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truthfulness to the whole composition that excited 

 the universal attention and admiration of his 

 fellow-citizens, who immediately purchased the 

 picture, and placed it in their museum. Plornung 

 was filled with an ardent admiration of the cha- 

 racter of the reformer, and with a desire to per- 

 fect so admirable a memorial of one of the most 

 striking and affecting events in his history. Twelve 

 years afterwards, when his taste had been ma- 

 tured, and his hand had acquired additional firm- 

 ness and facility by extended experience, he 

 returned to the subject, and painted it afresh, 

 bestowing on this new picture all the care and 

 skill of his art. It is now in private hands in this 

 country, and is one of the best and most effective 

 pictures I ever saw. The composition seems per- 

 fect and the painting exquisite, with a finish al- 

 most marvellous. 



Will any of your numerous correspondents 

 inform me if Hornung be still living, and whether 

 he has painted any work, since 1838, approaching 

 in excellence the Death-bed of Calvin ? f 



Throw, Cheltenham. 



Epitaph. — In Pnget's Tract upon Tombstones, 

 the following is given among some specimens of 

 epitaphs in bad taste : 



" I've lost the comfort of my life, 

 Death came and took away my wife ; 

 And now I don't know what to do, 

 Lest Death should come, and take me too." 



It is in bad taste, tliat I do not question ; what 

 I want to know is, has it really a local habitation, 

 and where ? A. A. D. 



Anglican Baptism. — Does the Roman Catholic 

 church admit the validity of baptism administered 

 in the English church ? I am aware that accord- 

 ing to the canons of the Council of Trent, such 

 baptism would be recognised ; but my object is to 

 ascertain the present practice, being under tlie 

 impression that recent converts have been rebap- 

 tized. W. M. N. 



Captain Booth of Stockport. — Among other 

 heraldic MSS. relating to Lancashire, I lately met 

 with a copy of an ordinary of arms by a Captain 

 Booth of Stockport, Cheshire (undated). Would 

 any of your correspondents be kind enough to 

 say who this Captain Booth was ? what his au- 

 thority as a heraldic writer ? and whether his 

 MSS. are yet preserved, and where ? Jaytee. ' 



Printed Sermon hij Oliver Cromioell. — In He- 

 raldic Anomalies., by the late Archdeacon ISTares, 

 it is stated (vol. i. p. 59.) that there is extant a 

 printed sermon by Oliver Cromwell, on Romans 

 xiii. 1. To what sermon does he refer? ;• Mr. 



Carlyle was not aware of any when he pub- 

 lished his Letters and Speeches of Oliver Cromwell, 

 or he would have reprinted it in that work. 

 From the extract given by Nares, it seems very 

 unlike a composition of the great Pi'otector's. 



Dryasdust. 



Milton in Prose. — I have seen a book entitled 

 The Full of Man, or Milton's Paradise Lost; in 

 Pro-te, with critical, philosophical, and explanato7'y 

 Notes from sevei^al Authors, ^-c. : a new translation 

 from the French, adorned with Copper-Plates. 

 London, Printed for M. Cooper, in Paternoster 

 How. Can any of your learned readers give me 

 any account of this book ? Southey, I believe, 

 mentions a translation from the French, but I 

 cannot refer to the passage, so that possibly this 

 may be the book ; it has no preface. 



R. J. Allen^. 



Passage in Sir W. Draper. — In the first of Sir 

 W. Draper's letters (No. 2. in the Junius Collec- 

 tion) occurs this sentence : 



" An eminent author affirms it to he almost as crimi- 

 nal to hear a worthy man traduced, without attempting 

 his justification, as to he the author of the calumny 

 against him." 



Who is the author referred to ? W. T. M. 



Hong Kong. 



Saying of a great ^udge. — The Marquis de 

 Laroehejaquelein, in a letter which he has lately 

 addressed to the Asscmblee Nationale, observes, 

 " A great judge said, ' Give me two lines in the 

 handwriting of an honest man, and I will under- 

 take to hang him.' " Some saying of the kind 

 floats in my mind, but I cannot catch and identify 

 it. Will any correspondent tell me whether the 

 quotation is correct, the name of the great judge, 

 and the occasion, &c. upon which the words were 

 spoken ? Alfked Gattt. 



Henricus Grvingius, Decanus Embricensis. — 

 Can you or any of your correspondents inform me 

 of what place Gruingius was dean? and, also, what 

 is the best work of reference for solving similar 

 questions ? Tyro. 



Dublin. 



Serpents Tongue. — In an inventory of goods 

 belonging to a worthy ancestor of mine, Robert 

 Holgate, Archbishop of York, I find : 



" Item, a serpent's tongue set in a standard of silver, 

 gilt and graven." 



Can any of your readers explain this for me ? 



C. K. P. 

 Newport, Essex. 



Crawford of Kilhurnie. — The marriage of Mal- 

 colm Crawford with Marjory Barclay, whereby he 



