"On Monday last this village was thrown into a state of great excitement by the tidings that a married labourer, named Samuel Peckover, had taken poison, with the intent of destroying himself. This was found to be the case. He had swallowed a dose of mercury, such as is commonly used for sheep, and, but for the timely arrival of Mr. Jones, surgeon, from Brackley, who administered him a powerful antidote, he would have expired within a short time. The circumstance which led the misguided man to attempt this rash act was as follows:--Although a married man, and wedded to a very respectable woman, he had seduced a young female of the village, named Adelaide Hirons, who was delivered of a female child on Saturday last. This disgraceful affair, of course, had become known to the neighbours, who expressed great indignation at his most disreputable conduct, and they in consequence determined to put him to open shame by 'lowbelling' him in front of his cottage in the evening, when all the old pots and kettles in the village were put in requisition, and a continual discord was kept up for two or three hours, by way of administering him a wholesome punishment for his breaking the marriage vows. It is supposed that the fear of this impending disgrace, and also remorse for his crime, were the cause of his thus attempting to make away with himself, and to rush unprepared and unpardoned into the presence of his Maker!" F. JAMES. _Overseers of Wills_ (Vol. vii., p. 500.).--J. K. will find what he seeks about, overseers and supervisors of wills, in Burn's _Ecclesiastical Law_. F. O. MARTIN. _Detached Belfry Towers_ (Vol. vii., pp. 333. 416. 465.).--I have also to inform you that the tower of Terrington St. Clement's Church, about five miles from Kings Lynn, is detached from the church. J. N. C. King's Lynn. To the list of churches having detached towers may be added the church of Chittlehampton, near South Molton, Devon. It is several years since I last visited the spot, but I have a distinct recollection of the fact. J. SANSOM. Amongst your list of towers separate from the church, I think you have not mentioned Westbury on Severn, near Gloucester. H. H. GIBBS. Add to your list of Detached Church Towers, the magnificent Norman tower at Bury St. Edmunds in Suffolk. J. B. _Vincent Family_ (Vol. vii., p. 501.).--The representative of Augustine Vincent is Thomas Wentworth Edmunds of Worsbro', W. Barnsley, in the county of York, the son of the late Wm. Bennet Martin of the same place, Esq., who has assumed the name of his great-uncle, Francis Offley Edmunds. There is a memoir of Augustine Vincent, by Mr. Hunter, published, I believe, by Pickering, Piccadilly, which shows the descent, and may perhaps throw light on Francis Vincent. The name, I believe, is still common at Finedon in Northamptonshire. F. O. MARTIN. Stoudon Place, Brentwood.