Mr. Nichols, in his _History of Leicestershire_, Part ii. vol. iii., remarks, "A turnpike road from Ashby to Whitwick, passes through Talbot Lane. Of this lane and the famous large pot at Warwick Castle, we have an old traditionary couplet: "'There's nothing left of Talbot's name, But Talbot's Pot and Talbot's Lane.' "Richard Beauchamp Earl of Warwick, died in 1439. His eldest daughter, Margaret, was married to John Talbot Earl of Shrewsbury, by whom she had one son, John Viscount Lisle, from whom the Dudleys descended, Viscount Lisle and Earl of Warwick." It would therefore appear that neither the armour nor the pot belonged to the "noble Guy"--the armour being comparatively of modern manufacture, and the pot, it appears, descended from the Talbots to the Warwick family: which pot is generally filled with punch on the birth of a male heir to that noble family. W. Reader. * * * * *{119} QUERIES. NICHOLAS FERRAR OF LITTLE GIDDING. Dr. Peckard, in his Preface to the _Life of Nicholas Ferrar of Little Gidding_, says the memoir he published was edited or compiled by him from "the original MS. still in my possession" (p. xi.); and in the Appendix adds, that "Mr. John Ferrar," the elder brother of Nicholas, was the author of it (p. 279.). How he compiled or edited "the original MS." he states with much candour in his Preface (p. xv.): "The editor's intention," in altering the narrative, "was to give what is not observed in the original, a regular series of facts; and through the whole a sort of evenness and simplicity of stile equally free from meanness and affectation. In short, to make the old and the new, as far as he could, uniform; that he might not appear to have sewed a piece of new cloth to an old garment, and made its condition worse by his endeavours to mend it." Again, at page 308., he says, "There is an antient MS. in folio, giving an account of Mr. N. Ferrar, which at length, from Gidding, came into the hands of Mr. Ed. Ferrar of Huntingdon, and is now in the possession of the editor. Mr. Peck had the use of this MS. as appears by several marginal notes in his handwriting; from this and some loose and unconnected papers of Mr. Peck.... the editor, as well as he was able, has made out the foregoing memoirs." Can any of your numerous correspondents inform me if this "antient MS." is still in existence, and in whose possession? Peckard was related to the Ferrars, and was Master of Magdalen Coll., Cambridge.