inquiry respecting Cromwell's Estates (No. 24. p. 389.), being
_Tidenham_; for this manor, the property of the Marquis of Worcester,
was possessed by Cromwell; and, among my title deeds connected with this
parish, I have Court Rolls _in Cromwell's name_ both for _Tidenham_
itself and for _Beachley_, a mesne manor within it.

These manors, which were inherited from the Herberts by the Somersets,
were taken out of the former Marches by the statute 27 Hen. VIII. cap.
26. § 13., and annexed, together with _Woolaston_, similarly
circumstanced, to the country of Gloucester and to the hundred of
Westbury; of which hundred, in a legal sense, they still continue a
part.

GEO. ORMEROD.

Sedbury Park, Chepstow, April 18. 1850.


_J.B.'s Treatise on Nature and Art_ (No. 25. p. 401.).--The book to
which your correspondent "M." refers, is, I believe, "_The Mysteries of
Nature and Art, in Foure severall Parts: The First of Water Works,--the
Second of Fire Works, &c., &c. By John Bate_."

I have the second edition, 1635; to which is prefixed a rude engraving
of the author:--"Vera effigies Johannis Bate, memoria manet, modo
permaneant studium et industria."

HERMES.