Junius Rumours 159 Wady Mokatteb not mentioned in Num. xi. 26., by Rev. Dr. Todd 159 Replies to Minor Queries:--Rotten Row--"Preached from a Pulpit rather than a Tub"--Olivarius--Slavery in Scotland --Cibber's Lives of the Poets--Theoloneum--John of Padua--Stoke--Eliza Fenning--Ghost Stories--Autographs of Weever and Fuller--Lines on the Bible--Hell-rake--Family Likenesses--Grimsdyke--Portraits of Wolfe, &c. 160 MISCELLANEOUS:-- Notes on Books, &c. 166 Books and Odd Volumes wanted 166 Notices to Correspondents 167 Advertisements 167 Notes. THE OLD COUNTESS OF DESMOND. (_Continued from_ Vol. iv., p. 426.) I feel much obliged to J. H. M., who writes from Bath, and has directed my attention to Horace Walpole's "minute inquiry" respecting the "Old Countess of Desmond," as also to "Pennant's Tours," all which I have had opportunity of examining since I wrote to you last. The references do not incline me to alter one word of the opinion I have ventured as to the identity of this lady; on the contrary, with the utmost respect for his name and services to the cause of antiquarian research, I propose to show that Horace Walpole (whose interest in the question was, by his own confession, but incidental, and ancillary to his historic inquiries into the case of Richard III., and who had no direct data to go on) knew nothing of the matter, and was quite mistaken as to the individual.