Sept. 9. 1854.] 



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grenade was of hdked earth, very thick and strong, 

 the chamber about four Inches in diameter ; the 

 fuse was of hornbeam, with leaden cap and wooden 

 plug. These missiles are supposed to have been 

 used at the siege of the town in 1645 ; the most 

 perfect of them have been placed in the Leicester 

 Museum. Can any one inforni me if any other 

 specimen of earthen hand-grenade is known to be 

 in existence, and if so, in what collection ? 



W. N. Reeve. 

 Leicester. 



St. Peter. — Of what tribe was St. Peter the 

 Apostle ? H. 



^m0r <hntxiti tut'tg %\xi\atKi, 



•' Oh what a voice is silent^ — Can you inform 

 me whether there is in Alford's Upcryvfivatx^iara a 

 poem commencing " Oh what a voice is silent," 

 and if so, will you kindly insert it in your next ? 



H.B. 



[The poem occurs at p. Co. of the above work : — 



" Oh what a voice is silent. It was soft 

 As mountain echoes, when the winds aloft, 

 The gentle winds of summer, meet in caves ; 

 Or when in shelter'd places the white waves 

 Are 'waken'd into music, as the breeze 

 Dimples, and stems the current : or as trees 

 Shaking their green locks in the days of June : 

 Or Delphic girls when to the maiden moon 

 They sang harmonious pra3''rs ; or sounds that come 

 (However near) like a faint distant hum 

 Out of the grass, from which mysterious birth 

 We guess the busy secrets of the earth. 

 Like the low voice of Syrinx, when she ran 

 Into the forests from Arcadian Pan : 

 Or sad CEnone's, when she pined away 

 For Paris, or (and yet 'twas not so gay) 

 As Helen's whisper when she came to Troy, 

 Half-shamed to wander with that blooming boy : 

 Like air-touch'd harps in flowery casements hung ; 

 Like unto lover's ears the wild words sung 

 In garden bowers at twilight : like the sound 

 Of Zephyr when he takes his nightly round, 

 In May, to see the roses all asleep : 

 Or like the dim strain which along the deep 

 The sea-maid ixtters to the sailor's ear. 

 Telling of tempests, or of dangers near. 

 Like Desdemona, who (when fear Avas strong 

 Upon her soul) chaunted the willow-song. 

 Swan-like, before she perish'd ; or the tone 

 Of flutes upon the waters heard alone : 

 Like words that come upon the memory 

 Spoken by friends departed ; or the sigh 

 A gentle girl breathes when she tries to hide 

 The love her eyes betray to all the world beside."] 



Address : Etiquette. — The Honourable Anne 

 Smith, daughter of Viscount Constable, marries 

 John Jones, Esq. How shall I direct a letter to 

 her? " The Hon. Mrs. Jones" ? or, " The Hon. 

 Mrs. Anne Jones "? Q. m a Coenee. 



[The proper mode of addressing the lady is, « The Hon. 

 Mrs. Jones."] 



Rules of Precedence. — Can you refer me to any 

 work of authority, stating accurately the rules of 

 precedence not included in the ordinary tables. 

 I believe, for instance, the younger son of a peer 

 takes precedence of his uncle ; the younger 

 brother of a peer being reckoned nearer in blood 

 to the peer ; but where is this laid down ? Is 

 there any rule given also anywhere for determin- 

 ing the colour, facings, and lace of liveries, as 

 derived from the coat of arms ? W. L. M. 



[There is no work in which the practice or rules affect- 

 ing peculiar cases of precedency are laid down, unless Sir 

 George Mackenzie's Observations upon Precedency, pub- 

 lished in Gwillim (edit. 1724), may claim the character 

 of " authority." In Selden's Titles of Honour the subject 

 of precedency is treated of generally. In the case above 

 mentioned, the usage observed in public ceremonials can, 

 perhaps, be our only guide ; in which the precedency of 

 persons is frst given to those who are related to the exist- 

 ing peer : thus, as at coronations the wife of an existing 

 peer takes place before a dowager peeress of the same 

 title, so the younger son of an existing peer would precede 

 his uncle. Analogous to this it may be observed that, 

 with respect to the roj'al family, the sons of the reigning 

 sovereign sit under the cloth of estate in the upper house 

 of parliament, as was the case with the younger sons of 

 George III. ; but Avho, upon the demise of their royal 

 father, ceased to have that distinction.] 



Harlot. — Is there any good foundation for the 

 assertion that the English word harlot derives its 

 origin and meaning from Arlette, or Harlotta, the 

 mistress of Robert, Duke of Normandy, and 

 mother of William the Conqueror? Turner, ia 

 his Letters from Normandy, mentions such as 

 likely to be the fact, " if we may give credence to 

 the old chroniclers." In what old chronicle is it 

 thus stated ? N. L. J. 



[Pegge in his Anonymiana, p. 295., has replied to this 

 query ; he says, " Harlot has the appearance of a French 

 word ; and some have imagined it came from Arlotta, the 

 mother of William the Conqueror, he being a bastard. 

 See Annot. ad Rapin, i. 164. ; Hay ward's William tfie 

 Conqueror, p. 2. But the historians, Gul. Gemet, who 

 calls her Herleva, and Thomas Rudburne, who calls her 

 Maud, could have no idea of this. Dr. Johnson thinks it 

 the Welch herlodes, a wench or girl ; perhaps it may be 

 the Saxon hop, a whore, with the diminutive French, 

 termination, quasi, a little whore."] 



Rcemundus Sehundus. — Who was Ramundus 

 Sebundus, mentioned in connexion with Ludovicus 

 VIves and Phllippus Morngeus, in the opening 

 paragraph of Grotius' De Veritate ? He appears 

 to have written on Christian Evidences ; but his 

 name does not occur in any biographical work that 

 I have consulted. Balbus. 



[Raymond de Sabunde, or Sebonde, a physician and 

 divine, was a native of Barcelona, who flourished about 

 1436, and is said to have been a professor of philosophy, 

 medicine, and theology, in the University of Toulouse. 

 His principal work, entitled Liber Creaturarum, and 

 afterwards Theologia Naturalis, was printed at Strasburg 

 in 1496, and was brought into notice by Montaigne, who 

 translated it into French. The book afterwards appeared 



