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reside, co. Norfolk. This contains some twenty 
parishes. My plan is this: I have a stout cover 
for each of these, with a pocket — the whole lined 
in the inside with writing-paper — on which is an 
index of all I have been able to collect on the 
history of that parish, arranged under the different 
heads of heraldry, biography, archzology, eccle- 
siology, botany, natural history, portraits, en- 
gravings, &e. ‘The pocket contains the scraps and 
cuttings, and the covers are of uniform size, and 
of the dimensions of my intended MS. The 
whole are placed in two cloth boards, procured 
from the bookbinders, the exuvie of some tome 
promoted to Russia and the front shelves. A 
pair of strings and a bit of coloured paper pasted 
over the old title, and the name of the hundred 
written thereon, and all is complete. It would 
be very desirable that a list of topographical col- 
lectors should be allowed in “ N. & Q.,” with their 
districts, to facilitate the interchange of informa- 
tion, &e. E. S. Tayror. 
William Kennedy (25 S. i. 113.) — I remember 
meeting with this gentleman in London, about the 
time when he published a small volume of poems, 
under the title of Fitful Fancies, Edinburgh, 1827. 
Besides the work mentioned by your correspon- 
dent, Mr. Kennedy published The Continental An- 
nual and Romantic Cabinet for 1832, 8vo., London, 
1831. I understood that shortly after 1831, Mr. 
Kennedy was appointed to some post or office 
abroad, [ think a Vice-Consulship. His poems 
were much praised in the reviews of the day. 
Joun Macray. 
Oxford. ; 
P.S. I observe the following works in the Bod- 
leian Catalogue, under the name of William Ken- 
nedy : 
1. “The Siege of Antwerp, an Historical Play, 8vo. 
London, 1838.” 
2. “Texas: The Rise, Progress, and Prospects of the 
Republic of Texas, 2 vols. 8vo. London, 1841.” 
“ Scottish Pasquils” (2"4 §. i. 4.)—Your corres- 
pondent Mr. Marktanp is in error, when he 
states that the “Scottish Pasquils are comprised in 
two volumes.” They consisted of three volumes, 
which were published by the late Mr. John Ste- 
venson, of Edinburgh, in 1827-28. Copies of the 
2nd and 3rd volumes of this singularly curious 
and interesting collection of Lampoons (which 
were chiefly printed from original MSS.) are oc- 
easionally to be picked up, but complete sets are 
certainly very scarce indeed. A “large paper” 
copy, in small 4to., produced at the sale of the 
late Mr. Robert Pitcairn’s library, the other 
month, the sum of 2/. 10s. T. Gass 
Edinburgh. 
Reference is made to a scurrilous poem on the 
Stair family, which was printed for the first time 
in Mr. Maidment’s collection of Scottish Pasquils. 
Mr. Marxuanp does not, however, appear to have 
known that there were three, not two volumes, and 
this is by no means surprising, as very little in- 
terest seems to be taken by our southern friends 
in Scottish literary matters. The MS. from which 
the satire was printed belonged to Sir Walter 
Scott, and was communicated by him to Mr. 
Maidment for the express purpose of being in- 
cluded in the Pasquils. A copy occurred amongst 
the Mylne MSS., and the text was ultimately 
printed from a collation of the two. Lady Stair, 
the Lady Ashton of the romance, was of the Ross 
family. She was reputed a witch. She lived to 
a great age, and before dying, desired that her 
coffin should be placed on end, above the ground 
in Kukliston Church, as so long as it stood in that 
position the Dalrymple family would flourish. 
The master of Ravenswood was the last Lord 
Rutherfurd. Jucy’s husband was the Laird of 
Baldoon, who, shortly after his unhappy marriage, 
broke hisneck by a fall from his horse. 
Earthenware Vessels found in Churches (2°° S. 
i. 83.) —I beg to inform W. S., that about four 
years since, I obtained permission to have the 
vault at the east end of the parish church of Wed- 
nesbury opened, and at the end, immediately 
under the altar, were two earthenware vessels 
containing, as I thought, some human remains. 
In the same vault there was an embalmed body 
of a lady lying in a leaden coffin, from which the 
outer coffin had fallen through decay. The vault 
was nearly full of human remains and pieces of 
coffins. I believe the lady before alluded to be- 
longed to the noble family of Ward, for I dis- 
covered the first two letters of that name on the 
coffin-lid, and this vault was their burial-place for 
some years after they succeeded the Parkes family 
at Wednesbury. I may as well mention, that the 
altar at Wednesbury Old Church consists of a 
stone slab (I believe fastened to the wall) sup- 
ported on iron legs. Joun N. BaGnatu. 
Charlemont Hall, near Wednesbury. 
“ Seal” (27° S. i. 73.) — This is probably the 
Anglo-Sax. Sal, or Sel, a hall, mansion, &c. ; and 
would thus indicate the part of the parish in which 
the principal mansion ‘stood in Anglo-Saxon 
times. E.G. Rh. 
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