J. M.
Wycherley's Verses on Plowden and Lady Sunderland.
—In Phillips and Herbert's History of Shrewsbury, pages from 263 to 266, vol. ii. 4to. 1837, giving an account of the ancient family of the Plowdens, and their claim to the barony of Dudley, allusion is made to a passage in Baker's History of Northamptonshire respecting some comic verses of the poet Wycherley on Plowden, of Plowden Hall, and the Countess of Sunderland. I cannot find these verses in Wycherley's Works in the British Museum. Can any of your readers inform me where they are to be found? Baker seems to allude to them as being well known in his time.
ALBION.
Minor Queries Answered.
"Salusbury Welsh Pedigree Book."
—Having sometimes occasion to investigate the lineage of Irish families derived from Wales, I am very anxious to learn, through your valuable oracle, where may now be that genealogical collection. According to the notes I have of it, it contained "the pedigrees of all the gentlemen in North Wales, and of some adjacent counties, with their arms finely illuminated;" and took its name from the compiler, John Salusbury, Esq., of Erbistock, who lived about the middle of the seventeenth century, and is reported as having executed the labour with great accuracy. Does its actual scope justify the above description, and where is it now? About the year 1780 it was in the possession of Sir Watkin Williams Wynn, the very surname on which I am at present engaged.
JOHN DALTON.
48. Summer Hill, Dublin.
[In all probability, the present Sir W. W. Wynn could give some information upon the subject if applied to.]