June 8. 1850.] 



NOTES AND QUERIES. 



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— a metamorphose greater, I sns])ect, than any 

 to be founil in Ovid, and a transmigration of soul 

 far beyond those imagined by the jjhilosophers of 

 the East. S. H. 



Atheiiceum. 



Wood Paper. — The reprint of the Wo?-ks of 

 Bishop Wilkina, London, 1802, 2 vols. 8vo., is said 

 to be on paper made from wood pulp. It has all 

 the appearance of it in roughness, thickness, and 

 very unequal opacity. Any sheet looked at with 

 a candle behind it is like a firmament scattered 

 with luminous nebulse. I can find mention (>f 

 straw paper, as patented about the time ; but I 

 should think it almost impossible (knowing how 

 light the Indian rice paper is) that the heavy 

 fabric above mentioned should be of straw. Is it 

 from wood ? Jf so, what is the history of the in- 

 vention, and what other works were printed in it? 



M. 



Latin Line. — I should be very much obliged 

 to any body who can tell where this line comes 

 from : — 



" Exiguum Iioc magnl pignus amoris habe," 



which was engraved on a present from a dis- 

 tinguished person to a relation of mine, who tried 

 in several quarters to learn where it came from. 



C. B. 



Milton, New Edition of. — I observe in Mr. 

 Mayor's communication (Vol. i., p. 427.), that some 

 one is engaged in editing Milton. ]\Iay I ask who, 

 and whether the contemplated edition includes 

 prose and poetry ? CH. 



JBanim and Snrum. — By what theory, rule, or 

 analogy, if any, can the ronfractions be accounted 

 for of two names so dissimilar, into words termi- 

 nating so much alike, as those of Salisbury into 

 Sarum — Barnstaple into Barum ? S. S. S. 



Jlnman Roads. — Can you inform me in whose 

 possession is the MS. essay on " Roman Roads," 

 •written by the late Dr. Charles IMason, to which 

 I find allusion in a MS. letter of Mr. North's. 



BUEIENSIS. 



John Dutton of Diitton. — In the Vagrant Act, 

 17 Geogc IF., c. 5., the heir and assigns of .John 

 Dutton, of Dutton, co. Chester, deceased, Esq., are 

 exempt from the pains and penalties of vagrancy. 

 Query — Who was the said .Tohn Dutton, and 

 why was such a boon conferred on his heirs for 

 ever ? B. 



Rome, Ancient and Modern. — I observed, in a 

 shop in Rome, in 1847, a large plan of that city, 

 in which, on the same surface, both ancient and 

 modern Rome were represented ; the shading of 



the streets and buildings being such as to distin- 

 guish the one from the other. Thus, in looking at 

 the modern Forum, you saw, as it were underneath 

 it, the ancient Forum ; and so in the other parts of 

 the city. Can any of your readers inform me as 

 to the name of the designer, and where, if at all, 

 in England, a copy of this plan may be obtained ? 

 If I remember rightly, the border to the plan 

 was composed of the Pianta Capitolina, or frag- 

 ments of the ancient plan preserved in the Capitol. 

 In the event of the map above referred to not 

 being accessible, can I obtain a copy of this latter 

 plan by itself, and how? A. B. M. 



Prolocutor of Convocation. — W. D. M. in- 

 quires who was Prolocutor of the Lower House of 

 Convocation during its session in 1717-18? 



Language of Queen Marys Days. — In the first 

 vol. of Evelyn's Diary (the lust edition) I find the 

 following; notice : — 



" 18tli, Went to Beverley, a large town with two 

 clnirches, St. John's and St. Mary's, not much inferior 

 to the best of our cathedrals. Here a very old woman 

 showed lis the monuments, and being ahove 100 years 

 of age, spake the langvarje of Queen Mari/s days, in 

 wliose time she was born ; she was widow of a sexton, 

 who had belonged to the church a hundred years." 



Will any of your readers inform me what was 

 the language spoken in Queen Ma7-ys days, and 

 what peculiarity distinguished it from the lan- 

 guage used in Evelyns days ? 



A learned author has suggested, that the dif- 

 ference arose from the slow progress in social im- 

 provement in the North of England, caused by 

 the dilhculty of communication with the court 

 and its refinements. I am still anxious to ascer- 

 tain what the dift'erence was. Fra. Mbwbukn. 



Darlington. 



Vault Interments. — I shall be very glad of any 

 information as to the origin and date of the prac- 

 tice of depositing coffins in vaults, and whether 

 this custom obtains in any other country than our 

 own ? Walter Lewis. 



Edward Street, Portnian Scjuare. 



Archbishop Williams' Pci-secutor, R. K. — Any 

 information will be thankfully received of the 

 ancestors, collaterals, or descendants, of the noto- 

 rious R. K. — the unprinci])led persecutor of 

 Archbp. Williams, mentioned in Fuller's Church 

 m.st. 15. xi. cent. 17. ; and in Hacket's Life of the 

 Archbishop (abridginent), p. 100. F. K. 



The Sun feminine in English. — It has been 

 often remarked, that the northern nations made 

 the sun to be feminine.* Do any of 3 our readers 



• See Latham's EngUsh l.iingnnge, 2nd edition, 

 p. 21 I. 



