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tenor and eflfect hereof, he or thei so offendyng, shall 

 suflfre straight emprisonment, with further punishment at 

 his maiesties pleasure. 



"Prouided alwaies that this Proclamacion, ne any 

 thyng therein conteined, shall not extende to any ordi- 

 nary pencioner, stranger, or to any other seruaunt of the 

 kynges maiestie, or seruaunt to any other noble man or 

 gentleman ; but that thei male continue, and remain here 

 at their libertie, as before, without daungier or restraint 

 hereof accordyngly. " 



• Mitiat cauortei. 



Queen Mary's surreptitious Heir. — The alleged 

 trick of James II. — the foisting upon the nation 

 a surreptitious heir — would appear to have been 

 attempted before. In 1555 reports of Queen 

 Mary's pregnancy were, as is well known, indus- 

 triously circulated. Even a rumour got abroad 

 that a son was born, and the bells were rung, and 

 sermons preached, in honour of the event — one 

 preacher even describing the beauty of the prince. 

 Now Fox, the Martyrologist, writes : 



" There did come to me, whom I did both see and hear, 

 one Isabel Malt, a woman dwelling in Aldersgate Street, 

 in Horn Alley, who before witness made this declaration 

 unto us: That she being delivered of a man-child upon 

 Whitsunday in the morning, which was the 11th day of 

 June, 1555, there came to her the Lord North, and "an- 

 other Lord, to her unknown, dwelling then about Old 

 Fish-street, demanding of her if she would part with her 

 child, and would swear that she never knew nor had any 

 such child. Which, if she would, her son, they said, 

 should be well provided for, she should take no care for 

 it; with many fair offers if she would part with the 

 child. 



" After that came some women also, of whom one thej' 

 said should have been the rocker; but she in no wise 

 would let go her son, who at the writing hereof being 

 alive, and called Timothy Malt, was of the age of 13 

 years and upward." 



I shall be glad to know whether any credence 

 should be given to this testimony ; and whether 

 any documents exist which would tend to throw 

 light upon this matter. Threlkeld. 



Dean Wotton, temp. Henry VIII. — In Words- 

 worth's Ecclesiastical Biography (vol. iv.), when 

 speaking of Dean Nicholas Wotton, he states as a 

 singular fact that so few of the Dean's letters and 

 papers should be known to exist, considering the 

 numerous and important negotiations in which he 

 was engaged, but states that — 



" Two very curious volumes of historical and genealo- 

 gical collections, in the handwriting of the dean, are 

 preserved in the British Museum, and the late Sir George 

 Nayler possessed a similar volume.* These volumes 



[* The editor of the fourth edition of Wordsworth's 

 Eccles. Biography, the late Mr. John Holmes of the Bri- 

 tish Museum, states that the volume, formerly in the 

 possession of Sir George Nayler, is now (1852) in the 

 library of Sir Thomas PhiUipps, Bart. — Ed.] 



sufficiently attest the writer's great knowledge and re- 

 search." 



Can any of your readers enable me to discover 

 these books ? The first two named I have in vain 

 searched for in the British Museum, but I pre- 

 sume they must be there. W. (Bombay). 



London. 



^'' Entitled'' or '' Intituled." — Are we quite 

 right in speaking of a work as being entitled so- 

 and-so, e.g. The Paradise Lost? Should we not 

 (as I believe is the case in acts of parliament) say 

 intituled ? And again, in asserting ownership, in- 

 stead of saying, " he is entitled to an estate," would 

 it not be more correct to say intituled, i. e. in him 

 is vested the title, titidus, to it ? Y. B. N. J. 



Capt. R. Browne of Gualh/s Dragoons. — In 

 the Army List of 1810, under the heading of 

 " List of the Officers of the Land Forces and of 

 the Royal Marines on Half-Pay," p. 501., I find 

 the first name entered to be that of Capt. Robert 

 Browne, who is described as " en second " of 

 Gually's Dragoons, disbanded in 1712-13. There 

 is a similar entry in the Army List of 1809 ; and 

 in those of 1811 up to 1815, this same Captain 

 Browne figures as being still on half-pay. From 

 these entries it would seem that after becoming a 

 captain, the gallant officer enjoyed half-pay for 

 104 years ! Can any of your correspondents give 

 information regarding either Gually's Dragoons, 

 or this Nestor of half-pays ? W. 



Symbols of Saints. — I have an old painting 

 which represents the half-length figure of a female, 

 vested in a dark cloak, drawn over the head like 

 a hood, with the edge of a plain cap showing 

 below, and a crown of thorns wreathed outside it. 

 The neck is swathed in white linen. The hands 

 are pressed on the breast, and the right holds a 

 crucifix; the cross blossoming out on either side 

 in flowers resembling lilies, and its top shooting 

 up into a stem of flowers, amongst which a paper 

 bearing J. N. R. (probably Jesus noster Eedemptor) 

 is seen. The features appear deeply clouded with 

 grief, and the eyes are intent upon an open book 

 supported by a scull. I shall be obliged if some 

 correspondent should be able from the above de- 

 scription to inform me what saint in the Kalendar 

 is intended. Y. B. N. J. 



Mental Condition of the Starving. — References 

 are requested to accounts (particularly if thei/ de- 

 scribe the mental condition) of pjersons who have 

 experienced long-continued deprivation of food, 

 either during travel or after shipwreck, or who by 

 any accident have been separated from their fel- 

 lows. Scott or S — . 



Sarah Isdell. — Can any of your Irish readers 

 give me any information regarding Sarah Isdell, 



