Davy Jones's Locker.
—If a sailor is killed in a sea-skirmish, or falls overboard and is drowned, or any other fatality occurs which necessitates the consignment of his remains to the "great deep," his surviving messmates speak of him as one who has been sent to "Davy Jones's Locker." Who was the important individual whose name has become so powerful a myth? And what occasioned the identification of the ocean itself with the locker of this mysterious Davy Jones?
HENRY CAMPKIN.
Æsopus Epulans.
—I shall be much obliged by information respecting the authorship and history of this work, printed at Vienna, 1749, 4to.
N. B.
Written Sermons.
—Information is requested as to when the custom of preaching from written sermons was first introduced, and the circumstances which gave rise to it.
M. C. L.