_The Reformed Faith_ (Vol. vii., p. 359.).--I must protest against this term being applied to the system which Henry VIII. set up on his rejecting the papal supremacy, which on almost every point but that one was pure Popery, and for refusing to conform to which he burned Protestants and Roman Catholics at the same pile. It suited Cobbett (in his _History of the Reformation_), and those controversialists who use him as their text-book, to confound this system with the doctrine of the existing Church of England, but it is to be regretted that any inadvertence should have caused the use of similar language in your pages. J. S. WARDEN. _House-marks_ (Vol. vii., p. 594.).--It appears to me that the _house-marks_ he alluded to may be traced in what are called _merchants' marks_, still employed in marking bales of wool, cotton, &c., and which are found on tombstones in our old churches, _incised_ in the slab during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, and which till lately puzzled the heralds. They were borne by merchants who had no arms. E. G. BALLARD. _Trash_ (Vol. vii., p. 566.).--The late Mr. Scatchard, of Morley, near Leeds, speaking in Hone's _Table Book_ of the Yorkshire custom of _trashing_, or throwing an old shoe for luck over a wedding party, says: "Although it is true that an old shoe is to this day called 'a trash,' yet it did not, certainly, give the name to the nuisance. To 'trash' originally signified to clog, encumber, or impede the progress of any one (see Todd's _Johnson_); and, agreeably to this explanation, we find the rope tied by sportsmen round the necks of fleet pointers to tire them well, and check their speed, is hereabouts universally called 'trash cord,' or 'dog trash.' A few miles distant from Morley, west of Leeds, the 'Boggart' or 'Barguest,' the Yorkshire Brownie is called by the people the _Gui-trash_, or _Ghei-trash_, the usual description of which is invariably that of a shaggy dog or other animal, _encumbered_ with a chain round its neck, which is heard to rattle in its movements. I have heard the common people in Yorkshire say, that they 'have been _trashing_ about all day;' using it in the sense of having had a tiring walk or day's work. "East of Leeds the 'Boggart' is called the _Padfoot_." G. P. _Adamsoniana_ (Vol. vii., p. 500.).--Michel Ada_n_son (not Ada_m_son), who has left his name to the gigantic Baobab tree of Senegal (_Adansonia digitata_), and his memory to all who appreciate the advantages of a natural classification of plants--for which Jussieu was indebted to him--was the son of a gentleman, who after firmly attaching himself to the Stuarts, left Scotland and entered the service of the Archbishop of Aix. The _Encyclopaedia Britannica_, and, I imagine, almost all biographical dictionaries and similar works, contain notices of him. His devoted life has deserved a more lengthened chronicle. SELEUCUS.