[The foregoing ballad does not appear in the edition of the works of Sir C. Hanbury Williams (3 vols. 8vo. 1822), from the preface to which it appears that he was born in 1709, installed a Knight of the Bath in 1746, and died on the 2nd November, 1759.] * * * * * MINOR QUERIES. _Book called Tartuare.--William Wallace in London._--1. Is there any one of your correspondents, learned or unlearned, who can oblige me with any account of a printed book called _Tartuare?_ Its date would be early in the sixteenth century, if not before this. 2. After William Wallace had been surprised and taken, he was brought to London, and lodged, it is said, in a part of what is now known as Fenchurch Street. There is a reader and correspondent of yours, who, I am assured, can point out the site of this house, or whatever it was. Will he kindly assist archaeological inquirers, by informing us whereabouts it stood? W.(I.) _Obeism._--Can any of your readers give me some information about _obeism_? I am anxious to know whether it is in itself a religion, or merely a rite practised in some religion in Africa, and imported thence to the West Indies (where, I am told, it is rapidly gaining ground again); and whether the _obeist_ obtains the immense power he is said to possess over his brother negroes by any acquired art, or simply by working upon the more superstitious {60} minds of his companions. Any information, however, on the subject will be acceptable. T.H. Mincing Lane, Jan. 10. 1851. _Aged Monks._--Ingulphus (_apud Wharton, Anglia Sacra_, 613.) speaks of five monks of Croyland Abbey, who lived in the tenth century, the oldest of whom, he says, attained the age of one hundred and sixty-eight years: his name was Clarembaldus. The youngest, named Thurgar, died at the premature age of one hundred and fifteen. Can any of your correspondents inform me of any similar instance of longevity being recorded in monkish chronicles? I remember reading of some old English monks who died at a greater age than brother Thurgar, but omitted to "make a note of it" at the time, and should now be glad to find it. F. SOMNER MERRYWEATHER. Gloucester Place, Kentish Town. _Lady Alice Carmichael, daughter of John first Earl of Hyndford._--John second Lord Carmichael succeeded his grandfather in 1672. He was born 28th February, 1638, and married, 9th October, 1669, Beatrice Drummond, second daughter of David third Lord Maderty, by whom he had seven sons and _four_ daughters. He was created Earl of Hyndford in 1701, and died in 1710.