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correspondent who could give me a description of 

 them, and inform me if they are still to be found 

 there. W. W. King. 



81. Borough- English. — Which are the towns 

 or districts in England in which Borough- English 

 prevails or has prevailed ; and are there any in- 

 stances on recoi-d of its being carried into efiect in 

 modern times ? AY. Fraser. 



82. Passage in St. Bernard. — Wordsworth's 

 Ecclesiastical Sonnets, Part II. 1. : 



" CISTERTIAN MONASTERY. 



" Here man more purely lives, less oft doth fall, 

 More promptly rises, walks with nicer heed. 

 More safely rests, dies happier, is freed 

 Earlier from cleansing fires, and gains withal 

 A brighter crown." 

 Note. — " Bonum est nos hie esse, quia homo vivlt 

 purius, cadlt rarius, surgit velocius, incedit cautius, 

 quiescit securius, morltur felicius, purgatur citius, prse- 

 miatur copiosius." — Bernard. 



" This sentence," says Dr. Whitaker, " is usually 

 inscribed in some conspicuous part of the Cister- 

 tian houses." I cannot find in St. Bernard's works 

 the passage to which Wordsworth's sonnet alludes, 

 though I often see it referred to : e. g. AVhite- 

 head's College Life, p. 44., 1845 ; and Mrs. Jame- 

 son's Legends of the Monastic Orders, Preface. 

 Can any of your correspondents direct me to it? 



Rt. 



83. Spenser s Faerie Queene (b. ii. c. ix. st. 

 22.).— 



" The frame thereof seemed partly circulare, 

 And part triangulare," &c. 



Warton {Observations on the Fai?-y Queen, vol. i. 

 p. 121.) says that the philosophy of this abstruse 

 stanza describing the Castle of Alma is explained 

 in a learned epistle of Sir Kenelm Digby addressed 

 to Sir Edward Stradling. In a foot-note he states 

 that this epistle was — 



" First printed in a single pamphlet, viz.. Observations 

 on XXII. Stanza," §•<;., Lond. 1644, 8vo. It is also 

 published in Scrinia Sacra, 4to. pag. ;244. London, 

 1654." 



Could any of your readers, acquainted with Sir 

 Kenelm Digby's works, give his explanation of this 

 stanza? There is no note on it in the one- volume 

 edition of Spenser lately published by Moxon. 

 The best explanation of it that I have seen is in 

 the Atheuceum, August 12, 1848. E- M, B, 



84. ^ Broad Ilcdf penny Down. — There is a 

 beautiful chalk down in the parish of Hambledou, 

 Hants, which goes by the above name, pronounced, 

 of course, ha penny, like the coin. Can any of 

 your antiquarian readers give me the origin of 

 this name ? I have no doubt that the pre.seii/(/ 

 appellation is a corruption of some British or Saxon 

 word, liaving, when spoken, a sound somewhat 

 analogous to the modern word into which it has 



been converted. The " Broad Down" had a name 

 of its own, I doubt not, before the existence of 

 either a penny or halfpenny. Effaress. 



85. Boll Pedigree of Howard, of Great Hoicard, 

 Co. Lancaster. — In 1826 an elaborate pedigree on 

 vellum of the family of Howard, of Great Howard, 

 in Rochdale, deduced, authenticated, and sub- 

 scribed by Sir William Dugdale, about the year 

 1667, was in the possession of a gentleman in 

 Rochdale, lately deceased. He is supposed to have 

 lent it to some antiquarian friend, and its present 

 locale is unknown. As no record of this singular 

 document exists in the College of Arms, the writer 

 of this note would feel obliged by being permitted 

 to have a copy of the original for his Lancashire 

 MS. Collections. F. R. R. 



86. Rev. John Paget, of Amsterdam. — Of what 

 family was John Paget, pastor of the Reformed 

 English Church at Amsterdam for thu'ty years ? 

 He died there 1639, and his works were published 

 1641, being edited by Thomas Paget, who was, 

 according to his own account, " called to the work 

 of ministry many years ago in Chester diocese," 

 and R. Paget, who writes a Preface " from Dort, 

 1641." Perhaps the editors of the "Navorscher" 

 may be able to give some information on the 

 subject. Ceanmore. 



87. Visiting Cards. — When did these social 

 conveniencies first come into use? Outis. 



88. Duke de Berwick and Alva-. — A sword 

 amongst the Spanish jewels in the Great Exhi- 

 bition is said to be ordered by " S. E. Jacques 

 Stuart, Due de Berwick and Alva." Is this a 

 descendant of James II. 's illegitimate son, the 

 Duke of Berwick ? and if so, can any of your 

 correspondents give me any information as to his 

 descent, &c. ? L. 



89. The Earl of Derwentwater. — The first earl, 

 Francis, had several sons — Francis his successor, 

 Edward died unmarried, Thomas a military officer, 

 Arthur, &c. Can any of your readers inform me 

 in which army this Thomas was an officer, whom 

 he married, and where he died? The family 

 name was RadclifFe. Brqctdna. 



Bury, Lancashire. 



90. "But very few have seen the Devil." — Can 

 any of your readers inform me where some lines 

 !ire to be found which run somewhat thus ? — I 

 cannot remember the intermediate lines : — 



•' . 

 But very few have seen the Devil, 

 Except old Noll, as Echard tells us : 



But then old Noll was one in ten. 

 And sought him more than other men." 



W. Fkaseb. 

 Ilordley, near Ellesmere, Aug. 4* 195\. 



