Replies to Minor Queries:--Dayesman--Bull; Dun--Algernon Sidney--Age of Trees--Emaciated Monumental Effigies--Bee Park--Sally Lunn--Baxter's Pulpit--Lothian's Scottish Historical Maps--British Ambassadors--Knollys Family--'Prentice Pillars; 'Prentice Windows--St. Bartholomew--Sun-dial Inscription--History of Faction--Barnacles--Family Likenesses--Merchant Adventurers to Spain--Exeter Controversy--Corrupted Names of Places--Poison--Vikingr Skotar--Rhymes on Places--"We three"--Burning Fern brings Rain--Plague Stones--Sneezing--Abbot of Croyland's Motto--Derivation of the Word "Azores"--Scologlandis and Scologi 497 MISCELLANEOUS:-- Notes on Books, &c. 501 Books and Odd Volumes wanted 502 Notices to Correspondents 502 Advertisements 503 Notes. A FEW THINGS ABOUT RICHARD BAXTER. In the year 1836, I visited Kidderminster for the purpose of seeing the place where Richard Baxter spent fourteen of the most valuable years of his life; and of ascertaining if any relics were to be found connected with the history of this remarkable man. Baxter thought much of Kidderminster, for with strong feeling he says, respecting this place, in his poem on "Love breathing Thanks and Praise" (_Poetical Fragments_, 1st edit. 1681):-- "But among all, none did so much abound, With fruitful mercies, as that barren ground, Where I did make my best and longest stay, And bore the heat and burden of the day; Mercies grew thicker there than summer flowers: They over-numbered my daies and hours. There was my dearest flock, and special charge, Our hearts in mutual love thou didst enlarge: 'Twas there that mercy did my labours bless, With the most great and wonderful success."