occupied Carr House, near the former place, as a hunting-box in the middle
of the last century. As an instance of his lordship's popularity, I may
here add, that out of compliment to him, and for his greater convenience in
hunting, at a period when there was a considerable extent of uninclosed and
undrained country around Doncaster, the corporation directed several banks
and passages to be made on their estate at Rossington; and in 1752, that
body likewise presented the Marquis with the freedom of the borough.

C. J.

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_Irish Letters_ (Vol. ix., p. 246).--The following inscription on the
monument of Lugnathan, nephew of St. Patrick, at Inchaguile, in Lough
Corrib, co. Galway, is supposed to be the most ancient in Ireland:

"LIE LUGNAEDON MACC LMENUEH."
"The stone of Lugnaodon, son of Limenueh."

The oldest Irish manuscript is the Book of Armagh, which contains a copy of
the Gospels, and some very old lives of St. Patrick. (See O'Donovan's
_Irish Grammar_, Dublin, 1845, p. lii.)

THOMPSON COOPER.

Cambridge.

_Rev. John Cawley_ (Vol. ix., p. 247.).--In reply to the inquiry of C. T.
R., What is the authority for stating that the Rev. John Cawley, rector of
Didcot, was a son of Cawley the regicide? I send you the following extract
from Wood's _Athenae_ (Bliss's edition), vol. iv. col. 580.:

"John Cawley, son of Will. Cawley of the city of Chichester, gent.,
was, by the endeavours of his father, made Fellow of All Souls' College
(from that of Magdalen) by the visitors appointed by Parliament, anno
1649; took the degrees in arts, that of Master being completed in 1654;
and whether he became a preacher soon after, without any orders
conferred on him by a bishop, I cannot tell. Sure I am, that after his
Majesty's restoration, he became a great loyalist, disowned the former
actions of his father, who had been one of the judges of King Charles
I.; when he was tryed for his life by a pretended court of justice,
rayled at him (being then living in a skulking condition beyond sea);
and took all opportunities to free himself from having any hand or
anything to do in the times of usurpation. About which time, having
married one of the daughters of Mr. Pollard of Newnham Courtney, he
became rector of Dedcot, or Dudcot, in Berkshire; rector of Henley in
Oxfordshire; and in the beginning of March, 1666, Archdeacon of
Lincoln."

[Greek: Halieus.]

Dubli