There can be no doubt (as it seems to me) that the poet's name _ought_ to be pronounced according to the spelling. I am enabled to state decidedly that he himself pronounced his name _Cowper_, and _not Cooper_. I venture to think that the same might also be said with respect to Lord Coke's name; _i. e._ that the pronunciation Cook is only a "modern affectation." R. VINCENT. _Registry of British Subjects Abroad_ (Vol. iv., p. 7.).--All English chaplains on the Continent are licensed to their respective chaplaincies by the Bishop of London, and are within his ecclesiastical jurisdiction. This _may_ have given rise to the notion of which your correspondent speaks. R. VINCENT. _Hanging out the Broom at the Mast-heads of Ships to be sold_ (Vol. ii., p. 226.).--In reply to the question of your correspondent W. P., I beg to inform him that the custom originated from that period of our history when the Dutch admiral, Van Tromp, with his fleet appeared on our coasts in hostility against England. The broom was hoisted as indicative of his intention to sweep the ships of England from the sea. To repel this insolence the English admiral hoisted a horse-whip, equally indicative of his intention to chastise the Dutchman. The pennant which the horse-whip symbolised has ever since been the distinguishing mark of English ships of war. JAMES CORNISH. _William Godwin_ (Vol. i., pp. 415. 478.).--Your correspondents N. and C. H. may find some interesting passages of Godwin's life in his _Memoirs of Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin_: Johnson, St. Paul's Church Yard, 1798. JAMES CORNISH. _Family of Kyme_ (Vol. iv., p. 23.).--Bold may find some information which will assist him in a pedigree and account of this family, showing the descent of the manor of South and North Kyme in Lincolnshire, in Creasy's _History of Sleaford and the surrounding Neighbourhood_, p. 274. The barony of Kyme appears to have passed into the female line by the death of William de Kyme without issue in 12 Edward III. J. P. JUN. _Plaids and Tartans_ (Vol. iv., p. 7.).-- "The belted plaid was the original dress. It is precisely that of a savage, who, finding a web of cloth he had not skill to frame into a garment, wrapt one end round his middle, and threw the rest about his shoulders.... And it is little to the honour of Highland ingenuity, that although the chiefs wore long pantaloons called _trews_, the common _gael_ never fell upon any substitute for the belted plaid, till an English officer, for the benefit of the labourers who worked under his direction on the military roads, invented the _fileah beg_, philabeg, or little petticoat, detached from the plaid, and fastened by a buckle round the waist." Although the above extract from the _Quarterly Review_, vol. i. p. 186., is not exactly a reply to the Query of A JUROR (Vol. iv., p. 7.), still it may be of some use to him.