REPLIES TO MINOR QUERIES. _Anecdote of the Civil Wars_.--In looking through your "Notes and Queries," to which I heartily wish continued success, I find, in No. 6. p. 93, a question which appears to be as yet unanswered. The story to which your questioner alludes as an "anecdote of the Civil Wars," is a very beautiful one, and deserves authentication. I have a note of it from Dr. Thomas's additions to Dugdale's _Warwickshire_, which dates the occurrence as having taken place Oct. 22, 1642, the day previous to the battle of Edgehill, and identifies the merry sportsman as Richard Schuckburgh, of Upper Shuckburgh; who, however, on his presentation to the king, "immediately went home, aroused his tenants, and the next day attended the army to the field, where he was knighted, and was present at the battle." Being out of the reach of books, I am unable further to verify the story; but it is to such unhappy rustics that your publication is most acceptable. C.W.B. [Thanks to the kindness of our correspondent "C.W.B.," we have referred to Dugdale's _Warwickshire_ (ed. Thomas, 1730). vol. i. p. 309., and extract from it the following proof that Walpole had authority for his story. Who knows, after this, but we may in the same way trace from whence he procured the celebrated letter of the Countess of Pembroke, respecting which there is a query from Mr. Peter Cunningham, in No. 2. p. 28. "As king Charles the First marched to Edgcot, near Banbury, on 22nd Oct., 1642, he saw him hunting in the fields not far from Shuckborough, with a very good pack of hounds, upon which it is reported, that he fetched a deep sigh and asked who that gentleman was that hunted so merrily that morning, when he was going to fight for his crown and dignity. And being told {339} that it was this Richard Shuckburgh, he was ordered to be called to him, and was by him very graciously received. Upon which he went immediately home, armed all his tenants, and the next day attended on him in the field, where he was knighted, and was present at the battle of Edghill."] _Mousetrap Dante_ (No. 10. pp. 154, 155.).--I beg to refer your correspondent to the Visconte Colomb de Batines' _Bibliographia Dantesea_ (Prato, 1845-48. 8vo.), tom. ii. pp. 264, 265., where he will find a list (correct so far as it goes) of the fifteen MSS. of the _Comedia_, purchased for the Bodleian Library about the year 1822, from the Abbate Matteo Canonici, of Venice. I have reason for believing, that the only MSS. which exist in that collection, in addition to those enumerated in the list, are: 1. Canon Ital. 100. "Compendium Cujusdam Commentarii" (4to paper); and 2. "Codices Canonici Miscellanei 449." fol., _vellum_ (it cannot therefore be this), which contains the complete commentary of Jacopo dalla Lana. F.C.B.