Oct. 15. 1853.] 



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ing, that in Bengal the natives make a " salam" 

 on these occasions. 



There is also, I believe, a popular idea among 

 some of sneezing having some connexion with 

 Satanic agency ; and I lately met with a case 

 where a peculiar odour was invariably distinguish- 

 able by two sisters, on a certain individual vio- 

 lently sneezing. 



I shall be very much obliged if any of your 

 readers can furnish me with any facts, theories, 

 or popular ideas upon this subject. Medicus. 



Spenser's "Fairy Queen.'" — Allow me to employ 

 an interval of leisure, after a visit to the remains 

 of Kilcolman Castle, in inquiring whether any of 

 your Irish readers can afford information respect- 

 ing the existence of the long missing books of the 

 FairT/ Queen ? Mrs. Hall, in her work on Ireland 

 (vol. i. pp. 93, 94.), says that — 



" More than mere rumour exists for believing that 

 the lost books have been preserved, and that the MS. 

 was in the possession of a Captain Garrett Nagle within 

 the last fortv years." 



W. L. N. 



Buttevant, co. Cork. 



Poema del Cid. — Is there any edition of the 

 Poema del Cid besides the one published by 

 Sanchez {Poesias Castellanas anteriores al sigh 

 XV.), and reprinted by Ochoa, and appended like- 

 wise to an edition of Ochoa's Tesoro de los Ro- 

 manceros, &c., published at Barcelona in 1840? 

 I shall feel obliged by being referred to an edition 

 in a detached form with glossary and notes, if 

 such there be. J. M. B. 



TTie Brazen Head. — As upon two former occa- 

 sions, through the useful and interesting pages of 

 " N. & Q.," I have been enabled to obtain inform- 

 ation which I could procure in no other way, I 

 am glad to have an opportunity of recording the 

 obligations I myself, like many more, am under to 

 " N. & Q.," and to some of your talented and 

 kindly correspondents. Being anxious still far- 

 ther to trespass upon your space, I take this op- 

 portunity of alike thanking you and them. — Could 

 any reader of "N. & Q." inform me whether more 

 than two numbers of The Brazen Head were ever 

 published? Through the great courtesy of a 

 talented correspondent of " N. & Q." from Wor- 

 cestei*, I have the first two ; but I am anxious, for 

 a literary purpose, to ascertain whether the pub- 

 lication was continued after. A. F. A. W. 



" The Basilics." — "What is the manuscript 

 called the " Basilics " in the following passage, 

 which occurs in a cotemporary MS., " Memoirs of 



the Life of the Right Hon. John Lord Scudamore, 

 Viscount Sligo in Ireland," in the library of P. 

 Howard, Esq., at Corby Castle ? Is it known 

 where it is now preserved ? 



Have these memoirs been printed ? Lord S. 

 was born in 1600, and was ambassador to France 

 when this circumstance occurred. 



" There having been intelligence given to his Excel- 

 lence by that renowned person, and his then great 

 acquaintance, Mons. Grotius, lieger in Paris for the 

 crown of Sweden, of a very valuable manuscript of 

 many volumes, being the body of the civil law in 

 Greek, commonly called the ' Basilics,' in the hands of 

 the heirs of the famous lawyer lately deceased, Petrus 

 Faber, — desirous to enrich his country with this 

 treasure, he transacted and agreed with the possessors 

 for the price of it, whicli was no less than 500/. But 

 when it should have been delivered, and the money 

 was ready to be paid down. Cardinal Richelieu (the 

 great French minister of state at that time) having 

 notice of the transaction interposed, and forbad the 

 going on upon the contract, as thinking it would have 

 been a diminution to their nation to permit such a 

 prize to come into the hands of strangers, and by their 

 charge and labour be communicated to the world." 



W. C. Treveltan. 



Wallington. 



[Basilica is a name given to a digest of laws com- 

 menced by the Emperor Basilius in the year 867, and 

 completed by his son Leo the philosopher in the year 

 880, the former having carried the work as far as forty 

 books, and the latter having added twenty more, in 

 which state it was published. The complete edition 

 of Charles Annibal Fabrot, which appeared at Paris in 

 1647, proved of great service to the study of ancient 

 jurisprudence. It is contained in seven volumes folio, 

 and accompanied with a Latin version of the text, as 

 well as of the Greek scholia subjoined. See a valu- 

 able article on the Greek texts of the Roman law, in 

 the Foreign Quarterly Review, vol. vii. p. 461. — The 

 MS. " Memoirs of the Hon. John Lord Scudamore " 

 seem to have been used by Matthew Gibson in his 

 View of the Ancient and Present State of the Churche& 

 of Door, Home- Lacy, and Hempsted, with Memoirs of 

 the Scudamore Family, 4to., 1727, as the substance of 

 the passage quoted by our correspondent is given at 

 p. 95. of that work.] 



Fire at Honiton. — I am solicitous to learn the 

 particulars of a fire which occurred at Honiton, in 

 Devonshire, in the year 1765, when the chapel 

 and school-house were burned down, and the 

 former thereupon rebuilt by collections uvAer a' 

 brief. 



In a review of Mr. Digby Wyatt's " Industrial 

 Arts of the Nineteenth Century " (in the Athe- 

 nceum for June 18th of the current year), reference 

 is made by Mrs. Treadwin of Exeter to " a hook 

 mentioning two great fires which occurred in 

 1756 and 1767 in Honiton," but it is not stated 

 who was the author of that book. 



