Notes and Queries, Number 191, June 25, 1853 / A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc.

by Various

With all my credulity, I cannot help fancying that this bit of specious humbug is a leetle too far-fetched.

T. Hughes.

Chester.

George Miller, D.D. (Vol. vii., p. 527.).—His Donnellan Lectures were never published.

Ἁλιέυς.

Dublin.

"A Letter to a Convocation Man" (Vol. vii., p. 502.).—Your correspondent W. Fraser may be informed that the "great preacher" for whom he inquires was Archbishop Tillotson.

Ἁλιευς.

[Perhaps our correspondent can reply to another Query from Mr. W. Fraser, viz. "Who is the 'certain author' quoted in A Letter to a Convocation Man, pp. 24, 25.?"—Ed.]

Sheriffs of Huntingdonshire and Cambridgeshire (Vol. vii., p. 572.).—This is a very singular Query, inasmuch as Fuller's list of the sheriffs of these counties begins 1st Henry II., and not, as is assumed by your correspondent D., "from the time of Henry VIII."