"_A Letter to a Convocation Man_" (Vol vii., p. 358.).--The authorship of the tract concerning which MR. FRASER inquires, is assigned to Sir Bartholomew Shower, not by the Bodleian Catalogue only, but also by Sir Walter Scott, in his edition of the Somers' _Tracts_ (vol. ix. p. 411.), as well as by Dr. Watt, in his _Bibliotheca Britannica_. The only authorities for ascribing it to Dr. Binckes which I have been able to discover, are Dr. Edmund Calamy, in his _Life and Times_ (vol. i. p. 397.), and the Rev. Thomas Lathbury, in his _History of the Convocation of the Church of England_ (p. 283.); but neither of those authors gives the source from which his information is {416} derived: and Mr. Lathbury, who appears perfectly unaware that the tract had ever been ascribed to Sir Bartholomew Shower, a lawyer, remarks: "It is worthy of observation that the author of the _letter_ professes to be a lawyer, though such was not the case, Dr. Binckes being a clergyman." Dr. Kennett also, in his _Ecclesiastical Synods_, p. 19., referred to by Mr. Lathbury, speaking of Archbishop Wake's reply, says: "I remember one little prejudice to it, that it was wrote by a divine, whereas the argument required an able lawyer; and the very writer of the _Letter to a Convocation Man_ suggesting himself to be of that profession, there was the greater equity, there should be the like council of one side as there had been of the other."--It has occurred to me that the mistake of assigning the tract to Dr. Binckes may possibly have been occasioned by the circumstance that another tract, with the following title, published in 1701, has the initials W. B. at the end of it,--_A Letter to a Convocation Man, by a Clergyman in the Country_. I have examined both tracts, and they are quite different, and leave no appearance of having proceeded from the same hand. TYRO. Dublin. _King Robert Bruce's Coffin-plate_ (Vol vii., p. 356.) was a modern forgery, but not discovered to be so, of course, until after publication of the beautiful engraving of it in the _Transactions of the Scottish Society of Antiquaries_, which was made at the expense of, and presented to the Society by, the barons of the Exchequer. I believe that a notice of the forgery was published in a subsequent volume. W. C. TREVELYAN. _Eulenspiegel or Howleglas_ (Vol. vii., p. 357.).--The following extract from my note-book may be of use: "The German Rogue, or the Life and Merry Adventures, Cheats, Stratagems, and Contrivances of Tiel Eulenspiegle. 'Let none Eulenspiegle's artifices blame, For Rogues of every country are the same.' London, printed in the year MDCCIX. The only copy of this edition I ever saw was one which had formerly belonged to Ritson, and which I purchased of Thomas Rodd, but afterwards relinquished to my old friend Mr. Douce." This copy, therefore, is no doubt now in the Bodleian. I have never heard of any other.