418 
«“ Fluminei veluti deprensus gurgitis undis, 
Avulsa parte inguinibus caussaque pericli, 
Enatat intento pred jiber avius hoste.” 
Punica, xv. 485-8., where see Ruperti. 
The scholiast on Juvenal, xii. 34., has the low 
Latin vebrus. (See Forcellini, Lex. in Fiber et 
Castor, Ducange in Bever, and Adelung in Biber.) 
Derivations of the word bebrus occur in all the 
languages of Europe, both Romanic and Teutonic ; 
and denote the Castor. Beaver, in the sense of a hat 
or cap, is a secondary application, derived from the 
material of which the hat or cap was made. ; W. 
Poins and Bardolph (No. 24. p.385.).—Mr- 
Collier (Life prefixed to the edit. of Shakspeare, 
p- 139.) was the first to notice that Bardolph, Flu- 
ellen, and Awdrey, were names of persons living 
at Stratford in the lifetime of the poet; and Mr. 
Halliwell (Life of Shakspeare, pp. 126-7) has car- 
ried the subject still further, and shown that the 
names of ten characters in the plays are also found 
in the early records of that town. Poins was, I 
believe, a common Welsh name. 
God tempers the Wind (No. 22. p.357.).—Le 
Roux de Lincy, Livre des Proverbes Frangais 
(Paris, 1842), tom. i. p.11., cites the following 
proverbs — 
«“ Dieu mesure le froid a la brebis tondue, 
ou, 
Dieu donne le froid selon la robbe,” 
from Henri Estienne, Prémices, &c., p.47., a 
collection of proverbs published in 1594. He 
also quotes from Gabriel Meurier, Trésor des Sen- 
tences, of the sixteenth century : — 
«“ Dieu aide les mal vestus,” 
SIweEL. 
April 5. 1850. 
Sterne’s Koran (No. 14. p. 216.).—An inquiry 
respecting this work appeared in the Gent. Mag., 
vol. Ixvii. pt. ii, p.565.; and at p. 755. we are told 
by a writer under the signature of ‘“ Normanus,” 
that in his edition of Sterne, printed at Dublin, 
1775, 5 vols. 12mo., the Koran was placed at the 
end, the editor honestly confessing that it was not 
the production of Sterne, but of Mr. Richard Grif- 
fith (son of Mrs. Griffith, the Novellettist), then a 
gentleman of large fortune seated at Millecent, 
co. Kildare, and married to a daughter of the late 
Ld. C. B. Burgh. 
I possess a copy of an indifferent edition of 
Sterne’s works, in point of paper and type,“‘ Printed 
for J. Mozley, Gainsbrough, 1795. 8 vols. 12mo.” 
The Koran is in the sixth vol., termed “* The Post- 
humous Works of L. Sterne,” dedicated to the Earl 
of Charlemont by the editor, who, in his address 
to the reader, professes to have received the MS. 
from the hands of the author some time before his 
untimely death. 
NOTES AND QUERIES. 
This I hope will answer the Query of “ E.L.N.:” 
and at. the same time I wish to express my regret, 
that we do not possess a really good and complete 
edition of Sterne’s Works, with a Life and literary 
history of them, incorporating the amusing illus- 
trations by Dr. Ferriar. ¥F. R.A. 
April 12. 1850, 
Lollius.—In answer to “J. M. B.” (No. 19. 
p- 303.) as to who was the Lollius spoken of by 
Chaucer, I send you the following. Lollius was 
the real or fictitious name of the author or trans- 
lator of many of our Gothic prose romances. 
D'Israeli, in his admirable Amenities of Literature, 
vol. i. p. 141., says :— 
« Tn some colophons of the prose romances the names 
of real persons are assigned as the writers; but the 
same romance is equally ascribed to different persons, 
and works are given as translations which in fact are 
originals. Amid this prevailing confusion, and these 
contradictory statements, we must agree with the 
editor of Warton, that we cannot with any confidence 
name the author of any of these prose romances. 
Ritson has aptly treated these pseudonymous trans- 
lators as ‘men of straw.’ We may say of them all, as 
the antiquary Douce, in the agony of his baffled re- 
searches after one of their favourite authorities, a Will 
o’ the Wisp named Lo tutus, exclaimed, somewhat 
gravely, —‘ Of Lollius it will become every one to 
speak with diffidence.’” 
Perhaps this “scrap” of information may lead 
to something more extensive. 
Epwarp F. Rimpavtt. 
Henry Ryder, Bishop of Killaloe (No. 24. p.383.). 
—Henry Ryder, D.D., a native of Paris, and Bishop 
of Killaloe, after whose paternity “ W. D. R.” in- 
quires, was advanced to that see by patent dated 
June 5. 1693 (not 1692), and consecrated on the 
Sunday following in the church of Dunboyne, in 
the co. Meath. See Archdeacon Cotton’s Fasti 
Ecclesie Hibernice, vol. i. p. 404., who gives an 
account of his family. W. (1.) 
Brown Study (No. 22. p. 352.).—Surely a cor- 
ruption of brow-study, brow being derived from 
the old German, braun, in its compound form 
aug-braun, an eyebrow. (Vide Wachter, Gloss. 
Germ.) HeErMes. 
Seven Champions of Christendom.— Who was 
the author of The Seven Champions of Christen- 
dom ? R. F. Jounson. 
[ The Seven Champions of Christendom, which Rit- 
son describes as ‘containing all the lies of Chris- 
tendom in one lie,’ was written by the well-known 
Richard Johnson. Our correspondent will find many 
curious particulars of his yaricus works in the Intro- 
duction which Mr. Chappell has prefixed to one of 
them, viz. The Crown Garland of Golden Roses, edited 
by him from the edition of 1612 for the Percy Society. ] 
