"_Prophecies of Nostradamus_" (Vol. iv., pp. 86. 140. 258.).--J. R. says that "the first edition of the _Prophecies of Nostradamus_ is not only in the National Library, but in several others, both in Paris and elsewhere." Does J. R. speak from personal observation or at second-hand? When I was in Paris I spent some hours in searching the catalogue and shelves of both the National Library and that of St. Geneviève, but I could find no edition of Nostradamus dated 1555 in either. To convince myself that my search had been accurate, I turned to _Nostradamus_, par Eugène Bareste, Paris, 1840, and there found it distinctly asserted that there is no copy of the first edition of the book (viz. that of 1555) _in any public library_ in Paris, and that the copy used in compiling that edition of 1840 was borrowed from a private collection. I cannot give the exact words of M. Bareste, as I only made a "Note" of their purport; but if J. R. will say upon what authority his statement as to this rare little book is based, I will certainly some day renew my search for it at the National Library. H. C. DE ST. CROIX. _Bourchier Family_ (Vol. iv., p. 233.).--Monuments, with inscriptions, to William Bourchier, Earl of Bath, 1623; Henry Bourchier, Earl of Bath; many of the family of Bourchier-Wrey, and others allied to them, are in the church of Tavistock, in the county of Devon; and the whole of them have been carefully transcribed with notes of the heraldry. S. S. S. _William III. at Exeter_ (Vol. iv., p. 233.).--Jenkins, the historian of Exeter, in relating the prince's public entry into that city, states that he was preceded by the Earl of Macclesfield and two hundred horsemen, _most of whom_ were English nobles and gentlemen. There is in the Bodleian Library a fo. broadsheet entitled, _A True and Exact Relation of the Prince of Orange, his Publick Entrance into Exeter_, which, if I remember right, was reprinted in Somers' _Tracts_, but I do not think any names of those gentlemen are therein mentioned. S. S. S. _Passage in George Herbert_ (Vol. iv., p. 231.).--Does not Herbert imply in these lines-- "Take one from ten, and what remains? Ten still, if sermons go for gains." that the payer of _tithes_ receives an equivalent in the ministrations of the priest? S. C. C. Corfe Castle. This passage alludes doubtless to the tithe of the parson, and maintains that the tithe-payer is no loser if the sermons for which tithe is paid produce their effects. In fact, it is a paraphrase of _Proverbs_, iii. 9, 10.: "Honour the Lord with all thy substance, and with the first fruits of all thine increase: so shall thy barns be filled with plenty, and thy presses shall burst out with new wine." J. A. PICTON. Liverpool.