ot amount to much, and I should be
glad to know if there is no fuller account of them. The companies of
Pewterers or Bakers, for example.

B.

[Beside the incidental notices to be found in Stow, Maitland, and
Seymour, our correspondent must consult the Harleian MSS.; and if he
will turn to the Index volume at p. 294., he will find references to
the following companies:--Bakers', Drapers', Painters', Stainers',
Pinners', Scriveners', Skinners', Wax-chandlers', Wharfingers',
Weavers', and other miscellaneous notes relating to the city of London
generally.]

_Rousseau and Boileau._--Are there any full and complete English
translations of Rousseau's _Confessions_ and Boileau's _Satires_?

ALLEDIUS.

[The following translations have been published:--_The Confessions of
J. J. Rousseau_, in two Parts, London, 12mo., five vols., 1790;
Boileau's _Satires_, 8vo., 1808: see also his _Works_ made English by
Mr. Ozell and others, two vols. 8vo., London, 1711-12, and three vols.
8vo., London, 1714.]

_Bishop Kennett's MS. Diary._--Where is Bishop Kennett's MS. Diary, from
which his often-cited description of Dean Swift is taken, to be found?
{471} Sir Walter Scott (Swift's _Works_, vol. xvi. p. 76.) says "it was
formerly in the possession of Lord Lansdowne, and is now in the British
Museum." I have never been able to find it.

F. B.

[The _Diary_ here referred to by Sir Walter Scott will be found at p.
428. in Lansdowne MS. 1024., which forms the third and last volume of
Bishop Kennett's "Materials for an Ecclesiastical History of England."]

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Replies.

MILTON'S WIDOW.

(Vol. vi., p. 596.; Vol. vii., pp. 12. 134. 200. 375.)

It may be worth recording, that among the MS. papers of the late James
Boswell, which were I believe sold by auction by Messrs. Sotheby and Co.,
there was the office copy and probate of the will of Milton's widow. She
was described as Elizabeth Milton of Namptwich, widow; and it was dated the
27th of August, 1727. In the will she bequeathed all her effects, after the
payment of her debts, to be divided between her nieces and nephews in
Namptwich; and named as her executors, Samuel Acton and John Allcock, Esqs.
Probate was granted to John Allcock, October 10, 1727.

Beside this, there was a bond or acquittance, dated 1680 from Richard
Mynshull, described of Wistaston in Cheshire, frame-work knit