“They are a small part of a correspondence which was left in the Editor’s hands after the greater portion had been sent several years before to the Marquis of Hastings, whose absence at this time prevents the Editor’s making such additions to his stock as might render it more interesting to the public.”

Do these papers still exist in the possession of {401} the Hastings family, and is there any chance of a further publication?  The volume published by Mr. Berwick contains some very interesting incidental illustrations of the politics, literature, and society of the seventeenth century, and much might be expected from the remaining papers.  I may add, that this volume has not been so much used by historians as it should be; but, as was to be expected, it has not escaped Mr. Macaulay.  It is not not well edited.

C.

Wellington, Wyrwast, Cokam.—­In a MS. letter which I have relating to the siege of Taunton in the Civil war, is the following sentence, describing the movements of the royal army:—­

    “The enemy on Friday last have quitted their garrisions in
    Wellington Wyrwast and Cokam houses; the two last they have
    burnt.”

I am not certain about the second name, which seems to be Wyrwast; and hsould be obliged by any information relative to these three houses.

C.

Blockade of Corfe Castle in 1644.—­In Martyn’s Life of Shafetesbury (vol. i. p. 148.) it is stated that a parliamentary force, under Sir A.A.  Cooper, blockaded Corfe Castle in 1644, after the taking of Wareham.  I can find no mention any where else of an attack on Corfe Castle in 1644.  The blockade of that castle, which Lady Bankes’s defence has made memorable, was in the previous year, and Sir A.A.  Cooper had not then joined the parliament.  I should be glad if any of your readers could either corroborate Martyn’s account of a blockade of Corfe Castle in 1644, or prove it to be, as I am inclined to think it, a mis-statement.

I should be very thankful for any information as to Sir Anthony Asteley Cooper’s proceedings in Dorsetshire, Wiltshire, and Somersetshire, during the Civil War and Commonwealth, being engaged upon a life of Lord Shaftesbury.

C.

MSS. of Locke.—­A translation, by Locke, of Nicole’s Essays was published in 1828 by Harvey and Darton, London; and it is stated in the title-page of the book, that it is printed from an autograph MS. of Locke, in the possession of Thomas Hancock, M.D.  I wish to know if Dr. Hancock, who also edited the volume, is still alive? and, if so, would let this querist have access to the other papers of Locke’s which he speaks of in the preface?

C.