Lady Mary Cavendish.
—Information is requested respecting the ancestry of the Lady Mary Cavendish, who married a Lieutenant Maudesley, or Mosley, of the Guards. She is thought to have been maid of honour to Queen Anne. And a Sir Henry Cavendish, who was teller of the Exchequer in Ireland some sixty years ago, was of the same family.
CAVENDO.
Covey.
—When the witches in this country were very numerous, Satan for convenience divided them into companies of thirteen (one reason why thirteen has always been considered an unlucky number), and called each company a covine. Is that the etymology of the word covey, as applied to birds?
L. M. M. R.
Book wanted to purchase.
—Can any one help me to find a little book on "Speculative Difficulties in the Christian Religion?" I read such a book about four years ago, and have quite forgotten its title and its author. The last chapter in the book was on the "Origin of Evil." There is a little book called Speculative Difficulties, but that is not the one I mean.
L. M. M. R.