that the fork may, as in this instance, have at first been only used for fruits, and by the wealthy who could afford to have it made of silver, and that this in later times led to the more general use of an article of cheaper material. G. F. L. E.

MISS ANNE STEELE (4th S. ix. 476, 521; x. 15.) The memorials of Miss Steele are very scanty,

and her name is not even so much as included among English authors in any of our biographical dictionaries. In a sketch of her life which appeared in an American religious publication (The Presbyterian) some years ago, she is described as "the daughter of an English dissenting minister, and a native and resident of the retired village of Broughton in Hampshire." The first two volumes of her Poems appeared in 1760 and in 1780. After her death they were republished, together with a third volume of miscellaneous pieces in prose and verse, under the editorial supervision of the Rev. Caleb Evans of Bristol. By the direction of her surviving relatives, the profits arising from this posthumous edition were enjoyed by the Bristol Education Society. As this institution was under the care of the Baptists, it is inferred that she belonged to that denomination.

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ALEXANDER PATERSON.

SHEEN PRIORY (4th S. ix. 536.)-I hardly expected that at the present day any information would have been asked for relating to 66 Sheen Priory "—but it is pleasing to find a memento of it so far off as New South Wales. Your reply to DR. BENNETT supplies some information, but is in many instances very incorrect. In fact you have, as many others have, confused the great Carthusian House, one of the two great houses (Syon being the other) erected by Henry V., the "Two chantries where the sad and solemn priests Still sing for Richard's soul "—

for the House for Observant Friars founded by Henry VII., which adjoined the palace, and the site of which is still known as the "Old Friars." The representation of an ecclesiastical building in one of Wyngaarde's drawings is clearly part of Henry VII.'s building.

"Sheen Priory" stood full half a mile from the palace at West Sheen, which gave name to the manor and parish, until Henry VII. called it Richmond. The best account of Sheen Priory is that given in the third volume of Brayley's History of Surrey.

In 1765 the Society of Antiquaries published what they called

"A View of Richmond Palace fronting the Green, as built by Henry VII. From an original painting in the possession of Lord Viscount Fitzwilliam at Richmond."

The painting is now in the Fitzwilliam Museum at Cambridge. Lysons (vol. i. p. 442) very properly doubts this-it is not at all like the old

NOTES ON BOOKS, ETC. Calendar of Clarendon State Papers preserved in the Bodleian Library. Vol. I. to January, 1649. Edited by the Rev. O. Ogle, M.A., and W. H. Bliss, B.C.L., under the Direction of the Rev. H. O. Coxe, Bodley's Librarian. (Oxford: Clarendon Press.)

The vast and interesting mass of historical papers calendered in this and the second volume (which preceeded it in date of publication, and was noticed by us as far back as January 15, 1870) has been deposited in the Bodleian Library at different times, and under very different circumstances. In 1759, a large collection of original State Papers and authentic copies were given to the University by the descendants of Lord Clarendon. On the publication of the first volume of Clarendon Papers, the executors of Dr. Powney presented others which had been in his possession. A third portion came from the trustees of one of the executors of the third earl, and others were presented by Dr. Douglas, Bishop of Salisbury, Viscountess Midleton, Mr. Astle, and the Earl of Hardwicke. But the largest and most important addition was made as lately as 1860, when a large collection of papers, enclosed in boxes, and in Lord Clarendon's private writing chest, was sent by the trustees of the the bequest made to the University by Henry Hyde, Earl of Clarendon and. Rochester in 1753. Three thousand of these papers are calendered in the present volume, and as the volume is accompanied by a very full and carefully prepared index, it will be seen how large an amount of valuable historical materials is hereby made available for students of the eventful period to which the volume relates. The period covered by the documents here described terminates (with the death of the king. The second volume brings the work down to 1654; and the third and fourth volumes are in course of preparation.

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CCCXI.-The allusions in the preface to Mitchell's Translation of Aristophanes is to the Cato Street conspiracy, Feb. 23, 1820.

L. CHAPMAN (Faversham.)-The song "Oh dear! what can the matter be," will be found in many collections of English songs, e. g. J. E. Carpenter's New Standard Song Book, 1866, p. 47 (Routledge), and The Feast of Apollo (Dublin), p. 60. It has been set to music for the pianoforte by J. W. Holder of Oxford.

