suggestive, and sometimes as dismissible upon reference to the commonest
gazetteer. I opened at the letter N; and found, that of three entries,
the first my eye lighted upon, two were palpably wrong. The first
informs us that "Næostadium _in Palatinatu_" is in "France;" the third
that "Nellore" is in "_Ceylon_." I am bound to say that I do not find
errors so thickly scattered throughout, and that the list will be useful
to me. But, Query, is there any thing extensive of which the accuracy
can be depended upon?

M.
Kilkenny.

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REPLIES.

SCALA COELI.

I incline to think that the testator whose will is referred to in No.
23. p. 336., by "Scala Coeli," meant King Henry the Seventh's Chapel at
Westminster.

Margaret Countess of Richmond and Derby, mother to King Henry VII., in
the indenture for founding Chantry Monks in the Abbey of Westminster,
dated 2. March, 21 Henry VII. (1506-6), states that she had obtained
papal bulls of indulgence, that all persons saying and hearing her
chantry masses should have as full remission from sin as in the place
called _Scala Coeli_ beside Rome, "to the great comfort and relief of
the said Monasterie and all Cristen people resorting thereto." (_MS.