_Wooden Effigies_ (Vol. viii., p. 255.).--These are by no means uncommon, though it is to be feared that many have perished within comparatively recent times. In the church of Clifton Reynes, Bucks, there are wooden effigies of two knights of the Reynes family with their wives. HENRY GOUGH. Emberton, Bucks. _Wedding Divination_ (Vol. vii., p. 545.).--The following mediaeval superstition may be quoted as a pretty exact parallel of the _wedding divination_ alluded to by OXONIENSIS. It is from Wright's selection of Latin stories of the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries, Harl. MS. 463.:-- "Vidi in quibusdam partibus, quando mulieres nubebant, et de ecclesia redibant, in ingressu domus in faciem corum frumentum projiciebant, clamantes: 'Abundantia! Abundantia!' quod Gallice dicitur _plente_, _plente_; et tamen plerumque, antequam annus transiret, pauperes mendici remanebant et abundantia omni bonorum carebant." H. C. K. ---- Rectory, Hereford. _Old Fogie_ (Vol. viii., p. 154.).--If it will throw any additional light on the controversy as to "fogie," I may add that for a long period of years I have heard it applied only to the discharged invalided pensioners of the army. On a late Queen's birthday review on the _Green_, the boys and girls were in ecstasies at seeing the "old fogies" dressed out in new suits. It is very often spoken derisively to a thick-headed stupid person, but which cannot determine accurately its primary signification. G. N. * * * * * Miscellaneous. Notes on Books, Etc. The noble President of the Society of Antiquaries is fast bringing to completion the cheaper and revised edition of his _History of England from the Peace of Utrecht to the Peace of Versailles_, 1713-1783. The sixth volume, which is now before us, embraces the eventful six years 1774-1780, which saw the commencement of the great struggle with America, which ended in the independence of the United States. In this, as in his preceding volumes, the new materials which Lord Mahon has been so fortunate as to collect from the family papers of the representatives of the political leaders of the period, and which he has inserted in his appendix, contribute very materially to the value and importance of his history. _Cheshire; its Historical and Literary Associations, illustrated in a series of Biographical Sketches;_ and _The Cheshire and Lancashire Historical Collector_, a small 8vo. sheet originally issued every month, but now every fortnight, in consequence of increase of materials, and the great encouragement which the undertaking has received, are two contributions towards Cheshire topography, local history, bibliography, &c., for which the good men of the Palatinate are indebted to the zeal of Mr. T. Worthington Barlow, of the Society of Gray's Inn.