"Men get embarrassed by the common cases of misguided conscience; but a compass may be out of order as well as a conscience, and the needle may point due south if you hold a powerful magnet in that direction. Still the compass, generally speaking, is a true and sure guide, and so is the conscience; and you {509} can trace the deranging influence on the latter quite as surely as on the former."--_Life and Correspondence_, 2nd ed. p. 390. C. MANSFIELD INGLEBY. Birmingham. _English Bishops deprived by Queen Elizabeth, 1559_ (Vol. vii., p. 260.).--I have endeavoured to procure some information for A. S. A. on those points which MR. DREDGE left unnoticed, but find that, after his diligent search, very little indeed is to be gleaned. _Bishop Payne_ died in January, 1559/60 (Strype's _Annals_, anno 1559). Dod, in vol. i. p. 507. of his _Church History_, mentions a letter of _Bishop Goldwell's_, or, as he calls him, _Godwell's_, to Dr. Allen, dated anno 1581: "This letter," he says, "seems to be written not long before Bishop Godwell's death, for I meet with no farther mention of him. Here the reader may take notice of a mistake in Dr. Heylin, who tells us he died prisoner in Wisbich Castle, which is to be understood of Bishop Watson." Of _Bishop Pate_ he says: "He was alive in 1562, but how long after I do not find."--Vol. i. p. 488. _Bishop Pole_, according to the same authority, died a prisoner at large about the latter end of May, 1568. _Bishop Frampton_ died May 25, 1708 (Calamy's _Own Times_, vol. ii. p. 119.). I cannot ascertain the day of _Bishop White's_ death, but he was buried, according to Evelyn (vol. iii. p. 364.), June 5, 1698. TYRO. Dublin. _Borrowed Thoughts_ (Vol. vii., p. 203.).--The thought which ERICA shows has been used by Butler and Macaulay is a grain from an often-pillaged granary; a tag of yarn from a piece of cloth used ever since its make for darning and patching; a drop of honey from a hive round which robber-bees and predatory wasps have never ceased to wander,--the _Anatomy of Melancholy_: "Though there were giants of old in physic and philosophy, yet I say with Didacus Stella[2], 'a dwarf standing on the shoulders of a giant may see farther than a giant himself.' I may likely add, alter, and see farther than my predecessors; and it is no greater prejudice for me to indite after others, than for AElianus Montaltus, that famous physician, to write _De Morbis Capitis_, after Jason Pratensis," &c. The pagination (that of Tegg's edition, 1849) will not guide those who with Elia sicken at the profanity of "unearthing the bones of that fantastic old great man," and know not a "sight more heartless" than the reprint of his _Opus_. SIGMA. Sunderland. [Footnote 2: In _Luc._ 10. tom. ii.: "Pigmi gigantum humeris impositi plusquam ipsi gigantes vident."--_Preface_, p. 8.]