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launcc or pike into his hand ; and then his fellowe 

 souldyers did hy travell everye man bringe so muche 

 earthe, and laye aboute him as should cover him, and 

 mount up to cover the top of his pike," 



I have a very curious print in my possession, 

 illustrating the manners and customs of the Lap- 

 landers ; and, amongst the rest, their mo<Jes of 

 burial. In one case several bodies are represented 

 standing in an upright posture, perfectly nude, 

 with railings all round except in the front ; and 

 another, one body is represented in a similar con- 

 dition, inclosed in a kind of sentry-box. 



R. W. Elliott. 

 Clifton. 



The Word "Mob" (Vol.viii., pp. 386. 524. 573.). 

 — Roger North, speaking of the King's Head, or 

 Green Ribbon Club, which was "a more visible 

 administi-ation, mediate, as it were, between his 

 lordship (Shaftsbury) and the greater and lesser 

 vulgar, who were to be the immediate tools," 



" I may note that the rabble first changed their 

 title, and were called the mob, in the assemblies of this 

 club. It was their beast of burthen, and called first 

 mobile vulgus, but fell naturally into the contraction of 

 one syllable, and ever since is become proper English." 

 — Examen, part in. ch. vii. p. 89. 



H. Gardineb. 



Gen. Sir C. Napier (Vol. viii., p. 490,). — 

 I may state, for the instruction of officers who 

 think study needless in their profession, that, hav- 

 ing enjoyed the intimate friendship of Sir C. 

 Napier for some time before he had the command 

 in the midland district of England, I constantly 

 found him engaged in inquiries connected with 

 his profession. He was always in training. Not 

 long before this time he had returned from Caen, 

 in Normandy, and he told me that when there he 

 had surveyed the ground on which William the 

 Conqueror had acquired military fame before he 

 made his descent on England, and his conclusion 

 was that that Conqueror was remarkably well 

 instructed for his time in the art of war. He 

 expressed his intention to write on this subject; 

 but great events soon afterwards called him to 

 India, which became the scene of his own mastery 

 in military and civil command. T. F. 



To Come (Vol. viii., p. 468,). — In the Lower 

 Saxon dialect, to come is camen, and the imper- 

 fect, as in Gothic, qiiam. It would therefore seem 

 that the English came is not an innovation, but a 

 partial restoration or preservation of a very an- 

 cient form, (See Adelung's Worterbuch.) 



E. C. H. 



Passage in Sophocles (Vol. viii., pp. 73. 478.). 

 — The Italics were introduced to draw attention 

 to the new version which was adventured, "N. & 



Q." being an excellent medium for such sugges- 

 tions. 



Sophocles having referred to " an illustrious 

 saying of some one," and the old scholiast having 

 furnished this saying, 



""Oral' 5' 6 Saifictif avSpl itopavvri KaKci 

 Thv vovv e§\a\pe irpUTOV ^ $ov\everat," 



It merely became necessary to compare the form 

 which Sophocles adopted to suit his metre with 

 the words of this " illustrious saying," whence it 

 appeared that — 



§ fiou\€veTai = irpdcrcrei 5' ohiyoa'^j' xP^"*'*' e'/crbs dras ; 

 and therefore I could not agree with the common 

 version, " and that he lives for a brief space apart 

 from its visitation ;" erroneous, as I submit, from 

 the adoption of Brunck's reading irpao-a-eic, instead 

 of reading, as I venture to do, with Hermann, 

 Seos ^yei .... irpda-ffei S', taking Srths as the nomi- 

 native of both verbs. 



Neither the Oxford translation, Edwards's, nor 

 Buckley's, renders 6\iyoo-roi/ " very brief," agreeably 

 to the admonition of the old scholiast to the con- 

 trary. The word " practise " objected to is, I 

 submit, derived from Trpao-o-w, to act, through 

 irpdyixa, business, and irpa^is, practice, and is there- 

 fore the most appropriate English word, although 

 the word "does" will furnish Sophocles' mean- 

 ing nearly as well. I shall, however, be most 

 happy to submit to correction by any classical 

 scholar. T. J. Bucktok. 



Lichfield. 



Party- Similes of the Seventeenth Century 

 (Vol, viii., p. 485,), — I must beg of you to con- 

 tradict the loose statement of Jaeltzbehg at 

 p. 486. of this Volume, " as to the object of the 

 Church of England in separating from Rome." 

 Now, the Church of England did never separate 

 herself from any Christian Church ; the doctrine 

 and discipline of the Church of England is to be 

 found in her Book of Common Prayer. Popes 

 Paul IV, and Pius IV, offered to confirm this 

 book, if Queen Elizabeth would acknowledge the 

 Pope's supremacy ; and Roman Catholics in these 

 realms habitually conformed to the worship of the 

 Church of England for the first twelve years of 

 Queen Elizabeth's reign, after which time they 

 were prevented from doing so by the bull of 

 Pius V, (dated Feb. 23, 1569), which excommu- 

 nicated that sovereign. 



So Romanists are the separatists, and not An- 

 glicans, Thomas Colxis. 



Judges styled Reverend (Vol, viii., pp, 158, 276. 

 351.), — Sir Anthony Fitzherbert was certainly 

 not chief justice, yet in A Letter to a Convocation 

 Man I find him so styled : 



" I must admit that it is said in the second part of 

 RoUe's Abridgment, that the Archbishop of Canterbury 



