Your correspondent "W.M." ("_Finkel._" p. 384.) may not have
recollected that there is a beautiful ruin on the river Wear near
Durham, of which the name is pronounced (though not spelt) _Finkel_
Abbey.

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_Christian Captives_ (No. 27. p. 441.).--As a very small contribution
towards an answer to "R.W.B.'s" inquiry, I may inform you that Lady
Russell mentions in her _Letters_ (p. 338., ed. 1792) that Sir William
Coventry left by his will 3000l. to redeem slaves.

C.H.

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_Christian Captives_ (No. 27. p. 441.).--"R.W.B." may be referred to
the case of "Attorney-General _v._ the Ironmongers' Company," which
was a suit for the administration of a fund bequeathed for the
redemption of the captives. See 2 _Mylne & Keen_, 576.; 2 _Beavan_,
313., 10 _Beavan_, 194.; and 1 _Craig & Philips_, 208.: all of which I
mention to be Reports in Chancery, in case he be not a lawyer.

A.J.H.

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_Ecclesiastical Year_ (No. 24. p. 381.).--"NATHAN" is informed, that,
according to the legal supputation, until A.D. 1752, the year of Our
Lord in that part of Great Britain called England, began on the 25th