May 18, 1850.] 
to the Parliament and Council of War, through the 
medium of two popular adherents of the Parliament- 
arians ; the Jews offered to pay for the privileges then 
sought by them, the sum of 500,000/.; several debates 
took place on the subject, but the wltimatum of the 
Puritans being 800,000/., the negotiation was broken 
off.” 
The authorities cited on this point by the learned 
writer are, Monteith’s History of Great Britain, 
p- 473.; and Thurloe’s State Papers, vol. ii. p. 652. 
On reference to Monteith, I find the following 
passage :— 
* What is very remarkable in this is, that the Jews, 
who crucified the Son of God, by whom Kings reign, 
took then occasion of the conjuncture which seemed fa- 
yourable to them. They presented a petition to the 
Council of War, who crucified Him again in the person 
of the King, His Vicegerent in the kingdoms over 
which God had set him. By their petition, they re- 
quested that the act of their banishment might be re- 
pealed, and that they might have St. Paul’s Church for 
their synagogue, for which, and the library of Oxford, 
wherewith they desired to begin their traffic again, 
they offered five hundred thousand pounds, but the Council 
of War would have eight.” Monteith’s Hist. of the 
Troubles of Great Britain, p. 473. 
I conclude that the author of the Status of the 
Jews, by omitting to notice the alleged desire of 
the Jews to obtain St. Paul’s Cathedral, considered 
that the acrimonious statements of Monteith were 
not borne out by accredited or unprejudiced 
authorities ; for it is but justice to state, it has 
been admitted by some of our most eminent 
critics, that Mr. Egan’s book on the Jews displays 
as dispassionate and impartial a review of their 
condition in this country as it evinces a profundity 
of historical and legal research. 
“Tf. M. A.’s” second question I am unable to 
answer, not being sufliciently versed in the reli- 
gious dogmas of the Jews. B. A. 
Christ Church, Oxford. 
Emancipation of the Jews (No. 25. p. 401.).— 
“Mr. Austen,” who inquires (p. 401.) about 
the Jews during the Commonwealth, will do well 
to refer to a chapter on the Jews in Godwin’s 
History of the Commonwealth, and to Sir Henry 
Ellis’s notes on a remarkable letter describing a 
Jewish synagogue in London immediately after 
the Restoration, in the second series of his Letters ; 
and in these two places he will, I think, find 
references to all known passages on the subject of 
Cromwell's proceedings as regards the Jews. 
CH. 
As lazy as Ludlum's Dog (No. 24. p. 382.).— 
This proverb is repeated somewhat differently in 
The Doctor, &c., “As lazy as Ludlum's dog, as 
leaned his head against a wall to bark.” I yen- 
ture to suggest that this is simply one of the large 
class of alliterative proverbs so common in every 
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language, and often without meaning. In Devon- 
shire they say as “ Busy as Batty,” but no one 
knows who “Batty” was. As I have mentioned 
The Doctor, §c., | may as well jot down two more 
odd sayings from that same old curiosity-shop : — 
“As proud as old Coxn’s dog which took the wall 
of a dung-carT, and got crusHED by the wheel.” 
And, ‘“‘As queer as Dick’s hat-band, that went 
nine times round his hat and was fastened by a 
rush at last.” J. M. B. 
St. Winifreda (No. 24. p. 384.).— Your Querist 
will find some information in Warton’s Hist. Eng. 
Poetry, vol.i. p.14., note, 1824. J.M. 3B. 
Totnes, April 18, 1850. 
“ Vert Vert” (No.23. p.366.)—It may be ofsome 
assistance to your Querist ‘“ Roserr Snow,” in 
his endeavour to trace illustrations from Gresset’s 
“Vert Vert,” to know that the mark of Ravux, 
who is said to have painted these subjects, was 
composed of ten small ciphers; seven of which 
were placed in a circle: the other three formed a 
0 
0 
tail, thus, § 9 _ something like the Roman capital 
0 
000 
Q. This artist, between the years 1750 and 1800, 
was employed in the decoration of the Sévres 
porcelain: his usual subjects were bouquets or 
groups of flowers; and his mark will be found 
underneath the double L, interlaced, inclosing 
some capital letter or letters denoting the year 
such ware was manufactured. W.C. Jun. 
“ Esquire” and “ Gentleman.” —The amusing 
article in No. 27., on the title of ‘ Esquire,” 
recalled to my memory the resolution passed by 
the corporation of Stratford-on-Avon, when they 
presented the freedom of that town to Garrick. 
It runs something like this : — 
« Through love and regard to the memory of the 
immortal Mr, William Shakspeare, and being fully 
sensible of the extraordinary merits of his most judi- 
cious representative, David Garrick, Esquire.” 
Had David a better right to the title than the 
great poet? Shakspeare, in the latter part of 
his life, was no doubt Master Shakspeare, a title 
so common as even to be bestowed upon the geo- 
meter of Alexandria. In Bayford’s collection is 
preserved a Catalogue advertising “ Master Eu- 
clid’s Elements of Plain Geometry.” 
J. O. Hattiwe ct. 
Pope Felix and Pope Gregory. —“E.M.B.” 
(No. 26. p. 415.) inquires who was “ Pope Felix,” 
whom Z#lfric called the “fifth father” of S. Gre- 
gory the Great? This is a much disputed ques- 
tion, and a great deal depends upon the meaning 
to be attached to the unsatisfactory expression 
“atavus,” used by Pope Gregory himself, in 
Evangel. Hom, xxxviii. §15., and found also in 
