Replies to Minor Queries:--Dyson's Collection of Proclamations--"Up, Guards, and at them!"--Bawderich, and Bells--Algernon Sydney--"History is Philosophy teaching by Examples"--On a Passage in Pope--Plague Stones--"Archæologia Cambrensis, Vol. I., 2nd Edit."--Town halls--Emaciated Monumental Elegies--Coleridge's "Friend"--Enigma on the Letter "I"--Mother Carey's Chickens--Burnomania--Cagots--Chantrey's Sleeping Children--Topography of Ashbourne--Arkwright--Pilgrimages to the Holy Land--"Merchant Adventurers" 425 MISCELLANEOUS:-- Notes on Books, &c. 430 Books and Odd Volumes wanted 430 Notices to Correspondents 431 Advertisements 431 Notes. STERNE AT SUTTON ON THE FOREST. The following extracts from the Register Book of the parish of Sutton on the Forest, Yorkshire, which are in the handwriting of Lawrence Sterne, have come into my possession through the kindness of my friend Archdeacon Creyke (of York), and I beg to offer them for insertion in "N. & Q." "Lawrence Sterne, A. B., was inducted into ye Vicarage of Sutton August ye 25th, 1738. "Lawrence Sterne created Master of Arts at Cambridge, July, 1740. "L. Sterne, A. M., made Prebendary of York (Givendale) by Lancelot Arch-bishop in January, 1740; and in Jan. 1741 prefer'd by his Lords'p to the Prebend of N. Newbald. "Mem'd. That the Cherry Trees and Espalier Apple Hedge were planted in ye Gardens October ye 9, 1742. Nectarines and Peaches planted the same day. The Pails set up two months before. "I laid out in the Garden, in ye year 1742, the sum of 8_l._ 15_s._ 6_d._ "L. Sterne." "Laid out in enclosing the Orchard, and in Apple Trees, &c., in ye year 1743, 5_l._ "The Apple Trees, Pear and Plumb Trees, planted in ye Orchard ye 28th day of October, 1743, by "L. Sterne." "Laid out in Sushing[1] the House, 12_l._, A. Dom. 1741. "In Stukbing[2] and Bricking £ _s._ _d._ the Hall 4 16 0 In Building the Chair House 5 0 0 In Building the Par'r Chimney 3 0 0 Little House 2 3 0 "L. Sterne, Vicar. "Spent in shapeing the Rooms, plastering, Underdrawing, and Jobbing--God knows what." [Footnotes 1, 2: There are two words in Sterne's own memoranda which may puzzle other readers besides me; _Sushing_ and _Stukbing_. I have thought they might mean _sashing_, _i.e._ for windows, and _stuccoing_ the walls. Perhaps some contributor to "N. & Q." will kindly interpret them.] * * * * * "In May, 1745--