ements of the royal army:--

"The enemy on Friday last have quitted their garrisions in
Wellington Wyrwast and Cokam houses; the two last they have
burnt."

I am not certain about the second name, which seems to be Wyrwast; and
hsould be obliged by any information relative to these three houses.

C.

_Blockade of Corfe Castle in 1644._--In Martyn's _Life of Shafetesbury_
(vol. i. p. 148.) it is stated that a parliamentary force, under Sir
A.A. Cooper, blockaded Corfe Castle in 1644, after the taking of
Wareham. I can find no mention any where else of an attack on Corfe
Castle in 1644. The blockade of that castle, which Lady Bankes's defence
has made memorable, was in the previous year, and Sir A.A. Cooper had
not then joined the parliament. I should be glad if any of your readers
could either corroborate Martyn's account of a blockade of Corfe Castle
in 1644, or prove it to be, as I am inclined to think it, a
mis-statement.

I should be very thankful for any information as to Sir Anthony Asteley
Cooper's proceedings in Dorsetshire, Wiltshire, and Somersetshire,
during the Civil War and Commonwealth, being engaged upon a life of Lord
Shaftesbury.

C.

_MSS. of Locke._--A translation, by Locke, of Nicole's _Essays_ was
published in 1828 by Harvey and Darton, London; and it is stated in the
title-page of the book, that it is printed from an autograph MS. of
Locke, in the possession of Thomas Hancock, M.D. I wish to know if Dr.
Hancock, who also edited the volume, is still alive? and, if so, would
let this querist have access to the other papers of Locke's which he
speaks of in the preface?

C.

_Locke's proposed Life of Lord Shaftesbury._--I perceive that the
interesting volume of letters of Locke, Algernon Sidney, and Lord
Shaftesbury, published some years ago, by Mr. Foster, is advertised in
your columns by your own publisher; and I therefore inquire, with some
hope of eliciting information, whether the papers in Mr. Foster's
possession, which he has abstained from publishing, contain any notices
of the first Earl of Shaftesbury; and I am particularly anxious to know
whether they contain any references to the Life of Lord Shaftesbury
which Locke meditated, or throw any light upon the mode in which Locke
would have become possessed of some suppressed passages of Edmund
Ludlow's memoirs.

C.

_Theses._--Many German works introduced into Catalogues, are _theses_
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