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so spacious that it takes an hour and three quar- 

 ters to walk round it ; and being very slippery, 

 you find yourself very fatigued with the walk. 



VlAGGIATOEE. 



Earl of Newhurg (2°^ S. Iv. 398.)— There was 

 an Earl of Newburg, as may be seen in the Lon- 

 don Gazette of Thursday, Sept. 8, 1687, wherein it 

 appears that James TL, having been on his pro- 

 gress to Bath, on Saturday, Sept 3, 1687, was 

 at the Earl of Lichfield's at Woodstock Park 

 to dinner ; on Monday, the 5th following, at the 

 Earl of Newburg" s * at Cirencester, about 6 o'clock 

 p. M., and lodged there ; on Tuesday the 6th he 

 continued his journey, passing through the town 

 of Tetbury, where the bells were rung, with other 

 demonstrations of joy. C. S. 



Michael Scot (2"" S. Iv. 332.) — Sir Michael 

 Scot was the Second Baron of Bal weary, in Fife- 

 shire, Scotland ; a man of extraordinary parts, 

 who made a great figure in his time. It is not 

 exactly known . when he died, but supposed to 

 have been about the year 1300. Many particu- 

 lars concerning " Auld Michael " will be found in 

 the notes to Tennant's excellent poem Anster 

 Fair, Hogg's Mountain Bard, and Scott's Lay of 

 the Last Minstrel; also in the Prefatory Notice to 

 that very singular and interesting work, Law's 

 Memorialls; or. Memorable Things from 1638 to 

 1684. Edited by C. K. Sharpe, 1818. T. G. S. 



Edinburgh. 



Tennyson Queries (2""^ S. iv. 386.) — Kex,'va. the 

 second of these queries, is the provincial word for 

 hemlock. Persius (i. 25.) refers to a similar pro- 

 pensity in the Caprificus, or wild fig, for growing 

 through, and so breaking, the most compact ma- 

 sonry. J. Eastwood. 



Washington a French Marshal (i"* S. iv, 385.) 

 — W. W. writes, " Might I ask if the Earl of 

 Buchan still has in his possession the engraving 

 superscribed ' Marshal General Washington ? ' 



The question seems to arise from a misunder- 

 standing of the words just before quoted. The 

 " engraving from the Earl of Buchan super- 

 scribed ' Marshal General Washington,' " was 

 evidently a gift sent by the earl (who affected to 

 be a patron of art) to Washington. J. C. R. 



Great, Middle, and Small Miles (2"^ S. iv. 411.) 

 — If A. A. will give the relative lengths of these 

 three^ miles, perhaps some conjecture of their 

 meaning might be given. Vryan Rheged. 



Oop, &fc. (2"'i S. iv. 386.)— Ooj9 is probably 

 hoop, i. e. hoop- iron. 



Paschal is the Easter Candle, which is amply 

 illustrated in Brandos Pop. Antiq. i. 91. 



Hognell-money seems connected with hock- 



Probably now the seat of Earl Bathurst. 



money, of which Brand gives numerous illustra- 

 tions, vol. i. 108 — 114. J. Eastwood. 



Apollo Belvedere (2°'i S. iv. 411.)— The height 

 of this statue is stated in the Penny Cyclopaedia to 

 be about seven feet ; as, however, there is, I be- 

 lieve, an accurate cast of the statue in the Crystal 

 Palace (No. 252.), its exact height may be readily 

 ascertained by measurement at that place. The 

 Venus de' Medici, is a little over five feet high. 

 (Eschenberg, p. 392.) T. J. Bockton. 



Lichfield. 



The height of the Apollo Belvedere, and of the 

 Venus de' Medici, is usually given as 5 feet 9 and 

 5 feet 3 respectively. The former struck me as 

 fully this height, but the Venus appeared shorter. 



Signet. 



Quotation Wanted (2°* S. iv. 410.) —The pas- 

 sage in question is taken from Wordsworth's poem 

 of '■ Hart Leap Well," and runs correctly thus : 



" A jolly place," said he, " in times of old, 

 But something aih it now; the place is curst." 



This quotation stands as the motto to poor Hood's 

 exquisite poem, " The Haunted House." 



John Pavin Phillips. 

 Haverfordwest. 



Mynchys (2°^ S. iv. 388.)— Is not this the 

 origin of minx, of which Johnson says, " Con- 

 tracted, I suppose, from minnock ? " The word 

 minx is often used, vulgarly, to indicate an affec- 

 tation of preciseness in the demeanour of a female. 



S. W. Rix. 



Beccles. 



Epigram on Sternhold and Hopkins (2°'* S. iv. 

 351.) — John Wilmot, the notorious Earl of 

 Rochester, was the author of the pungent lines on 

 these versifiers of the Psalms, if we may reckon 

 Mr. Beesley to be correct in his statement, (His- 

 tory of Banbury, p. 488.) : — 



" The Earl of Rochester resided at Adderbury (Oxon.) 

 . . . The village chroniclers of that place relate many tra- 

 ditional tales of the eccentricities and libertiaisms of this 

 worthless personage. Amongst others, it is stated that 

 it was at Bodicot (a chapelry to Adderbury) that Roches- 

 ter made his extempore lines addressed to the psalm- 

 singing clerk or sexton : — 



" ' Sternhold and Hopkins had great qualms, 

 When they translated David's Psalms, 



To make the heart full glad : 

 But had it been poor David's fate 

 To hear thee sing, and them translate, 

 By Jove, 'twould have drove him mad.' " 



The lines, as given here, contain one or two 

 slight verbal differences from those of your cor- 

 respondent G. E. I have not Bp. Burnet's Me- 

 moir of Rochester at hand, but am inclined to think 

 that Mr. Beesley is indebted to it. Fohestabius. 



Moonlight Heat (2°'' S. iv. 366.) — Professor 

 Piazzi Smyth, the Astronomer Royal for Scotland, 



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