like others whose hair is of a different colour; and I may add,
that I myself know persons who, on that account alone, never admit into
their service any whose hair is thus objectionable. In Wales, _pen coch_
(red head) is a term of reproach universally applied to all who come under
the category; and if such a wight should by any chance involve himself in a
scrape, it is the signal at once for a regular tirade against all who have
the misfortune to possess hair of the same fiery colour.

I cannot bring myself to believe that there is any really valid foundation
for this prejudice; and certainly, if not, it were indeed a pity that the
superstitious feeling thus engendered is not at once and for ever banished
from the memory.

T. HUGHES.

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EXTRACTS FROM NEWSPAPERS, 1714.

_Daily Courant_, Jan. 9, 1714:

"Rome, Dec. 16.--The famous painter, Carlo Maratta, died some days ago,
in the ninetieth year of his age."

_The Post Boy_, Jan. 12-14, 1714.--_Old MSS. relating to Winchester._--In
the _Post Boy_, Jan. {617} 12-14, 1714, appears the following curious
advertisement:

"_Winchester Antiquities_, written by Mr. Trussell, Dr. Bettes, and Mr.
Butler of St. Edmund's Bury, in one of which manuscripts is the
_Original of Cities_; which manuscripts were never published. If the
person who hath either of them, and will communicate, or permit the
same to be copied or perused, he is earnestly desired to give notice
thereof to Mr. Mathew Imber, one of the aldermen of the city of
Winchester, in the county of Southampton, who is compleating the idea
or description of the ancient and present state of that ancient city,
to be speedily printed; together with a faithful collection of all the
memorable and useful things relating to the same city."

Gough, in his _Topography_, vol. i. p. 387., thus notices these MSS.:

"Wood says (_Ath. Ox._, vol. i. p. 448.) that Trussell the historian,
who was alderman of Winchester, continued to Bishop Curll's time, 1632,
an old MS. history of the see and bishops in the Cathedral library. He
also wrote _A Description of the City of Winchester; with an Historical
Relation of divers memorable Occurrences touching the same_, and
prefixed to it _A Preamble of the Original of Cities in general_. In a
catalogue of the famous Robert Smith's books, sold by auction, 1682,
No. 24. among