Dublin.
_Machell's MS. Collections for Westmoreland and Cumberland_ (Vol. iii., p.
118.).--In reply to the inquiry of EDWARD F. RIMBAULT, that gentleman may
learn the extent to which the _Machell MS. collections of the Rev. Thomas
Machell, who was chaplain to King Charles II._, have been examined, and
published, by referring, to Burn and Nicholson's _History of Westmoreland
and Cumberland_, edit. 1778. A great part of the MS. is taken up with an
account of the antiquary's own family, the "Mali Catuli," or Machell's
Lords of Crakenthorpe in Westmoreland. the papers in the library of
Carlisle contain only copies and references to the original papers, which
are carefully preserved by the present representatives of the family. There
are above one thousand deeds, charters, and other documents which I have
carefully translated and collated with a view to their being printed
privately for the use of the family, and I shall feel pleasure in replying
to any inquiry on the subject. Address:
G.P. at the Post Office, Barrow upon Humber, Lincolnshire.
Two impressions of the seal of the Abbey of Shapp (anciently Hepp), said
not to be attainable by the editors of the late splendid edition of the
_Monasticon_, are preserved in the Machell MSS.
_Oration against Demosthenes_ (Vol. iii., p. 141.).--For the information of
your correspondent KENNETH R. H. MACKENZIE, I transcribe the title of the
oration against Demosthenes, for which he makes inquiry, which was not
"privately printed" as he supposes, but _published_ last year by Mr. J. W.
Parker.
"The Oration of Hyperides against Demosthenes, respecting the Treasure
of Harpalus. The Fragments of the Greek Text, now first edited from the
Fac-simile of the MS. discovered at Egyptian Thebes in 1847; together
with other Fragments of the same Oration cited in Ancient Writers. With
a Preliminary Dissertation and Notes, and a Fac-simile of a Portion of
the MS. By Churchill Babington, M.A. London: J. W. Parker, 1850."
The discovery of the MS. was made by Mr. {228} A. C. Harris of Alexandria,
who placed a fac-simile in the hand of Mr. Churchill Babington, who edited
it as above described.
My information is derived from an article on the work in the _Christian
Remembrancer_ for October, 1850, to which I refer MR. MACKENZIE for further
particulars.