_Harris._--The Rev. William Harris, B.A., was presented, by Thomas Pindar, Esq., to the vicarage of Luddington, Lincolnshire, on the 7th August, 1722. Mr. Harris died here in June, 1748, aged eighty-two. On his tomb is inscribed,-- "Illi satis licuit Nunc veterum libris, nunc Somno, et inertibus horis Ducere solicitae jucunda oblivio vitae." A tradition of his being a wizard still lingers in the village, and I should be very glad to receive any particulars respecting him. From an inspection of his will at Lincoln, it appears that he used the coat of the ancient family of Harris of Radford, Devon, and that his wife's name was Honora, a Christian name not infrequent about that period in families of the West of England also, as, for instance, Honora, daughter of Sir Richard Rogers of Bryanstone, who married Edward Lord Beauchamp, and had a daughter Honora, who married Sir Ferdinand Sutton; Honora, the wife of Harry Conway, Esq., of Bodrhyddan, Flint; Honora, daughter of Edward Fortescue of Fallapit; besides others. W. H. LAMMIN. Fulham. * * * * * Replies. BISHOP BUTLER. (Vol. vii., p. 528.) "Charity thinketh no evil;" but we must feel both surprise and regret that any one should, in 1853, consider it a doubtful question whether Bishop Butler died in the communion of the Church of England. The bishop has now been in his grave more than a hundred years; but Warburton says truly, "How light a matter very often subjects the best-established characters to the suspicions of posterity--how ready is a remote age to catch at a low revived slander, which the times that brought it forth saw despised and forgotten almost in its birth." X. Y. Z. says he would be glad to have this charge (originally brought forward in 1767) _sifted_. He will find that it has been sifted, and in the most full and satisfactory manner, by persons of no less distinction than Archbishop Secker and Bishop Halifax. The strong language employed by the archbishop, when refuting what he terms {573} a "gross and scandalous falsehood," and when asserting the bishops "abhorrence of popery," need not here be quoted, as "N.& Q." is not the most proper channel for the discussion of theological subjects; but it is alleged that every man of sense and candour was convinced _at the time_ that the charge should be retracted; and it must be a satisfaction to your correspondent to know, that as Bishop Butler lived so he _died_, in full communion with that Church, which he adorned equally by his matchless writings, sanctity of manners, and spotless life.[4] J. H. MARKLAND. Bath. [Footnote 4: Your correspondent may be referred to _Memoirs of the Life of Bishop Butler_, by a connexion of his own, the Rev. Thomas Bartlett, A.M., published in 1839; and to a review of the same work in the _Quarterly Review_, vol. lxiv. p. 331.]