_Sir Cloudesley Shovel._--In Mrs. Markham's _History of England_ it is stated that Sir Cloudesley Shovel escaped from the wreck of his ship, but was murdered afterwards by a woman, who on her death-bed confessed it. Is there any authentic record elsewhere published? H.J. _Christopher Flecamore._--Walton says that Sir H. Wotton wrote his well-known definition of an ambassador at Augusta (_Augsburg_), in the Album of "Christopher Flecamore." (Wordsworth, _Eccl. Biog._, vol. iv. p. 86., ed. 1839.) Can any of your correspondents tell me who this person was? J.C.R. "_Earth has no Rage," &c._--Can you, or any of your contributors or readers, inform one where the following couplet is to be found: "Earth has no rage like love to hatred turn'd, And hell no fury like a woman scorn'd." I do not trouble you idly, as I have a particular reason for desiring to know the source of the lines. W.T.M. O. and C. Club _D'Oyly and Barry Families._--Any authentic information, original or not in the usual depositories, concerning the two great Norman races of D'OYLY and BARRY, or De Barry (both of which settled in England at the Conquest, and, singularly, both connected themselves with mistresses of King Henry I.), will be thankfully received if sent to WM. D'OYLY BAYLEY (Barry), F.S.A., whose histories of both races are still unfinished. Coatham, near Redcar, Yorkshire. _Lord Crewe, Bishop of Durham._--A collector of scraps and anecdotes relating to Nathaniel Lord Crewe, Bishop of Durham, would be glad to know whether, in the various MS. collections of our public libraries, there are extant any letters either written by that prelate or addressed to him? E.H.A. _Epigram on the Synod of Dort._--In the _Biographie Universelle_, art. GROTIUS, it is stated that the following singular distich against the Synod of Dort was made in England:-- "Dordrechti synodus, nodus; chorus integer, aeger; Conventus, ventus; sessio, stramen. Amen!" Query, By whom was it made? L. _Private Memoirs of Queen Elizabeth._--Several years ago I met with a book bearing this, or a similar title, upon one of the tables of the reading room of the British Museum. A passing glance made me anxious to refer to it at a future opportunity. But, although I have again and again searched through the Catalogues, and made anxious inquiries of the attendants in the reading-room, I have never yet been able to catch a glimpse of it. Can any of your correspondents furnish me with the correct title, and state whether it is still preserved in this national library? J.E.C. _Invention of Steam Power._--The following doggerel is the burden of a common street-ditty, among the boys of Campden, in Gloucestershire. "Jonathan Hulls, With his paper skulls, Invented a machine To go against wind and stream; But he, being an ass, Couldn't bring it to pass, And so was asham'd to be seen."