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nem Militans, Prague, 1675, folio, p. 504., with an 

 engraving of his martyrdom. G. O. 



Tradesmen s Tokens (2°"' S. vi. 13.)— Add the 

 undermentioned work to the list : — 



" The Virtuoso's Companion and Coin Collector's Guide. 

 London : published for the Proprietor by M. Denton, 

 Hospital Gate, West Smithfield, 1795." 



240 plates, four coins with reverses on each 

 plate. The above appears to be the date of the 

 hrst volume. I believe published in eight volumes. 



Sam. Shaw. 



« Vox et prcEterea nihil" (P' S. i. 247. 421.) — 

 The following extract from the Commentary of 

 Cornelius a Lapide on Isaiah xl. 3. will throw 

 some light upon this saying, which it seems to 

 me is generally wrongly used in a depreciatory 

 sense : — 



" Octavo, quia quidquid in Joanne erat, vox erat ; to- 

 tus penitentiam et sauctitatem prajdicabat. Oculi, nianus, 

 vestis, cibus, quidquid denique in eo erat clamabat ' Peni- 

 tentiam agite, parate viam Domini ; appropinquat regnum 

 coelorum? ' ]|Sic vulgo dicimus 'Philomela est tola vox,' 

 quia non aliud facit quam canere. Unde a Syris voca- 

 tur Sp/iar colo, id est, avis vocis, hoc est avis vocalis, ip- 

 saque quasi vox. Talis vox sit concionator et erit ' mal- 

 leus conterens petras. ' " 



Here the saying respecting the nightingale is 

 applied in a good sense, as affording an example 

 to an earnest and faithful preacher. 



William Fbasee, B.C.L. 



Alton Vicarage, Staffordshire. 



Wax-ivorh at Westminster Abbey (2°'* S. vi. 11. 

 32.) — Under date of 1761, Horace Walpole com- 

 plains, that " the chapter of AVestminster sell their 

 church over and over again : the ancient monu- 

 ments tumble upon one's head through their ne- 

 glect, as one of them did, and killed a man, at 

 Lady Elizabeth Percy's funeral ; and they erect 

 new waxen dolls of Queen Elizabeth, &c., to draw 

 visits and money from the mob." 



CUTHBERT BeDE. 



Do the following remarks, which occur in an 

 article on " The Tomb of Queen Eleanor, &c., in 

 Westminster Abbey" {Builder, Dec. 9, 1854), re- 

 fer to the above ? if so, they may be perhaps 

 worth noting : — 



" On the top of Henry's (V.) Chapel were formerly 

 deposited the ragged regiment, as it vas called by those 

 who exhibited the curiosities of the Abbey. The regi- 

 ment consisted of wooden effigies (clothed in the costume 

 of the time) of several kings, queens, and other important 

 persons, who have been buried here. These effigies were 

 in former times borne in the funeral processions of the 

 great, and served to remind the spectators of the living 

 appearance of those about to be committed to the dust. 

 We are told that this regiment, which is particularly 

 curious as examples of costume, is still preserved in some 

 dark and secluded corner. Tlierc is now in this place 

 several models of churches; one of which is the model 

 constructed by Sir Christopher Wren, in the reign of 



Queen Anne, of his proposed alteration of the Abbey 

 Church by erecting an elevated spire in the central tower. 

 We believe that the other models are those of St. Mai-y's 

 and St. Clement's in the Strand, St. Paul's, Covent Gar- 

 den, and St. John's, Westminster. Here are also, it is 

 said, some models by Roubiliac, together with some other 

 matters of interest." 



Every one will agree with the writer of the 

 article, when he says : — 



" We see no reason why these should be shut up from 

 the public ; or if the exhibition of them would detain the 

 vergers too long, why not send thera to the Architectural 

 Museum? " 



My memory hardly serves me as to whether 

 the architectural models above referred to are 

 amongst those by Wren now at the Kensington 

 Museum ? R. W. Hackwood. 



Dr. Johnson and the Odes of Horace (2"^ S. vi. 

 67.) — I do not know whether the whole transla- 

 tion, to which Mr. Lomax alludes, has been pub- 

 lished ; but the verse quoted by him was given to 

 the world long ago. It will be found engraved in 

 facsimile in the 8th edition of Bosivell (4 vols., 

 1816), as a specimen of Johnson's handwriting 

 ivhen at school in his sixteenth year- It seems to 

 be part of one of his school exercises and other 

 occasional compositions, of which Boswell says he 

 had obtained a considerable collection, and some 

 of which he has inserted in' his book. Two of 

 these are translations from Horace, Book i. Ode 

 22., Book ii. Ode 9. See Boswell, vol. i. pp. 27— 

 34., 8 th edit. 



If the entire translation has really never been 

 published, perhaps Mr. Lomax will send you a 

 copy. David Gam. 



Lord Tyrone and Lady Beresfords Ghost 

 Stories : Ghost's mode of reckoning Time (2"'' S. 

 vi. 73.) — 



" Said she (Lady Beresford) 'I am forty-eight to day.' 

 ' No, my Lady,' answered the clergyman, ' you are mis- 

 taken ; your mother and myself had many disputes con- 

 cerning your age, and I have at length discovered I am 

 right: happening to go last week to the pari.sh you were 

 born in, I was resolved to put an end to my doubt by 

 searching the register, and find you are foety-seven to- 

 day.' " 



Lord Tyrone's ghost (p. 74.) : — 



" You will bring him two daughters, and afterwards a 

 son, in child-bed of whom you will die in the forty- 

 SKVENTH year of your age." 



If Lady Beresford was forty-seven that day, 

 she was in her forty-eighth year according to < 

 human reckoning. 



I observe, according to J. Speed D., the ghost 

 prophesies she will die in child-bed of a son. 

 According to the narrative, she had at her death 

 lain in a month of a DAUOnxER. J. H. L. 



IWesn and Martha Blount (2'"' S. vi. 49.) — 

 There is an engraving in 4to. of Martha Blount, 



