_Dutch Church in Norwich_ (Vol. iii., p. 209.).--Some interesting details connected with the establishment of the Dutch Church in Norwich, as well as the first settlement of the Walloons in that city, will be found in Blomefield's _History of Norfolk_, vol. iii. p. 282. et seq., edit. 1806.
_The Dutch Church, Norwich._--Some account of this church may be seen in Burn's _History of the Foreign Refugees_, 1846. It is to be regretted, however, that the registers and acts of vestry are missing. The _seal_ of the church has lately been discovered.
_Lost Manuscripts_ (Vol. iii., pp. 161. 261.)--In pursuance of MR. MACKENZIE'S suggestions respecting the search for lost manuscripts, permit me to ask, if all hope must be considered as given up of decyphering any more of those discovered at Herculaneum, or of resuming the excavations there, that have been so long discontinued? Perhaps the improved chemical processes of recent days might be found more successful in facilitating the unrolling of the MSS., than the means resorted to so long ago by Sir H. Davy. Can any of your correspondents state whether anything has been done lately with the Herculaneum MSS.?
"As a very small part of Herculaneum has hitherto been explored, it is highly probable that if a general excavation were made, ten times the number of MSS. above mentioned (1800) might be discovered, and among them, perhaps, or very probably, some of the first works of antiquity, the loss of which has been so long lamented."--_Classical Tour_, vol. i. 4to., p.585.
_The Circulation of the Blood_ (Vol. iii., p.252.).--In a paraphrase on Ecclesiastes xii. 1-6., entitled, _King Solomon's Portraiture of Old Age_, by John Smith, M.D., London, 1676, 8vo., 1752, 12mo., the author attributes the discovery of the circulation of the blood to King Solomon. Mede also finds the same anticipation of science in "the pitcher broken at the fountain." Who was the first to suggest the transfusion of blood?
_Alliteration_ (Vol. iii., p. 165.)--Your correspondent H. A. B., in quoting the seventh stanza from Phineas Fletcher's _Purple Island_, observes, that the second line,
"A life that lives by love, and loves by light,"
is "noticeable" for its _alliteration_. But the best specimen that I have met with in English--after having read much verse, and published a volume, which my partial friends call poetry--will be found in Quarles' _Divine Emblems_, book ii. emblem ii. Beyond all question, Quarles was a poet that needed not "apt alliteration's artful aid" to add to the vigour of his verse, or lend liquidity to his lines. Quarles is often queer, quaint, and querulous, but never prolix, prosey, or puling.