_Family of Milton's Widow._--Your correspondent CRANMORE, in his article on the "Rev. John Paget" ("N. & Q.," Vol. v., p. 327.), writes thus: "Dr. Nathan Paget was an intimate friend of Milton and cousin to the poet's fourth (no doubt meaning his third) wife, Elizabeth Minshall, of whose family descent, which appears to be rather obscure, I may at another time communicate some particulars." Now, as more than a year has elapsed since the article referred to appeared in your valuable columns, without the subject of Elizabeth Minshall's descent having been farther noticed, I hope your correspondent will pardon my soliciting him to supply the information he possesses relative thereto, which cannot fail proving interesting to every admirer of our great poet. V. M. _Table-moving._--Was not Bacon acquainted with this phenomenon? I find in his _Sylva Sylvarum_, art. MOTION: "Whenever a solid is pressed, there is an inward tumult of the parts thereof, tending to deliver themselves from the compression: and this is the _cause_ of all violent motion. It is very strange that this motion has never been observed and inquired into; as being the most common and chief origin of all mechanical operations. "This motion operates first in a round by way of proof and trial, which way to deliver itself, and then in progression where it finds the deliverance easiest." C. K. P. Newport, Essex. * * * * * Minor Queries with Answers. _Form of Petition, &c._--May I request the insertion of a Query, requesting some of your readers to supply the _ellipsis_ in the form with which petitions to Parliament are required to be closed, viz.: "And your petitioners will ever pray, &c." To me, I confess, there appears to be something like impiety in its use in its present unmeaning state. Would a petition be rendered informal by any addition which would make it more comprehensible? C. W. B.