initial letter to St. Luke represents Jacob's dream; on the first page
of fol. vi. of St. Luke the translator's preface ends, "Geven at London
the last day of Septembre, in the yere of our Lorde M.D.XLV." On fol.
xiii. of the same, Erasmus' own preface ends, "Geven at Basill the xxii.
dai of August ye yere of our Lord, M.D." (the rest effaced). On the
first page of fol. viii. of St. John's Gospel the preface ends, "Geven
at Basile the yere of our Lord, M.D.XXIII. the v daye of Januarye." If
these notes are sufficient to identify my copy with any particular
edition, it will afford a real pleasure to

A YORKSHIRE SUBSCRIBER.

_Iland Chest._--In some wills of Bristol merchants of the latter part of
the 16th century, I have met with the bequest of a chattel called an
_"Iland Chest:"_ thus, ex.g. "Item: to Edmond Poyley I give the Iland
chest in the great chamber wherein his linen was." Mention is made of
the like article in two or three other instances. An explanation of the
word and an account of the kind of chest will much oblige.

B.W.G.

_D'Israeli on the Court of Wards._--D'Israeli, in his article upon
"Usurers of the Seventeenth Century" (_Curios. of Lit._ iii. 89. old
ed.), which is chiefly upon Hugh Audley, a master of the Court of Wards
and Liveries, speaks of that court as "a remarkable institution, on
which I purpose to make some researches." Can any of your readers inform
me if D'Israeli acted upon this resolve, and, if so, where the results
of labours are to be found?

J.B.