For many a burning breast and bleeding heart,
Hid under guise of mirth is often seen."

ROYDON.

_Rev. J. Edwards on Metals for Telescopes_.--I shall feel obliged if any
of your correspondents can inform me where I can find a paper, called
"Directions for making the best Composition for the Metals of reflecting
Telescopes, and the Method of grinding, polishing, and giving the great
Speculum the true parabolic figure," by the Rev. John Edwards, B.A.

I saw it some years ago in on old journal or transactions, but Capt.
Cuttle's maxim not having been then given to the world, and being now
unable to make a search, I avail myself of your valuable publication.

[Hebrew]

_Colonel Blood's House_.--The notorious Colonel Blood is said to have
resided at a house in Peter Street, Westminster. Tradition points out
the corner of Tufton Street. Can any of your readers give me information
as to the correctness of this statement?

E.F.R.

_John Lucas's MS. Collection of English Songs_.--Ames, the author of the
_Typographical Antiquities_, is said to have had in his possession a
folio MS. volume of English Songs or Ballads, composed or collected by
one John Lucas, about the year 1450. If this MS. is in private hands,
the possessor would confer an essential service on the antiquarian
public by informing them of its contents.

E.F.R.

_Theophania_.--I send you a copy, _verbatim et literatim_, of the
title-page of an old book in my possession, in the hope that some one of
your correspondents may be able to furnish me with information respecting
its author. I believe the work to be a very scarce one, having never
seen or heard of any other copy than my own.

"Theophania; or severall Modern Histories Represented by way of Romance;
and Politickly Discours'd upon: by an English Person of Quality.

"Stat. Theb,
Nec divinam Sydneida tenta
Sed longe sequere, & Vestigia semper adora.

"London, printed by T. Newcomb, for Thomas Heath and are to be sold at
his Shop in Russel-street, near the Piazza of Covent Garden, 1655."

HENRY KERSLEY.

_Ancient MS. Account of Britain_.--I find the following note in Cooper's
_Thesaurus Linguae Romanae et Britannicae_, Impressum Londini, 1573, under
the word _Britannia_:--

"About 30 yeares since it happend in Wilshire, at Juy church, about
twoo miles from Salisbury, as men digged to make a foundation, they
founde an hollowe stone covered with another stone, wherein they