On a former occasion, by your connexion with the _Navorscher_, you were able to obtain for me some very valuable and interesting information in reply to some question put respecting the Dutch porcelain manufactories. I am therefore in hopes that some kind correspondent in Holland will be so obliging as to impart to me similar information on this subject also. I should wish to know-- When, by whom, at what places, and under what circumstances, the manufacture of enamelled pottery was first introduced into Holland? Whether there were manufactories at other towns besides Delft? Whether they had any distinctive marks; and, if so, what were they? Whether there was more than one manufactory at Delft; and, if so, what were their marks, and what was the meaning of them? Whether any particular manufactories were confined to the making of any particular sort or quality of articles; and, if so, what were they? Whether any of the manufactories have ceased; and, if so, at what period? Also, any other particulars respecting the manufactories and their products that it may be possible to communicate through the medium of a paper like "N. & Q." OCTAVIUS MORGAN. * * * * * Minor Queries. _The Withered Hand and Motto "Utinam."_--At Compton Park, near Salisbury, the seat of the Penruddocke family, there is a three-quarter length picture, in the Velasquez style, of a gentleman in a rich dress of black velvet, with broad lace frill and cuffs, and ear-rings, probably of the latter part of Queen Elizabeth's reign. His right hand, which he displays somewhat prominently, is _withered_. The left one is a-kimbo, and less seen. In the upper part of the painting is the single Latin word "UTINAM" (O that!). There is no tradition as to who this person was. Any suggestion on the subject would gratify J. _History of York._--Who is the author of a _History of York_, in 2 vols., published at that city in 1788 by T. Wilson and R. Spence, High Ousegate? I have seen it in several shops, and heard it attributed to Drake; and obtained it the other day from an extensive library in Bristol, in the Catalogue of which it is styled Drake's _Eboracum_. Several allusions in the first volume to his work, however, render it impossible to be ascribed to him. It is dedicated to the Right Honourable Sir William Mordaunt Milner, of Nunappleton, Bart., who was mayor at the time. R. W. ELLIOT. Clifton. _"Hauling over the coals."_--What is the origin and meaning of the phrase, "Hauling one over the coals;" and where does it first appear? FABER. _Dr. Butler and St. Edmund's Bury._--Can any of your readers give me any information respecting the Mr. or Dr. Butler, of St. Edmund's Bury, referred to in the extracts from the _Post Boy_ and Gough's _Topography_, quoted by MR. BALLARD in Vol. vii., p. 617.? BURIENSIS.