Ogburne St. Andrew, near Marlborough.

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Minor Queries.

_Robert Innes, a Grub Street Poet._--Is there anything known respecting
a strange "madcap," one Robert Innes, who, according to a printed
broadside now before me, was a pauper in St. Peter's Hospital, 1787? He
was in the habit of penning doggrel ballads and hawking them about for
sale. Some of them have a degree of humour, and are, to a certain
extent, valuable at the present time for their notices of passing
events. In one of these now rare effusions, he styles himself "R. Innes,
O.P.," and in explanation gives the following lines:--

"Some put unto their name A.M.,
And others put a D. and D.,
If 'tis no harm to mimick them,
I adds unto my name O.P.

"Master of Arts, sure I am not,
No Doctor, no Divine I be
But OAKUM PICKING is my lot,
Of the same clay are we all three."

The "works" of this "rogue and vagabond," now in my possession, were
given me by the late Mr. Catnach of Seven Dials.

EDWARD F. RIMBAULT.

_The Sicilian Vespers._--In what English work can a full and correct
narrative of this event be found?

C.H. COOPER.

Cambridge, July 29. 1850.

_One Bell._--Can any of your readers favour me with a reference to some
authority for the following, which may be found in Southey's _Book of
the Church_ (vol. ii. p. 121.)?

"Somerset pretended that one bell in a steeple was sufficient
for summoning the people to prayer; and the country was thus in
danger of losing its best music."

What follows is so beautiful and appropriate, that I may perhaps be
excused for lengthening my quotation:

"--a music, hallowed by all circumstances, which, according
equally with social exultation and with solitary pensiveness,
though it falls upon many an unheeding ear, never fails to find
some hearts which it exhilarates, and some which it softens."

It is a curious fact, that in many towers there may be often found a
solitary _black-letter Bell_ (if I may so call it), evidently of
ante-Reformation date, making one of the peal.

H.T.E.

_Treasure Trove._--The prejudicial effect which the law of _Treasure
Trove_, as it now exists in this country, has been found to exercise
upon the preservation of objects of archaeological interest, especially
if such articles happen to be formed of either of the precious metals,
is just now exciting the attention of the antiquarian w