JARLTZBERG. _Cotton of Finchley._--Can some one of your readers give me any particulars concerning the family of Cotton, which was settled at Finchley, Middlesex, about the middle of the sixteenth century? C.F. _Wood Carving in Snow Hill._--Can any one explain the wood carving over the door of a house at the corner of Snow Hill and Skinner Street. It is worth rescuing from the ruin impending it. A.C. _Walrond Family._--Can any of your readers inform me what was the maiden name of _Grace_, the wife of Col. Humphry Walrond, of Sea, in the county of Somerset, a distinguished loyalist, some time Lieutenant-Governor of Bridgewater, and Governor of the island of Barbadoes in 1660. She was living in 1635 and 1668. Also the names of his _ten_ children, or, at all events, his three youngest. I have reason to believe the seven elder were George, Humphry, Henry, John, Thomas, Bridget, and Grace. W. DOWNING BRUCE. _Translations._--What English translations have appeared of the famous _Epistolæ Obscurorum Virorum_? Has _La Chiave del Gabinetto del Signor Borri_ (by Joseph Francis Borri, the Rosicrucian) ever been translated into English? I make the same Query as to _Le Compte de Gabalis_, which the Abbé de Rillan founded on Borri's work? JARLTZBERG. _Bonny Dundee--Graham of Claverhouse._--Can any of your correspondents tell me the origin of the term "Bonny Dundee?" Does it refer to the fair and flourishing town at the mouth of the Tay, or to the remarkable John Graham of Claverhouse, who was created Viscount of Dundee, after the landing of the Prince of Orange in England, and whose person is admitted to have been eminently beautiful, whatever disputes may exist as to his character and conduct? 2. Can reference be made to the date of his birth, or, in other words, to his age when he was killed at Killycrankie, on the 27th of July, 1689. All the biographies which I have seem are silent upon the point. W.L.M. _Franz von Sickingen._--Perusing a few of your back numbers, in a reply of S.W.S. to R.G. (Vol. i., p. 336.), I read: "I had long sought for a representation of Sickingen, and at length found a medal represented in the _Sylloge Numismatum Elegantiorum of Luckius_," &c. I now hope that in S.W.S. I have found the man who is to solve an obstinate doubt that has long possessed my mind: Is the figure of the knight in Durer's well-known print of "The Knight, Death, and the Devil," a portrait? If it be a portrait, is it a portrait of Franz von Sickingen, as Kugler supposes? The print is said to bear the date 1513. I have it, but have failed to discover any date at all. H.J.H. Sheffield. _Blackguard._--When did this word Come into use, and from what? Beaumont and Fletcher, in the _Elder Brother_, use it thus:-- "It is a Faith That we will die in, since from the _blackguard_ To the grim sir in office, there are few Hold other tenets." Thomas Hobbes, in his _Microcosmus_, says,--