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scended from the youngest son of the first earl) 

 assumed the extinction of all the issue of the six 

 elder sons. The evidence adduced altogether 

 negatived the presumption of any such issue. 

 Your correspondents Francis and An Hibernian 

 will find a very clear and succinct account of the 

 late earl's claim, and Stephen Francis Dillon's 

 counter-claim, in The Roscommon Claim of Peerage, 

 by J. Sydney Tayler, Lond. 1829. W. H. C. 



Pa7-se (Vol. ii., p. 430.). — Your correspondent 

 J. W. H. is far from correct in supposing that 

 this word was not known in 1611, for he will find 

 it used by Roger Ascham, in a passage quoted by 

 Richardson in his Dictionary sub voce. 



In Brinsley's curious Ludus Literarius, 1612, re- 

 printed 1627, 4to., the word is frecpiently used. 

 At page C9. he recommends the " continual prac- 

 tice oi parsing." At p. 319., enumerating the con- 

 tents of chap, vi., we have " The Questions of the 

 Accidence, called the PoHsiHg- of the English Parts;" 

 and chap. ix. is " Of Parsing and the kinds thereof, 

 &c." 



At the end of a kind of introduction there is an 

 " Advertisement by the Printer," intimating that 

 the authoi-'s book, " Tlie Poasing of the Accidence," 

 is likely to come forth. From all this, it seems 

 as if the two words were used indifferently. 



F. R. A. 



The Meaning of "■Version'" (Vol. ii., p. 466.). — 

 T. appears to apply a peculiar meaning of his own 

 to the word "version," which it would have been 

 quite as well if he had explained in a glossarial 

 note. 



He thinks A. E. B. was mistaken in using that 

 phrase in reference to Lord Bacon's translation 

 into Latin of his own English original work, and 

 he proceeds to compare (to what end does not very 

 clearly appear) a sentence from Lord Bacon's 

 English text, with the same sentence as re-trans- 

 lated bactk again from Lord Bacon's Latin by 

 Wats. Finally, T. concludes with this very sin- 

 gvilar remark : " VA'^ats' version is the more exact 

 of the two ! " 



Does T. mean to call Lord Bacon's English text 

 a version of his Latin, by anticipation of eighteen 

 years ? 



The only other authority for such a meaning of 

 the word would seem to be the facetious Dr. 

 Prout, who accused Tom Moore of a similar ver- 

 sion of his celebrated papers. A. E. B. 



First Paper-mill in England (Vol. ii., p. 473.). 

 — The birthplace of the "High Germaine Spil- 

 man" (Spielmann), celebrated by Churchyard, your 

 English readers may not easily discover by his de- 

 scription as quoted by Dr. Rimbault. 



" Lyndoam Bodenze" is Linduii am Soden-see, 

 on the Lake of Constance (in German, Bodensee), 

 once a free imperial city, called, from its site on 

 three islets in the lake, " the Swabian Venice," now 



a pretty little town belonging to the kingdom of 

 Bavaria, V. 



" Torn bij Horses" (Vol. ii., p. 480.). — This 

 cruel death was suffered by Ravaillac, who accom- 

 plished what Jean Chatel failed in doing. 



The execution took place on the 27th of May, 

 1610, with the most atrocious severities of torture, 

 of which the drawing by horses was but the last 

 out of a scene that continued for many hours. The 

 d.ay before he had been racked to the very extre- 

 mity of human suffering. The horses dragged at 

 the wretch's body for an hour in vain ; at length 

 a nobleman present sent one of his own, which was 

 stronger ; but this even would not suffice. The 

 executioner had to sever the mangled body with 

 his knife, before the limbs would give way. I 

 could add more of these details, but the subject is 

 intolerable. 



The execution of Ravaillac was followed witk 

 the utmost exactness, but with more cruelty, if 

 possible, in the case of Damiens (sentenced for the 

 attempt on Louis le Bien-Aime), who suffered on 

 the Place de Greve, March 28, 1757. The frightful 

 business lasted from morning till dusk! Here again 

 the knife was used before the body gave way, the 

 horses having dragged at it for more than an hour 

 first ; the poor wretch living, it is said, all the 

 while ! 



I believe this was the last instance of the pun- 

 ishment in France, if not in Europe. 



A concise svimmary of the trials of these men, 

 and all the hideous details of their tortures and 

 execution, will be found, by those who have a taste 

 for such things, in the third volume of the new 

 series of the Never Pitaval, edited by Hitzig and 

 Hiiring (Leipzig, Brockhaus), — a collection of 

 causes cHUbres which has been in course of pub- 

 lication at intervals since 1842. The volume in 

 question appeared in the present year (1850). 



Belgravia. 



Vineyards (Vol. ii., p. 392.). — At Ingatestone 

 Hall, in Essex, one of the seats of Lord Petre, a 

 part of the ground on the south side of the house 

 still goes by the name of " the Vineyard." And this 

 autumn grapes came to great perfection on the 

 south wall. J. A. D. 



Cai-dinal (Vol. ii., p. 424.).— The expression re- 

 ferred to by O. P.Q. was in some degree illustrated 

 at the coronation of Edward II., 1308, when the 

 Pope, wishing the ceremony to be performed by a 

 cardinal, whom he offered to scud for the purpose, 

 was strenuously opposed by the king, and com- 

 pelled to withdraw his pretension. (See Curtis's 

 History of England, vol. ii. p. 309.) C. H. 



St. Catherine's Hall, Cambridge. 



Weights for iveighing Coins (Vol. ii., p. 326.). — 

 If the question of your correspondent, who wishes 

 to know at what period weights were introduced 



