t it is Archbishop Sancroft's is proved from an original letter
addressed to him by Dillingham in 1677, and preserved in the Bodleian.

P. B.

_Sir Henry Slingsby._--This gallant cavalier, who was murdered (as Lloyd
says in his _Memoirs_) by Oliver Cromwell in 1658, wrote an account of the
scenes in which he bore a part, from 1638 to 1648, which he called
"Commentaries, containing many remarkable occurrences during the Civil
Wars." Can any of your correspondents tell me where the original manuscript
is to be found, and whether it was ever printed? I have seen an indifferent
transcript, beginning, "The chappel at Red House was built by my father,
Sir Henry Slingsby." If it has never been published, it would be an
acceptable contribution to the historical memoirs of the times, and worth
the attention of the Camden Society.

P. B.

_Origin of a Surname._--Martha Denial, widow, aged seventy-five, was buried
in Ecclesfield churchyard, 3rd February, 1851. Her husband, Joseph Denial,
told the parish clerk that his grandfather was found when an infant
deserted in a church porch; and that he was surnamed Denial, as one whom
_all deny_; and was christened Daniel, which is composed of the same
letters. This is the tradition of the origin of a surname now common in
this parish.

A. G.

Ecclesfield.

_Madden's Reflections._--Madden's _Reflections and Resolutions for the
Gentlemen of Ireland_. In the preface to the reprint of this work we meet
with the following paragraph:

"The very curious and interesting work which is {324} now reprinted,
and intended for a wide and gratuitous circulation, is also of uncommon
rarity: there is not a copy of it in the Library of Trinity College, or
in any of the other public libraries of this city [Dublin], which have
been searched on purpose. The profoundly-learned Vice-Provost, Doctor
Barrett, never met with one; and many gentlemen well skilled in the
literature of Ireland, who have been applied to for information on the
subject, are even unacquainted with the name of the book."

The full title of the work to which I refer, and which is an 8vo. volume of
200 or 300 pages, is _Reflections and Resolutions proper for the Gentlemen
of Ireland, as to their Conduct for the Service of their Country_. It was
printed in Dublin in 1738; it was reprinted there in 1816 at the sole
expense of the well-known philanthropist, Thomas Pleasants, and the author
was Samuel M