nce?

3. Whether any of the considerable families of our nobility or gentry have
been raised by the sea?

4. Some instances of the greatest ransoms heretofore set upon prisoners of
greatest quality.

5. The descent and posterity of Sir Francis Drake; and what estate is now
in the possession of any of his family derived from him.

6. Who Sir Anthony Ashby was?

7. What are and have been generally the professions, trades, or
qualifications, civil or military, that have and do generally raise
families in England to wealth and honour in Church and State?

J. YEOWELL.

50. Burton Street.

_Foreign Medical Education._--Can any contributor direct me to any sources
of information on the regulations concerning medical instruction and
medical degrees in the principal universities on the Continent?

MEDICUS.

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Minor Queries with Answers.

_Chandler, Bishop of Durham._--Lord Dover, in the second volume of his
edition of Walpole's _Letters to Sir Horace Mann_, p. 373., in a note, thus
speaks of this prelate:

"A learned prelate and author of various polemical works, he had been
raised to the see of Durham in 1730, as it was then said, by symoniacal
means."

Can any of your readers inform me where I can obtain evidence of the
symoniacal means by which _it is said_ this bishop obtained the bishopric
of Durham? One would scarcely think so cautious a man as Lord Dover would
refer to the imputation, without some evidence on which his lordship could
rely.

Mr. Surtees, in his _History of the Bishops of Durham_, makes no allusion
to the symoniacal means by which Chandler obtained his promotion to the see
of Durham. He gives a list of the bishop's printed works, amongst which is
a "charge to the grand jury of Durham concerning engrossing of corn, &c.,
1740." Can you, or any of your readers, inform me where this pamphlet is to
be met with? For I am curious to know how a bishop could make a _charge_ to
a grand jury. There must surely be some mistake in the title of the
pamphlet.

FRA. MEWBURN.

Darlington.

[The charge of simony is loosely noticed by Shaw in his _History of
Staffordshire_, vol. i. p. 278. He says, "Edward Chandler was
translated from Lichfield and Coventry to Durham in 1730; and it was
then _publicly said_ that he gave 9000l. for that opulent see." To this
Chalmers, in his _Biog. Dict._, adds, "which is scarcely credible." The