I offer it to your correspondent's consideration, whether his "Jane, Countess of Westmoreland," was not wife of the said Charles Neville, _sixth_ Earl of Westmoreland, who was attainted 18 Eliz. (1575-6). His date is evidently most favourable to this view. It is true the attainder stands in the way; but if even this affords an obstacle, the next candidate for appropriation would be Jane _Cholmley_. Assuming, however, that your correspondent allows this lady as a candidate for the appropriation, her pedigree corroborates the claim. I have found, by long and minute observation, that hereditary talent, &c. usually descends by the _mesmeric_ {269} tie of affection and favoritism, from fathers to the eldest daughter, and from mothers to the eldest son; and the pedigree of _Jane_, Countess of Charles, _sixth_ Earl of Westmoreland, stands thus:-- EDWARD STAFFORD, Duke of Buckingham; great, good, and accomplished, and fell a victim to envy.== | ---------------------------------- | _1st Dau._ ELIZABETH, wife of Thomas Howard, third Duke of Norfolk. == | --- | _1st Son._ HENRY HOWARD, Earl of Surry, the poet; great, good, and accomplished, and fell a victim to envy == as physical heir of his mat. grandfather. | ------- | _1st Dau._ JANE, wife of Charles Neville, sixth Earl of Westmoreland (and qu. the authoress in question?). Besides being eldest daughter of the celebrated poet, the said Jane, Countess of Westmoreland, was sister of Henry Howard, the learned Earl of Northampton, her father's younger son--(some younger son, like eldest daughters, generally inheriting, physically, in some prominent feature, from the father). WILLIAM D'OYLY BAYLEY. * * * * * Replies to Minor Queries. _Ulm Manuscript_ (Vol. iii., pp. 60. 191.).--In addition to the information supplied by MR. FOSS, it may be mentioned that this manuscript is so called from having been referred to by Griesbach as the _Codex Ulmensis apud Gerbert_. This takes us to the _Iter Alemannicum, Italicum et Gallicum_ of Martin Gerbert, published in 1765, at p. 192. of which work he informs us, that in the year 1760 this manuscript was preserved at Ulm in the library of the family of Krafft, which consisted of 6000 volumes, printed and manuscript. Of its history from this period till it came into Bishop Butler's hands, I am ignorant. Its reference at present in the British Museum is _MSS. Add._ 11,852. [mu].