and if so, can any of your correspondents give me any information as to his descent, &c.?

L.

89. The Earl of Derwentwater.

—The first earl, Francis, had several sons—Francis his successor, Edward died unmarried, Thomas a military officer, Arthur, &c. Can any of your readers inform me in which army this Thomas was an officer, whom he married, and where he died? The family name was Radcliffe.

BROCTUNA.

Bury, Lancashire.

90. "But very few have seen the Devil."

—Can any of your readers inform me where some lines are to be found which run somewhat thus?—I cannot remember the intermediate lines:—

W. FRASER.

Hordley, near Ellesmere, Aug. 4. 1851.

91. Aulus Gellius' Description of a Dimple.

—The poet Gray, writing to his friend Mr. West, asks him to guess where the following description of a dimple is found:

Mr. West replies in the following letter:

"Your fragment is Aulus Gellius; and both it and your Greek delicious."

I have never met with it in Aulus Gellius, and should be glad to find it.

RT.

92. Forgotten Authors of the Seventeenth Century.

—Can any of your correspondents point out any biographical particulars relative to the following authors of the seventeenth century?

1. WILLIAM PARKES, Gentleman, and sometimes student in Barnard's Inne, author of The Curtaine-drawer of the World, 1612.

2. PETER WOODHOUSE, author of The Flea; sic parva componere magnis, 1605.

3. ROWLAND WATKINS, a native of Herefordshire; author of Flamma sine Fumo, or Poems without Fictions, 1662.

4. RICHARD WEST, author of The Court of Conscience, or Dick Whipper's Sessions, 1607.

EDWARD F. RIMBAULT.

Minor Queries Answered.

Sundays, on what Days of the Month?

—Is there any printed book which tells on what days of the several months the Sundays in each year occurred, during the last three or four centuries?

If there be more such books than one, which of them is the best and most accessible?

H. C.

[The most accessible works are Sir Harris Nicolas' Chronology of History, and Companion to the Almanack for 1830, pp. 32, 33. Consult also L'Art de Vérifier les Dates and, above all, Professor De Morgan's Book of Almanacks.]

John Lilburne.

—A list of the pamphlets published by, or relating to, John Lilburne, or any facts respecting his life or works, will be of service to one who is collecting for a biography of "Free-born John."

EDWARD PEACOCK, Jun.

Bottesford Moors, Kirton in Lindsey.

[Watt's Bibliotheca Britannica contains a list of Lilburne's pamphlets, which would occupy two pages of "NOTES AND QUERIES!" A collection of tracts relating to Lilburne, 1646, 4to., 2 vols., will be found in the Towneley Catalogue, Part I. p. 636. Sold for 1l. 13s. Truth's Victory over Tyrants, being the Trial of John Lilburne, London, 1649, 4to., contains a portrait of him standing at the bar. Butler, in Hudibrus, Part III., Canto ii., has vividly drawn his character in the paragraph commencing at line 421.:—

"This character," says Dr. Grey, "exactly suits John Lilburne and no other. For it was said of him, when living, by Judge Jenkins, 'That if the world was emptied of all but himself, Lilburne would quarrel with John, and John with Lilburne;' which part of his character gave occasion for the following lines at his death:—

"Lilburne died a Quaker, August 28, 1657. See Mercurius Politicus, No. 379. p. 1597.; Mr. Peek's Desiderata Curiosa, from Mr. Smith's Obituary, vol. ii. lib. xiv. p. 30. Also a character of Lilburne, in Thurloe's State Papers, vol. iii. p. 512; and an account of his obstinacy, in his Trial, reprinted in the State Trials."]

Replies.

"LAY OF THE LAST MINSTREL."
(Vol. iii., p. 464.)

I am obliged to M. for his notice of my paper upon this poem, and gratified by his concurrence with my remarks.

Very likely M. may be right in his explanations of the "incuria" imputed by me to the great author, and I may have made a mistake, without pleading guilty to the same charge: but if M. will refer to the 4th and two following Sections of sixth canto of the Lay, he will find it thus written:

Again, Sec. V.:

Again, Sec. VI.:

And again, in Sect. VIII. are these words:

Now, in the ordinary acceptation of these words the spousal rite means nuptials, and a bride means a newly married wife; and as the ceremony of the spousal rite is described as taking place with much pomp in the chapel, and at the altar, it looks very like a wedding indeed. But if, after all, it were only a betrothal, I willingly withdraw the charge of "incuria," and subscribe to the propriety of the "Minstrel's" information, that the bridal actually "befel a short space;"