Whether Lord Bacon was, or was not, really _a poet_, I will leave to the decision of those who are conversant with the glorious works of his mind _and imagination_. But I have something to say to the note with which R. CS. follows up his query:--"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." This must not go unchallenged in the truthful pages of "NOTES AND QUERIES." "Pray, Sir," said a lady to me once, with a very complimentary air, "though no great Latin scholar, may I not judge by your name that you are a descendant of THE GREAT FRIAR BACON?" To which I could only reply, "Madam, I have never yet discovered the bend sinister on our escutcheon." From that proud moment I have been penetrated with the profoundest respect for the name of Roger; and I cannot patiently see the biggest pig of our sty namelessly consigned to oblivion in the pages of "NOTES AND QUERIES". Pray assure R. CS. that the three Bacons of whom he makes mention are _not_ "the only conspicuous men of the name." And as to the rest, "none of them that I know wrote verses," I beg to refer him to Lord Bacon's _Metrical Version of the Psalms_, vol. iv. p. 489. of his Works, ed. 1740. PORCULUS. Was not the _poet_ Bacon, quoted by Boswell, the Rev. Phannel Bacon, D.D., Rector of Balden in Oxfordshire, and Vicar of Bramber in Sussex, who died January 2, 1783? He was not only an admirable poet, but was a famous punster, and is described as possessing an admirable fund of humour. MYFANWY. _Story referred to by Jeremy Taylor_ (Vol. iv., p. 326.).--Unless the _Legenda Aurea_ be prior in date to the twelfth century, I can refer your correspondent to a still earlier authority for the tale in question--Wace (_Life of St. Nicholas_), in whose pages it appears more at length, but substantially the same. According to (I presume) the earlier historian, the case was brought within the jurisdiction of St. Nicholas by the "ieueu" receiving an image of the saint in pledge, and the debtor taking his expurgatory oath thereon. The story is told of a saint who lived in the fourth century, and we may, at all events, consider it as being much older than Wace himself. F. I. _Share of Presbyters in Ordination_ (Vol. iv., p. 273.).--As a contribution towards answering MR. GATTY'S question, I send the following extract from Hooker: