CYDWELI says, "I am examining Sir Walter Scott's Letters on Witchraft." with a view to some supplementary communications to your pages, but find that work deficient in dates, &c. What is the date of Hutchison on Witchcraft? Who was he? When did the cases of Dugdale, the Surrey impostor, and of Jane Wenham of Walkerne, occur? Was Mr. Gaul, who wrote against Hopkins the Witchfinder, the person who was engaged in controversy with Jeremy Taylor, and who is spoken of as the author of the works in the Retrospective Review? Sir W. says that a case which occurred at Tring in 1751, caused the enactment abolishing such prosecutions in 9 George II. in which statement there is some mistake, as

the dates do not agree. He says that the Irish statute still exists, but your correspondent J. R. (April, p. 374) intimates that it does not. Who was Webster, a clerical writer on witchcraft in 1677? On which side did he write?

In reference to the letter of J. A. R. in May, p. 488, W. R. remarks:"Eagles of brass appear to have been very anciently used in churches as lecterns in the choirs, from whence the Epistle and Gospel were sung and certain services of the dead read from the Martyrology and Necrology. The attribute of St. John the Evangelist was an eagle. Sometimes a brass eagle with expanded wings, was suspended over the lectern.-According to the MS. Annals of Coventry, and the churchwardens' accounts, William Botoner, who was Mayor in 1358, gave in that year an eagle of brass to St. Michael's church, and which it appears stood in the centre of the aisle of the little choir. The Parliament published an ordinance in 1645, for the removal of organs and superstitious ornaments in churches; and accordingly the Puritans sold this eagle, which weighed 392 pounds, at the rate of five pence per pound. The money was ordered to be expended in repairing the leads and battlements. The brass eagle still existing in Trinity Church, in the same city, is of considerable antiquity, and in the reign of Elizabeth is stated to have been in the choir. During the ascendancy of the Puritans it was removed into the vestry. In 1654, it was determined that the eagle should be sold to Abraham Watts, bell-founder of Leicester, but it was not sold: and it may be presumed that at the Restoration, the eagle was removed to its present situation at the clerk's desk in the body of the church.

Similar occurrences probably took place in other churches at the same periods in large towns."

W. H. C. thanks T. Q. for the answer he has given to his inquiry if any work was published abroad, giving a full account of the life of Frince Charles Edward Stuart, and would be very much obliged if T. Q. would point out where W. H. C. could obtain the name of the author, publisher and date of the work he mentions. Another Correspondent informs us that he believes M. de Sévelinges to be the author.

There is an error in the obituary of the Misses Noyes (June, p. 671) that they were the last of the name of their family. They were the last of the name of their branch; but the male heir and representative of the family exists in Thomas Herbert Noyes, esq. of Sussex, whose grandfather, William, one of the six clerks in Chancery, was grandson and heir of Peter Noyes, esq. who entered his pedigree in the visitation of Berkshire, made by the Heralds in 1664. William Noyes, esq. married Martha, daughter and heiress of Thomas Herbert, esq the representative of the ancient family of Herberts of Stretton, in Warwickshire, and of Horspeth, in Oxfordshire, settled at Berkhamstead St. Peter's, in Hertfordshire. The present Mr. Thomas Herbert Noyes has a family.

In our last Magazine, in p. 642, under the head of Cambridge University, are two slight mistakes. For 2000 pamphlets, stated as presented to Trinity College by Archdeacon Wrangham, we may read between 9 and 10,000, bound in about 1000 volumes; and with St. John's College the Archdeacon never was connected. He came to Magdalene college in Oct. 1786; in October of the following year removed to Trinity Hall; and finally, having been refused the tutorship there, on account of his political opinions, although he had obtained several University prizes, he migrated, previously to taking his M.A. degree, to Trinity college, the present recipient of his handsome benefaction.

ERRATA.

Vol. XVII. p. 438, line 12, Mrs. Traherne died in 1796, not 1791. P. 479, line 11 of note, for fess, read pale.

P. 536, line 6 from foot, for Birinus, read Ægilbert.

P. 607, line 15, for evil, read veil. P. 613, line 13, for Chabont, read Chabot.