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Isle of Man.—If the Isle of Man is not the 
ancient Mona (as it is a disputed matter), what is 
the origin of the name ? Eassy. 
Antigallican Backstays.— What is the deriva- 
tion of the term Antigallican backhstays ? I know 
what the thing is. C.F. B. 
Archbishop Laud's Relations. — Abp. Laud men- 
tions several relations, whose connection with him 
Iam unable to trace. I shall be obliged to any 
of your contributors who can assist me in making 
out their relationship. I would add that I am 
seeking for this information in order to complete 
a pedigree of the archbishop, whick#I propose in- 
serting in the sixth vol. of his Works. 
1. In his will he speaks of his kinsman John 
Walker, son to Dr. Thomas Walker. 
2. In his defence before the House of Lords he 
names among those whom he has reclaimed from 
Romanism, — 
“Sir W. Webb, my kinsman, and two of his daughters ; 
and the better to secure them in religion I was at the 
charges, their father being utterly decayed, to marry 
them to two religious Protestants. And his eldest son I 
took from him, placed him with a careful divine, main- 
tained him divers years, and then settled him with a 
gentleman of good worth.” 
The son here spoken of was Thomas Webb, who 
was under the charge of Bancroft, Bp. of Oxford. 
But I should be glad to learn who was the Sir W. 
Webb. Was he the son of Laud’s uncle, of the 
same names? And who were his two daughters, 
and who were he religious Protestants to whom 
they were married ? 
3. Was one of them Mrs. Browne, of whom 
Laud thus writes to Bp. Bramhall : 
“T thank your lordship fur your respect to my kins- 
woman Mrs. Browne; and if your lordship and my Lord 
Deputy do think her daughter will bea fit match for 
Mr. Howlett, I shall easily rest satisfied.” 
4. In the History of his Troubles and Trial he 
speaks of one Badger who married a kinswoman 
of his. Badger was a great sectary, and, as it ap- 
pears, a considerable annoyance to the archbishop. 
If any of your contributors possess this infor- 
mation I shall be obliged by their communicating 
direct with myself, as well as sending their reply 
to your publication. James Buiss. 
Ogbourne St. Andrew. 
Hogarth’s Portrait of Huggins. — Hogarth both 
painted and engraved the portrait of William 
Huggins, sometime Fellow of Magdalen College, 
Oxford, author of a Translation of Ariosto, &c. 
Is it known in whose possession this portrait now 
is P MaAGDALENENSIS. 
Le Comte de Montijo. — Can you or any of your 
correspondents throw any light on the authors of 
the following works, relating to the subject of the 
Spanish succession? They are to be found in the 
Library of Trinity College, Dublin, but do not 
appear in the Catalogue of the Bodleian Library, 
and I can discover no trace of the Count of 
Montijo, or of any one of the above-mentioned 
treatises in Barbier or the Biographie Universelle. 
An additional interest is imparted to the subject 
at the present time, from the Empress of the® 
French having borne the name of Montijo previous 
to her marriage. 
“Bina scripta ab Hispano oratore comite Montijo 
Francofurti exhibita. 1741. 4to.” 
“ Responsum ad Bina scripta ab Hispano oratore comite 
Montijo Francofurti exhibita. 1741. 4to.” 
“ Reflexions d’un particulier sur l’ecrit publié sous le 
nom du comte de Montijo, au sujet des pretensions de la 
cour d’Espagne. La Haye, 1741. 8yo.” 
‘Adueds. 
Dublin. 
Mignonette the Badge of the Counts of Saxony. 
— Can any of your readers explain why the 
Counts of Saxony adopted the mignonette flower 
for their badge ? D.L. 
Henley-on- Thames. —Can any of your readers 
give me information towards a history of this 
ancient town? I have Plott’s Oxfordshire; State 
Trials; Drayton’s Poly- Olbion; Henley, a Poem; 
and Vallis Henlegensis. J. S. Burn, 
Henley. 
Urceola elastica, Caoutchouc, §c.— Can you 
or any of your readers inform me where I could 
obtain correct drawings of the Urceola elastica 
and Siphonia elastica ? 
Also, in what number of the Journal of the 
Royal Institution (about the year 1823-24) may 
be found a notice of Thomas Hancock’s mode of 
producing solid blocks and sheets of caoutchouc, 
and some experiments made by the Professor 
Faraday at the Institution about that time. 
Tuomas Hancock. 
Milner Square, Islington. 
Book of Common Prayer.—On attending divine 
service lately in the evening at a church, where I 
was a stranger, and making use of a prayer-book 
in the pew to which I had been conducted, I was 
rather surprised on finding that the form in the 
absolution ran as follows: ‘‘ Wherefore beseech we 
him,” instead of “ Wherefore let us beseech him.” 
The wonder was greater, inasmuch as the prayer- 
book was printed at the Cambridge University 
Press, so lately as in 1837. Ishould be glad to 
know whether the same error appears in other 
copies of the above year’s Cambridge edition ; and 
Iam moreover anxious to be informed whether 
some penalty is not attached to the issue of spu- 
rious editions of the Book of Common Prayer, 
although I by no means ask this question with 
reference to the trifling inaccuracy I haye quoted ; 
