. 293., is a quotation from the _Wanderings of Memory_, as a
motto to an account of the ancient castle of the Peverils at Castleton, in
Derbyshire: can any of your readers tell me who was the author of the poem
in question?

W. R.

Camden Town.

_"Wandering Willie's Tale."_--Has the scene that presented itself to the
view of Piper Steenie Steenson, when he was ushered by the phantom of his
old friend Dougal M^cCallum into the presence of the ghastly revellers
carousing in the auld oak parlour of the visionary Redgauntlet Castle, ever
been painted? (See _Redgauntlet_, Letter xi.) If it has, is there any
engraving of the picture extant or on sale?

C. FORBES.

Temple.

_Chapel Sunday._--I had the pleasure of spending a Sunday in the course of
the last summer in the neighbourhood of Keswick, among the delightful lake
scenery of England. I there learned that in the village of Thornthwaite it
was Chapel Sunday, and on inquiry I was told that there were a few other
villages in the neighbourhood where there was also a Chapel Sunday. Upon
this day it is the custom of young people to come from neighbouring places
to attend worship at the village church or chapel, and the afternoon
partakes of a merry-making character at the village inn. There appeared, as
far as I could see, no excesses attending the anniversary, all being
respectable in their conduct. Can any of your Cambrian readers inform me
the origin of this anniversary?

PRESTONIENSIS.

_Proud Salopians._--I have never heard a satisfactory account of the origin
of this title, given to persons belonging to my native county.

In the neighbourhood the following story is frequently related, but with
what authority I cannot tell, viz. "That upon the king (Query which?)
offering to make Shrewsbury a city, the inhabitants replied that they
preferred its remaining the largest borough in England, rather than it
should be the smallest city; their pride not allowing them to be small
among the great."

If this history of the term be true, it would appear that the name should
only be applied to _burgesses of Shrewsbury_.

SALOPIAN.

_George Miller, D.D._--In the year 1796, George Miller, subsequently the
author of _Modern History Philosophically Illustrated_, and many other
well-known works (of which a list appears in a recent Memoir), was
appointed Donnelan Lecturer in Trinity College, Dublin; and delivered a
course of sermons or lectures on "An Inquiry into the Causes