I would also request any gentlemen who have access to old parish records, to see what entries they can find relating to the item in question, and anything about the "wheles" of the belles. It is desirable to find out by whom, and when, the present whole wheel was introduced. Originally a half-wheel only was used, and such may still be found in some towers. In Dorsetshire the half-wheel is common; and there being no "fillet" nor "ground truck," "peals of changes" cannot be rung as they are in other towers.
H. T. E.
Algernon Sydney (Vol. v., p. 318.).
—MR. HEPWORTH DIXON invites your readers to furnish him with references to any works which may throw light on the history of Algernon Sydney. May I suggest to him to look at the article on Macaulay's History of England which appeared in the Quarterly Review two or three years ago, wherein there are statements, from cited authorities, which seem to prove that that "illustrious patriot" was no exception to the famous rule, that "every man has his price."
C. E. D.
"History is Philosophy teaching by Examples" (Vol. v., p. 153.).
—If your correspondent T., who cannot find this passage in any of Lord Bolingbroke's writings, will turn to the second letter of that nobleman, "On the Study and Use of History," he will perceive that the sentence is there quoted from Dionysius of Halicarnassus. The writer in the Encyclopædia Metropolitana evidently takes it at second-hand from this work; and there can be no doubt that the currency of the quotation is entirely attributable to Lord Bolingbroke's use of it. This sentence is the text which he illustrates at much length in his historical essay.
JOSHUA G. FITCH.
On a Passage in Pope (Vol. i., p. 201.).
—P. C. S. S. has an inquiry respecting the interpretation of these lines in Pope's Imitation of Horace's "Epistle to Augustus:"