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romantic castle. In the text, by the utmost parts of the 

 Gangetic land, we are to understand the north ; the 

 river Ganges, which separates India from Scythia, 

 arising from the mountain Taurus." 



Some of your learned correspondents will, I 

 doubt not, be both able and willing to throw 

 some light upon a difficulty which may possibly 

 have an indirect connexion with other difficulties 

 also. Rt. 



Warmington, Nov. 7. 1851. 



Ecclesiastical Geography. — Can any of your 

 correspondents direct me to ^ome works on Eccle- 

 siastical Geography ? Ajax. 



History of Commerce. — What work gives a 

 history of the various courses of commerce be- 

 tween Europe and the East in ancient and modern 

 times, or in either of them, as I cannot meet with 

 any such book in the various catalogues and ad- 

 vertisements of the day ? X. Y. Z. 



Cambria. 



Merchant Adventurers to Spain. — "Where can 

 there be found any account of a trading company 

 called the "Merchant Adventurers to Spain," who 

 floui'ished in the reign of Queen Elizabeth ? 



C. I. P. 



Kings College Chapel Windoios. — In The 

 Blazon of Gentrie, by John Ferne, London, 1586, 

 it is said (p. 248.) : — 



" If anie personne doth give, or by his testament 

 shall bequeth money to build a temple, the walles of a 

 city, port, a causey, churches, &c., he maye set his 

 armes upon the same. If so be that he did this, of his 

 owne free will and liberalitie. But if he did the same 

 by compulsion (beeing for that purpose set unto some 

 mulcte or fine, for his offence, and so constrained to 

 make his redemption by the building or repayring of 

 the like things), he may not set his armes in such 

 publique workes, as that bishop was, which being con- 

 demned in the Pra;munire, redeemed the punishment 

 pf that offence, by the glasing of the King's College 

 chappell windowes in Cambridge, a glasse-work of 

 worthy admiration." 



Is there any foundation for this story, and who 

 was the bishop ? C. W. G. 



The King's Standard. — Will some of your cor- 

 respondents kindly inform me where I can meet 

 with a drawing of this standard in blazon f The 

 Relation of the King's setting up his Standard at 

 Nottingham: 4to. Lond. 1642, gives an engraving 

 of the same under the title; but I cannot trace 

 the mode in which the banner in question was 

 coloured. Amanuensis. 



James Wilson, M.D. — In 1761 James Wilson, 

 M. D., published in two volumes, octavo, a reprint 

 of the mathematical tracts of his then deceased 

 friend Benjamin Robins. To them he added an 

 appendix containing a dissertation on the contro- 



versy about the invention of fluxions, which dis- 

 sertation is very little cited. He makes various 

 statements on his own. authority, describing him- 

 self as having been the friend of Brook Taylor and 

 of Dr. Pemberton. Among other things he fur- 

 nishes something which might be cited in answer 

 to my query in Vol. v., p. 103., affirming that alt 

 Collins's papers fell into Jones's possession about 

 the year 1708. Dr. Wilson and Martin Folkes 

 were joint executors of Robins, as the former 

 states. Query, who was James Wilson, M. D.? 

 What was his probable age in 1712 ? AVhat means 

 exist for forming an opinion as to his judgment 

 and veracity, over and above his publications as 

 aforesaid ? A. De Morgan. 



PrestwicKs Respuhlica. — I have a copy of a 

 work called Prestwich's Respuhlica, or a Display 

 of the Honours, Ceremonies, and Ensign of the 

 Commonwealth, 1787; in which is an Alphabetical 

 Roll of the Names and Armorial Bearings of many 

 of the Present Nobility of these Kingdoms. The 

 volume concludes with John Aspinhall, and a note 

 states that the remainder of the roll should be 

 given in the second volume. Has the second 

 volume ever been published, as I cannot ascertain 

 that it has ? If so, how many years after thfr 

 first? G. P. P. 



[It was the intention of Sir John Prestwich to con- 

 tinue this work, but not having received the encou- 

 ragement he expected, and suffering also from ill 

 health, the second volume was not published. See 

 Nichols' Literary Anecdotes, vol. ix. p. 23.] 



Instance of Longevity. — 



" In the obituary register for the ancient parish of 

 St. Leonard, Shoreditch, is to be found the following 

 very singular entry, viz. : ' Thomas Cam, died on the 

 28lh of January, 1588, at the astonishing age of 207 

 years. He was born in the year 1381, in the reign of 

 King Richard II., and lived in the reigns of twelve 

 kings and queens.'" — Times, Dec. — 1848? 



Can this be authenticated; is there any truth 

 in the story? Surely so venerable a patriarch 

 must have attracted the notice of some of his co- 

 temporaries. Your correspondent O. C. D. will, I 

 fear, place this "instance" in the category of 

 " ante-register longevities." 



AV. R. Deere Salmon. 



[At the time the above paragraph was going the 

 round of the papers, a friend consulted the parish clerk 

 of St. Leonard, Shoreditch, respecting its authenticity,, 

 and was informed that some mischievous individual 

 had altered the figure 1 into 2. It is correctly given 

 by Sir Henry Ellis in his History of Shoreditch, p. 77., 

 as follows: — "Thomas Cam, aged 107, 28 January, 

 1588."] 



