Chapter M: W. B

_Story of Ginevra_ (Vol. v., pp. 129. 209.).--Bramshall, Hants (of which there are some views in Nash's _Mansions_), claims to be connected with a Ginevra tradition, so that Rogers seems to be justified in stating that "many" old houses in this country do so.

P. P.

_Ornamental Hermits_ (Vol. v., pp. 123. 207.).--FLORENCE must be in error as to the locality of one of her hermits. There is no place called Marcham in Lancashire, nor any resident family of Powyss. The late Lord Lilford certainly married a Lancashire heiress in 1797, and became possessed of property near Warrington. Whether he had a hermit, I cannot say but I never heard of a hermit in the Preston neighbourhood.

P. P.

_Dr. Fell_ (Vol. v., p. 296.).--Mr. Tom Sheridan, the only child of Richard Brinsley Sheridan by his wife (Miss Elizabeth Linley), is author of the lines on Dr. Fell. They were written on the celebrated Dr. Parr, under whose tuition he was. Why he gave to Dr. Parr the nomen "Dr. Fell," I do not know. I have often heard my dear mother repeat the lines:

"I do not like thee, Dr. Fell,
The reason why I cannot tell,
But this I know full well,
I do not like thee, Dr. Fell."

The metre of the third line would be more perfect by the addition of the dissyllable; but the lines I have so often heard want this.

My mother was very intimate with the Sheridan family, and many years agone she informed me that Miss Jane Linley (afterwards Mrs. Ward) told her that young Tom Sheridan composed the foregoing lines on Dr. Parr.

E. F.

_List of Prothonotaries_ (Vol. v., p. 294.).--Lists of the prothonotaries of the Court of Common Pleas, from Henry VIII. to George IV., may be collected from the _Reports of the Deputy Keeper of Public Records, Second Report, Appendix_, ii. 67-88.; _Fourth Report, Appendix_, ii. 30-52.

C. H. COOPER.

Cambridge.

_The Vellum-bound Junius_ (Vol. iii., p. 262.; Vol. v., p. 303.).--Since I wrote to you I have seen my informant, and am now enabled to state, that what your correspondent calls "the vellum-bound Junius," at Stowe, was, as I said, printed on vellum, but _was not bound in vellum_.