April 19. 1851.] 



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Religious Teaching in the German Universities, 

 — Will any of your numerous readei'S direct me to 

 any book or books containing information on the 

 present state of religion and religious teaching in 

 the German Universities? Rovert. 



Epigram by Dunbar — Endymion Porter. — Can 

 any of your correspondents supply the deficient 

 verses in the following epigram, addressed by 

 Thomas Dunbar, keeper of the Ashmolean Mu- 

 seum from 1815 to 1822, to Miss Charlotte Ness, 

 who requii-ed him to explain what was meant by 

 the terms abstract and concrete ? 



" Say what is abstract, wliat concrete, 

 Their difference define ? 

 They both in one fair person meet, 

 And that fair form is thine. 



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For when I lovely Charlotte viev/, 

 I then view loveliness." 

 Can any one substantiate the local tradition 

 that Endymion Porter was born at tlie manor- 

 bouse of Aston Subedge^ in Gloucestershire; or fur- 

 nish any particulars of his life before he became 

 gentleman of the bedchamber to Prince Charles ? 



B^VXUOIENSIS. 



Sathaniel. — Can any of your correspondents 

 inform me in what book, play, poem, or novel, a 

 character named Sathaniel appears ? There is a 

 rather connnon picture bearing that title ; it re- 

 presents a dark young lady, in Eastern dishabille, 

 with a turban on her head, reclining on a many- 

 cushioned divan, and holding up a jewel in one 

 hand. I have seen the picture so often, that my 

 curiosity as to the origin of the subject has been 

 comj)letely aroused ; and I have never yet found 

 any one able to satisfy it^ F. T. C. 



The Scoute Generall. — I have in my possession 

 a small 4to. MS. of 32 pages, entitled I'he Scoute 

 Generall, " communicating (impartially) the mar- 

 tiall affaires and great occurrences of the grand 

 councell (assembled in the lowest House of Par- 

 liament) unto all kingdomes, by rebellion united 

 in a coveiiant," &c., which is throughout written in 

 verse, and particularly satirical against the Round- 

 heads of the period (1646), and remarkable for 

 the following prognostication of the death of the 

 unfortunate monarch Charles I. : 

 " Roondheads bragge not, since 'tis an old decree, 

 In lime to come from chaines wee should be free: 

 Traytors shall rule, Injustice then sliall sway, 

 8ul)jccts and nephcwcs shall their king betray ; 

 And he himsclfe, O most unhappy fate ! 

 For kings' examples, kingdomes imitate: 

 What he mainlain'd, I know it was not good, 

 Brought in by force, and out shall goe by blood," &c. 



It occupies about thirty lines more. At the 

 bottom of the title, and at the conclusion of the 

 postscript, it has merely the initials S. D. Could 



any of your worthy correspondents inform me who 

 S. D. was? 



The MS. is evidently cotemporary, and, accord- 

 ing to the introduction, was "ordered to be forth- 

 with published, cio'iocxlvi. ; " and as I cannot 

 trace that such a jn-oduction was ever issued, the 

 answer would confer a favour on C. Hamilton. 



City Road, April 1. 1851. 



Arthur Pomeroy, Dean of Cork. — Can any one 

 of your genealogical readers assist me in ascer- 

 taining the parentage of Arthur Pomeroy, who 

 was made Dean of Cork in 1672 ? He was fellow 

 of Trinity College, Cambridge, in which university 

 he graduated as A.B. in 1660, M.A. in 1664, and 

 S. T. P. in 1 676. He is stated in Archdale's edition 

 of Lodge's Peerage of Ireland (article " Harber- 

 ton") to have sprung from the Pomeroys of Ings- 

 don in Devonf^hire, and is stated to have gone to 

 Ireland as chaplain to the Earl of Essex, Lord 

 Lieutenant. J. B. 



CivU War Tract. — 



" A Letter sent from a worthy Divine, to the Rii^ht 

 Honourable the Lord Mayor of the City of London; 

 Being a true relation of the battalle fought betweene 

 His Majesty and his Excellence the Earle of Essex. 

 From Warwicke Castle, the 24. of October, 16-J2, at 

 two a clock in the morning. Together with a Prayer 

 for the happy uniting of the King and Parliament, fit 

 to be used by all good Christians, daily in their houses. 

 London, Octob. 27. Printed for Robert Wood. 

 16-42. " 



The above is the title of a tract now in my poS' 

 session. Is it known to any collector of tiacts 

 relating to the Battle of Edgehill ? Who was the 

 " worthy divine," the writer ? P. Q. 



[On the title-page of this tract among the King's 

 pamphlets in the British Museum, the name of I\Ir. 

 Bifield has been written. No doubt it is the produc- 

 tion of the Rev. Adoniram By field, chaplain to Col. 

 Cholmondeley's regiment, in tlie army of the Earl of 

 Essex in 1642, and who was subsequently one of the 

 scribes to the Assembly of Divines, and a most zealous 

 Covenanter. See Wood's Athena, by Bliss, vol. iii, 

 p. 670.] 



Trisection of the Circle. — Has the problem of 

 the trisection of the angle been solved ? or, if not, 

 is there any reward for its solution; and what 

 steps should be taken to obtain it ? 



John Vincent Ltsteb. 



[The problem of the trisection of the angle by aid of 

 the straight line and circle, used as in Euclid, has 

 never been solved — no reward was ever offered for its 

 solutioji.] 



Wolseys Son. — Can any of your readers give 

 an account of a son of Cardinal Wolsej-, whose 

 existence is recorded in a letter from Eustace 



