"All parliamentary and official documents procurable, have been collected; and their contents, so far as they bore on the state of the country, carefully abstracted; and where any deficiencies have been observable, the want has been supplied by applications to private sources, which, in every instance, have been most satisfactorily answered. He [Mr. Thom] is also indebted to similar applications to the ruling authorities of the several religious persuasions _for the undisputed accuracy of the ecclesiastical department of the Almanac_." I wish to call attention to the latter words; and in so doing, I assure you, I feel only a most anxious desire to see some farther improvements effected by Mr. Thom. I cannot allow "the undisputed accuracy of the ecclesiastical department," inasmuch as I have detected, even on a cursory examination, very many inaccuracies which a little care would certainly have prevented. For example, in p. 451. (_Ecclesiastical Directory_, Established Church and Diocese of Dublin), there are at least five grave mistakes, and four in the following page. These pages I have taken at random. I could easily point out other pages equally inaccurate; but I have done enough I think to prove, that while I willingly accord to the enterprising publisher the full meed of praise he so well deserves, a little more attention should be paid in future to the preparation of the ecclesiastical department. ABHBA. _Antiquity of the Word "Snub."_-- "Beware we then euer of discontente, and _snubbe_ it betimes, least it overthrowe us as it hath done manie." "Such _snubs_ as these be little cloudes."--_Comfortable Notes on Genesis_, by Gervase Babington, Bishop of Exeter, 1596. J. R. P. _Charles I. at Little Woolford._--There is an ancient house at Little Woolford (in the {220} southeast corner of Warwickshire) connected with which is a tradition that Charles I., after the battle of Edge Hill, which is not far distant, secreted himself in an oven there. This oven is preserved for the inspection of the curious. B. H. C. _Coincidences between Sir Thomas Browne and Bishop Ken._--Sir Thomas Browne wrote his _Religio Medici_ in 1533-5; and in it suggested some familiar verses of the "Evening Hymn" of his brother Wykehamist Bishop Ken. The lines are as follows: _Sir Thomas Browne._ "Guard me 'gainst those watchful foes, Whose eyes are open, while mine close; Let no dreams my head infest, But such as Jacob's temples blest: Sleep is a death: oh, make me try, By sleeping, what it is to die! And as gently lay my head On my grave, as now my bed. Howe'er I rest, great God, let me Awake again at last with Thee." _Bishop Ken._