In the interesting paper by the Rev. E. Venables in the _Transactions of the Cambridge Camden Society_, on "The Church of St. Mary the Great, Cambridge," he gives, under the year {26} 1550, the following extracts from the churchwardens' accounts: "For makyng of the wall where Saynt George stood in the chyrche vj^d It. payd for wythynge y^e chyrch xx^s iiij^d It. payd for _wryghtynge of y^e chyrch walls with Scriptures_ iiij^{lib} iij^s iiij^d." Shortly after the accession of Queen Mary in 1553, the following entry occurs: "Payd to Barnes for mendyng over the rode and over the altar in the chapell, and _for washing oute the Scriptures_ 4^s 4^d." They do not appear to have been restored after this, for in the year 1840 some of the plaister between two of the windows of the south aisle peeling off, discovered traces of "wryghtynge" beneath; and I and another member of the Cambridge Camden Society spent some time in laying it bare, and after much difficulty made out that it was the Lord's Prayer in English, headed, "The Lord's Prayer, called the Paternoster," and written in the church text of the period, the whole enclosed in a sort of arabesque border; it was not merely whited over, but had evidently been partially effaced, or partly "washed oute," before being "concealed under its dreary shroud of whitewash." On examination there were traces of more of this writing between the other windows, but we had not time to make any further investigation, for the church was then being cleaned, and in a few days all that we had laid bare was again concealed under a veil of whitewash. Thus, I think, we may assign to the reign of Edward VI., not merely the obliteration of the numerous frescoes of St. Christopher, the great dome, &c., which are now so constantly coming to light, but also the origin of "wryghtynge of y^e chyrch walls with scriptures" in their stead, some ten or twelve years _earlier_ than the remarkable colloquy between Queen Elizabeth and the worthy Dean of St. Paul's. NORRIS DECK. Cambridge. _Dutensiana_ (Vol. vi., p. 376.).--Lowndes gives a list of Dutens' works, which does not include "Correspondence interceptée," of which he _was_ the author; and I have seen a presentation copy of it proving this. W. C. TREVELYAN. _Early Phonography_ (Vol. vi., p. 424.).--"Have the modern phonographists ever owned their debt of gratitude to their predecessors in the phonetic art?" The subjoined advertisement may perhaps be considered an answer to this Query: "Hart's Orthography, 1569; or, 'An Orthographie conteyning the due order and reason, howe to write or paint thimage of manne's voice, most like to the life or nature. Composed by J. H. [John Hart], Chester Heralt;' reprinted from a copy in the British Museum. Cloth, 2s.