(1) Randle Mynshull of Wistaston married Ann Boot, and had seven children, of whom it will be necessary to mention three only, viz.-- (2) Richard Mynshull, baptized April 7, 1641. On June 4, 1680, he executed a bond, by the description of Richard Mynshull of Wistaston, frame-work knitter, to Elizabeth Milton of the city of London, widow, who, though not stated to be his sister, was evidently a near relative, as appears from the contents of the bond. (3) John Mynshull appears to have resided in Manchester, where he was buried, May 18, 1720, and administration was granted at Cheshire to Elizabeth Milton of Nantwich, widow, his lawful sister and next of kin. (4) Elizabeth, baptized December 30, 1638, married Milton in 1664, is described as of London in the bond from her brother, on the occasion of her purchase of an estate at Brindley in Cheshire; is described as of Nantwich in three legal documents from 1713 to 1725; by the same description, administered to her brother John in 1720, and made her will on August 22, 1727, which was proved on October 10 in the same year. (5) Thomas Mynshull, the apothecary of Manchester, mentioned in Thomas Paget's will, aged fifty-one in 1664, had five sons and four daughters. (6) Richard Mynshull, alderman of Chester, to whom his father wrote the letter of May 3, 1656, aged forty-seven in 1663. J. F. MARSH. Warrington. * * * * * TABLE-TURNING. (Vol. viii., pp. 57. 398.) One of the most distinguished men of science in France, M. Chevreul, the editor (late or present) of the _Annales de Chimie_, &c., has commenced a series of articles in the _Journal des Savants_ on the subject of the divining-rod, the exploring pendulum, table-turning, &c., his intention being to investigate scientifically the phenomena presented in these instances. Having formerly written much on the occult sciences and being a veteran in experimental science, M. Chevreul was generally deemed better qualified than most men living to throw light on the intervention of a principle whose influence he thinks he has proved by his own proper experience. It will be better to quote his own language: "Ce principe concerne le _développement en nous d'une action musculaire qui n'est pas le produit d'une volonté, mais le résultat d'une pensée qui se porte sur un phénomène du monde extérieur sans préoccupation de l'action musculaire indispensable à la manifestation du phénomène_. Cet énonce sera développé lorsque nous l'appliquerons à l'explication des faits observés par nous, et deviendra parfaitement clair, nous l'espérons, lorsque le lecteur verra qu'il est l'expression précise de ces mêmes faits." A farther quotation (if it should not prove too long for "N. & Q.") from M. Chevreul's {40} preliminary remarks will be thought interesting by many persons: