Autobiographical Sketch (Vol. vii., p. 477.).—The fragments found by Cheverells are parts of The Library of Useless Knowledge, by Athanasius Gasker, Esq., F.R.S., &c.: London, W. Pickering, 1837.
H. J.
Archbishop Chichely (Vol. viii., p. 198).—The Statute Book of All Souls College; Robert Hoveden's Life of Chichely; and the respective Lives by Arthur Duck and O. L. Spencer, have all been examined for the date of Henry Chichely's birth, but without success.
The most probable conjecture is, that he was born in 1362; since in 1442 (see his "Letter to Pope Eugenius," printed in the Appendix to Spencer's Life) he describes himself as having either completed or entered upon his eightieth year.
Edward F. Rimbault.
"Discovery of the Inquisition" (Vol. viii., p. 137.).—It is a mistake to suppose that all John Day's publications are rare. Montanus's Discovery and playne Declaration of sundry subtill Practices of the Holy Inquisition of Spayne, newly translated, 4to., 1568, is not uncommon. Herbert and Heber possessed copies; and a copy sold at Saunders's in 1818 for five shillings. My own copy (a remarkably fine one) cost sixteen shillings at Evans's in 1840. The edition of 1569, containing some additions, is of greater rarity.
Edward F. Rimbault.
Divining Rod (Vol. viii., p. 293.).—In the first edition of his Mathematical Recreations, Hutton laughed at the divining rod. In the interval between that and the second edition, a lady made him change his note, by using one before him at Woolwich. Hutton had the courage to publish the account of the experiment in the second edition (vol. iv. pp. 216-231.), after the account he had previously given. By a letter from Hutton to Bruce, printed in the memoir of the former which the latter wrote, it appears that the lady was Lady Milbanke.
M.
"Pinece with a stink" (Vol. viii, p. 270.).—Archbishop Bramhall's editor should have spelled the first word pinnace, and then your correspondent Mr. Blakiston could easily have understood the