"The Major and Burgesses of Grimesby hanged a Preist for theft called Richard of Notingham. Hereupon y[=e] B^p sendes to y[=e] Abbott of Wellow to associate to himselfe twelue adjacent chapleins to examine y[=e] cause, and in St. James his Church Excommunicates all y^t had any hand in it of whatsoever condition they were, y[=e] King, Queen, and Prince of Wales excepted; {467} and y[=e] B^p himselfe did Excommunicate them in y[=e] Cathedral Church of Lincolne, y[=e] fifth of y[=e] Ides of Aprill following." EDWARD PEACOCK. Bottesford Moors, Kirton-in-Lindsey. _The Natural History of Balmoral._--Dr. William Macgillivray, Professor of Civil and Natural History in the Marischal College of Aberdeen, and who died there Sept. 5, 1852, left an unpublished MS. on "The Natural History of Balmoral and its Neighbourhood." This work has been purchased from his executors by His Royal Highness Prince Albert; and is to be printed for the use of Her Majesty and the Royal Family, and for circulation among their august relatives. It was the last work on which the distinguished author was engaged, and was only completed a short time previous to his death. It also contains some curious speculations regarding several plants and herbs of that Alpine district, and their uses in a medicinal and domestic point of view, as known to the ancient Caledonians and Picts. Altogether it is a most interesting work. W. _Shirt Collars._--In Hone's _Every-day Book_, vol. ii. p. 381., I find the following, which I think is after the present ridiculous fashion of wearing shirt collars, viz. so tight round the neck, and so stiff, that it is a wonder there are not some serious accidents. These collars, at present worn by the fast young men of the day, are called "The Piccadilly three-folds." Now, if this goes on until they get to a "nail in depth, and stiffened with yellow starch, and _double wired_," I think it will only be proper to put a heavy tax upon them.