of Churchill's
Poems, published about the year 1750.

UNEDA.

Philadelphia.

_Franklyn Household Book._--Can any reader inform me in whose keeping, the
Household Book of Sir John Franklyn _now_ is?[2] Extracts were published
from it in the _Archaeologia_, vol. xv.

J. K.

[Footnote 2: [Sir John Franklyn's _Household Book_ was in the possession of
Sir John Chardin Musgrave, of Eden Hall, co. Cumberland, who died in 1806.
Some farther extracts, consisting of about thirty items, relating to
archery (not given in the _Archaeologia_) will be found in the British
Museum, Add. MSS. 6316. f. 30. Among other items is the following: "Oct.
20, 1642. Item, for a pound of tobacco for the Lady Glover, 12s." Sir John
Franklyn, of Wilsden, co. Middlesex, was M.P. for that county in the
beginning of the reign of Charles I., and during the Civil Wars.--ED.]]

_James Thomson's Will._--Did the author of the _Seasons_ make a will? If
so, where is the original to be seen?

D.

Leamington.

_"Country Parson's Advice to his Parishioners."_--Could you inquire through
your columns who the author of a book entitled _The Country Parson's Advice
to his Parishioners_ is? It was printed for Benjamin Tooke, at the Ship, in
St. Paul's Church Yard, 1680.

I have a singular copy of this book, and know at present of no other copy.
The booksellers all seem at a loss as to who the author was; some say
Jeremy Taylor, others George Herbert; but my date does not allow the
latter,--at least it makes it very improbable, unless it was published
after his death. The book itself is like George Herbert's style, very solid
and homely; it is evidently by some masterly hand. Should you be able to
give me information, or get it for me, I should be obliged. I think of
reprinting the book.

GEO. NUGEE.

Senior Curate of St. Paul's, Wilton Place.

_Shakspeare--Blackstone._--In Moore's _Diary_, vol. iv. p. 130., he says,--

"Mr. Duncan mentioned, that Blackstone has preserved the name of the
judge to whom Shakspeare alludes in the grave-digger's argument?--

'If the water comes to the man,' &c."

Will one of your Shakspearian or legal correspondents have the kindness to
name the judge so alluded to, and give a reference to the passage in
Blackstone in which he conveys this information?

IGNORAMUS.

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Minor Queries with Answers.

_Turkey Cocks._--Why are Turkey cocks so called, seeing they wer