_Well Chapels._--Will any of your learned readers be kind enough to direct me to the best sources of information on this subject? H. G. T. _Davy Jones's Locker._--If a sailor is killed in a sea-skirmish, or falls overboard and is drowned, or any other fatality occurs which necessitates the consignment of his remains to the "great deep," his surviving messmates speak of him as one who has been sent to "Davy Jones's Locker." Who was the important individual whose name has become so powerful a myth? And what occasioned the identification of the ocean itself with the locker of this mysterious Davy Jones? HENRY CAMPKIN. _Æsopus Epulans._--I shall be much obliged by information respecting the authorship and history of this work, printed at Vienna, 1749, 4to. N. B. _Written Sermons._--Information is requested as to when the custom of preaching from written sermons was first introduced, and the circumstances which gave rise to it. M. C. L. _Pallavicino and the Conte d'Olivares._--I have in my possession an old Italian MS., 27 pages of large foolscap paper. It is headed "Caduta del Conte d'Olivares," and at the end is signed "Scritta da Ferrante Pallavicino," and dated "28 Genaro, 1643." Of course this Count d'Olivares was the great favourite of Philip IV. of Spain; but who was Pallavicino? Could it have been the Paravicino who was court chaplain to Philip III. and IV.? or was he of the Genoese family of Pallavicini mentioned by Leigh Hunt (_Autobiography_, vol. ii. p. 177.) as having been connected with the Cromwell family? What favours the latter presumption is, that a gentleman to whom I showed the MS. said at once, "That is Genoa paper, just the same I got there for rough copies;" and he also told me that the water-mark was a well-known Genoa mark: it consists of a bird standing on an eight pointed starlike flower. If any one can give me any likely account of this Pallavicino, or tell me whether the MS. is at all valuable in any way, I shall owe him many thanks. CHARLES O. SOULEY. Broadway, New York, May 10. 1851. Minor Queries Answered. _Athelney Castle, Somersetshire._--Can any of your readers inform me, whether Athelney Castle, built by King Alfred, as a monastery, in token of his gratitude to God for his preservation, when compelled to fly from his throne, is in existence; or if any remains of it can be traced, as I do not find it mentioned either in several maps, gazetteers, or topographical dictionaries? It was situate about four miles from Bridgewater, near the conflux of the rivers Parrot and Tone? J. S. Islington, May 15. 1851.