—The late Mr. Clarkson's manuscripts were transferred to his son, the Rev. Christ. Clarkson; whose address might probably be obtained by Q. D. from J. B. Simpson, Esq., Richmond, Yorkshire.
M.
MSS. of Sir Thomas Phillipps (Vol. iii., p. 358.).
—I see that in the "Notices to Correspondents," in No. 79., for May 3, you inform W. P. A. that the Catalogue of Sir Thomas Phillipps's MSS. is privately printed, and that there are copies at the Bodleian, Athenæum, and Society of Antiquaries.
You may perhaps be interested to know that a catalogue of about three thousand of the Middlehill MSS. is to be found in a work entitled Catalogi Librorum MSSorum qui in Bibliothecis Galliæ, Hiberniæ, Helvetiæ, Belgiæ, Britanniæ Magnæ, Hispaniæ, Lusitaniæ asservantur: à Gustavo Haenel: Lipsiæ, 1830. A copy of this important work is in the reading-room of the British Museum.
I may add that a copy of the privately printed Catalogue of Sir T. Phillipps's MSS. is now to be found in the British Museum, but it has only recently (within the last few months) made its way into the Catalogue.
C. W. GOODWIN.
Meaning of Pilcher (Vol. iii., p. 476.).
—Is not our excellent correspondent MR. SINGER mistaken in supposing that the ears are the ears of the scabbard or pitcher? If you draw one thing out of another by the ears, it must be by the ears of the first, not of the second; yet he also says that it is used for hilts.
C. B.