_Dr. Misaubin._--Will any of your numerous correspondents give me any
information, or refer me to any work where I can find it, respecting Dr.
Misaubin, who appears to have practised in London during the first half of
the last century? What was the peculiarity of his practice?
GRIFFIN.
_Kemble, Willet, and Forbes._--What are the two concluding lines of an
epigram published ten or twelve years ago, beginning,--
"The case of Kemble, Willet, and Forbes,
Much of the Chancellor's time absorbs;
If I were the Chancellor I should tremble
At the mention of Willet, Forbes, and Kemble"?
UNEDA.
Philadelphia.
_Piccalyly._--The ornament, somewhat between a hood, a scarf, and an
armlet, worn hanging over the right shoulder of judges and serjeants at
law, is called a _piccalyly_. What is the origin of this peculiarity of
judicial costume, what are the earliest examples of it, and what its
etymology?
NO JUDGE.
_Post-Office about 1770._--Mr. Smith, in the notes prefixed to the
_Grenville Correspondence_, says several of Junius's letters appear to have
been sent from the same post-office "as the post-mark is '_peny_ post
payd,'"--a peculiarity of spelling not likely to occur often. Have any of
your correspondents letters of that date with a like post-mark? and, if so,
can they tell us _where_ posted?
P. A. O.
"_Carefully examined and well-authenticated._"--I agree with MR. CRAMP
(Vol. vii., p. 569.) that "the undecided question of the authorship of
Junius requires that every statement should be carefully examined, and (as
far as possible) only well-authenticated facts be admitted as evidence." I
take leave, therefore, to remind him that my question (Vol. iii., p. 262.)
remains unanswered; that I am anxious that he should authenticate his
statement (p. 63.), and name some of the "many" {9} persons in whose
libraries vellum-bound copies of Junius have been found.
V. B.
_Sir Heister Ryley._--Who was the author of the _Visions of Sir Heister
Ryley_, and whence did it derive its name? It was published in 1710, and
consists of papers periodically published on serious subjects. It was one
of the many short-lived periodicals that sprung up in imitation of the
_Tatler_, and appears to have died a natural death at the end of the
so-called first volume.
H. T. RILEY.
_Effigies with folded Hands._--On the south side of Llangathen Church,
Carmarthenshire, is a huge monument (of the style well designated as
beds
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