I do not know whether this lady, if indeed a daughter of a Lord Ranelagh, would be the daughter or sister of the Lord Ranelagh living in 1680, who was the first Earl of Ranelagh and third Viscount, and who is described by Burnet as a very able and very dissolute man, and a great favourite of Charles II. (_Hist. of his own Time_, i. 462., ii. 99., ed. 1823); and who, having held the office of Vice-Treasurer in Ireland during three reigns, was turned out of it in disgrace in 1703. He died in 1711, leaving no son, but three daughters, one of whom was unmarried; he was the last, as well as first, Earl of Ranelagh. The elder title of Viscount went to a cousin, and still exists. CH. * * * * * MISCELLANIES. _Dr. Sclater's Works._--Books written by W. Sclater, D.D., omitted in Wood's _Ath. Oxon._ edit. Bliss. vol. iii. col. 228.:-- "A Threefold Preseruatiue against three dangerous diseases of these latter times:-- "1. Non-proficiency in Grace. "2. Fals-hearted Hypocrisie. "3. Back-sliding in Religion. "Prescribed in a Sermon at S. Paul's Crosse in London, September 17, 1609. London. 1610." 4to. Ded. to "Master Iohn Colles, Esquire," from which it seems that Sclater had been presented to his living by the father of this gentleman. The Ser. is on Heb. vi. 4-6. "A Sermon preached at the last generall Assise holden for the County of Somerset at Taunton. London, 1616." 8vo. On Ps. lxxxii. 6, 7. Ded. to "John Colles, Esq., High Sheriffe of Sommerset." "Three Sermons preached by William Sclater, Doctor of Diuinity, and Minister of the Word of God at Pitmister [sic] in Sommersetshire. Now published by his Sonne of King's Colledge in Cambridge. London, 1629." 4to. On 1 Pet. ii. 11., 2 Kings, ix. 31., and Heb. ix. 27, 28. The last is a funeral Sermon for John Colles, Esq., preached in 1607. JOHN J. DREDGE. * * * * * _Runes._--Worsaeae (_Primeval Antiquities of Denmark_, 1849) mentions that inscriptions are found in Denmark, Norway, and Sweden, written in different languages in _Runic character_. He also mentions the fact of a Pagan Runic inscription occurring at Jellinge, Denmark, on the tomb of old King Gorm, A.D. c. 900, found in a huge barrow; and, at the same place, a Christian Runic inscription on the tomb of his son Harold. Has this inquiry been extended to British Runes, and might it not throw much light upon many monuments of dates prior to the Conquest? Crossed slabs with Runes have been found at Hartlepool, Durham; have the inscriptions been read? (Boutell's _Christian Monuments_, p. 3.; Cutt's _Manual of Sepulchral Slabs_, pp. 52. 60. plate III.) * * * * * MISCELLANEOUS. NOTES ON BOOKS, CATALOGUES, SALES, ETC.