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J.

_History of York._--Who is the author of a _History of York_, in 2 vols.,
published at that city in 1788 by T. Wilson and R. Spence, High Ousegate? I
have seen it in several shops, and heard it attributed to Drake; and
obtained it the other day from an extensive library in Bristol, in the
Catalogue of which it is styled Drake's _Eboracum_. Several allusions in
the first volume to his work, however, render it impossible to be ascribed
to him. It is dedicated to the Right Honourable Sir William Mordaunt
Milner, of Nunappleton, Bart., who was mayor at the time.

R. W. ELLIOT.

Clifton.

_"Hauling over the coals."_--What is the origin and meaning of the phrase,
"Hauling one over the coals;" and where does it first appear?

FABER.

_Dr. Butler and St. Edmund's Bury._--Can any of your readers give me any
information respecting the Mr. or Dr. Butler, of St. Edmund's Bury,
referred to in the extracts from the _Post Boy_ and Gough's _Topography_,
quoted by MR. BALLARD in Vol. vii., p. 617.?

BURIENSIS.

_Washington._--Anecdotes relative to General Washington, President of the
United States, {126} intended for a forthcoming work on the "Homes of
American Statesmen," will be gratefully received for the author by

JOSEPH STANSBURY.

26. Parliament Street.

_Norman of Winster._--Can any of your correspondents afford information
bearing on the family of Norman of Winster, county of Derby?

"John Norman of Winster, county of Derby, married, in 1715 or 1716, to Jane
(_maiden name_ particularly wanted). The said J. Norman married again in
1723, to Mary" (maiden name wanted also).

I shall be particularly obliged to any one affording such information.

W.

_Sir Arthur Aston._--I shall be much obliged, should any of your very
numerous correspondents be able to inform me in which part or parish, of
the county of Berkshire, the celebrated cavalier Sir Arthur Aston resided
_upon his return_ from the foreign wars in which he had been for so many
years engaged; and _previously_ to the rupture between Charles I. and the
Houses of Parliament.

I believe one of his daughters, about the same period, married a gentleman
residing in the same county: also that George Tattersall, Esq., of
Finchampstead, a family of consideration in the same county of Berkshire,
was a near relative.

CHARTHAM.

_"Jamieson the Piper."_--I am anxious to ascertain who was the author of
the above ditty; it was very popular in Aberdeenshire