"My DESPERATE quarter! the 3d quarter from Michaelmas unto New Year's Day.

5 yards quarter of scarlett coloured satten for a doublett, and to line my cassocke, at 16s. per yard,4£.4s.
5 yards halfe of fine scarlett, at 55s. per yard, to make hose cassocke and cloake [sic]14£.
7 yards dim of blacke rich velvett, att 24s. per yard,9£.
22 ounces of blacke galloune lace2£.15s.
Taffaty to line the doublett17s.
5 [sic] grosse of buttons, at 8s. the grosse1£.4s.
pinkinge and racing the doublett, and lininge of ye copell8s.
ffor embrioderinge doublett, copell, and scarfe,2£.10s.
5 dozen of small buttons1s.8d.
Stickinge and sowing silke14s.
ffor cuttinge ye scallops2s.
holland to line the hose5s.6d.
Dutch bays for the hose4s.6d.
Pocketts to ye hose10d.
2 dozen of checker riband pointes12s.
drawinge ye peeces in ye suite and cloake5s.
canvas and stiffninge to ye doublett3s.6d.
ffor makinge ye doublett and hose18s.
making ye copell1£.8s.
making ye cloake9s.
Sum of this suite40£.2s."

I must not occupy more of your space this week by extending these extracts. If likely to supply useful "notes" to your readers, they shall have, in some future number, the remainder of the bridegroom's wardrobe. In whatever niggardly array the bride came to her lord's arms, he, at least, was pranked and decked in all the apparel of a young gallant, an exquisite of the first water, for this was only one of several rich suits which he provided for his marriage outfit; and then follows a list of costly gloves and presents, and all the lavish outlay of this his "desperate quarter."

In some future number, too, if acceptable to your readers, you shall be furnished with a list of other and better objects of expenditure from this household book; for Sir Edward, albeit, as Clarendon depicts him, the victim of his own vanity, was worthy of better fame than is yet been his lot to acquire.

He was a most accomplished scholar and a learned antiquary. He had his foibles, it is true, but they were redeemed by qualities of high and enduring excellence. The eloquence of his parliamentary speeches has elicited the admiration of Southey; to praise them therefore now were superfluous. The noble library which he formed at Surrenden, and the invaluable collection of charters which he amassed there, during his unhappily brief career, testify to his ardour in literary pursuits. The library and a large part of the MSS. are unhappily dispersed. Of the former, all that remains to tell of what it once was, are a few scattered notices among the family records, and the titles of books, with their cost, as they are entered in the weekly accounts of our "household book." Of the latter there yet remain a few thousand charters and rolls, some of them of great interest, with exquisite seals attached. I shall be able occasionally to send you a few "notes" on these heads, from the "household book," and, in contemplating the remains of this unrivalled collection of its day, I can well bespeak the sympathy of every true-hearted "Chartist" and Bibliographer, in the lament which has often been mine—"Quanta fuisti cum tantæ sint reliquiæ!"

LAMBERT B. LARKING.

Ryarsh Vicarage, Dec. 12. 1849.

BERKELEY'S THEORY OF VISION VINDICATED.

In reply to the query of "B.G." (p. 107. of your 7th No.), I beg to say that Bishop Berkeley's Theory of Vision Vindicated does not occur either in the 4to. or 8vo. editions of his collected works; but there is a copy of it in the library of Trinity College, Dublin, from which I transcribe the full title as follows:—