y, some sixty-five or seventy
years since, the figure of Chaucer might be made out by rubbing a wet
finger over it.]

_Robert Herrick_ (Vol. i., p. 291.)--There is a little volume entitled
_Selections from the Hesperides and Works of the Rev. Robert Herrick_.
(_Antient_) _Vicar of Dean-Prior, Devon_. By the late Charles Short, Esq.,
F.R.S. and F.S.A., published by Murray in 1839. I believe it was recalled
or suppressed, and that copies are rare.

J.W.H.

_Epitaph of a Wine Merchant._--The following is very beautiful, and well
deserves a Note. It is copied from an inscription in All Saints Church,
Cambridge.

"In Obitum Mri. Johannis Hammond Oenopolae Epitaphium.
Spiritus ascendit generosi Nectaris astra,
Juxta Altare Calix hic jacet ecce sacrum,
Corporum [Greek: anastasei] cum fit Communia magna
Unio tunc fuerit Nectaris et Calicis."

J.W.H.

_Father Blackhal._--In the _Brief Narration of Services done to Three noble
Ladies by Gilbert Blackhal_ (Aberdeen, Spalding Club, 1844), the
autobiographer states (p. 43.) that, while at Brussels, he provided for his
necessities by saying mass "at Notre Dame _de bonne successe_, a chapel of
great devotion, so called from a statue of Our Lady, which was brought from
Aberdeen to Ostend," &c. It may be interesting to such of your readers as
are acquainted with this very amusing volume, to know that the statue is
still held in honour. A friend of mine (who had never heard of Blackhal)
told me, that being at Brussels on the eve of the Assumption (Aug. 14),
1847, he saw announcements that the _Aberdeen_ image would be carried in
procession on the approaching festival. He was obliged, however, to leave
Brussels without witnessing the exhibition.

As to Blackhal himself, _The Catholic Annual Register_ for the present year
(p. 207.) supplies two facts which were not known to his editor--that he
was at last principal of the Scots College at Paris, and that he died July
1. 1671.

J.C.R.

_The Nonjurors_ (Vol. ii., p. 354.).--May I take the liberty of suggesting
to MR. YEOWELL that his interesting paper on "The Oratories of the
Nonjurors," would have been far more valuable if he had given the
authorities for his statements.

J.C.R.

_Booksellers' Catalogues._--Allow me to suggest the propriety and utility
of stating the weight or cost of postage to second-hand and other books. It
would be a great convenience to many country book-buyers to know the entire