J. MT.

Edinburgh.

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MINOR QUERIES.

History of Newspapers.—­

“The materials for a satisfactory history of newspapers, lie scattered in facts known one to this person, and one to that.  If each London or provincial journalist, each reader, and each critic, who has an anecdote and a date, would give it publicity, some future volume might be prepared from the combined supply, much more complete than any to be fairly expected from a comparatively unaided writer who ventures upon an almost untrodden ground.”

The foregoing extract from the interesting volumes recently published by Mr. Knight Hunt, under the unpretending title of The Fourth Estate:  Contributions towards a History of Newspapers, and of the Liberty of the Press, has been very kindly recommended to our attention by The Examiner.  We gladly avail ourselves of the suggestion, and shall be pleased to record in our columns any facts of the nature referred to by Mr. Hunt.

Steele’s Burial-place.—­Sir Richard Steele died in the house now the “Ivy Bush” Inn, at Carmarthen, on the 1st of September, 1729.

Where was he buried?

Is there a monument or inscription to his memory in any church in or near Carmarthen?

LLEWELLYN.

Socinian Boast.—­In an allocution recently held by Dr. Pusey, to the London Church Union, in St. Martin’s Hall, reported in The Times of Oct. 17, the following passage occurs: 

“The Socinian boast might be a warning to us against such declarations.  The Socinian pictured Calvin as carrying on the protest against Rome more vigorously than Luther, himself than Calvin: 

      “Tota jacet Babylon; destruxit tecta Lutherus,
       Calvinus muros, sed fundamenta Socinus.”

Query, By what Socinian writer are these two hexameter verses used?

L.

Descent of Edward IV.—­Professor Millar, in his Historical View of the English Government (ii. 174.), in discussing the claim of Edward IV. to the English throne, speaks of “a popular though probably a groundless tradition, that by his mother he was descended from Henry III. by an elder brother of Edward I., who, on account of his personal deformity, had been excluded from the succession to the crown.”  Where may I find this tradition? or where meet with any information on the subject?

S.A.Y. {376}

Viscount Castlecomer.—­Sir Christopher Wanderforde, who succeeded poor Strafford as Lord Deputy of Ireland, in April, 1640, was created, between that date and his death, which occurred in December of the same year, Baron Mowbray and Musters, and Viscount Castlecomer.  I should be glad to know the date of the patent of his creation, whether Sir Christopher himself ever took up the title, and what became of the title afterwards?