_The Word "Poghele."_--What is the etymology and precise meaning of the word "Poghele" (pronounced Poughley), or rather the first part of it, which occurs occasionally as the name of a place in the county of Berks, and perhaps elsewhere? W. _Duncan Campbell._--Was the Duncan Campbell, of whom memoirs were written by Defoe, a real or an imaginary person? If the former, where can one find any authentic account of him? L.B. _Boston de Bury de Bib. Monasteriorum._--Can any of your correspondents give me a reference to the original MS. of _Boston de Bury de Bibliothecis Monasteriorum_? P. _Cazena on the Inquisition_.--Can any one tell me what is the public opinion of Cazena's work on the Inquisition? I see Limborch and many others quoted concerning that tribunal, but never Cazena. Is the book scarce?--or is it not esteemed? I never saw but one copy. P. _The Reconciliation_, 1554.--In 1554, Cardinal Pole directed a register to be kept in every parish of all the parishioners who, on a certain day, were to be reconciled to the Church of Rome and absolved. (Burnet's _Ref_. vol. iii. p. 245.) The Bishop of London's Declaration thereon (Feb. 19. 1554) runs thus:-- "And they not so reconciled, every one of them shall have process made agaynst him accordyng to the canons, as the case shall requyre; for which purpose the pastours and curates of every paryshe shall be commanded by their archedeacon to certyfye me in writinge of every man and woman's name that is not so reconciled." Have any of your readers at any time seen and made a _note_ of such a register? The most probable place of deposit would be the Bishop's Registry, but I have never yet been fortunate enough to meet with one of these curious returns. J.S.B. * * * * * MISCELLANIES. _Darkness at the Crucifixion_.--The following passage, in a volume of Lectures by the Rev. H. Blunt, has fallen under my notice:-- "It was this Dionysius (the Areopagite) of whom the earliest Christian historians relate that, being at Heliopolis, in Egypt, at the time of our Lord's crucifixion, when he beheld the mid-day darkness which attended that awful event, he exclaimed, 'Either the God of Nature suffers, or the frame of the world will be dissolved.'" Having very limited opportunity of studying the ancient historians, I should be greatly obliged if you would inform me from what work this account is derived; or refer me to any authors, _not_ having embraced Christianity, who give a description of the crucifixion of our Saviour; and especially with reference to the "darkness over all the earth" at the time of that event, mentioned by St. Luke, who also adds, that "the sun was darkened." Your kindly consenting, as you did in your second number, to receive queries respecting references, has induced me to trouble you so far. S.A.M.