William Wentworth,
brother to the unfortunate Earl of Strafford. The estate was purchased
from one of the Skinner family by Sir Richard Sutton, Bart.; it is now
in the possession of Lord Yarborough. In taking down a wall in the
ruins of the abbey, a human skeleton was found, with a table, a book,
and a candle-stick. It is supposed to have been the remains of the
fourteenth abbot, who, it is stated, was for some crime sentenced to be
immured--a mode of capital punishment not uncommon in monasteries. Four
views of the abbey are given in Allen's _History of Lincolnshire_, vol
ii., and some farther notices of its ancient state will be found in
Dugdale's _Monasticon_, vol. vi. pl. i. p. 324.; Tanner's _Notitia_,
Lincolnshire, lxxvii.; and _Beauties of England and Wales_, vol. ix. p.
684.]

_Bishop Wilson's "Sacra Privata."_--In the new edition of this work, p.
381., there is given a table of "The Collects, with their Tendencies."
Under the head of Fasting, references are made to the First Sunday in Lent,
_and the Tenth and Twenty-third after Trinity_.--There must be some mistake
in this, as the last two collects refer to prayer. This for your
correspondent MR. DENTON, to whom I understand the Church is indebted for
the redintegration of the good bishop's journal.

A. A. D.

[We have submitted the above to the REV. WILLIAM DENTON, who expresses
his obligations to A. A. D. for pointing out the error, which seems to
have escaped the notice of all the previous editors of the _Sacra
Privata_. The second edition is now at press, and, if not too late, the
correction will be made. MR. DENTON doubts whether the list after all
is the bishop's; but thinks it was only copied by him from some work.
Can any one point out the source? It is singular that another mistake
of the bishop's should have escaped the notice of all previous editors,
namely, the tendency of the collect for Whit-Sunday being described as
_Humiliation_ instead of _Illumination_.]

_Derivation of "Chemistry."_--Are there any historical reasons for deriving
the word _chemistry_ from _Chemi_, the name of Egypt, as is done by Bunsen
and others?

T. H. T.

[Dr. Thomson, the writer of the article "Chemistry" in the
_Encyclopaedia Britannica_, thus notices this derivation: "The generally
received opinion among alchymistical writers was, that chemistry
originated in E