it is strange that their names
have not been gibbeted in many of the diaries and letters which we have
of that period. And this is the more strange, as this assault took place
just after the attack on Sir John Coventry, which Monmouth instigated,
and which had created so much excitement.

The question is not in itself of much importance; but I can suggest a
mode in which it may possibly be settled. Let the royal pardons of 1671
be searched in the Rolls' Chapel, Chancery Lane. If the malefactors were
pardoned by name, the three dukes may there turn up. Or if any of your
readers is able to look through the Domestic Papers for February and
March, 1671, in the State Paper Office, he would be likely to find there
come information upon the subject.

Query. Is the doggerel poem in the _State Poems_ Marvel's? Several poems
which are ascribed to him are as bad in versification, and, I need not
say, in coarseness.

Query 2. Is there any other authority for Queen Catharine's fondness for
dancing than the following lines of the poem?

"See what mishaps dare e'en invade Whitehall,
This silly fellow's death puts off the ball,
And disappoints the Queen's foot, little Chuck;
I warrant 'twould have danced it like a duck."

CH.

_Kant's Saemmtliche Werke._--Under the head of "Books and Odd Volumes"
(Vol. ii., p. 59.), there is a Query respecting the XIth part of Kant's
_Saemmtliche Werke_, to which I beg to reply that it was published at
Leipzig, in two portions, in 1842. It consists of Kant's Letters,
Posthumous Fragments, and Biography. The work was completed by a 12th
vol., containing a history of the Kantian Philosophy, by Carl
Rosenkranz, one of the editors of this edition of Kant.

J.M.

_Becket's Mother_ (Vol. i., pp. 415. 490.; vol. ii., p. 78.).--Although
the absence of any contemporaneous relation of this lady's romantic
history may raise a reasonable doubt of its authenticity, it seems to
derive indirect confirmation from the fact, that the hospital founded by
Becket's sister shortly after his death, on the spot where he was born,
part of which is now the Mercers' chapel in Cheapside, was called "The
Hospital of St. Thomas the Martyr _of Acon_." Erasmus, also, in his
_Pilgrimages to Walsingham and Canterbury_ (see J.G. Nichol's excellent
translation and notes, pp. 47. 120.), says that the archbishop was
called "Thomas _Acrensis_."

Edward Foss.

_"Imprest" and "Debenture."_--Perhaps the following ma