ladie Elizabeth, by the grace of God Queene of England, Ffrance, and Ireland, defender of the faithe," &c. H. T. ELLACOMBE. Clyst St. George, Nov. 4. 1850. Cradock.-I should like to know whether the MSS. of Randle Holme, of Chester, 1670, which afterwards were penes Dr. Latham, are still accessible? Nichols refers to them as his authority for Cradock's pedigree, as laid down in his Leicestershire (vol. iv. part ii. p. 807.). H. T. E. Replies to Minor Queries. REPLIES BY GEORGE STEPHENS. I beg to encloze de following scraps, purposely written on slips, dat de one may be destroyed and not de oder if you should pink fit so to do, and for eaze ov printing. Pleaze to respect my or bography—a beginning to a better system—if you can and will. De types required will only be de Ɖ, ð, and þ, ov our noble Anglo-Saxon moder-tongue, letterz in common use almost down to de time ov Shakspeare! If you will not be charmed, ov course you are at liberty to change it. I have a large work in de press (translationz from de A.-Saxon) printed entirely in dis or bography. GEORGE STEPHENS. Stockholm. [Even our respect for Mr. Stephens' well-known scholarship, fails to remove our prejudices in favour of the ordinary system of orthography.] On a Passage in "The Tempest" (Vol. ii., pp. 259. 299. 337.).—Will you allow me to suggest that the reading of the original edition is perfectly correct as it stands, as will be seen by simply italicising the emphatic words: "Most busie least, when I doe it." The construction is thus merely an instance of a common ellipsis (here of the word busy), and requires the comma after least. This is another proof of the advantage of being slow to abandon primitive texts. GEORGE STEPHENS. Saint, Legend of a (Vol. ii., pp. 267.).—The circumstance alluded to is perhaps that in the legend of St. Patrick. It was included by Voragine in his life of that saint. See the "Golden Legend" in init. GEORGE STEPHENS. Italians, and Hindoos. See Svenska Folk-sagor och Afventyr, efter muntlig Ofverlemning samlade och utgifna af G. O. H. Cavallius och G. Stephens, vol. i. (Stockholm, 1844–9), p. 323. GEORGE STEPHENS. Kongs Skuggsia (Vol. ii., pp. 296. 335.).—This noble monument of Old Norse literature was written at the close of the twelfth century by a Norwegian of high rank, but who expresses his resolution to remain unknown, in which he has perfectly succeeded. He probably resided near Trondhjem. See, for other information, the preface to the last excellent edition lately published by Keyser, Munch, and Unger, as follows: "Speculum Regale Konungs-Skuggsjá. KongeNorge mod slutningen af det tolfte aarhundrede. TilSpeilet et philosophisk-didaktisk Skrift, forfattet i ligemed et samtidigt Skrift om den norske kirkes Stilling til Statem. Med to lithographerede Blade Facsimile-Aftryck.”—Christiania, 1848. 8vo. Stockholm. GEORGE STEPHENS. The disputed Passage in the "Tempest" (Vol. ii., pp. 259. 299. 337.).—I am the "COMMA" which MR. COLLIER claims the merit of having removed, and I humbly protest against the removal. I adthat I would strike out the final s in labours. The here to the reading of the folio of 1632, except Passage would then read: "But these sweet thoughts do even refresh my labour Most busy least, when I do it." That is, the thoughts so refresh my labour, that I am 66 most busy least" (an emphatic way of say ing least busy), "when I do it," to wit, the labour. MR. HICKSON is ingenious, but he takes no notice of Сомма. Viscount Castlecomer (Vol. ii., p. 376.).-S. A. Y. asks whether Lord Deputy Wandesford (not Wanderforde)" ever took up this title, and what became of it afterwards?" He never did; for on the receipt of the patent, in the summer of 1640, Wandesford exclaimed, "Is this a time for a faithful subject to be exalted, when his king, the fountain of honours, is likely to be reduced lower than ever." A few months afterwards he died of a broken heart. We are told that he concealed the patent, and his grandson was the first of the family-apparently by a fresh creation in 1706who assumed the title. The neglect of sixty-six years, perhaps, rendered this necessary: Beatson does not notice the first creation. The life of this active and useful statesman, the friend and relative of Strafford, was compiled from his daughter's papers, by his descendant, Thomas Comber, LL.D. Of this work Dr. Whitaker availed himself in the very interesting memoir which he has given of the Lord Deputy, in his History of Richmondshire, written, as we may suppose it would be by so de voted an admirer of Charles I., with the warmest feelings of respect and admiration. "The death of my cousin Wandesford," said Lord Strafford, "more affects me than the prospect of my own; for in him is lost the richest magazine of learning, wisdom, and piety that these times could boast." J.H.M. Etymology of "Parse" (Vol. ii., p. 118.).— Surely to parse is to take by itself each pars, or part of speech. The word does not seem to have been known in 1611 when Brinsley published his Posing of the Parts: or, a most plain and easie Way of examining the Accidence and Grammar. This work appears to have been very popular, as I have by me the twelfth edition, London, 1669. Bath. In 1612 the same author issued his Ludus LiteSteele's Burial-place (Vol. ii., pp. 375. 414.).—rarius: or the Grammar Schoole. Both these I have been able to get the following particulars works interest me in him. Can any of your respecting Steele's burial-place. Steele was buried readers communicate any particulars of his in the chancel of St. Peter's Church, Caermarthen. history? The entry stands thus in the Register: – "1729. 