E. L. (Holmes Chapel).-For articles on Riding the Stang, see "N. & Q." 2nd S. x. 477, 519; xii. 411, 483; 3rd S. iv. 27. Consult also Chambers's Book of Days, ii. 510, 511, with an illustration of the custom.

S. L.-The probable meaning of the Scotch proverb, "First in the wid (wood), and last in the bog," is, "The first to get into danger, and the last to get out of it."

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wrote privately, as Junius, to two individuals Mr. Grenville and Lord Chatham. These statesmen, however, had no means of knowing that their correspondent was Junius, and not some one assuming the title, for they had no access to the MS. of the letters printed in the Public Advertiser, and could not compare it with the letters received by them. Was it intended that Mr. Grenville and Lord Chatham should receive the copies in their unfinished state, stitched in paper, before the publication of the work, as evidence that their correspondent was indeed Junius?

At length the work was published on March 3, 1772, and two days afterwards Junius writes to Woodfall

"Your letters with the books are come safely to hand. .. If the vellum books are not yet bound, I would wait for the index. If they are, let me know by a line in the P. A. When they are ready they may safely be left at the same place as last night."

The Letters, we have seen, were published on March 3, 1772, and on the 5th Junius acknowledges the receipt of his two sets stitched in blue paper, and yet, as Woodfall informs Junius under date March 7, 1773, the vellum-bound set was not "out of the bookbinders' hands till yesterday"; that was a year and three days after the publication of the book! Here is a mystery. It is possible, perhaps, to explain the matter partially and by conjecture, though many circumstances will still remain to puzzle and perplex. Observe that Junius, in acknowledging the receipt of the stitched copies, said "If the vellum books are not yet bound I would wait for the index." This shows that the first edition published on March 3, 1772, was without the contents and index; and it also shows me that one of my copies of Junius, which I have hitherto supposed was of the first edition, must be of the second, for it contains both the contents and the index. The printing of contents and index ought not to have occupied more than a week; and even supposing that the work was composed a third time (I showed in my last that it was composed twice) it is impossible to account for the very long time (a year and three days) which elapsed between the publication of the edition of which Junius received two copies stitched in blue paper, and the binding of the copy in vellum.

Leaving this point, however, what answer must be given to the query which stands at the beginning of this note-Did Junius ever get the vellumbound volumes ?

It has been assumed that Woodfall carefully preserved all Junius's private letters, though it might not be difficult to show from references in the letters published that others were received which have not been published. It is singular, too, that Woodfall should have preserved no copies of his own letters to Junius, though some of them

must have been worth the trouble according to Junius (although it is unsafe to take anything proceeding from this consummate actor in its natural sense), for referring to one of them Junius says, in private letter 6, "The spirit of your letter convinces me that you are a much better writer than most of the people whose works you publish." The only letter, however, which we have of Woodfall's is that dated March 17, 1773, in which he informs Junius that the vellum-bound volumes were sent to him on that day. This letter has been opened after being sealed, and it is conjectured that, owing to Junius not having sent for it to "the usual place," Woodfall himself regained possession of it. But in that case he must also have regained possession of the vellum-bound books. He would not leave them behind. What, then, has become of them? Doubtless the sealed letter may not have been sent by Woodfall. He may have opened it after it was sealed, written another, varying in some respects from the first, and sent it, with the books. But the evidence, as far as it goes, seems to negative this supposition. Then surely, if Junius received the books he would have taken the trouble to acknowledge their receipt. This was the least he could do after all the fuss he had made about them. Junius ran no risk in sending letters; his danger lay in sending for them. C. Ross.

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"C'était une prison faite exprès au comble du bâtiment, construite en carrelets de chêne superposés et fortement liés et chevillés, fort basse et de la largeur d'un lit à deux personnes. Il n'y avait, disait-on, que ce genre de prison d'où un sorcier ne pouvait s'évader. Dans celle-ci, on voyait encore de la paille qui avait servi, disait-on, de litière à une vieille femme renfermée la, comme sorcière, vers le milieu du XVIIIe siècle.

"Au printemps 1826, on refendait, dans la cour de la cure de Daillens, différents quartiers de bois à brûler; l'on trouva, dans l'un des quartiers de ce bois, une mèche de bois dur enfoncée dans la tige d'un ccrisier, au moyen de cheveux pincée dans une fente, au bout d'une cheville d'une perforation faite jusques près de l'aubier, il y a plus de 40 ans, comme on peut en juger par les couches li