PHOTOGRAPHIC NOTES AND QUERIES:--The Albumen Process-- Queries on Mr. Weld Taylor's Process--Difficulties in the Wax-paper Process--Mr. Archer's Services to Photography--Mr. Weld Taylor's Iodizing Process-- Sir J. Newton's Process 217 REPLIES TO MINOR QUERIES:--A Race for Canterbury-- "The Birch: a Poem"--Curtseys and Bows--Deodorising Peat--Jacobite Toasts--Consecrators of English Bishops--Chatham's Language, &c. 219 MISCELLANEOUS:-- Notes on Books, &c. 224 Books and Odd Volumes wanted 224 Notices to Correspondents 224 Advertisements 225 * * * * * Notes. MARY STUART'S CHAIR. On the south side of the chancel of Conington Church, Hunts., stands a handsome, massive, and elaborately-carved oaken chair, which has been traditionally known as the very seat from which the unfortunate Mary Stuart rose to submit her neck to the executioner. The chair was probably brought from Fotheringay, and placed in Conington Church as a sacred relic, by Sir Robt. Cotton, who built Conington Castle partly with the materials of Fotheringay, and who (according to Gough, in his additions to Camden's _Britannia_, vol. ii., "ICENI," ed. 1789) "brought from there _the whole room_ where Mary Queen of Scots was beheaded." By this, perhaps, is meant, the deeply-recessed arcade that now forms the two _exterior_ sides of the ground-floor of Conington Castle; which arcade, doubtless, was on the _interior_ walls of Fotheringay, the windows being above it: the principal window being supposed to be that which now forms the staircase window of the Talbot Inn, Oundle. Modern windows have been placed within the eleven divisions of the arcade at Conington Castle. In speaking of Conington Church, Gough says (see _Additions to Camden_) that "Lord Coleraine saw a chair of an Abbot of Peterborough in this church, 1743," which must have been the chair now under notice. The nature of its decorations shows it to have been a chair used for religious purposes; and the six principal figures that adorn it, are made to face at right angles with the chair; so that when it was placed on the south side of the altar, the faces of the figures would be turned towards the east. A full description of the chair may not be without its interest to the readers of "N. & Q.," since (as far as I am aware) it has never yet received more than a passing notice from the historian; and if it indeed be a relic of Mary Stuart--as there seems good reason to believe--it deserves more attention (in these days of minute detail) than it has hitherto obtained.