Eastry, Kent: "One bell inscribed with the names of the churchwardens and the maker; a shilling of William III., and other coins are let into the rim." Erith, Kent: "A tablet in the belfry commemorates the ringing of a peal of 726 changes in twenty-six minutes." S. Clement, Sandwich, Kent: "In the ringing chamber of this noble tower is a windlass for lowering the bells in case of repairs becoming necessary, with a trap-door in the floor opening into the church." S. Mary, Sandwich, Kent: "This bel was bought and steeple built, A.D. 1718. J. Bradley, R. Harvey, Ch. wardens. R. P. F." S. Andrew, Histon, Camb.: "Coins of Queen Anne in the rim of one bell; but dated 1723." S. Stephen's Chapel, Westminster (Weever, _Fur. Mon._, p. 491., edit. fol. 1631): "King Edward the Third built in the little sanctuarie a clochard of stone and timber, and placed therein three bells, for the vse of Saint _Stephen's_ Chappel. About the biggest bell was engrauen, or cast in the metall, these words: 'King Edward made mee thirtie thousand weight and three: Take mee downe and wey mee, and more you shall fynd mee.' But these bells being to be taken downe, in the raigne of King _Henry_ the Eight, one writes vnderneath with a coal: 'But _Henry_ the Eight will bait me of my weight.'" If any farther extracts may interest you, they are very much at your service. W. SPARROW SIMPSON, B.A. * * * * * WAS COOK THE DISCOVERER OF THE SANDWICH ISLANDS? (Vol. viii., p. 6.) MR. WARDEN will find this question discussed by La Perouse (English 8vo. edit., vol. ii. ch. 6.), who concludes unhesitatingly that the Sandwich group is identical with a cluster of islands discovered by the Spanish navigator Gaetan in 1542, and by him named "The King's Islands." These the Spaniard placed in the tenth, although the Sandwich Islands are near the twentieth, degree of north latitude, which La Perouse believed was a mere clerical error. The difference in longitude, sixteen or seventeen degrees, he ascribed to the imperfect means of determination possessed by the early navigators, and to their ignorance of the currents of the Pacific.