The Scottish poetical antiquary is familiar with this eccentric character; but it may not be uninteresting to your general readers to add, that when public excitement in Edinburgh ran high against the Kirk, the lawyers, meal-mongers, or other _rogues_ in _grain_, Claudero was the vehicle through which the democratic voice found vent in squibs and broadsides fired at the offending party or obnoxious measure from his lair in the Canongate. In his _Miscellanies_, Edin. 1766, now before me, Claudero's cotemporary, Geordie Boick, in a poetical welcome to London, thus compliments Wilson, and bewails the condition of the modern Athens under its bereavement of the poet: "The ballad-singers and the printers, Must surely now have starving winters; Their press they may break a' in splinters, I'm told they swear, Claudero's Muse, alas! we've tint her For ever mair." For want of Claudero's _lash_, his eulogist goes on to say: "Now Vice may rear her hydra head, And strike defenceless Virtue dead; Religion's heart may melt and bleed, With grief and sorrow, Since Satire from your streets is fled, Poor Edenburrow!" Claudero was, notwithstanding, a sorry poet, a lax moralist, and a sordid parson; but peace to the manes of the man, or his successor in the latter office, who gave me in that same long room of the White Horse in the Canongate of Edinburgh the best parents son was ever blest with! J. O. [Footnote 2: _Letters from Edinburgh_, London, 1776. See also, _Letters from a Gentleman in Scotland to his Friend in England_ (commonly called _Burt's Letters_): London, 1754.] * * * * * LADY KATHERINE GREY. (Vol. vi., p. 578.) There appears to be some doubt if the alleged marriage ever did take place, for I find, in Baker's _Chronicles_, p. 334., that in 1563 "divers great persons were questioned and condemned, but had their lives spared," and among them-- "Lady Katherine Grey, daughter to Henry Grey Duke of Suffolk, by the eldest daughter of Charles Brandon, having formerly been married to the Earl of Pembroke's eldest son, and from him soon after lawfully divorced, was some years after found to be with child by Edward Seymour Earl of Hartford, who, being at that time in France, was presently sent for: and being examined before the Archbishop of Canterbury, and affirming they were lawfully married, but not being able within a limited time to produce witnesses of their marriage, they were both committed to the Tower." After some further particulars of the birth of a second child in the Tower, the discharge of the Lieutenant, Sir Edward Warner, and the fining of the Earl by the Star Chamber, to the extent of 5000l., the narrative proceeds: