ke of the
bishop, 24 Ed. I. In the 4 Ed. II. Nicholas Durdent was lord of
it."

Shaw refers to Erdeswick, and to the _Annals of Burton Abbey_, p. 364.

In Dr. Harwood's edition of Erdeswick, 8vo., 1844, the same statements
are repeated, but no authority is adduced. Could any of your
correspondents obligingly furnish me with the original {310} sources of
information to which Erdeswick had access, and also with any
biographical notices of Bishop Durdent besides those which are recorded
in Godwin and Shaw? The bishop had the privilege of coining money. (See
Shaw's _Staffordshire_, pp. 233. 265.) Are any of his coins known to
numismatists?

F.R.R.

_Pope and Bishop Burgess._--To what passage in Pope's writings does the
conclusion of the following extract refer?[1]

"Digammaticae doctrinae idem accidit. In his _Popius_ eam in
ludibrium vertit, &c. Sed eximius Poeta neque in veteribus suae
ipsius linguae, nedum Graecae monumentis versatus, tantum scilicet
de antiqua illa litera vidit, quantum _de Shakespearii_
SAGITTARIO."

W.W.

[Footnote 1: 3d ed. of Dawes's _Mis. Critic_, p. xviii, note x.]

_Daniel's Irish New Testament._--F.G.X. will be much obliged for
information on the following points:--

1. Which is the most correct edition, as to printing and orthography, of
Daniel's Irish New Testament?

2. Does the edition now on sale by the Bible Society bear the character
for incorrectness as to these points, which, judged by itself, it
appears to deserve, or is it really, though "bad, the best?"

3. F.G.X. is far advanced with an Irish Testament Concordance. Can any
one possessed of the requisite information give him hope of the
acceptableness of such a publication? He should expect it to be chiefly
useful to clerical Irish students in acquiring a knowledge of words and
construction; but the lists of Irish Bibles disposed of of late years
would lead to the supposition of its being desirable also as pointing
out the place of passages to the native reader.

4. Does the Cambridge University Library contain a copy of the first
edition of Daniel's translation?

_Ale Draper--Eugene Aram._--In Hargrove's well-known history of Eugene
Aram, the hero of Bulwer's still better known novel, one of the guilty
associates of the Knaresborough murderer is designated as an "Ale
Draper." As this epithet never presented itself in my reading, and as I
am not aware that _draper_ properly admits of a