238. _Finger Pillories in Churches._--Besides some interesting monuments, &c., to be found in the church of Ashby-de-la-Zouch, there stands under the western gallery a _finger pillory_, or stocks to confine the fingers only: it is fastened at its right-hand extremity into the wall, and consists of two pieces of oak; the bottom and fixed piece is three feet eight inches long; the width of the whole is four and a half inches, and when closed it is five inches deep: the left-hand extremity is supported by a leg of the same width as the top, and two feet six inches in length; the upper piece is joined to the lower by a hinge, and in this lower and fixed horizontal part are thirteen perpendicular holes, varying in size; the largest are towards the right hand: these holes are sufficiently deep to admit the finger to the second joint, and a slight hollow is made to receive the third one, which lies flat; there is of course a corresponding hollow in the top or movable part, which, when shut down, incloses the whole finger. Its use is stated to have been for the punishment of persons guilty of mal-practices during divine service: truly, a mischievous urchin, or a lout of a farm servant, dragged off to the stocks, must have been a scene extremely edifying to the congregation, particularly if the offenders were obstreperous, and had no inclination whatever to be in a fix. Query, Is there another known instance of stocks for the fingers alone, and applied to similar purposes? THOS. LAWRENCE. Ashby-de-la-Zouch. 239. _Stallenge Queries._--1. What was the christian name, birth, and parentage of the Stallenge who planted the mulberry trees at Sion House at the commencement of the seventeenth century? 2. What was the name of the _first wife_ of that Sir Nicholas Stallenge who, towards the close of the sixteenth century, married as his _second wife_ Florence Kenn, widow of Sir Christopher Kenn, of Kenn, in the county of Somerset? 3. What city or castle in England was Sir Thomas Stallenge his son governor of? 4. What was the name of the wife of the said Sir Thomas Stallenge? M. C. U. 240. _Ancient MS. History of Scotland._--In the year 1796, there was in the possession of the Rev. Robert Rennie, minister of Kilsyth, Stirlingshire, an old MS. which that gentleman (in Sir John Sinclair's _Statistical Account_) thus describes:-- "It seems to be a chronicle of Scotland. The most of it is legible. It takes up the history of Scotland at the Christian era, and contains a regular series of all the remarkable events in every king's reign, with the name of the kings, down to the year 1565. I have compared it with many histories and annals of Scotland, but am of opinion that it is an original, and not a copy." Can any of your correspondents give any additional information regarding it? ABERDONIENSIS. 241. _Pharetram de Tutesbit._--Can you tell me the meaning of _Pharetram de Tutesbit_ and _sagittas flectatas_ in the following?