MR. URBAN,-In the church of Winestead, in Yorkshire, is preserved a document, a copy of which follows. The original, as I judge from a fac-simile given me by the Rev. James Hildyard, is nearly contemporary with the latter event :

"Anno ab incarnatione domini MCLXXXVIII. combusta fuit hec ecclesia in mense septembri in sequenti nocte post festum sancti mathei apostoli: et in anno MCXCVII. VI idibus martii facta fuit inquisitio reliquiarum beati johannis in hoc loco et inventa sunt hec ossa in orientali

parte sepulchri et hic recondita et pulvis cemento mixtus ibidem inventus est et reconditus."

As far as I know, this has not been printed before, and, as it is well worthy of preservation, I hope it will find a corner in your miscellany. - Jesus Coll. Cam,

In our number for March (p. 318) we gave a short biography of Captain Thomas Coe. Since then his museum has been sold by public auction at Cambridge, and formed perhaps the largest collection of Burman curiosities ever brought into this country. The idols were purchased at reasonable sums, but the larger portion fetched high prices: all the Burman MSS. and inscriptions were purchased by J. O. Halliwell, esq. of Jesus College.

C.W.L. remarks that the following passage in the Psalms of David-" So that the sun shall not burn thee by day, nor the moon by night," which is not intelligible to the inhabitants of a colder climate, where the injurious effects of the full moon are not so obvious, becomes plain when the curious facts which were noticed in our review of Martin's History of the West Indies are considered; and to them it may be added that the human frame does not escape these skyey influences, the cause of which is not easily explained. It may however be observed, that some years since a series of experiments was carefully made, from which it appeared that if two thermometers were exposed to the beams of the moon, and a slight cover interposed between one of them and the moon, it indicated a higher

temperature than that which was uncovered; and it was therefore inferred that there is a direct descent of frigorific rays through the atmosphere when the moon is shining brightly at its full.

MR. BRUCE will be much obliged by any information respecting the Life, or Works, of Sir John Hayward, D.C.L., author of the Life of Edward VI. and other works. Address, 17, King's Parade, Chelsea.

MR. J. G. NICHOLS is about to prepare for the press a new edition of Leland's Itinerary; to which he proposes to give a clearer text and arrangement, but without modernising the orthography; and he intends to illustrate it with such notes as may appear strictly pertinent to the subjects mentioned by the Author, and the period at which he wrote. Any communications in furtherance of this design will be gratefully received.

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C. J. inquires for any information as to a family named De Vestrous? An antique seal was found, years ago, at Finningley, near Doncaster, having thereon a lion rampant, (not on a shield) and this legend, S. NICOLAI DE VESTROVS.

J. T. remarks "In your March number, p. 226, it is stated by An old County Magistrate' that no Special Commission has been issued in England since 1820. This, I beg to observe, is an error,Special Commissions were issued in 1830 for the trial of Rioters in the counties of Wilts, Berks, and Hants, which were held at Salisbury, Reading, and Winchester; in 1832, for the trial of Rioters in Bristol and Nottingham; and in 1833 for the trial of Prisoners at the Old Bailey, London, who had been previously tried at Hicks's Hall, but which was rendered necessary by the celebrated mistake of the Middlesex Magistrates."

With reference to "names ending with -cock," H. remarks, Luke Badecot was Sheriff of London 1266. It is possible, after all, that Badcock may be the corruption of this surname, originating from not "a shocking bad hat," but a shocking bad coat.