Blomefield, Collectanea Cantab.) was placed upon the foundation stone of the chapel of my own college- the College of SS. Margaret and Bernard, commonly called Queens' College, Cambridge: "Erit Dominæ nostræ Margarettæ Dominus in Reugium et Lapis iste in Signum."

This stone was laid by Sir John Wenlock, April 15, 1448. The Margaret of the inscription is, of course, Margaret of Anjou, consort of Henry VI. And here let me note, that we claim the title of Queens' College, not Queen's College: Margaret of Anjou, in 1446, and Elizabeth Widville, consort of Edward IV., in 1465, being_our foundresses. W. SPARROW SIMPSON, B.A. The Word "Handbook” (Vol. vi., p. 72.).-This word must be much older than "nineteen years," and perhaps than Sir Harris Nicolas's whole life. In 1825" Murray published a Handbook, or concise Dictionary of Terms used in the Arts and Sciences, and a most useful book it is. The author, Mr. Hamilton, in the preface uses the word as if then of well-known meaning. H. T. ELLACOMBE.

Dissertation on a Salt-box (Vol. vi., p. 54.).—The jea d'esprit to which your correspondent J. WN. alludes may be found in a small volume entitled Facetie Cantabrigienses. It is there ascribed to the late Professor Porson, and is said to have been written as a satire on the mode of examination pursued at Oxford. JOHN BOOKER. Prestwich.

as the composition of Dr. Donne. He appears to have forgotten that he had inserted it in his first series as the production of Francis Davison.

I do not see that Dr. Donne's claim to this Psalm ought to be disturbed. I have several well edited selections of sacred poetry before me, in all of which it is given to that author. Furthermore, in a small volume entitled Poems by John it is contained among the "Divine Poems" (p. 345.) [onne], with Elegies on the Author's Death, London, printed by M. F. for John Marriot, &c.,

1635.

EDWARD F. RIMBAULT.

Cromwell Family (Vol. v., p. 489.).—No answer has as yet been given to J. G. C.; permit me to inform him, that persons of that name were rather numerous in Hammersmith and Kensington in the last century, but I cannot say whether the person mentioned resided there or not. A note to Mr. Faulkner, in whose local histories many notices of the name occur, would doubtless elicit the necessary information. This venerable topographer still lives (I am happy to say) in Smith Street, Chelsea.

H. G. D.

Royal "We" (Vol. v., p. 489.).-Bishop Nicolson, in his English Historical Library, informs us that

"The first of our kings that wrote in the plural number was King John; his predecessors writing in the singular. They used Ego in their grants; and this king, with those that followed him, Nos."

"The mortgager and mortgagee differ the one from the other, not more in length of purse, than the jester and jestee do in that of memory. But in this the comparison between them runs, as the scholiasts call it, upon all-fours; which, by the by, is upon one or two legs more than some of the best of Homer's can pretend to."

It would seem then that this use of the expression "on all-fours" is to be found in some of the scholia to the Iliad or Odyssey. Its origin, I conceive, is not difficult of explanation. As we find among the old commentators on Greek poets, an irregular line described as "metro claudicante," so also an imperfect simile might easily be said to limp upon three legs, and a perfect one to run upon four. But this is merely conjecture. ERICA.

Warwick.

Francis Davison and Dr. Donne (Vol. vi., p. 49.). -The editor of Select Poetry, chiefly Devotional, of the Reign of Queen Elizabeth, printed a supplementary volume, entitled Select Poetry, chiefly Sacred, of the Reign of King James I. (Cambridge, Deighton, 1847). Here, on p. 15., he prints the fine nervous version of the 137th Psalm, correctly,

Incantations at Cross Roads (Vol. vi., p. 74.).— The sign of the cross has ever been considered in early times as the best preservative against "incantation," witchcraft, and all Satanic influence. The passage from Plato alludes probably to the form of incantation used by the Greeks, and thence derived to the students of the black art even so late as the seventeenth century, as may be seen in Scott, Glanville, and others; where mention is made of "waxen images stuck with pins," or placed before a slow fire; and as the pins were moved in any part of the image, pain was felt in that part by the person represented, or, as the wax melted, the person pined away. As to their being placed "where three roads meet," it must

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