Then all the wayes of my younge dayes,
I noted in a booke!"
Old English Ballad.
CHARLES CLARK.
Great Totham Hall, Essex.
Gunpowder Mills.
—When and where were the first gunpowder mills erected in this country? This Query was made in the Gentleman's Magazine for October, 1791, and does not appear to have been answered. I think I have waited long enough for a reply, and almost fear the Query must have been forgotten.
W.
Macfarlane of that Ilk.
—Who is the present heir-male of this family? The latest account of it that I have been able to discover is contained in Douglas's Baronage of Scotland (1798).