_Dr. John Pocklington._--Can any of your correspondents oblige me with information respecting the family, or the armorial bearings of Dr. John Pocklington? He wrote _Altare Christianum_ and _Sunday no Sabbath_. The parliament deprived him of his dignities A.D. 1640; and he died Nov. 14, 1642. Dr. Pocklington descended from Ralph Pocklington, who, with his brother Roger, followed Margaret of Anjou after the battle of Wakefield, A.D. 1460. He is said to have settled in the west, where he lived to have three sons. The family is mentioned in connexion with the county of York, as early as A.D. 1253. X. Y. Z. [John Pocklington was first a scholar at Sidney Sussex College, B.D. in 1621, and afterwards a Fellow of Pembroke Hall, Cambridge. He subsequently became Rector of Yelden in Bedfordshire, Vicar of Waresley in Huntingdonshire, prebend of Lincoln, Peterborough, and Windsor; and was also one of the chaplains to Charles I. "On the 15th May, 1611, the Earl of Kent, with consent of Lord Harington, wrote to Sidney College to dispense with Mr. Pocklington's holding a small living with cure of souls. {248} See the original letter in the college treasury, box 1 or 6." (Cole's MSS., vol. xlvi. p.207.). Among the King's Pamphlets in the British Museum is "The Petition and Articles exhibited in Parliament against John Pocklington, D.D., Parson of Yelden, in Bedfordshire, anno 1641." The petition "humbly sheweth, That John Pocklington, D.D., Rector of the parish of Yelden in the county of Bedford, Vicar of Waresley in the county of Huntingdon, Prebend of Lincoln, Peterborough, and Windsor, hath been a chief author and ringleader in all those innovations which have of late flowed into the Church of England." The Articles exhibited (too long to quote) are singularly illustrative of the ecclesiastical usages in the reign of Charles I., and would make a curious appendix to the REV. H. T. ELLACOMBE'S article at p. 257. of the present Number. Having rendered himself obnoxious to the popular faction by the publication of his _Altare Christianum_ and _Sunday no Sabbath_, the parliament that met on Nov. 3, 1640, ordered these two works to be burnt by the common hangman in both the Universities, and in the city of London. He died on November 14, and was buried Nov. 16, 1642, in the churchyard of Peterborough Cathedral. On his monumental slab is the following inscription: "John Pocklington, S.S. Theologia Doctor, obiit Nov. 14, 1642." A copy of his will is in the British Museum (Lansdown, 990, p. 74.). It is dated Sept. 6, 1642; and in it bequests are made to his daughters Margaret and Elizabeth, and his sons John and Oliver. His wife Anne was made sole executrix. He orders his body "to be buried in Monk's churchyard, at the foot of those monks martyrs whose monument is well known: let there be a fair stone with a