66 Sep. 4. S Richard Steel." There is no monument to his memory in St. Peter's Church; but in Llangunnor church, about two miles from Caermarthen, there is a plain monumental tablet with the following inscription: Miscellaneous. J. W. H. NOTES ON BOOKS, SALES, CATALOGUES, ETC. Admiration of the works of Holbein in Germany, as in this country, seems to increase with increasing years. "This stone was erected at the instance of William We have received from Messrs. Williams and Norgate Williams, of Ivy Tower, owner of Penddaylwn Vawr, a copy of a new edition of his Bible Cuts lately pubin Llangunnor; part of the estate there once belong-lished at Leipsic, under the title Hans Holbein's Altes ing to the deservedly celebrated Sir Richard Steele, knight, chief author of the essays named Tatlers, Guardians, and Spectators; and he wrote the Christian Hero, The Englishman, and The Crisis, The Conscious Lovers, and other fine plays. He represented several places in Parliament; was a staunch and able patriot; finally, an incomparable writer on morality and Christianity. Hence the ensuing lines in a poem, called the Head of the Rock: 'Behold Llangunnor, leering o'er the vale, Pourtrays a scene t' adorn romantic tale; But more than all the beauties of its site, Its former owner gives the mind delight. Is there a heart that can't affection feel For lands so rich as once to boast a Steele ? Who warm for freedom, and with virtue fraught, His country dearly lov'd, and greatly taught; Whose morals pure, the purest style conveys, Tinstruct his Britain to the last of days.' Steele resided at White House (Tŷ Gwyn, as it is called in Welsh), a clean farm-house half way between Caermarthen and Llangunnor church, which is situate on a hill commanding extensive views of one of the prettiest vales in Wales. A field near the house is pointed out as the site of Steele's garden, in the bower of which he is said to have written his "Conscious Lovers." The Ivy Bush, formerly a private house, and said to be the house where Steele died, is now the principal inn in Caermarthen. WM. SPURRELL. Caermarthen. Cure for Warts (Vol. i., p. 482.).—In Buckinghamshire I have heard of the charming away of warts by touching each wart with a separate green pea. Each pea being wrapped in paper by itself and buried, the wart will vanish as the pea decays. J. W. H. Testament in funfzig Holzschnitten getreu nach den Originalen_copirt. Herausgegeben von Hugo Burkner, mit einer Einleitung von D. F. Sotymann, to which we direct the attention of our readers, no less on account of the beauty and fidelity with which these admirable specimens of Holbein's genius have been copied, than of the interesting account of them prefixed by their new editor. We beg to call the attention of such of our antiquaries as are interested in the history of the Orkneys, to a valuable contribution to our knowledge of them, lately published by our accomplished friend, Professor Munch, of Christiana, under the title of Symbola ad Historiam Antiquiorem Rerum Norwegicarum,which contains, I. A short Chronicle of Norway; II. Genealogy of the Earls of Orkney; III. Catalogue of the Kings of Norway-from a MS., for the most part hitherto inedited, and which appears to have been written in Orkney about the middle of the fifteenth century. While on the subject of foreign works of interest to English readers, we may mention two or three others which we have been for some time intending to bring under the notice of those who know how much light may be thrown upon our early language and literature Countries. 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It will be worth your while to inquire if there be one, and engrave it, and add my suspicions, which induce you to do it.” Pinkerton's Correspondence, vol. i. p. 402. 8vo. Lond. 1830. Pinkerton made inquiry, and on Dec. 1st, 1797, writes to the Earl of Buchan: 'Mr. Pennant informs me the Cardinal Beaton is false. It is, indeed, too modern. A real Beaton is said to exist in Fife."- Pinkerton's Correspondence, vol. ii. p. 17. Lord Buchan writes to him that Mr. Beaton, of Balfour, believes himself to have a genuine portrait of the Cardinal, and offers it for engraving. The authenticity of this portrait, however, appears not to have been established, and it was not engraved. Another was found at Yester, and was at first concluded to be a genuine original: but Lady Ancram soon discovered that it possessed no marks of originality, but might be a good copy: it was, however, certainly not one of the six cardinals purchased by the third Earl of Lothian. Finally, it was rejected altogether. A copy of a portrait from the Vatican was also rejected as undoubtedly spurious. It appears, therefore, that Pinkerton, 447 in this case at least, exercised due caution in the selection of his subject for engraving, so far as 453 concerned authenticity. His criticism, that the 453 Holyrood House portrait is "too modern," will be 454 agreed in by all who will take the trouble to compare the portrait in Lodge with undoubted portraits of the time: the style is too modern by a hundred years. But the portrait is of a man upwards of sixty years old: Beaton was murdered in 1546, in the fiftieth year of his age. The portrait is of a dark-haired man without beard. 453 A portrait of this eminent man was engraved by Pennant, from a picture at Holyrood House, in Part II. of his Tour in Scotland, p. 243. 4to. Lond. 1776. Lodge has an engraving from the same portrait in his collection of Illustrious Personages. This is a strange circumstance; because, when Pinkerton was about to include this portrait in his collection, Pennant wrote to him, on 30th April, 1796, as follows: VOL. II.-No. 57. SECOND EDITION. I now come to a portrait of Beaton which there appears reason to think is genuine, and I beg the favour of your correspondents to give me any information in their power regarding it. This portrait is in the Roman Catholic College at Blairs, near Aberdeen. It was in the Scotch College at Rome down to the period of the French occupation of that city in 1798, and formed part of the plunder |