Feb. 12. 1853.] 



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Romans distinguished by the word Fulvus. This 

 the Saxons contracted into Fulk, which word has 

 become a family prenomen, as in Fulke-Greville, 

 Fulke-Brooke ; in other terms, the yellow Greville 

 or yellow Brooke ; and Folkeston is nothing more 

 than the yellow town, so called from the nature of 

 the soil on which it is built. S. 



The Curfew Bell (Vol. vi., p. 53.).— 



" During the last 700 years, the curfew bell has been 

 regularly tolled in the town of Sandwich : but now it 

 is said it is to be discontinued, in consequence of the 

 corporation funds being at so low an ebb as not to 

 allow of the payment of the paltry sum of some 4i or 

 51, per annum." — Kentish Observer.^ 



Anon. 



Confirmation Superstition (Vol. vi., p. 601.). — 

 It is singular, that though the office is called " the 

 laying on of hands" the rubric says, " the bishop 

 shall lay his hand on the head of every one seve- 

 rally." When was the iirideais x^'P^'^ (Heb. vi. 2.) 

 changed into an iirieea-is xe'pbs ? A. A. D. 



Degree of B.C. L. (Vol. vii., p. 38.).— On Feb. 

 25, 1851, a statute was passed at Oxford, by Con- 

 vocation, which requires that the candidate for 

 the degree of B.C.L. should have passed his exa- 

 mination for the degree of B.A., and attended one 

 course of lectures with the Regius Professor of 

 Civil Law. In the case of particular colleges, 

 twenty terms must have been kept : by members 

 of other colleges, twenty-four terms must have 

 been completed. The examination is upon the 

 four books, or any part of them, of the Institutes 

 of Justinian^ or works which serve to illustrate 

 them in the science of civil law, of which six 

 months' notice is previously given by the Regius 

 Professor. 



At Cambridge, a B.A. of four years' standing 

 can be admitted LL.B. The candidate must have 

 passed the previous examination ; attended the 

 lectures of the professor for three terms ; be ex- 

 amined ; and after four years' standing, and resi- 

 dence of three terms, keep his act. 



Mackenzie Walcott, M.A. 



Mobert Heron (Vol. vi., p. 389.).— The literary 

 career of this individual in London is selected by 

 D'Israeli as an illustration of his Calamities of 

 Authors. Some farther particulars of him, in an 

 editorial capacity, will be found in Fraser's Maga- 

 zine, vol. XX. p. 747. William Bates. 



Birmingham. 



Shdkspeare's " Twelfth Night'' (Vol. vii., p. 51,). 

 — If the term " case," as applied to apparel, re- 

 quires any further elucidation, it may be found in 

 the "Certaine opening and drawing Distiches," 

 prefixed to Coryat's Crudities, 4to., 1611. And 

 the engraved title, which the verses are intended 



to explain, places before the eye, in a most un- 

 mistakeable form, the articles which compose a 

 F. S. Q. 



man s " case. 



Catcalls (Vol. vl., pp. 460. 559.). — For a long 

 and humorous dissertation upon this instrun>ent, 1 

 beg to refer your sceptical correspondent M.M.E. 

 to page 130. of a scarce and amusing little work, 

 entitled A Taste of the Town, or a Guide to all 

 Publick Diversions, S^c. ; London, printed and sold 

 by the booksellers of London and Westminster, 

 1731, 12mo. The passages are not unworthy of 

 transcription ; but, I fear, would be too long for 

 insertion in your columns. William Bates. 



Birmingham. 



" Plurima, pauca, nihil," (Vol. vi., p. 511. ; 

 Vol. vii., p. 96.). — The following couplet will be 

 found in Jo. Burch. Menckenii De Charlataneria 

 Eruditorum Declamationes, page 181. of the edit. 

 Amst. 1727. The lines are there given as a spe- 

 cimen of " versus quos Galli vocant rapportez :" 



" Vir simplex, fortasse bonus, sed Pastor ineptus, 

 Vult, tentat, peragit, plurima, pauca, nihil." 



N.B. 



I have met with the following metrical proverb, 

 which may aiford satisfaction to your correspon- 

 dent, which dates certainly before 1604 : 



" Modus retlnendorum amicorum. 



Temporibus nostris quicunque placere laborat, 

 Det, capiat, quasrat, plurima, pauca, nihil." 



Also this : 



" Plurima des, perpauca petas, nil accipe : si nil 

 Accipias, et pauca petas, et plurima dones, 

 Gratus eris populo, te mille sequentur amici. 

 Si nihilum trades, cito eris privatus amico ; 

 Plurima si quseres, multam patiere repulsara : 

 Si multa accipias, populus te dicet avarum. 

 Nil cape, pauca petas, des plurima, habebis amicos." 



W. C. H. 



Ben Jonson's adopted Sons (Vol. v., pp. 537. 

 588.). — I had made some ISTotes on this subject, 

 but have never seen stated that their number was 

 limited to twelve. I have got ten on my list, but 

 am unable at present to give my authorities ; but 

 I can assure your Inquirer, at p. 537., that their 

 names are honestly come by : 



" Thomas Randolph, Richard Brome, William Cart- 

 wright, Sir Henry Morrison, James Howell, Joseph 

 Rutter, Robert Herrick, Lord Falkland, Sir John 

 Suckling, Shackerly Marraion." 



S. Wmson. 



Mistletoe (Vol. vi., p. 589.). — Mistletoe grows 

 on one oak in Hackwood Park, near Basingstoke, 

 where it is extremely plentiful on hawthorns. 



J. P. O. 



