Wales, near the borders of Slii-opshire, the follow- 

 ing mention of it occurs : 



" There is neither wood nor underwood on the said 

 lands, but a few underwoods in the park of hasell, 

 alders, witliie, and thornes, and such like, which the 

 tenants doe take and use for Tinsel as need requires." 



The working people in Shropshire and Stafford- 

 shire still speak of tining a fire (pronounced 

 teenmg). This is but a slight change in the 

 Anglo-Saxon word tynan, to light a fire. S. S. S. 



Arches of Pelaga. — A j'oung sailor, in his pas- 

 sage from Alexandria to Trinadas, mentions a place 

 under this designation. Query, Is there a place 

 correctly so called, or is this one of the misnomers 

 not unfrequent among seamen ? M. A. Lower. 



Emiott Arms. — What are the arms of the family 

 of Emiott of Kent ? E. H. Y. 



Well Chapds, — Will any of your learned readers 

 be kind enough to direct me to the best sources of 

 information on this subject ? H. G. T. 



Davy Jones's Locker. — If a sailor is killed in a 

 sea-skirmish, or falls overboard and is drowned, 

 or any other fatality occurs which necessitates the 

 consignment of his remains to the " great deep," 

 his surviving messmates speak of him as one who 

 has been sent to " Uavy Jones's Locker." Who 

 was the important individual whose name has be- 

 come so powerful a myth ? And what occasioned 

 the identification of the ocean itself with the 

 locker of this mysterious Davy Jones ? 



Henrt Campkin. 



2Eso]ms Eprilans. — I shall be much obliged by 

 information respecting the authorship and history 

 of this work, printed at Vienna, 1749, 4to. N. B. 



Written Sermons. — Information is requested as 

 to when the custom of pi-eaching from written 

 sermons was first introduced, and the circum- 

 stances which gave rise to it. M. C. L. 



Pallavicino and the Contc (TOlivares. — I have in 

 my possession an old Italian MS., 27 pages of 

 large foolscap paper. It is headed "Caduta del 

 Conte d'Olivares," and at the end is signed " Scritta 

 da Ferrante Pallavicino," and dated " 28 Genaro, 

 1643." Of course this Count d'Olivares was the 

 great favourite of Philip IV. of Spain ; but who 

 was Pallavicino ? Could it have been the Paravicino 

 who was court chaplain to Philip III. and IV. ? 

 or was he of the Genoese family of Pallav'cini 

 mentioned by Leigh Hunt (Autobiographi/, vol. ii. 

 p. 177.) as having been connected with the Crom- 

 well fiimily ? AVhat favours the latter presumption 

 is, that a gentleman to whom I showed the MS. 

 said at once, " That is Genoa paper, just the same 

 I got there for rough copies ; " and he also told 

 me that the water-mark was a well-known Genoa 

 mark : it consists of a bird standing on an eight 

 pointed stai-like flower. 



If any one can give me any likely account of this 

 Pallavicino, or tell nie whether the MS. is at all 

 valuable in any way, I shall owe him many thanks. 



Chaeles O. Souley. 



Broadway, New York, May 10. 1851. 



Athelney Castle, Somersetshire. — Can any of 

 your readers inform me, whether Athelney Castle, 

 built by King Alfred, as a monastery, in token of 

 his gratitude to God for his preservation, when 

 compelled to fly from his throne, is in existence ; 

 or if any remains of it can be traced, as I do not 

 find it mentioned either in several maps, gazetteers, 

 or topographical dictionaries ? It was situate 

 about four miles from Bridgcwater, near the con- 

 flux of the rivers Parrot and Tone ? J. S. 



Islington, May 15. 1851. 



Athelney. — In a visit which I recently paid to 

 the field of Sedgemoor and the Isle of Athelney in 

 Somersetshire, I found on the latter a stone pillar, 

 inclosed by an iron railing, designed to point the 

 traveller's eye to the spot, so closely associated with 

 his earliest historical studies, with the burnt cakes, 

 the angry housewife, and the castigated king. The 

 pillar bears the following inscription, which you 

 may think perhaps worthy of preservation in your 

 useful pages : — 



" King Alfred the Great, in the year of our Lord 

 879, having been defeated by the Danes, fled for refuge 

 to the forest of Athelney, where he Xay concealed from 

 his enemies for the space of a whole year. He soon 

 after regained possession of his throne, and in grateful 

 remembrance of the protection he had received, under 

 the favour of Heaven, he erected a monastery on this 

 spot and endowed it with all the lands contained in 

 the Isle of Athelney. To perpetuate the memorial of 

 so remarkable an incident in tlie life of that illustrious 

 prince, this edifice was founded by John Slade, Esq., 

 of Mansell, the proprietor of Athelney and Lord of 

 the Manor of Nortli Petherton, a. n. 1801." 



J. R. W. 



Bristol. 



Legend of St. Molaisse (Vol. ii., p. 79.). — Can 

 you tell me anything more about this MS., and 

 in whose possession it now is ? R. H. 



[" The Legend of S'. Molaisse" was sold in a sale 

 at Puttick and Simpson's, July 3, 1850, for the sum 



of£S. \5s.'\ 



Bogatzky. — Who was Bogatzky, the autlior of 

 the well-known Golden Tj-easury f Any particu- 

 lars of his life will be acceptable. E. V. 



[Bogatzky was a Polish nobleman, tlie pupil of the 

 great Professor Francke, and of a kindred spirit. He 

 died at an advanced age in 17G8. It is not generally 

 known that Bogatzky published a Second Volume of 

 his Golden Treasury, which Dr. SteinkopfT revised and 

 edited in 1812, to which he prefixed a short but inter 



