_"When Orpheus went down"_ (Vol. viii., p. 196.).--In reply to the Query of G. M. B. respecting "When Orpheus went down," I beg to say that the author was the Rev. Dr. Lisle (most probably the Bishop of St. Asaph). The song may be found among Ritson's _English Songs_. When it was first published I have not been able to ascertain, but it must have been in the early part of the last century, as the air composed for it by Dr. Boyce, most likely for Vauxhall, was afterwards used in the pasticcio opera of _Love in a Village_, which was brought out in 1763. C. OLDENSHAW. Leicester. _Muffs worn by Gentlemen_ (Vol. vi. _passim_; Vol. vii., p. 320.).--In Lamber's _Travels in Canada and the United States_ (1815), vol. i. p. 307., is the following passage: "I should not be surprised if those _delicate young soldiers_ were to introduce muffs: they were in general use among the men under the French government, and are still worn by two or three old gentlemen." UNEDA. Philadelphia. _Wardhouse, and Fisherman's Custom there_ (Vol. viii., p. 78.).--Wardhouse or Wardhuuse, is a port in Finland, and the custom was for the English to purchase herrings there, as they were not permitted to fish on that coast. In _Trade's Increase_, a commercial tract, written in the earlier part of the seventeenth century, the author, when speaking of restraints on fishing on the coasts of other nations, says: "Certain merchants of Hull had their ships taken away and themselves imprisoned, for fishing about the Wardhouse at the North Cape." W. PINKERTON. Ham. _"In necessariis unitas," &c._ (Vol. viii., p. 197.).--The sentence, "In necessariis unitas, in dubiis libertas, in omnibus caritas," may be seen sculptured in stone over the head of a doorway leading into the garden of a house which was formerly the residence of Archdeacon Coxe, and subsequently of Canon Lisle Bowles, in the Close at Salisbury. It is quoted from Melancthon. The inscription was placed there by the poet, and is no less the record of a noble, true, and generous sentiment, than of the discriminating taste and feeling of him by whom it was thus appreciated and honoured. {282} Would that it might become the motto of _all_ our cathedral precincts! W. S. Northiam. * * * * * Miscellaneous. NOTES ON BOOKS, ETC.