_Grub Street Journal_ (Vol. vii., p. 383.).--MR. JAMES CROSSLEY, after quoting Eustace Budgell's conjectures as to the writers of this paper, leaves it as doubtful whether Pope was or was not one of them. The poet has himself contradicted Budgell's insinuation when he retorted upon him in those terrible lines (alluding to his alleged forgery of a will): "Let Budgell charge low Grub Street to my quill, And write whate'er he please--except my will!" ALEXANDER ANDREWS. _Wives of Ecclesiastics_ (Vol. i., p. 115.).--In considering "the statutes made by Anselm, Archbishop of Canterbury, Thomas, Archbishop of York, and all the other bishops of England," ann. 1108, interdicting the marriage of ecclesiastics, might it not be worth investigating, by such of your correspondents as are curious on the subject, what had been the antecedents of the several bishops themselves? With respect to Thomas II., Archbishop of York, it is historically certain, that he was the _son_ of an ecclesiastic, and likewise the _grandson_ of an ecclesiastic (his _father_ being one of the bishops who concurred in these statutes). Neither does it seem altogether unlikely that Thomas himself also had spent some part of his early life in bonds of wedlock, since we learn from the _Monasticon_ (vol. iii. p. 490. of new edit.), that "Thomas, _son of Thomas_ (_the second of that name_), _Archbishop of York_, confirmed what his predecessors, Thomas and Girard, had given," &c. If this be correct, as stated[4], the conclusion is inevitable; but possibly some error may have arisen out of the circumstance, that Thomas I. and Thomas II., Archbishops of York, were uncle and nephew. J. SANSOM. [Footnote 4: Robertus Bloetus also, who was still Bishop of Lincoln, and Rogerus, Bishop of Salisbury, appear to have had sons, though, perhaps, not born in wedlock; but query.] _Blanco White._--In Vol. vii., p. 404., is a copy of a sonnet which is said to be "_on_ the Rev. Joseph Blanco White." This sonnet is one which I have been in search of for some years. I saw it in a newspaper (I believe the _Athenaeum_), but not having secured a copy of it at the time, now ten or twelve years ago, I have had occasion to regret it ever since, and am consequently much obliged to BALLIOLENSIS for his preservation of it in "N. & Q." "It is needless," as he well observes, "to say anything in its praise." I should add, that my strong impression is that this sonnet was written _by_ Blanco White. H. C. K. ---- Rectory, Hereford. _Captain Ayloff_ (Vol. vii., p. 429.).--Your correspondent will find a short notice of Capt. Ayloff in Jacob's _Poetical Register_ (1719-20, 8vo., 2 vols.), and two of his poetical pieces--"Marvell's Ghost" and the "Cambridge Commencement"--in Nichols's _Collection of Poems_ (vol. iii. pp. 186-188.), 1780, 12mo. There is considerable vigour in his "Marvell's Ghost;" and had he cultivated his talent, he might have taken a respectable place as a poet amongst the writers of his time.