Apeil 5. 1851.] 



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cataloj^ues that came in my way for it. At last 

 the long-wished-ibr object appeared at the Stowe 

 sale, and I immediately gave my agent instruc- 

 tion to purchase the book for me, and he might 

 offer as much as 10/. : he bid 81., and then it was 

 intimated that it was no use to go on ; that fifty 

 guineas would not purchase it, or any other sum. 

 Query, Has this volume been in any other 

 sale ? if not, it certainly connects the Buckingham 

 family with Junius, though it docs not prove the 

 author. AV. D. Haggard. 



[The Stowe copy of Junius, it appears, was bought 

 by Mr. Rodd for 91., no doubt upon commission.] 



What is a " Tye?" — In Essex, many parishes 

 have a place called " the fye," which I believe is 

 always an out-lying place where three roads meet. 

 In an old map I have seen one place now called 

 "Tye" written "Dei." Is it where a cross once 

 stood, an<l Tye a corruption of Dei ? Forb}', in 

 his £ast Anglian Vocabulary, mentions it, but 

 cannot make it out. A. Holt White. 



" Marriage is such a Babble Rout." — In 

 D'Isi'aeli's Curiosities of Literature, Moxon's edi- 

 tion, in 1 vol. p. 118., or ed. edited by his son, 

 vol. i. p. 363., under the head "A Literary Wife," 

 are the lines — 



" Marriage Is such a rabble rout, 



That those that are out, would fain gtt in ; 



And those that are in, would fain get out : " 

 quoted from Chaucer. I have heard these lines 

 quoted as being fioni Hudibras : as I cannot trace 

 them in my editions of Chaucer or Butler, perhaps 

 some of your readers can tell me where I can find 

 them ? S. Wmson. 



Arms of Robert Nelson. — Can any of the nu- 

 merous readers and correspondents of " Notes and 

 Queries" describe ihe ai-morial bearings o{ Robert 

 Nelso7t, Esq., the author of the Companion for the 

 Festivals and Fusts of the Church of England? 

 He was buried in the burying-ground in Lamb's 

 Conduit Fields, Januai'j, 1714. G. F. 



Knebsend or Nebsend, co. York. — Query, where- 

 abouts in the county of York is this place ? I 

 believe that one of the above is the way of spell- 

 ing, but at any rate they have the same sound. 



J. N. C. 



Moore's Almanack. — Can any of your corre- 

 spondents inform me as to the history of Moore s 

 Almanack ? 



Wliat is the date of its first appearance ? AVas 

 Francis Moore a real personage, or merely a 

 myth ? H. P. W. 



Temple. 



Archbishop Loftun. — I shall be deeply obliged 

 to any of your correspondents who will inform me 

 whether, and where, any diary or jjrivate memo- 

 randa are known to exist of Adam Loftus, who 



was Archbishop of Dublin nearly forty years, 

 from 1567 to 1605, Lord Chancellor of Ireland, 

 and the first Provost of Trinity College, Dublin. 

 He was an ancestor of the Viscount Loftus, and 

 of the Marquess of Ely. Henky Cotton. 



Thurles, Ireland, March 20. 



Matrix of Moiwstic Seal. — A brass matrix has 

 fallen into my hands of a period certainly not 

 much anterior to the Revolution. Device, the 

 Virgin and Child, their heads surrounded with 

 nimbi ; the former holds in her right hand three 

 lilies, the latter a globe and cross. The legenel is : 



" * SIofL . MON . B . M . DE . PRATO . ALIAS . DK . 

 BONO . NVNCIO." 



In the field, a shield ch.arged with three lions 

 passant. Can any correspondent aid me in as- 

 siixning it rightly ? There was an Abbey of St. 

 Mary de Pratis at Leicester (Vide Gent. Mag., 

 vol. xciii. p. 9.) ; and there is a church dedicated to 

 " St. Mary in the ISIarsh at Norwich." In a 

 recent advertisement I find a notice of Scipio 

 Ricci, Bishop of Pistoia and Prato, so that the 

 appellation is not very uncommon. 



E. S. Taylor. 



Si/riac Scriptures and Lexicon. — What edition 

 of the Peschito-Syriac version of the Old and New 

 Testaments, respectively, is considered the best ? 

 Also, what Syriac Lexicon stands highest for value 

 and accuracy ? T. Tn_ 



Villiers Duke of Buckingham. — There is a tra- 

 dition in Portsmouth, that in the evening preceding 

 his assassination, Villiers Duke of Buckingham 

 killed a sailor. Is there any authority for this ? 



E. D. 



Porci solidi-pedes. — Can any of your readers 

 inform me if any pigs with single hoofs are in 

 existence in any county in England ? They are 

 mentioned in a letter from Sir Thomas Browne to 

 Dugdale the antiquary. J. S. P. (a Subscriber). 



The Heywood Family. — I am anxious to know 

 if Thomas Heywood, the dramatist, was in any 

 way related to Nathaniel Heywood or Oliver Hey- 

 wood, the celebrated Nonconformist ministers in 

 the seventeenth century? Could any of your 

 correspondents give me information on this point? 



H. A. B. 



Trin. Coll. Camb. 



Was Charles II. ever in Wales ? — Tliere is a 

 tradition amongst the inhabitants of Glamorgan- 

 shire, that, after his defeat at the battle of AVorces- 

 ter, Charles came to AVales and staid a ni^ht at 

 a place called Llancaiach Vawr, in the parish of 

 Geliig.aer. The place then belonged to a Colonel 

 Pritcliard. an officer in the Parliamentary army ; 

 an<l the story relates that he n>ade himself known 

 to his host, an<l threw himself upon his generosity 

 for safety. The colonel assented to his staying for 



