It appears however, by this letter, that on one occasion he trespassed on some neighbour's game preserves, and received a hint on the subject: Beriton, Nov. 16, 1758. SIR, As I am extremely well convinced of your politeness, and your readiness to grant your {512} neighbours any reasonable liberty with regard to country sports, so I should be very sorry if either myself or my servants had taken any improper ones. I am no sportsman, Sir, and was as much tempted this morning by the beauty of the day and the pleasure of the ride as by the hopes of any sport. I went out, and, neither acquainted with the bounds of the manors nor your request to the neighbouring gentlemen, could only follow my groom where he led me. I quitted your manor the instant I received your message, without having killed anything in it. I assure you that you shall never have again the same subject of complaint. With regard to the liberty you are so good as to grant me for other sports, I return you my most humble thanks, but shall not make much use of it, as there are still in my father's manor more game than would satisfy so moderate a sportsman as myself. My father would be extremely angry if his servants had destroyed any of your game; but they all assure him they have killed no one hare upon your liberties. As to pheasants, they have only killed one this season, and that in Inwood copse. I am, Sir, Your obedient humble servant, E. GIBBON, Junior. E. G. F. S. * * * * * BOHN'S "ORDERICUS VITALIS." In looking through the pages of _Ordericus Vitalis_, vol. ii. (Bohn's edition), I have noticed some trifling inaccuracies, to one or more of which you will perhaps suffer me to call the editor's attention through the medium of "N. & Q.," in case he be not already aware of them. At p. 70. King William is described as offering the bishopric of Mans to "Samson, _Bishop_ of Bayeux, his chaplain." So in the index to _Histor. Anglic. circa tempus Conquestûs, &c., a Francisco Maseres_, I find this passage of Vitalis referred to under the title of "Sanson Baiocensis _episcopus_." But yet Odo was Bishop of Bayeux at this time; and notwithstanding what Marbode _afterwards_ said of Bayeux, when he invited his old pupil to meet him there, viz. "Sedes præsulibus sufficit illa tribus," yet Samson, even then, was not Bishop of Bayeux, but of Worcester.