_Robert Long_ (No. 24. p. 382.).--Rear-Admiral Robert Long died 4th _July_, 1771, having been superannuated on the half-pay of rear-admiral some time before his death. His seniority in the navy was dated from 21st March, 1726, and he was posted in the Shoreham. He never was _Sir_ Robert. An account of the charity he founded may be seen in the _Commissioners' Reports on Charities_, vol. iii. iv. vi. G. _Transposition of Letters_ (No. 19. p. 298.).--Instances of shortened names of places. Bensington, Oxfordshire, now called Benson; Stadhampton, Oxfordshire, now called Stadham; and in Suffolk the following changes have taken place; Thelnetham is called Feltam; Hoxney, Oxen. C.I.R. _The Complaynt of Scotland_.--I believe there has not been discovered recently any fact relative to the authorship of above-mentioned poem, and that the author is, "Sir David Lyndsay of the Mount, Lord Lyon King-at-Arms." W.B. _Note Books_ (No. 3. p. 43., and No. 7. p. 104.)--I beg to state my own mode, than which I know of none better. I have _several_ books, viz., for History, Topography, Personal and Family History, Ecclesiastical Affairs, Heraldry, Adversaria. At the end of each volume is an alphabet, with six columns, one for each vowel; in one or other of which the word is entered according to the vowel which first appears in it, with a reference to the page. Thus, _bray_ would come under B.a; _church_ under C.u.; and so forth. S.S.S. * * * * * MISCELLANIES. _MSS. of Casaubon._--There is a short statement respecting certain MSS., now existing, of the great critic Casaubon, in a recent volume of the Parker Society--Whitaker's _Disputation on Holy Scripture_, edited and translated by Professor Fitzgerald, Professor of Moral Philosophy, Dublin, which I conceive is one of those facts which might be of service at some future time to scholars, from having been recorded in your columns:-- Whitaker having observed-- "One Herman, a most impudent papist, affirms that the scriptures are of no more avail than Aesop's fables, apart from the testimony of the church."--(Parker Soc. transl., p. 276.) Professor Fitzgerald appends the following "note:"-- "Casaubon, Exercit. Baron. I. xxxiii. had, but doubtfully, attributed this to Pighius; but in a MS. note preserved in Primate Marsh's library, at St. Sepulchre's, Dublin, he corrects himself thus: 'Non est hic, sed quidam Hermannus, ait Wittakerus in Præfat. Controvers. I. Quæst. S. p. 314.' If a new edition of those Exercitations be ever printed, let not these MSS. of that great man, which, with many other valuable records, we owe to the diligence of Stillingfleet and the munificence of Marsh, be forgotten." T. Bath * * * * * ON A VERY TALL BARRISTER NAMED "LONG." Longi longorum longissime, Longe, virorum, Dic mihi, te quæso, num _Breve_ quicquid habes? W.(1.)