Replies to Minor Queries.
Family of Bullen (Vol. v., p. 127.).—There is a physician of that name, who is, I believe, one of the professors in the Queen's College, Cork, and who may probably be able to afford your correspondent E. A. G. the information he wishes for. I have been informed that Dr. Bullen's father asserted that his family was descended from the Boleyn family.
J. E.
Wallington's Journal (Vol. v., p.489.).—This volume is in my possession. It contains much curious and interesting matter.
J. Godwin.
28. Upper Gower Street.
The Amber Witch (Vol. v., p. 510.).—In answer to a Query of A. N., this book is a pure fiction. Some German biblical critics pretending to decide that whole chapters, or whole books, of the Bible are spurious, from internal evidence, Meinhold wrote the Amber Witch to show how little able they were to judge of internal evidence in a much simpler case. Several of them fell into his trap, and then the author avowed the work to be his own.
T.
Twyford (Vol. v., p. 467.).—There is yet, I am informed, a double ford at Alnmouth, a little above the town. The ancient church, called Woden's Church, stood at the mouth of the Alne. Here was found the cross with the imperfect inscription in Anglo-Saxon runes, now preserved at Alnwick Castle. I am not aware that any local tradition now connects the name of Twyford with Alnmouth.