343. _Religious Houses in East Sussex._--Can any of your readers refer me to any sources of information, printed or in manuscript, in addition to those mentioned in the last edition of Dugdale's _Monasticon_, respecting the following religious houses in East Sussex: _Otham_, _Bayham_, _Michelham_, _Robertsbridge_? E. V. 344. _Parish Registers--Right of Search--Fees claimable._--Considerable attention has of late been excited with reference to the difficulties attending the ordinary means of access to various public depositories of documentary evidence in this country. In some of these departments, the commencement of a welcome reform is already apparent; others, it is but reasonable to hope, will, ere long, yield to the frank and inquisitive spirit of the times in this respect. The present communication is confined to a very wide, though less dignified source of official information, viz. Parish Registers. I am sure I need not say one word to illustrate the importance of the last-mentioned class of evidence to the genealogist, the topographer, or the archæological inquirer in general,--in one word, to those who enter into the spirit of the "NOTES AND QUERIES." I beg, therefore, to submit the following inquiries: 1. Have the actual parishioners of a place a right to consult their own register of baptisms, marriages, and burials, _gratuitously_? If not:-- 2. What fee is _legally_ demandable,--and by whom,--and under what restrictions? And-- 3. Do the terms differ when the inquirer is not a _parishioner_? If so, in what respect do they differ? These inquiries have reference to the contents of the chests kept in, or in connection with, parochial churches and chapels, and not to those in the custody of the modern "Registrar." I need scarcely add, that my concern is with the strictly _legal_ rights of search, and demand of fees; and not as to what courtesy may concede, or usage sanction. D. Rotherfield. 345. _Bacon a Poet._--In Boswell's Journal of his _Tour to the Hebrides_ he quotes the subjoined couplet, premising, "As Bacon says-- "Who then to frail mortality shall trust, But limns the water, or but writes in dust." Is not _Bacon_ here a slip of the pen or press? Sir Nicholas Bacon, Lord Bacon, and Bacon the sculptor, are the only conspicuous men of the name, and none of them that I know wrote verses. R. CS. 346. _Tregonwell Frampton._--Where can I obtain any particulars of the life of Tregonwell Frampton, Esq., commonly called the "Father of the Turf," who died at an advanced age about 1727-8. Reference is made to him in the _Rambler_. T. R. W.