_The Death Watch._--Has there appeared in any of your former Numbers a Note upon the popular, but now exploded "death watch?" In earlier life, an instance of it occurred in my presence, which did at the time, and does even now, "puzzle the sense." The noise (like the ticking of a watch) was so painfully distinct, that I endeavoured twice to discover the source of it, but in vain. I made a note of it at the time, but the narrative (although perfectly correct) reads so much like the speculation of a sick brain, that I hesitate to send it. If you would put this Query (however briefly), I should much like to see it discussed in your interesting pages. M. W. B. _Genealogical Queries._--I beg to trouble you with the following Queries:-- On what day of the year 1690 did Elizabeth Bayning, created Countess of Sheppy for life, die? and where was she buried? Where was buried Anne Palmer, alias Fitzroy, Countess of Sussex? She died 16th May, 1722. The Earl was buried at Chevening. Was Sir John Mason, who died Treasurer of the Chamber, &c., 21st April, 1566, Chancellor of _the Duchy of Lancaster_? He is so designated in one of the Harl. MSS. He was twice Chancellor of _Oxford_. G. STEINMAN STEINMAN. _Ben Jonson's adopted Sons._--They are said to be twelve in number. Alexander Brome was one; Bishop Morley another. Can any of your correspondents give the names of the other ten? By doing so, it will oblige an INQUIRER. _Kyrle's Tankard at Balliol._--A very beautiful silver tankard, bearing the following inscription, with the arms of the donor engraved in the centre of the body of the cup; the first two words above, the others beneath the arms, was presented to Balliol College, Oxford, by that celebrated and excellent man, John Kyrle, Esq., better known by his world-wide appellation, "The Man of Ross." It will be perceived from the inscription that he was a gentleman commoner of that society: "Poculum Charitatis. Ex dono Johannis Kyrle, de Rosse, in agro Herefordiens, et hujus Collegii Socio Commensalis." It weighed upwards of five pounds, and the cover was lifted up by his crest, a hedgehog. It is said to have been always produced at table when a native of Herefordshire favoured the society with his company. Can any of your correspondents favour me with the following particulars:--Is the tankard still in existence, and has it been ever engraved? If so, in what work? Is there any record in the college books to show in what year, and upon what occasion, it was presented? J. B. WHITBORNE. _Irish Language in the West Indies._--The atrocities which Oliver Cromwell committed in Ireland are fresh in the memory of the poorest Irishman, and his memory held in the deepest execration: every ruined fortress that we pass is ascribed to the great castle-killer, and the peasant's bitterest malediction is, "_Mallachd Crumwell ort_" (The curse of Cromwell on you).