222. _Dryden--Illustrations by T. Holt White._--The late T. Holt White, Esq. (who edited and published in 1819 the _Areopagitica_ of Milton, adding a very ably composed preface, erudite notes, and interesting illustrations), had compiled in _many_ interleaved volumes of the works of Dryden, such a mass of information, that Sir Walter Scott, when he had turned over the leaves of a few volumes, closed them, and is reported to have said, "_It would be unjust to meddle with such a compilation; I see that I have not even straw to make my bricks with._" Can any one of your correspondents inform me if that compilation has been preserved, and where it is? ÆGROTUS. 223. _Pauper's Badge, Meaning of._--In the Churchwarden's Accounts for the parish of Eye for the year 1716, is the following entry: "22 July, 1716. "It is agreed that, forasmuch as Frances Gibbons _hath refused to weare the badge_, that she should not be allowed the collection [_i.e._ the weekly parish allowance] now due, nor for the future w'h shall be due." Can any correspondent inform me what this _badge_ was, and also if it was of general use in other places? J. B. COLMAN. 224. _The Landing of William Prince of Orange in Torbay. Painted by J. Northcote, R. A._--Can any of the readers of "NOTES AND QUERIES" inform me who is the owner of the above-named painting, which was in the Exhibition of the Royal Academy at the end of the last century, and afterwards engraved by J. Parker? A. H. W. 225. _The Lowy of Tunbridge._--Lambarde (_Perambulation of Kent_, 1596, p. 425.) says, that round about the town of Tunbridge lieth a territory commonly called the Lowy, but in the ancient records written Leucata or Leuga, which was a French league of ground, and which was allotted at first to one Gislebert, son of Godfrey (who was natural brother to Richard, second Duke of Normandy of that name), in lieu of a town and land called Bryonnie in Normandy, which belonged to him, and which Robert, eldest son to King William the Conqueror, seized and bestowed on Robert Earle Mellent. I should be glad to know if there is at present any trace of such a territory remaining. E. N. W. Southwark, Sept. 28, 1851. 226. _Bones of Birds._--Some naturalists speak of the hollowness of the bones of birds as giving them buoyancy, because they are filled with air. It strikes me that this reason is inconclusive, for I should suppose that in the atmosphere, hollow bones, _quite empty_, would be more buoyant than if filled with air. Perhaps one of your correspondents will kindly enlighten my ignorance, and explain whether the air with which the bones are filled is not used by the bird in respiration in the more rarefied altitudes, and the place supplied by a more gaseous expiration of less specific gravity than the rarefied atmosphere? Although of a different class from the queries you usually insert, I hope you will not think this foreign to the purpose of your useful miscellany.