artistic--by the honours and distinctions thus conferred upon a most worthy, but most contemned and neglected portion of the educated community. A CONTRIBUTOR TO "NOTES AND QUERIES." Replies to Minor Queries. _Arbor Lowe_--_Stanton Moor_--_Ayre Family_ (Vol. iv., p. 274.).--In Rhodes's _Peak Scenery_, p. 228, it is said: "Near Middleton, by Youlgrave, we found the celebrated Druidical monument of Arbor Low, one of the most striking remains of antiquity in any part of Derbyshire. This circle includes an area of from forty to fifty yards diameter, formed by a series of large unhewn stones, not standing upright, but all laid on the ground, with an inclination towards the centre; round these the remains of a ditch, circumscribed by a high embankment, may be traced. Near the south entrance into this circle there is a mound, or burial-place, in which some fragments of an urn, some half-burnt bones, and the horns of a stag, were found." In the same work, at pages 236, 237., is an account of the Druidical remains at Stanton Moor. And at page 224. are the following remarks:-- "The Eyres is one of the oldest families in Derbyshire, where they have continued to reside through the long lapse of more than seven hundred years, as appears from the following curious extract from an old pedigree which is preserved at Hassop. 'The first of the Eyres came in with King William the Conqueror, and his name was Truelove; but in the battle of Hastings (14 Oct. 1066) this Truelove, seeing the king unhorsed, and his helmet beat so close that he could not breathe, pulled off his helmet and horsed him again. The king said, Thou shalt hereafter from Truelove be called _Air_ or _Eyre_, because thou hast given me the air I breathe. After the battle the king called for him, and being found with his thigh cut off, he ordered him to be taken care of; and being recovered, he gave him lands in the county of Derby, in reward for his services, and the seat he lived at he called Hope, because he had hope in the greatest extremity; and the king gave the leg and thigh cut off in armour for his crest, and which is still the crest of all the Eyres in England.'" A descendant of this person is the present Earl of Newburgh, of Hassop Hall. At page 240. is an account of the village of Birchover, and also of the Rowter Rocks, but no mention is made of the family of the Ayres, or of the ruins of any house formerly belonging to them. JOHN ALGOR. Sheffield. _The Duke of Monmouth's Pocket-books_ (Vol. iv., p. 3.).--The paragraph quoted by SIR F. MADDEN out of _Prayers after the confession of sins, and the sense of pardon obtained_, and well called by him "striking," is a _verbatim_ copy of a passage in "A Guide for the Penitent," published at the end of Jeremy Taylor's _Golden Grove_.