Will any of your correspondents kindly inform us with what English monarch the custom {334} originated of having his letters countersigned by a minister, and of placing the address within the letter, as is the case in those of James II. to which we have just referred? WILLIAM WINTHROP. La Valetta, Malta. [Footnote 7: Robert Spencer, second Earl of Sunderland, K.G., was principal Secretary of State during the latter years of Charles II. and the whole reign of James II., and as such, when countersigning a royal letter, he placed at the end of his signature the letter P.] _Prince Charles' Attendants in Spain_ (Vol. ix., p. 272.).--In a small 4to. MS. in my possession, entitled "A Narrative of Count Gondomar's Proceedings in England," is the following list of "The Prince's Servants" who accompanied him in his Journey into Spain: "_Master of the Horse_, Lord Andover. _Master of the Ward_, Lord Compton. _Chamberlain_, Lord Carey. _Comptroller_, Lord Vaughan. _Secretary_, Sir Francis Cottington. _Gentleman of the Bed-chamber_, Sir Robert Carr. {Sir William Howard, {Sir Edmund Verney, {Sir William Crofts, _Gentlemen of the Privy_ {Sir Richard Wynne, _Chamber_ {Mr. Ralph Clare, {Mr. John Sandilaus, {Mr. Charles Glemham. {Mr. Francis Carew. _Gentleman Usher of the Privy Chamber_, Sir John North. {Mr. Newton, _Gentlemen Ushers of the Presence_ {Mr. Young, {Mr. Tyrwhitt. _Grooms of the Bed-chamber_, five. _Pages_, three. _Chaplains_, two." EDWARD F. RIMBAULT. _Churchill's Grave_ (Vol. ix., p. 122.).--The fact that Churchill's grave is at Dover, is not an obscure one. It was visited by Byron, who wrote a poem on the subject, which will be found in his _Works_. This poem is remarkable, among other things, from the circumstance that it is written in avowed and serious imitation of the style of Wordsworth. M. T. W. "_Cissle_" (Vol. ix., p. 148.).--If A. refers to Forby's _Vocabulary of East Anglia_, he will find: "SIZZLE, _v._ To dry and shrivel up with hissing, by the action of fire or some greasy or juicy substance." C. R. M.