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Oxoniensis : — 1st. Thomas Walters of Jesus Col- 

 lege, M.A., 1680, son of John Walter of Perce- 

 field in Monmouthshire. He " wrote all or the 

 most part of" The Excommunicated Prince^ a play, 

 published in the name of Captain Bedloe. (Wood's 

 AthencB (ed. Bliss), vol. iv. Fasti ii. p. 373.) 2nd, 

 Kichard Triplet, son of Richard Triplet, born at 

 Shipton on Charwell, Oxfordshire, entered a ser- 

 vitor of Trinity College in act term, 1687. Wood 

 says, " He hath wrote a comedy not yet printed." 

 (Wooii'sAthence (ed. Bliss), vol. iv. p. 690.) Mr. 

 Triplet seems to have taken his degree of M.A. in 

 1697. Could any of your Oxfoi'd readers, who 

 may be able to refer to Rawlinson's MS. continu- 

 ation of Wood's Athena, in the Bodleian Library, 

 give me any information regarding the subsequent 

 history of these two authors ? 11.Ingi.is_ 



Pavement. — The question about " ride " or 

 " drive " (2"'' S. ix. 326., et postea) puts me on a 

 farther inquiry. Does the pavement on which (in 

 towns at least) both means of locomotion are used, 

 intend the place for walkitig also ? In France the 

 footway is, urbanly speaking, distinguished as " le 

 trottoir," and in Ireland as " the flags," per synco- 

 pen for the " flag- stones ; " while one pedestrian 

 accommodation in London is, nar ^i,oxhv, denomi- 

 nated " the pavement." The distinction is sufii- 

 ciently maintained in the country by " footway " 

 and " road ; " but I should like to know is "pave- 

 ment" the generic name of both, or the specific 

 name oi either, and oi which? Impavidus. 



Massena. — Mr. D'Israeli (^Conivgsly, ii. 203.) 

 says that Massena — as well as other French mar- 

 shals — was a Hebrew, and that his real name was 

 Manasseh. He was a native of Nice. Now in 

 the Piedmontese dialect, mas'tna signifies a child : 

 as in the Piedmontese Grospel of St. Luke (i. 7.), 

 " E a 1 avion nessune masena " — " And they had 

 no child." Was his sobriquet — " the favourite 

 child of Victory — the spoilt child of Victory" — 

 . a play upon this meaning of masena ? 



What is the derivation of masena ? Is it from 

 the Latin nascor ? In many of the Italian dialects 

 m and n seem interchangeable : thus, the Latin 

 Mespilus, a medlar, is in Italian Nespolo. 



Is there any foundation for Mr. D'Israeli's state- 

 ment ? It is clear that the play might equally 

 Lave been made whether Massena was his real or 

 assumed name. E. G. R. 



Refekence in Bartholinus. — 



" Saxa per ultima sed vestigia cauda fluebat, 

 Vitis ut, intortis quae passim effusa flagellis 

 Luxuriat, manibusque suis ceu proxima prendit." 



ZU. 

 The above is among many other passages re- 

 lating to horses at p. 51. of Th. Bartholini de 

 Equo Libri tres, Amst. 1675. The references are 

 generally brief. I have no difficulty with " Virg." 

 " Hor." or " Juv.," but am puzzled by " Zil." 



As the lines are good, I shall be obliged by bein"^ 

 told whence they are taken. jj. ]yf^ 



North Sea. — Has any monograph of this been 

 published ? If none have been published, where 

 can one find a good account of the various banks, 

 such as the Dogger Bank, the Wells Bank ; and 

 the remarkable chasms {e. g. Great and Little 

 Silver Pits), &c., in it. The best account of it 

 with which I am acquainted, is that in the Penny 

 Cyclopedia. The vessel mentioned there, as being 

 then engaged in the survey of the North Sea, I 

 suppose was the unfortunate " Fairy," which was 

 afterwards totally lost. Whether the survey has 

 been since then renewed and completed, I have 

 not ascertained. E. G. R: 



Testing the Strength of Cannon by super- 

 heated Steam. — Can your readers inform me if 

 such a severe (and economical) test has ever been 

 applied, and the date of such experiments ? The 

 expansive force of steam is much greater than 

 that of gunpowder. Many volcanic eruptions and 

 earthquakes, no doubt, owe their terrible effects 

 to this power of steam; the water of the sea 

 finding its way to subterraneous fires. 



An Artillery Volunteer. 



Beattie the Poet. — During a brief stay in 

 England I am desirous, on behalf of a grand- 

 nephew of James Beattie's, resident in the United 

 States, of obtaining information respecting the 

 family of the poet ; particularly, the date and 

 place of death of William Beattie, the brother of 

 James, with any notices of his family or their 

 representatives. 



It is thought that the said William Beattie was 

 a farmer near Edinburgh, and that he died about 

 1810. D. M. Stevens. 



Godalming, 20th August, 1860. 



EssENTiALisTs. — I beg leave to transcribe for 

 insertion in " N. & Q." a query which was pro- 

 posed in Gent. Mag., April, 1797, but appears 

 never to have been answered : — 



" A correspondent desires us to procure him some in- 

 formation respecting the -sect of the Essentialists, un- 

 noticed by Mosheim or his translator, and their tenets." — 

 P. 336. 



" The sect," observes Churton, in the same volume, p. 

 125., "never very numerous (a single congregation at 

 Manchester being the onlj- one I ever heard of), became 

 extinct, I believe, with its first authors ; and now at the 

 distance of rather less than four-score j'ears from its 

 origin, the very name of Essentialists, like Brett's Tradi- 

 tion, is scarcely known." " The Kev. Thomas 



Brett, LL.D., who renounced the Communion of the 

 Church of England, not because her doctrines were erro- 

 neous, or her rites superstitious, but because her Liturgy 

 was ' defective ' in certain points, ' such as Chrism or 

 Ointment in the office of Confirmation, mixing Water 

 with the Eucharistical Wine ' (Brett, p. 52.), ' and a few 

 other matters, which Brett and his party deemed ' Es- 

 sentials ' ; and for that reason it was, I believe, that they 

 were called Essentialists." 



