Is there on record the return made to this order; and where may it be consulted? TEWARS. _Thomas Chester, Bishop of Elphin, 1580._--This prelate, who was the second son of Sir William Chester, Kt., Lord Mayor of London in 1560, by his first wife Elizabeth, daughter of Thomas Lovett, Esq., of Astwell in Northamptonshire, is said by Anthony a Wood (_Athenaae Oxon._, ed. Bliss, vol. ii. p. 826.) to have "given way to fate at Killiathar in that city, in the month of June in 1584." The calendars of the Will Office of the Prerogative Court of Canterbury do not contain his name; can any of your Irish contributors inform me whether his will was proved in Ireland? I should be glad to know, too, what will offices exist in Ireland, and from what period they date their commencement. He is said to have married ----, daughter of Sir James Clavering, Kt., of Axwell Park in Northumberland: does any pedigree of the Claverings supply this lady's Christian name? His eldest brother, William Chester, Esq., married his cousin-german Judith, daughter and co-heiress of Anthony Cave, Esq., of Chichley Hall, Bucks, and was ancestor to the extinct family of the baronets of that name and place. Bishop Chester died _s. p._ TEWARS. _Rev. Urban Vigors._--Amongst the chaplains of King Charles I., was there one of the name of Vigors, the Rev. Urban Vigors of Taunton? Any particulars of him will be acceptable. Y. S. M. _Early English MSS._--What is the earliest document, of any historical import to this country, now existing in MS.? T. HUGHES. _Curing of Henry IV._--The best account of the curing of Hen. IV. from the leprosy: vide Lambard's _Dictionary_, p. 306. A. J. DUNKIN. _Standard of Weights and Measures._--I would gladly learn something of the system of weights and measures in other countries, and particularly whether in England and America there exists for this object any government inspection; and if so, how this is executed? A list of works on this subject would be most welcome. I am acquainted only with the works of Ravon, _Fabrication des Poids et Mesures_, Paris, 1843, and of Tarbe, _Poids, Mesures et Verification_, both found in the _Encyclopedie Roret_; and the _Vollstaendige Darstellung_ {341} _des Masz- and Gewicht-Systems in Grossherzogthum Hessen_, by F. W. Grimm, Darmstadt, 1840.--From the _Navorscher_. [Phi]. [Phi]. _Parish Clerks' Company._-- "In making searches in registers of parishes within the bills of mortality, a facility is afforded by the company of parish clerks; by paying a fee of about two guineas, a circular is sent to all the parish clerks, with the particulars of information required: the registers are accordingly searched, and the result communicated to the clerk of the company." The above I give from Burn's _History of Parish Registers_, p. 217. note, published in 1829. Is this the case at present and if so, what is the direction of the clerk of the Company? I wish this system existed in Oxford.