le 

 Clerc ; and whether any notices or traditions 

 remain in Amsterdam of the first Lord Shaftes- 

 bury's residence and death in that city ? Any 

 information relative to the first Earl of Shaftes- 

 bury will greatly oblige, CH. 



Fanuly of Peyton. — Admiral Joseph Peyton 

 [Post-Ciiptain, Decembers, 1757 — AdDiirnl, 1787 

 — ob. 1804] was Admiral's First Captain in the 

 fleet under Darby, at the relief of Gibraltar, 1781. 

 Pie was son of Commodore Edward Peyton [Post- 

 Captain, April 4, 1740], who is supposed to have 

 gone over from England, and settled in America, 

 and there to have died. I should be very glad of 

 further particulars of these persons. Are my dates 

 correct? How is this branch of the family (lately 

 represented by John Joseph Peyton, JEsq., of 

 Wakehurst, who married a daughter of Sir East 

 Clayton East, Bart., and died in 1844, leaving four 

 children minors) connected with the Baronets 

 Peyton, of Iselham, or Dodingtou ? Who was the 

 father of the above Commodore ? It may aid the 

 inquiry to mention that this branch is related to 

 the Grenfell family : William Peyton, second son 

 of the above Admiral Joseph, having married a 

 first cousin of Pascoe Grenfell, Esq , M.P. for 

 Great Marlow (who died in 1833). Ache. 



" La Eose nait en un Moment." — I wish to learn 

 the name of the author of the following verses, and 

 where they are to be found. Any of your corre- 

 spondents who can inform me shall receive ray 

 sincere thanks : — 



" La Rose nait en un moment, 

 En un moment elle est flelrie ; 

 Mais ce qne pour vous men cos ur sent, 

 Ne finira qu'uvec ma vie." 



T. H. K. 

 Malew, Man. 



John Collard the Logician.— Q>o\i\A any of your 

 correspondents tell me where I could find any 

 account oi John Collard., who wrote three treatises 

 on Logic: — The first, luider the name of N. 

 Dralloc (his name reversed), Epitome of Logic, 

 Johnson, St. Paul's Church Yard, 1795 ; in his 

 own name, Essentials of Logic, Johnson, 1796; 

 and in 1799, tlie Praxis of Logic. He is mentioned 

 as Dralloc by Whately and Kirwan ; but nobody 

 seems to have known him as Collard but Levi 



Hedge, the American writer on that subject. I 

 made inquiry, some forty years ago, and was in- 

 formed that he lived at Birmingham, was a chair- 

 maker by profession, and devoted much of his time 

 to chemistry; that he was known to and esteemed 

 by Dr. Parr ; and that he was then dead. 



At the close of his preface to his Praxis he 

 says, — 



" And let me inform the reader also, tliat this work 

 was not composed in the pleasant tranquillity of retire- 

 ment, but under such untoward circumstances, that 

 the mind was subject to continual interruptions and 

 vexatious distraction." 



Then he adds,— 



" I have but little doubt but this Praxis will, at 

 some future period, find its way into the schools; and 

 thougli critics should at present condemn what they 

 have either no patience or inclination to examine, I 

 feel myself happy in contemplating, that after I am 

 mouldered to dust, it may assist our reason in this 

 most essential part." 



B. G. 



Feb. 20. 1851. 



Trahernes Sheriffs of Glamor_gan. — Could any 

 of your readers tell me where I might see a copy 

 of A List of the Sheriffs of County Glamorgan, 

 printed (privately?) by Rev. J. M. Traherne? I 

 have searched the libraries of the British Museum, 

 the Athenaeum Club, and the Bodleian at 0.\ford, 

 in vain. Edmond W. 



Hayhands in Seals. — "I have, iu a small collec- 

 tion of Sussex deeds, two which present the fol- 

 lowing peculiarity: they have the usual slip of 

 parchment and lump of wax pendant from the 

 lower edge, but the wax, instead of bearing an 

 armorial figure, a merchant's mark, or any other 

 of the numerous devices ibrmei'ly employed in the 

 authentication of deeds instead of one's chirograph, 

 has neatly inserted into it a small wreath composed 

 of two or three stalks of grass (or rather hay) 

 carefully plaited, and forming a circle somewhat 

 less in diameter than a shilling. The deeds, which 

 were executed in the time of Henry the Seventh, 

 relate to the transfer of small landed properties. 

 I have no doubt that this diminutive hayband was 

 the distinctive mark of a grazier or husbandman 

 who did not consider his social status sufficient to 

 warrant the use of a more regular device by way 

 of seal. I have seen a few others connected with 

 the same county, and, if I recollect rightly, of a 

 somewhat earlier date. I shall be glad to ascer- 

 tain whether this curious practice was in use in 

 other parts of England. M. A. Lower. 



Lewes. 



Edmund Prideaux, and the First Post- office. — 

 Polwhele, in his History of Cornwall, says, p. 1 39. : 



" To our countryman Edmund Prideaux we owe 

 the regular establishment of the Post-office." 



