"_Whipping Graves_" (Vol v., p. 247.).--CYRUS REDDING will find that the "Ritus Absolvendi jam mortuum" in the _modern Rituale Romanum_ (Mechliniæ, 1848), is performed exactly according to his description. G. A. T. Withyham. _Rev. John Paget_ (Vol. iv., p. 133.; Vol. v., p. 66.).--CRANMORE'S inquiry has not been fully answered, nor am I able to point out the precise degree of relationship between John Paget and the editor of his works, Thomas Paget. The latter became incumbent of Blackley, near Manchester, about the year 1605, having been placed in that chapelry chiefly through the efforts of the Rev. William Bourne, B.D., a native of Staffordshire, who had married a kinswoman of Lord Burleigh, and who was for many years an influential Fellow of the Collegiate Church of Manchester. (See Hollingworth's _Mancuniensis_, pp. 106, 107.) In 1617 Thomas Paget was cited before Morton, Bishop of Chester, for nonconformity; and shortly afterwards he was convened before Bishop Bridgeman on the same ground. He is styled at this time "the good old man" (Brook's _Lives_, vol. ii. p. 293.), although he lived at least forty years afterwards. In the delightful _Autobiography of Henry Newcome, M.A._, the Presbyterian Minister of Manchester, edited for the Chetham Society by the Rev. Canon Parkinson, D.D. (2 vols. 4to. 1852), are several interesting notices of Mr. Thomas Paget. He is mentioned as "old Mr. Pagit, late of Blakeley," in 1658, and seems to have had the rectory of Stockport in 1659, although Richard Baxter spoke of him in 1656 as "old and sickly," and then living at Shrewsbury. He was well known, says the amiable Newcome, "as a man of much frowardness," and able to create "much unquietness;" but Baxter hoped, "not altogether so morose as some report him." F. R. R. _Old Scots March, &c._ (Vol. v., p. 235.).--I happen to have the score of one of the tunes inquired after by E. N., namely, _Port Athol_, as given by the late Edward Bunting, in his collection of Irish airs, under the name of the "Hawk of Ballyshannon." It was composed by a famous Irish harper named Rory Dal O'Cahan, the Rory Dal of Sir Walter Scott's _Legend of Montrose_, who visited Scotland in the reign of James VI., and ultimately died there. He was the author of the _Ports_ or tunes called _Port Gordon_, _Port Lennox_, _M'Leods Supper_, _Port Athol_, _Give me your hand_, _The Lame Beggar_, &c. &c. It has often struck me that this last tune is the origin from whence the air called _Jock o' Hazledean_ was drawn. It is almost the same. FRANCIS CROSSLEY. _Sir R. Howard's "Conquest of China"_ (Vol. v., p. 225.).--Dryden, in his letters to his sons, writes: "After my return to town, I intend to alter a play of Sir Robert Howard's, written long since, and lately put into my hands: 'tis called _The Conquest of China by the Tartars_. It will cost me six weeks' study, with the probable benefit of an hundred pounds."