r of Haslewood:

1. That he may ride on horseback into York Minster.

2. That he may specially call his house a castle.

3. That he may toll a bell in his chapel, notwithstanding any law
prohibiting the use of bells in places of worship not in union with the
Church of England.

Is there any foundation for this report; and what is the real story? Is
there still a law against the use of bells as a summons to divine services
except in churches?

A.G.

_Alteration of Title-pages._--Among the advertisements in the last
_Quarterly_ and _Edinburgh Reviews_, is one which replies to certain
criticisms on a work. One of these criticisms was a stricture upon its
title. The author states that the reviewer had a _presentation copy_, and
ought to have inquired into the title under which the book was sold to the
_public_ before he animaverted upon the connexion between the title and the
work. It seems then that, in this instance, the author furnished the
Reviews with a title-page differing from that of the body of his
impression, and thinks he has a right to demand that the reviewers should
suppose such a circumstance probable enough to make it imperative upon them
to inquire what the real title was. Query, Is such a practice common? Can
any of your readers produce another instance?

M.

_Weights for Weighing Coins._--A correspondent wishes to know at what
period weights were introduced for weighing coins.

He has met with two notices on the subject in passages of Cottonian
manuscripts, and would be glad of farther information.

In a MS. Chronicle, Cotton. Otho B. xiv.--

"1418. Novae bilances instituuntur ad ponderanda aurea Numismata."

In another Cottonian MS., Vitell. A. i., we read--

"1419. Here bigan gold balancis."

H.E.

_Shunamitis Poema._--Who was the author of a curious small 8vo. volume of
179 pages of Latin and English poems, commencing with "Shunamitis Poema
Stephani Duck Latine redditum?"

The last verse of some commendatory verses prefixed point out the author as
the son of some well-known character:

"And sure that is the most distinguish'd fame,
Which rises from your own, not father's name.
London, 21 April, 1738."

My copy has no title-page: a transcript of it would oblige.

E.D.

_Lachrymatories._--In many ancient places of sepulture we find long narrow
phials which are called lachrymatories, and are supposed to have been
receptacles for tears: can you inform me on what aut