must have been composed in Ireland. If the old black-letter book had said that the Irish _got their dinner_ at night, it would have been nearer the truth, for the larders of the Milesian chiefs in the neighbourhood of the English pale were often supplied by the nocturnal marauds of their cattle-lifters. However, I see that Stanihurst writes that the Irish dined in winter _before_ day, and in summer about the seventh hour. Can any of your readers say in whose possession this book is now? I was informed that it was purchased by a dignitary of Cambridge University. H. F. H. Wexford. POLITICAL PAMPHLETS. The loan of the following works is much desired by a gentleman who has in vain tried to find them in the British Museum, or to purchase them. They belong to a class of books which being of little money-value are generally _wasted_ by booksellers, rarely or never inserted in their catalogues:-- _A Collection of Letters on Government, Liberty and the Constitution_, which appeared from the time Lord Bute was appointed First Lord of the Treasury to the Death of Lord Egremont. 3 vols. [possibly 4], published in 1774 by Almon. _A Collection of esteemed Political Tracts_, which appeared 1764, 5, and 6. 3 or 4 vols. published 1766 or 7, by Almon. _A Collection of most Interesting Political Letters_ which appeared in the Public Papers from 1763 to 1765. 3 or 4 vols. Almon, 1766. _The Briton_ (a Periodical). 1763. _The Auditor_ (a Periodical). 1763. _A Collection of all Remarkable and Personal Passages in the Briton, North Briton, and Auditor._ Almon, 1765. _The Expostulation_, a Poem. Bingley, 1768. _Vox Senatus._ 1771. _Two Remarkable Letters of Junius and The Freeholder._ 1770. _Junius's Letters._ Wheble, 1771 (not 1772 or 1775). _Wilkes's Speeches._ 3 vols. The Editor of "N. & Q." has undertaken to take charge of them, and when done with to return them safely to their respective owners. Q. N. Minor Queries. _The Book of Nicholas Leigh._--Some twenty or thirty years since a gentleman named Abraham Roth resided in London, having in his possession a manuscript of the early part of the seventeenth century bearing the above title, and relating to the history and internal polity of the town of Kilkenny. It is frequently quoted by Dr. Ledwich in his _Antiquities of Kilkenny and Irishtown_. Mr. Roth subsequently deceased in London, and it is believed his books and other effects were sold there. Qy. Is _The Book of Nicholas Leigh_ known to any of the correspondents or readers of "N. & Q.?" JAMES GRAVES. Kilkenny.