country, but they are generally very meagre and unsatisfactory. In a
periodical published in Lisbon in numbers, on the plan of the _Penny
Magazine_, there is a good deal of information, with engravings,
regarding many places of interest in Portugal. I think it is called
_The Album_, but I am sorry I have not at present the power of sending
you more correct particulars concerning it. It is in 4to.

Portugal is a country that is so little travelled in either by natives
or foreigners, that information regarding places in the interior
is not easily obtained; and facilities for travelling, as well as
accommodation for travellers, is of a very limited description.

_Sir Roger de Coverley_.--In one of your early numbers was a query on
this subject, which I do not think has been yet answered. I have a MS.
{369} account of the family of Calverley, of Calverley, in Yorkshire,
an autograph of Ralph Thoresby in the year 1717, in which occurs the
following passage:--

"_Roger_, so named from the Archbishop" (of York), "was
a person of renowned hospitality, since, at this day, the
obsolete known tune of _Roger a Calverley_ is referred to
him, who, according to the custom of those times, kept his
_minstrells_, from that their office named _harpers_, which
became a family and possessed lands till late years in and
about _Calverley_, called to this day _Harpersroids_ and
_Harper's Spring_.... He was a knight, and lived in the time
of K. Richard 1st. His seal, appended to one of his charters,
is large, with a chevalier on horseback."

W. CALVERLEY TREVELYAN.