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and the Latin folium. In Cole's Old English 

 Dictionary we find '■'■ foils, leaves ; " and it is still 

 in common use amongst us in its secondary sense 

 of any thin substance : so that the phrase leges a 

 foillies means only " bowers of leaves." The 

 English fool, French fol and fou, and their de- 

 rivatives, are suppoaed to be of northern origin. 



C, 



Fernando Colombo and Henry VII. (2""^ S. ii. 

 170.) — Your correspondent will find some in- 

 teresting information on this subject in Sharon 

 Turner's History of England, reign of Richard III. 

 If, as that author suggests, Christopher Columbus 

 (under the name of Colon) was in the service of 

 Richard III., his brother could hardly expect to 

 find a very favourable reception from Henry VII. 

 I believe I am correct in stating that the office 

 supposed by the historian to have been held by 

 Columbus was the governorship of Richborough 

 Castle, in Kent. Hbnry T. RiiiEV. 



Dramatic Works: "The Unknown" (P' S. xi. 

 444.) — The drama entitled The Unknown was 

 written by the Rev. Dr. Vardill, and was per- 

 formed at the Surrey Theatre in 1819. Dr. Var- 

 dill (who died in 1811) was rector of Skirbeck 

 and Fishtoft, in the county of Lincoln. Dr. V.'s 

 daughter, Miss Anna Jane Vardill, is the author 

 of The Pleasures of Human Life, a poem published 

 in 1812. R. Inglis. 



Posture during the " Sursum Corda " and the 

 " Sanctus " (2"'* S. ii. 68.) — The proper posture 

 of persons during the Sursum Corda and the 

 Sa7ictus is standing. Such has been the custom 

 from the earliest times of the Church. Likewise 

 the posture during the Psalms and Lessons should 

 be the contrary : sitting for the Psalms, and stand- 

 ing for the Lessons. Notsa. 



" Fagot, fcatum;' Sfc. (2"'^ S. i. 236.) — It is 

 more than hinted that there is " no instance of i 

 and a being confounded in etymology." By con- 

 found I suppose is here meant interchange ; and if 

 so be, may I suggest to your correspondent the 

 word language itself, which forms a double instance, 

 lingua, language, lingo, and slang ; also superficies, 

 surface, salient, resilient, sine, sans, &c. ; and also 

 among the Teutonic derivatives, band, bind, nacht, 

 night, &c. ? I could enumerate many more, but 

 these may, perhaps, suffice. C. De la Pryme. 



Tothill Pedigree (2"'i S. ii. 372.) — Though un- 

 able to furnish the pedigree, I am enabled to give 

 A. some particulars, touching this family, from 

 Lipscomb's Buckinghamshire : 



« In the time of Q. Elizabeth, the family of Tothill had 

 acquired from the Cheynes the manor of Shardeloes (not 

 Shardelces). William Tothill, Esq., who was one of the 

 Six Clerks in Chancery, and married Catherine, daughter 



of Sir John Denham, Knt., appears to have resided 

 at Shardeloes. They had the extraordinary number 

 of thirty-three children. Joane, the eldest daughter 

 and co-heiress, was married to Francis Drake, Esq., of 

 Esher in Surrey, a Gentleman of the Privy Chamber to 

 K. James I." — Vol. iii. pp. 153, 164. 



This unfortunate lady, soon after her marriage, 

 fell into a state of ill health and deep melancholy ; 

 and " a most extraordinary statement of her ma- 

 lady appeared in a very scarce tract, intituled 

 The Firebrand taken out of the Fire, or the Won- 

 derful History, Case, and Cure of Mrs. Drake," 

 Sfc. {Ibid.). By the register of Amersham, long 

 the residence of some member of the Drake family, 

 it appears that " Mrs. Katherine Tothill, late wife 

 of William Tothill, was there buried, 29 June, 

 1626 ;" and "William Tothill, Esq., bur. 10 De- 

 cember, 1626." To this William Tothill and 

 Catherine his wife th^re still exists a monument 

 in the church of the said hamlet, with a long Latin 

 inscription. (Ibid., p. 168.) C. H. 



Rose of Jericho (P' S. xi. 449. ; 2°<> S. ii. 236.) 

 — This plant being again mentioned, I send a 

 Note respecting it. I have a seed-vessel which I 

 doubt not is that of the flower described by De 

 Saulcy as like a large eastern daisy. It has the 

 hygrometrical properties he witnessed. High bo- 

 tanical authority decides it a Mesembryanthemum ; 

 and it resembles the seed-vessel of the annual 

 pink Mes., which I have grown on purpose to 

 compare with it. But as far as I can ascertain, 

 without injuring my specimen, the seeds do not 

 seem to be united to the interior angle of the cell. 

 I say "seem," because we have examined one 

 division only ; in that, they were unattached : 

 can this arise from age ? or be caused by repeated 

 exercise of its curious property ? Though pro- 

 bably the blossom is even less like a true rose 

 than Helianthemum roseum is, (which Monro and 

 Wilde think the "Rose of Sharon,") surely a 

 Mesem. has a better claim to the title than the 

 Anastatica, which is a cruciform plant. Has any 

 modern traveller found a large pink Mesem. on 

 the plain where De Saulcy found the seed-vessel ? 

 He calls it a "small flower;" but judging by the 

 size of the seed-vessel, as compared with that of 

 Mesem. roseum, my flower must have been as 

 large as the yellow annual species. If the plant 

 were very common, even where De Saulcy found 

 it, it would scarcely have been lost sight of, and 

 replaced by the Kaff maryam; but it is worth 

 seeking, as it is probably quite as hardy as our 

 greenhouse species. 



I suspect that a green spongy ball, given to us 

 as a great curiosity, may be Lycopodium lepido- 

 phyllum. I placed it in water, but it does not 

 open so completely as F. C. H. describes. Is this 

 from age ? I have had it about fifteen years. 



F. C. B. 

 Diss. 



