NORWICH, KIRKPATRICK COLLECTION MSS. FOR THE HISTORY OF. (Vol. ix., p. 515.) Your correspondent T. A. T. can find a full, but in one respect a most unsatisfactory reply to his inquiry, in the preface to a _History of the Religious Orders and Communities, and of the Hospital and Castle of Norwich_, by Mr. John Kirkpatrick, Treasurer of the Great Hospital, bearing the names of Edwards and Hughes, London, and Stevenson and Hatchett, Norwich, as publishers, and dated 1845. This volume was printed at the expense of Hudson Gurney, Esq., whose "well-known liberality and laudable desire to perpetuate the knowledge of the antiquities of his native city," the preface fitly records; but it was not, in the commercial sense of the word, _published_; and, therefore, the information it gives may not be generally accessible. The following is the list of the collections which were "safe in the custody of the corporation about thirty years ago (say between 1800 and 1810), when M. de Hague held the office of town-clerk." "1. A thick volume of the early history and jurisdiction of the city; date 1720. 2. A similar folio volume, being an account of the military state of the city, its walls, towns, ponds, pits, wells, pumps, &c.; date 1722. 3. A thick quarto. 4. Several large bundles, foolscap folio; Annals of Norwich. 5. A fasciculus, foolscap folio; origin of charities and wills relating thereto, in each parish. 6. Memorandum books of monuments. 7. Ditto of merchants' marks. 8. Ditto of plans of churches. 9. Paper containing drawings of the city gates, and a plan of Norwich. 10. Drawings of all the churches. 11. An immense number of small pieces of paper, containing notes of the tenures of each house in Norwich."