_Cotton of Finchley._--Can some one of your readers give me any
particulars concerning the family of Cotton, which was settled at
Finchley, Middlesex, about the middle of the sixteenth century?

C.F.


_Wood Carving in Snow Hill._--Can any one explain the wood carving over
the door of a house at the corner of Snow Hill and Skinner Street. It is
worth rescuing from the ruin impending it.

A.C.


_Walrond Family._--Can any of your readers inform me what was the maiden
name of _Grace_, the wife of Col. Humphry Walrond, of Sea, in the county
of Somerset, a distinguished loyalist, some time Lieutenant-Governor of
Bridgewater, and Governor of the island of Barbadoes in 1660. She was
living in 1635 and 1668. Also the names of his _ten_ children, or, at
all events, his three youngest. I have reason to believe the seven elder
were George, Humphry, Henry, John, Thomas, Bridget, and Grace.

W. DOWNING BRUCE.


_Translations._--What English translations have appeared of the famous
_Epistolæ Obscurorum Virorum_?

Has _La Chiave del Gabinetto del Signor Borri_ (by Joseph Francis Borri,