[Our correspondent will find much that is to his purpose, both in the way of statements and of reference {187} to original authorities, in Lardner's _Jewish and Heathen Testimonies_, chap. xiii. of the Heathen Authors; vol. ii. p. 125. of the original 4to. edition; or vol. vii. p. 370. of the 8vo. edition of his works by Kippis, 1788.] _High-Doctrine_.--In the Cambridgeshire fens there are a great number of Dissenters, and I believe Cromwell's Ironsides were chiefly recruited from those districts. On the higher lands adjoining are the old parish churches; and in conversation it is not uncommon to hear the tenets of the Church of England described as _High land Doctrine_, in contra-distinction to the _Low land_, or Dissenters' doctrine. The thing is amusing, if nothing else, and I heard it while staying some few years ago with my brother, who lives on the edges of the Cambridgeshire fens. E.H. _Wife of Robert de Bruce_.--In the Surrenden Collection is an interesting roll, entitled "Liberatio facta Ingelardo de Warlee Custodi Garderobe, 7 E. 2." It is, as its title imports, the release to the keeper of the wardrobe, for one year's accounts, aº. 7 E. 2. I shall probably be able to send you therefrom a few "notes" illustrative of the history of that time. As a commencement, I think that the subjoined "note" will interest your historical readers. It appears that the unfortunate wife of Robert Bruce was then consigned to the care of the Abbess of Barking, with an allowance of 20s. per week for the same. She was, I believe, the daughter of Henry de Burgh, Earl of Ulster, and died in 1328. In the above roll there is the following entry:-- "Cs liberati Anne de Veer Abbatisse de Berkyng, per manus domini Roberti de Wakfeld clerici, super expensis domine Elizabethe uxoris Roberti de Brus, percipientis per ebdomadum xxs., et ibidem perhendinantis." "Cs liberati Johanni de Stystede valletto Abbatisse de Berkyng, per manus proprias, super expensis Domine de Brus in Abbathia de Berkyng perhendinantis." It does not appear, in the above roll, how long the hapless queen remained in the abbey. LAMBERT B. LARKING. Ryarsh Vicarage. Dec. 14. 1849. _The Talisman of Charlemagne_.--I beg to refer your correspondent, on the subject of Charlemagne's Talisman, to what professes to be a correct representation of this antique relic, in _The Illustrated London News_, of March 8th, 1845; but it is not there described as "a small nut, in a gold filigree envelopment," and gives the idea of an ornament much too large for the finger or even wrist of any lady: that paper says,--