1. Which was the Richard Earl of Clare whose daughter married William de Braose, who was starved to death at Windsor in 1240?
2. Who was Isabel de Clare, who married William de Braose, grandson of the above?
3. Who was Alice, daughter of Richard Earl of Clare, who married William third Baron Percy?
4. Who was Mabel, daughter of an Earl of Clare, who married Nigel de Mowbray, a baron at the coronation of Richard I.?
5. Who was ---- de Clare, treasurer of the church of York, living between 1150 and 1200?
Ptolemy's Scotland, A.D. 146. Richard's Ditto, A.D. 446. Roman Ditto, A.D. 80 to 446. Pictish Ditto, A.D. 446 to 843. Picts and Scots Ditto, A.D. 843 to 1071. Sheriffdoms, Earldoms, and Lordships of the 15th Century. Highlands in Clans, 1715-45. Track of Prince Charles Stuart.
I should be glad to hear where this progressive series, or any of them, might be met with. I understand it was considered a very complete Atlas of Scotland in the olden times; but on applying to my Edinburgh bookseller, I was informed they were out of print. I think they bear date 1834, and I should think the plates are still in existence. They were said to be very accurate, and the price was under a pound. They were published by John Lothian, formerly Geographer and Map Publisher, Edinburgh.
_Sally Lunn._--Partial to my sweet tea-cake, I often think when eating it of Sally Lunn, the pretty pastrycook of Bath, to whose inventive genius we are said to be indebted for this farinaceous delicacy. Is anything known of Sally Lunn? is she a personage or a myth?
"_Bough-House._"--At the late assizes for the county of Suffolk, the witnesses in two separate cases spoke of a "bough-house," and the explanation given was, that certain houses where beer, &c. was sold at fair-time only had boughs outside to indicate their character. As an illustration of the familiar proverb, "Good wine needs no _bush_," and as the word does not occur in Forby's _Glossary of East Anglia_, it may perhaps deserve a place.
_Dyson's Collection of Proclamations._--The curious collection of old proclamations, &c., in the library of the Society of Antiquaries is sometimes referred to as _Dyson's_, sometimes as _Ames's_. Was Dyson the original collector? and, if so, when did he live?