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NOTES AND QUERIES. 
[No. 6, 
Ist ed.), misled by Warton and others, gives a 
very defective and erroneous account of the Pro- 
gymnasmata Scenica, which he supposed to contain 
several dramas ; but he concludes by saying, ‘“ the 
book is very scarce, and I have never seen it.” 
Gottsched, in his History of the German Drama, 
merely says he had seen some notice of a Latin 
drama by Reuchlin. Hans Sachs translated it into 
German, after his manner, and printed it in 1531 
under the title of Henno. 8. W.S. 
Mickleham, Dee. 1. 1849. 
MYLES BLOMEFYLDE—ORTUS VOCABULORUM. 
Sir, —In reference to the Query of Burrensis 
in No. 4. of your periodical, as to the parentage 
of Myles Blomefylde, of Bury St. Edmund's, I beg 
to contribute the following information. In the 
library of St. John’s College, Cambridge, is a 
volume containing an unique copy of “ the boke 
called the Informacyon for pylgrymes vnto the 
holy lande,” printed by Wynkyn de Worde, in 
1524, at the end of which occurs the following 
manuscript note : — 
“TJ, Myles Blomefylde, of Burye Saynet Edmunde 
in Suffolke, was borne y® yeare followyng after y® 
pryntyng of this boke (that is to saye) in the yeare of 
our Lorde 1525, the 5 day of Apryll, betwene 10 & 11, 
in ye nyght, nyghest xi. my father’s name John, and 
my mother’s name Anne.” 
This tract is bound up with two others, on both 
of which Blomefylde has written his initials, and 
from one entry seems to have been at Venice in 
1568. He was undoubtedly an ardent book-col- 
lector, and I possess copies of the Ortus Vocabulo- 
rum, printed by W. de Worde, in 1518, and the 
Promptuarium Parvulorum, printed by the same, 
in 1516, bound together, on both of which the name 
of Myles Blomefylde is inscribed. 
I may add, as a slight contribution to a future 
edition of the Typographical Antiquities, that among 
Bagford’s curious collection of title-pages in the 
Harleian Collection of MSS. (which I doubt if 
Dr. Dibdin ever consulted with care), there is the 
last leaf of an edition of the Ortus Vocabulorum, 
unnoticed by bibliographers, with the following 
colophon : — 
“Impr. London. per Wynandum de Worde, com- 
morantem in vico nuncupato Fletestrete, sub in- 
tersignio solis aurei, Anno incarnatidis Dominice 
M.CCCCC.1X. die vero prima mésis Decébris.”’— 
Harl, MSS. 5919. art. 36. M. 
ANSWERS TO MINOR QUERIES. 
The Curse of Scotland — Why the Nine of Diamonds 
is so called. 
When I was a child (row about half a century 
ago) my father used to explain the origin of the 
nine of diamonds being called “ The curse of Scot- 
land” thus: That it was the “ cross of Scotland,” 
which, in the Scotch pronunciation, had become 
“curse.” 
St. Andrew is the patron saint of Scotland ; he 
suffered on a cross, not of the usual form, but like 
the letter X, which has since been commonly 
called a St. Andrew's cross. It was supposed that 
the similarity of the nine of diamonds to this form 
occasioned its being so called. The arms of the 
Ear! of Stair, alluded to in your publication, are 
exactly in the form of this cross. If this expla- 
nation should be useful, you are most weleome 
to it. A.F. 
Thistle of Scotland. 
Sir, — Your correspondent R. L. (No. 2. p. 24.), 
will find the fullest information on this head in 
Sir Harris Nicolas’s work on the Orders of 
Knighthood of the British Empire. He does not 
assign to its origin an earlier date than the reion 
of James III, in an inventory of whose jewels, 
Thistles are mentioned as part of the ornaments. 
The motto ‘“ Nemo me impune lacessit,” does not 
appear until James VI. adopted it on his coinage. 
G. H. B. 
For Scottish Thistle, see Nisbet’s Heraldry, vol. 
ii. Order of St. Andrew. Selden, Titles of Ho- 
nour, p. 704. ed. 1672, refers to “ Menenius, Mi- 
reus, Favin, and such more.” Scotus. 
Record Publications. 
Will any of your readers kindly favour me with 
a reference to any easily-accessible list of the pub- 
lications of the Record Commission, as well as to 
some account of the more valuable Rolls still 
remaining unpublished, specifying where they 
exist, and how access is to be obtained to them ? 
With every wish for the success of your under- 
taking, Yours, &c. D.S. 
[ The late Sir H. Nicolas compiled an account of the 
publications of the Record Commission, which was 
published in his Notitia Historica, and also in an 8vo. 
vol., and is easily obtainable. There is also a series of 
articles in the Gentleman’s Magazine for 1834, which 
contains a good deal of information upon the subject, 
with a classified list of the publications, The prin- 
cipal unpublished records are in the Tower and the 
Rolls’ Chapel; any record may be inspected or copied 
at those places, or in any other Record Office, upon 
payment of a fee of one shilling. ] 
Katherine Pegg. 
Sir, — Katherine Pegge, one of the mistresses of 
Charles II., was the daughter of Thomas Pegge, of 
Yeldersley, near Ashborne in Derbyshire, Esq., 
where the family had been settled for several 
generations, and where Mr. William Pegge, the 
last of the elder branch, died without issue in 
1768. Another branch of this family was of 
Osmaston, in the same neighbourhood, and of this 
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