Mr. Leigh Hunt informs us that the Countess of Northumberland, to whom the dedication is made, was the lady to whom Percy addressed his Reliques of Ancient Poetry.  “She was a Wriothesley descended of Shakspeare’s Earl of Southampton, and appears to have been a very amiable woman.”

Permit me to take this opportunity of saying, that there is a misprint in the poem by Barry Cornwall (Vol. ii., p. 451.), by which the title of a poem from which a quotation is made, appears as the name of a dramatis persona.  “Paris” is the title of a poem by the Rev. Geo. Croly, from which the “motto” is quoted.

G.J.  DE WILDE.

Peter Wilkins (Vol. ii., p. 480.).—­In the preface to a garbled and mutilated edition of this work, which appeared Lond. 1839, sq. 12mo., it is stated that the author was Robert Pultock, of Clement’s Inn, which is in accordance with the initials to the dedication.  Those of R.S. on the title I consider as mere fiction.  Lowndes gives the 1st ed. 1750, 2 vols. 12mo. and I have a note of a reprint, Dublin, Geo. Falkner, 1751, 2 vols. 12mo., “illustrated with several cuts.”  My copy is Lond. 1816, 2 vols. 12mo., with a few indifferent engravings.

F.R.A.

"The Toast,” by Dr. King (Vol. ii., p. 480.).—­DR. RIMBAULT will find the key to the characters named in this poem printed in Davis’s Second Journey round the Library, &c., p. 106.

F.R.A.

    [W.A. informs us that there is a key to this work in Martin’s Account
    of Privately Printed Books.]

The Widow of the Wood (Vol. ii., p. 406.).—­The history of this publication can hardly be given without raking up a piece of scandal affecting an honourable family still in existence.  If DR. RIMBAULT wishes to see the book, and has any difficulty in meeting with it, I shall be happy to forward him my copy by the post on learning his address.  I inclose you mine, and will thank you to communicate it to him if he should wish for it.

The maiden name of this “widow” was Anne Northey.  Her second husband was Sir Wm. Wolseley; her fourth, Mr. Hargrave, father of the celebrated jurist.  Every copy of the work which could be found was destroyed by the latter gentleman.

H.C.

Damasked Linen (Vol. ii., p. 199.).—­It may interest R.G.P.M. to learn that portion of the damasked linen which formed part of the establishment of James II. when in Ireland, still exists in the possession of R. Ely, Esq., of Ballaghmore Castle in the Queen’s County.  I have seen with that gentleman several large napkins beautifully damasked with the then royal arms, together with the initials J.R. of large size, and elaborately flourished.  The tradition of the family is, that they were obtained from the plunder of James’s camp equipage, after the defeat of the Boyne.  Mr. Ely’s ancestor was in William’s army.

X.Y.A.

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