_Adamsons of Perth._--Can any of your Scottish correspondents inform me what relationship existed between Patrick Adamson, titular Archbishop of St. Andrew's, and the two learned brothers, Henry Adamson, author of the _Muses' Threnodie_, and John Adamson, principal of the college at Edinburgh, and editor of the _Muses' Welcome_; and whether any existing family claims to be descended from them? They were all born at Perth. Henry and John were the sons of James Adamson, a merchant and magistrate of the fair city. Probably the archbishop was a brother of this James Adamson, and son of Patrick Adamson, who was Dean of the Guild when John Knox preached his famous sermon at St. John's. Mariota, a daughter of the archbishop, is said by Burke to have married Sir Michael {479} Balfour, Bart., of Nortland Castle Orkney. Another daughter would appear to have become the wife of Thomas Wilson, or Volusenus, as he calls himself, the editor of his father-in-law's poems and other publications. E. H. A. _Cursitor Barons of the Exchequer._--Will you allow me to repeat a question which you inserted in Vol. v., p. 346., as to a list of these officers, and any account of their origin and history? Surely some of your correspondents, devoted to legal antiquities, can give note a clue to the labyrinth which Madox has not ventured to enter. The office still exists--with peculiar duties which are still performed--and we know that it is an ancient one; all sufficient grounds for inquiry, which I trust will meet with some response. EDWARD FOSS. _Syriac Scriptures._--I am very anxious to know what editions of the Scriptures in Syriac (the _Peshito_) were published between Leusden and Schaaf's New Testament, and the entire Bible in 1816 by the Bible Society. B. H. C. * * * * * Replies. PSALMANAZAR. (Vol. vii., pp. 206. 435.)