d give us a vocabulary of proper names of foreign
persons and places, with the correct pronunciation attached, would be
encouraged by an extensive sale. So far as my knowledge extends, such a
work is a desideratum.

THINKS I TO MYSELF.

_Artesian Wells._--One who is about to dig a well on his land would be glad
to know:--1. Whether, in all cases, artesian wells are preferable? 2. If
yes, why they are not universally adopted, and whether they are more
expensive then the common sort? 3. If not preferable in all cases, in what
cases they are preferable?

STYLITES.

_Norman Towers in London._--Can you inform me it there is any other church
in the city of London with a Norman tower, besides Allhallows, Mark Lane?
which, by the bye, has been colour-washed: I suppose, to preserve it!

J. W. BROWN.

_Papyrus._--Where, or of whom, can a specimen of Papyrus be obtained?

R. H.

Islington.

_Mathew, a Cornish Family._--I am anxious to know the connexion of a family
of Mathew, late of Tresungar, co. Cornwall, with any stock in Wales; and I
will gladly defray any necessary expense of search, if can attain this
object. The descent of a family of the name, apparently the same from the
arms, in an old recueil of Devonshire families, is headed "nuper de
Wallia;" and a visitation of that county ascribes their bearing {223} (a
stork) to a marriage with an heir of Starkey, which I have been unable to
verify. A Visitation of Cornwall, to which I have had access, gives a
grant, or probably a confirmation of the arms by Cooke. If this celebrated
Herald's grants are on record, some clew would probably be found; but I
doubt not that many of your readers well versed in genealogical research
can readily answer my Query, and I trust to their kindness to do so.

B.

Birkenhead.

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Minor Queries with Answers.

_Bunyan's Descendants._--As a recent Query respecting John Bunyan may lead
to some notices of his descendants, perhaps I may be informed in what
edition of his works it is stated that a branch of his family settled in
Nottingham? for I find in the burgess-roll of that borough that George
Bunyan was entered freeman in 1752. William Bunyan, lieutenant in the navy,
1767; Thomas Bunyan, hosier, 1776. In event of the above story being
verified, a pedigree may possibly be extracted hereafter from the parish
registers of the town. As far as my own examination goes, the editions in
the Briti