_The Bibliothecæ Regiæ_, 14 C. vii., contains "Historiæ M. Paris. Continuatio ad A.D. 1273, alia manu. De possessione hujus Codicis multa fuit altercatio." (See Warton's _History of English Poetry_, vol. i. p. lxxxviii. edit. 1840.) There are also MSS. at Corpus Christi College (No. 56.) and Ben'et College, Cambridge (No. 31.). Macray states, that the _Historia Minor_ was made out of the _Historia Major_ by Paris, both from Wendover to 1235, and his own large additions after that period. J. Y. Hoxton. _Sanford's "Descensus"_ (Vol. iv., p. 232.).--The work of Hugo Sanfordus, _De Descensu Domini nostri Jesu Christi ad inferos_, was published as a separate work at Amsterdam in 1611, and its title is inserted in the printed catalogue of the Bodleian Library. Can ÆGROTUS give a specific reference to the book, page, and edition of Gale's _Court of the Gentiles_ in which it is spoken of, and also his authority for the statement that it was published in the works of a bishop who survived him? TYRO. _Death of Pitt_ (Vol. iv., p. 232.).--MR. NATHANIEL ELLISON will find in the _Memoirs of Lady Hester Stanhope_, vol. iii. p. 141., a passage which pretty nearly confirms the account of _the desertion of Pitt's death-bed_. She said that James, a servant, was the only person present with Pitt when he died, and that she herself was the last person who saw him alive except James. She also stated that Dr. Pretyman, who seems to have been in the house, was fast asleep at the time; and that Sir Walter Farquhar, the physician, was absent. The account of Pitt's last moments in Gifford's life of him, where a prayer for forgiveness, &c. is put into his mouth, she pronounced to be _all a lie_. J. S. W. Stockwell. _History of Hawick_ (Vol iv., p. 233.).--In reply to the Query of your correspondent H. L., I have to inform him that there have been published two histories of Hawick, viz.,-- 1. Robert Wilson's _Sketch of the History of Hawick_, a small 8vo. printed in 1825. It contains a notice of the altercations between the Abbot of Melrose and Langlands the Baron of Wilton, relative to the arrear of tithes due to the abbacy of Melrose. A copy of this work can be procured for about 5_s._ 2. James Wilson's _Annals of Hawick, 1214-1814_, a small 8vo. printed in 1850. This work, under date 1494-5, has a notice of the murder of the chaplain by Langlands. This book can be had for 6_s._ 6_d._ A notice of the trial of Langlands for the murder will also be found in Pitcairn's _Criminal Trials_, vol. i. p. 20. T. G. S. Edinburgh, Oct. 6. 1851.