has a floating
notion in his head of having once read in the _Literary Gazette_ a strange
story of a country boy going to town to seek employment as a carver or
sculptor; of his being accosted by Sir Christopher Wren, and offering to
carve for him a sow and pigs, &c. Can any correspondent have pity on him,
and tell him where to find the tale?

A. H.

_Vellum Cleaning._--Are there not preparations in use for cleaning the
backs of old vellum-bound books without destroying the polish? How made, or
where procurable?

J. F. M.

_Dionysia in Boeotia._--Can any of your readers refer me to a passage in
any ancient author in which this supposed town is mentioned?

Dumersan refers to Diodorus Siculus as his authority for its existence, but
my search in that author has been vain, and I am not alone in that respect.

AUGUSTUS LANGDON.

Bloomsbury.

_Poll Tax in 1641._--I find in Somers' _Tracts_, 2nd ed. vol. iv. p. 298.:

"The copy of an order agreed upon in the House of Commons upon Friday,
18th June, wherein every man is rated according to his estate, for the
king's use."

Is there on record the return made to this order; and where may it be
consulted?

TEWARS.

_Thomas Chester, Bishop of Elphin, 1580._--This prelate, who was the second
son of Sir William Chester, Kt., Lord Mayor of London in 1560, by his first
wife Elizabeth, daughter of Thomas Lovett, Esq., of Astwell in
Northamptonshire, is said by Anthony a Wood (_Athenaae Oxon._, ed. Bliss,
vol. ii. p. 826.) to have "given way to fate at Killiathar in that city, in
the month of June in 1584." The calendars of the Will Office of the
Prerogative Court of Canterbury do not contain his name; can any of your
Irish contributors inform me whether his will was proved in Ireland? I
should be glad to know, too, what will offices exist in Ireland, and from
what period they date their commencement. He is said to have married ----,
daughter of Sir James Clavering, Kt., of Axwell Park in Northumberland:
does any pedigree of the Claverings supply this lady's Christian name? His
eldest brother, William Chester, Esq., married his cousin-german Judith,
daughter and co-heiress of Anthony Cave, Esq., of Chichley Hall, Bucks, and
was ancestor to the extinct family of the baronets of that name and place.
Bishop Chester died _s. p._

TEWARS.

_Rev. Urban Vigors._--Amongst the chaplains of King Charles I., was there
one of the name of Vigors, the Rev. Urban Vigors o