I know more than one person who would second the request that I am about to make through "NOTES AND QUERIES" to DR. MAITLAND, that he would publish the remaining parts of his _Illustrations and Enquiries relating to Mesmerism_: he would do so, I know, at once, if he thought that anybody would benefit by them; and I can bear witness to Part I. as having been already of some use. It is high time that Christians should be decided as to whether or no they may meddle with the fearful power whose existence is is impossible to ridicule any longer. DR. MAITLAND has suggested the true course of thought upon the subject, and promised to lead us along it; but it is impossible at present to use anything that he has said, on account of its incompleteness. In tracing the subject through history, DR. MAITLAND would no doubt mention the "[Greek: Omphalopsuchoi], or Umbilicani," of the fourteenth century, whose practices make a page (609.) of Waddington's _History of the Church_ read like a sketch of Middle-age Mesmerism, contemptuously given. Also, in Washington Irving's _Life of Mahomet_, a belief somewhat similar to theirs is stated to have been preached in the seventh century (_Bohn's Reprint in Shilling Series_, p. 191.) by a certain Moseilma, a false prophet. I may add that Miss Martineau's new book, _Letters of the Development of Man's Nature, by Atkinson and Martineau_, which cannot be called sceptical, for its unbelief is unhesitating, is the immediate cause of my writing to-day. A. L. R. * * * * * Minor Notes. _Original Warrant._--The following warrant from the original in the Surrenden collection may interest some of your correspondents, as bearing upon more than one Query that has appeared in your columns:-- "Forasmuch as S^r John Payton, Knight, Lieutenant of the Tower, hath heretofore receaved a warrant from the Lls. of the counsell, by her Ma^{ts} commandment, for the removinge of Wright the Preist out of the Tower, to Framingham Castle, and for that, since then, it is thought more convenient, that he be removed to the Clincke--Theise therefore shalbe to require now (sic) to enlarge him of his imprisonment in the Tower, and to deliver him prisoner into the hands of the L. Bishop of London, to be committed by his Lp. to the Clincke, because it is for her M^{ts} speciall service,--for doinge whereof, this shalbe your warrant. "From the court at "Oatlands this 29 "of September, 1602. "RO. CECYLL. "To Mr. Anthony Deeringe, "Deputy Lieutenant of the Tower of London." "2. October, 1602. "I have receyed Mr. Wryght from Mr. Derynge, Deputy Lieutenant, and have comitted him to the Clincke according the direction from Mr. Secretary above expressed. "RIC. LONDON." L. B. L.