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out for the other, which was clearly Shakspeare. Posi- 

 tive proof is afforded, however, by its perfect resemblance 

 to a mask discovered within this year in the proprietor- 

 ship of an Italian familjs with whom it is an heir-loom ; 

 a mask with some hairs "from the eyebrows sticking in it, 

 and the name and date on the back." 



A copy of this is, I believe, among the busts at 

 Sydenham ; but can any of your readers oblige 

 me with any farther authentic particulars, names 

 and dates? Having looked into the history of 

 the " Shakspeare portraits," I confess I am rather 

 sceptical about the " Italian family." If, how- 

 ever, the cast can be proved to be genuine, allow 

 me to suggest to Mr. Halliwell how much the 

 value of his fine folios would be enhanced by calo- 

 type copies of this and other portraits of Shak- 

 speare. ESTE. 

 Birmingham. 



Preen or Prene in Shropshire. — In the Hun- 

 dred Rolls there is mention of Great Prene and 

 Little Prene, in the Hundred of Condover in 

 Shropshire. Can any of your readers inform me 

 in what part of the country these places were 

 situate, and what is the etymology and meaning 

 of the word "Prene" or "Preen?" I find 

 " Church Preen " in the topographical diction- 

 aries, and in maps of Shropshire, but not " Great 

 Preen " or " Little Preen." If the excellent work 

 of Mr. Eyton (now in course of publication) had 

 advanced so fai*, I need not have troubled you 

 with the question ; but as yet he has not got into 

 the Hundred above mentioned. One cannot men- 

 tion the county of Salop without expressing due 

 respect for a work of so much research and accu- 

 racy as the Antiquities of Shropshire. The county 

 ought to feel deeply indebted to Mr. Eyton for his 

 laborious endeavour to relieve it from the oppro- 

 brium of being without a published history. One 

 is delighted to find what support he receives from 

 that patron of church antiquities, Mr. Petit. No- 

 thing can be more eflTectlve than some of the 

 admirable Illustrations which Mr. Petit has con- 

 tributed. DUDSTONE. 



Spilling Salt. — Where is the first allusion made 

 to the ill luck supposed to attend spilling the salt ? 

 It was a notion prevailing at the time of Lionardo 

 da Vinci, who has painted Judas as having over- 

 turned the salt-cellar. Perhaps, to avoid sharing 

 the salt with a man against whom violence was 

 intended, the salt may have been designedly 

 knocked down. T. L. N. 



"^." and "^f." — "The Homilies of ^. John 

 Chrysostom on St. Matthew." Here is a manifest 

 distinction between S. and St.: what is the differ- 

 ence ? Abch. Weir. 



Gun-shot Wounds. — As I have no means of re- 

 ferring to the Transactions or records of the Royal 

 Society, I would inquire whether any paper was 

 ever connnunicated to the Society by Surgeon 

 Ranby, or any other person, on the extraordinary 

 wounds and cures at the battle of Dettingen ? 



Samuel Tymms. 

 Bury St. Edmunds. 



[We cannot discover any article in the Philosophical 

 Transactions on this subject ; but John Ranby, Principal 

 Serjeant-Surgeon to George II., published a separate work 

 on The Method of treating Gun-shot Wounds, 4to., 1744 ; 

 2nd edit. 12mo., 1700. In his work, which is dedicated 

 to the king, occurs the following passage, so apposite 

 to the present time: — "May I be allowed, Sire, to say, 

 that the unwearied care taken by your Majesty of the 

 gallant sufferers at the signal battle of Dettingen, is often 

 considered by me with that just admiration and respect 

 which such goodness naturally excites. The state and 

 condition of every individual afflicted, either with sick- 

 ness or wounds incurred in that engagement, was very 

 particularly inquired into by your Majesty every morn- 

 ing ; a condescension which had so happy an effect, that 

 all possible ease and convenience were procured to the 

 distressed." There was also published, in 1745, "An 

 Expostulatory Address to John Rariby, Esq., occasioned 

 by his treatise on Gun-shot Wounds, and his narrative of 

 the Earl of Oxford's Illness," London, Svo."] 



Frischlinus, Lubinus, Marte da Cygne. — In 

 Helneccius' Fundamenta Stili Cultioris, edit. 1748, 

 p. 382., mention is made of Frischlinus : " VIr 

 enim ille doctissimus Virgilium, Horatium et Per- 

 sium in prosam Ingeniose convertit." Also of 

 Eilh, Luhiniis, Pariphrasis Horatii et Ecphrasis 

 Juvenalis : and of Marte du Cygne, Explanatio 

 Rhetorica omnium Ciceronis Orationum, Coin. 1678. 



I should feel much obliged to any of your 

 readers who could give me any information re- 

 specting these authors, and of the time and form 

 in which they were published. P. 



[1. Nicodemus Frischlin, a learned German critic and 

 poet, was born at Balingen, in Suabia, in 1547. He be- 

 came, at twenty, professor at Tubingen, and afterwards 

 falling into distress was imprisoned in Wurtemberg 

 Castle ; but endeavouring to escape, the ropes he used 

 were so weak that he fell down a precipice and was 

 dashed to pieces, November 29, 1590. His works were 

 published in 4 vols. 8vo., 1598—1607. 2. Eilhard Lubin, 

 a theologian and philologist, was born in 1565 at Wester- 

 stede, in the county of Oldenburg ; appointed professor of 

 poetry at Rostock in 1595, and of theology ten years 

 afterwards. He died in 1621. His numerous works are 

 given in Bayle's Dictionary, and in Rose's Biographical 

 Dictionary. 3. Martin de c3vgne, a Jesuit of St. Omer, 

 was born in 1619, and died March 29, 1663. For a list of 

 his other works, see Jocher. Gelehrten Lexicon, s. v.] 



Vavassorrs " De Ludicrd Dictione.'^ — Are any 

 of your readers acquainted with Vavassori's De 

 Lvdicrd Dictione, 4to., Paris, 1655 ; and what is 

 the character of the work ? H. E, W. 



[This work was written to oppose a bad taste, which 

 then prevailed in France, when the works of Scarron and 



