ponent letters. The following may
serve as a specimen of the best of the budget that we made.

1. French Revolution.
Violence, run forth!

2. Swedish Nightingale.
Sing high! sweet Linda. (_q. d._ di Chamouni.)

3. Spanish Marriages.
Rash games in Paris; or, Ah! in a miser's grasp.

4. Paradise Lost.
Reap sad toils.

5. Paradise Regained.
Dead respire again.

C. MANSFIELD INGLEBY.

Birmingham.

_Family Caul--Child's Caul._--The will of Sir John Offley, Knight, of
Madeley Manor, Staffordshire (grandson of Sir Thomas Offley, Lord Mayor of
London temp. Eliz.), proved at Doctors' Commons 20th May, 1658, contains
the following singular bequest:

"Item, I will and devise one Jewell done all in Gold enammelled,
wherein there is a Caul that covered my face and shoulders when I first
came into the world, the use thereof to my loving Daughter the Lady
{547} Elizabeth Jenny, so long as she shall live; and after her decease
the use likewise thereof to her Son, Offley Jenny, during his natural
life; and after his decease to my own right heirs male for ever; and so
from Heir to Heir, to be left so long as it shall please God of his
Goodness to continue any Heir Male of my name, desiring the same Jewell
be not concealed nor sold by any of them."

CESTRIENSIS.

_Numerous Progeny._--The _London Journal_ of Oct. 26, 1734, contains the
following paragraph:

"Letters from Holderness, in Yorkshire, mention the following
remarkable inscription on a tombstone newly erected in the churchyard
of Heydon, viz. 'Here lieth the body of William Strutton, of
Padrington, buried the 18th of May, 1734, aged 97, who had by his first
wife 28 children, and by a second wife 17; own father to 45,
grandfather to 86, great-grandfather to 97, and great-great-grandfather
to 23; in all 251.'"

T. B. H.

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Queries.

SMITH, YOUNG, AND SCRYMGEOUR MSS.

Thomas Smith, in his _Vitae Illustrium_, gives extracts from a so-called
Ephemeris of Sir Peter Young, but which Sir Peter compiled during the
latter years of his life. Thomas Hearne says, in a note to the Appendix to
Leland's _Collectanea_, that he had had the use of some of Smith's MSS.
This Ephemeris of Sir Peter Young may be worth the publishing if it can be
found: can any of your readers say whether it is among Smith's or Hearne's
MSS., or if i