onounced Poughley), or rather the first part
of it, which occurs occasionally as the name of a place in the
county of Berks, and perhaps elsewhere?

W.

_Duncan Campbell._--Was the Duncan Campbell, of whom memoirs were
written by Defoe, a real or an imaginary person? If the former,
where can one find any authentic account of him?

L.B.

_Boston de Bury de Bib. Monasteriorum._--Can any of your
correspondents give me a reference to the original MS. of _Boston de
Bury de Bibliothecis Monasteriorum_?

P.

_Cazena on the Inquisition_.--Can any one tell me what is the public
opinion of Cazena's work on the Inquisition? I see Limborch and many
others quoted concerning that tribunal, but never Cazena. Is the
book scarce?--or is it not esteemed? I never saw but one copy.

P.

_The Reconciliation_, 1554.--In 1554, Cardinal Pole directed a
register to be kept in every parish of all the parishioners who, on
a certain day, were to be reconciled to the Church of Rome and
absolved. (Burnet's _Ref_. vol. iii. p. 245.)

The Bishop of London's Declaration thereon (Feb. 19. 1554) runs
thus:--

"And they not so reconciled, every one of them
shall have process made agaynst him accordyng to
the canons, as the case shall requyre; for which purpose
the pastours and curates of every paryshe shall be
commanded by their archedeacon to certyfye me in
writinge of every man and woman's name that is not
so reconciled."

Have any of your readers at any time seen and made a _note_ of such
a register?

The most probable place of deposit would be the Bishop's Registry,
but I have never yet been fortunate enough to meet with one of these
curious returns.

J.S.B.

* * * * *

MISCELLANIES.

_Darkness at the Crucifixion_.--The following passage, in a volume
of Lectures by the Rev. H. Blunt, has fallen under my notice:--

"It was this Dionysius (the Areopagite) of whom
the earliest Christian historians relate that, being at
Heliopolis, in Egypt, at the time of our Lord's crucifixion,
when he beheld the mid-day darkness which
attended that awful event, he exclaimed, 'Either the
God of Nature suffers, or the frame of the world will
be dissolved.'"

Having very limited opportunity of studying the ancient historians,
I should be greatly obliged if you would inform me from what work
this account is derived; or refer me to any authors, _not_