lations, in Huntingdonshire,
where he was born, whether any of his ancestors could be
proved of Jewish extract. This project of theirs was very
readily agreed to (the University at that time being under a
cloud, on account of their former loyalty to the King), and
accordingly the ambassadors set forwards upon their journey.
But discovering by their much longer continuance at Huntingdon
than at Cambridge, that their business at the last place was
not such as was pretended, and by not making their enquiries
into Oliver's pedigree with that caution and secresy which was
necessary in such an affair, the true purpose of their errand
into England became quickly known at London, and was very much
talked of, which causing great scandal among the _Saints_, he
was forced suddenly to pack them out of the kingdom, without
granting any of their requests."

J.M.

[Footnote 4: Query: May not this be another version of the same story,
quoted by your correspondent, B.A., of Christ Church, Oxford, from
Monteith, (in Vol. i. p. 475.), of the Jews desiring to buy the
Library of _Oxford_?]

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REPLIES TO MINOR QUERIES.

_Wellington, Wyrwast, and Cokam_ (Vol. i., p. 401.).--The garrison in
Wellington was, no doubt, at the large house built by Sir John Topham
in that town, where the rebels, who had gained possession of it by
stratagem, held out for some time against the king's forces under
Sir Richard Grenville. The house, though of great strength, was much
damaged on that occasion, and shortly fell into ruin. Cokam probably
designates Colcombe Castle, a mansion of the Courtenays, near Colyton,
in Devonshire, which was occupied by a detachment of the king's troops
under Prince Maurice in 1644, but soon after fell into the hands of
the rebels. It is now in a state of ruin, but is in part occupied as a
farm-house. I am at a loss for _Wyrwast_, and should doubt the reading
of the MS.

S.S.S.

_Sir William Skipwyth_ (Vol. i., p. 23.).--Mr. Foss will find some
notices of Will. Skipwyth in pp. 83, 84, 85, of _Rotulorum Pat. &
Claus. Cancellariae Hib. Calendarium_, printed in 1828.

R.B.

Trim, May 13. 1850.

_Dr. Johnson and Dr. Warton_ (Vol. i., p. 481.).--Mr. Markland is
probably right in his conjecture that Johnson had Warton's lines
in his memory; but the original source of the allusion to _Peru_ is
Boileau:

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