Government of St. Christopher in 1662 (Vol. v., p. 510.).-The following notices of the Bailiff De Poiney, and his successor the Chevalier De Sales, which we have found recorded in the Chronology of St Christopher, may give URSULA that inform ation he wishes: "In 1641 De Poincy arrived at St. Christopher as governor from France. "In 1651 M. De Poincy buys of the French West India Company their share of the Island of St. Kitts. "In 1653 the King of France makes a bequest of the Island of St. Kitts to the Knights of the Order of between Europe and the East, in ancient and modern times, will find ample information in the second volume of The Expedition for the Survey of the Rivers Euphrates and Tigris, by Lieut.-Col. Chesney: WILLIAM BROCK. Gower Street. Physiologus (Vol. ii., p. 205.).-The work of Theobald, called Physiologus, supposed by Sharon Turner to be the same as that so often quoted by Phillippe de Thaun, supplies, according to your correspondent B. F. (Vol. ii., p. 205.), the fable and application of the Lion, with very trifling "In 1660, April 11th, De Poincy dies, aged seventy-variations from Philippe de Thaun's fabulous acseven, and is succeeded by the Chevalier De Sales." count of the Lion. Malta. The Grand Master, Nicholas Cotona, on the 5th of May, 1673, made over all the titles of his West India possessions to Monsieur Colbert, the prime minister of France. At the time of this cession the Chevalier De Sales, "nephew of that great saint, Francis De Sales," was governor of St. Christopher. Any information with reference to the islands of St. Bartholomew, St. Martin, St. Christopher, and Santa Cruz, when held by the Order of St. John, will be most acceptable. I would like to know for what amount they were purchased by the Knights of Malta, for what period they were held, what tribute was paid, and when and for what sum they were disposed of. The disposal of these islands caused much dissension among the knights, as I have some interesting testamentary evidence W. W. to prove. La Valetta, Malta. De Sanctâ Cruce (Vol. vi., pp. 9. 61.).-Father Gretser's works were published in seventeen folio volumes, Ratisbon, 1734; the first three treat De Sanctâ Cruce. Your correspondent may see a fine copy at Nutt's in the Strand. Lipsius has written on the same subject. Martial, a student at Louvain, wrote A Treatise on the Cross, which he dedicated to Queen Elizabeth. Cruciana, by John Holland, Liverpool, 1835, is a useful little work with numerous illustrations. Mr. Alger has drawn largely from it in a work he published last year in America; History of the Cross of Christ, by the Rev. W. Alger, Cambridge and Boston, James Munroe & Co. Mr. Haslam's The Cross and the Serpent, Parker, 1849, is doubtless well known to MARICONDA. your readers. HUGO is right in his belief that Gretser, the Jesuit, wrote a treatise entitled De Sanctâ Cruce. The best edition is said to be that in folio, 1616.See Biog. Univ. Oxford. J. M. that the Physiologus of Thetbaldus is not the same Mr. Wright*, on the other hand, is of opinion as that quoted by Philippe de Thaun. I have much pleasure in expressing my concurrence with Vincent of Beauvais, in whose Speculum Naturale Mr. Wright's conclusion, on the testimony of are quoted several passages from Physiologus, which, as will appear from a comparison, are very different from the Latin poem of Thetbaldus, printed among the works of Hildebert, p. 1174. Paris, 1708, a translation of which appears in Halliwell and Wright's Reliquiæ Antiquæ, vol. i. P. 208., whilst they precisely correspond with Philippe de Thaun's quotations. A ROSICRUCIAN. "Viewe Bowes" (Vol. vi., p. 10.). I believe "viewe bowes" to be simply yew bows. In my native town, in South Lancashire, such used to be the vernacular pronunciation of yew, and probably is still. I remember it with particular distinctness in the name of a farm-house, which was called by the "natives" the "View-tree House," with reference to a remarkable yew, which has withered within my recollection. G. T. D. The Death-watch (Vol. v., pp. 537. 597.).—I read in the Library of Entertaining Knowledge, Vol. Insect Miscellanies, the following: "Sir Thomas Browne considered the subject of the death-watch of great importance, and remarks that the man who could eradicate this error from the minds of the people, would save from many a cold sweat the meticulous heads of nurses and grandmothers,' as such persons are firm in the belief that The solemn death-watch clicks the hour of death.'' "Swift endeavoured to perform this useful task by means of ridicule. His description, suggested, it would appear, by the old song of A cobbler there was, and lived in a stall,' runs thus Then follow the lines already quoted by Mr. H. W. G. Yarrell. William, Abbot of St. Albans (Vol. v., p. 611.).- pen of Turgot, on the authority, I presume, of the At pp. 213, 214. of Massingherd's History of the Life in the Biographic Universelle, art. "Turgot.” English Reformation a solution is offered of the On this I beg leave to observe, that I think I difficulty arising from the hiatus in the list of the have already addressed you, Mr. Editor, on the Abbots of St. Albans, by supposing that the name subject, though I cannot refer to the time, nor of the wicked abbot was erased or omitted from the have I preserved a copy of what I wrote; but I records of the abbey. It seems probable that the may now add, that in the Dublin Review for March practice of such omissions might be copied from 1847, p. 212., I distinctly traced the line from the example of the omission, in St. Matthew's Turgot to the Anti-Lucretius of Cardinal de Poligenealogy of our Lord, of those sinful kings, who gnac, as mentioned by Grimm, who, however, does are passed over as if they had never been, accord- not quote the book and line of that poem, which I ing to the sentence of Him who visits the sins of did, viz. lib. i. v. 37.; as I equally did those of the fathers unto the third or fourth generation. I Manilius, lib. i. v. 104., where he says of his hero, believe that there are other instances of similar Epicurusomissions in other monasteries: such a case was stated at a late meeting of the Lincolnshire Archi tectural Society, in regard to Thornton Abbey ip that county. It would be grievous to think that the high character of Ramridge (see Stephens' Supplement, i. 264.), who wrote The Lives of the Abbots, Monks, and Benefactors of St. Albans, and whose noble tomb remains in the Abbey Church, was altogether fictitious besides that his name was Thomas; and the dates of his election, and of the death of William Wallingford, seem to be equally authentic. F. C. M. Lines on Crawford of Kilbirnie, &c. (Vol. v., p. 546.).—These lines are evidently merely an adaptation of the well-known epigram on Austria: "Bella gerant alii tu felix Austria nube; lines 253-4.: Can Bishops vacate their Sees? (Vol. v., p. 548.). -Many examples may be produced from the Church of Rome. So recently as the early years of this century, on establishing the Concordatum between Pius VII. and Bonaparte, several bishops resigned their sees; and a century before, the learned Huet, bishop of Avranches, did so, in exchange for the Abbey of Fontenay, near Caen, in Normandy. I am acquainted with an ex-bishop, returned from the East Indies, now in holy retirement at Dublin, from ill health. Cork. J. R. Lines on Franklin, Vol. v., p. 549., and again at p. 571., where, in explanation of its origin, we read, that it was lately reproduced, having been first cited in the "Correspondance de Grimm et de Diderto" (Diderot), in the Quarterly Review for June 1850, with the addition that it was from the "Eripuitque Iovi fulmen, viresque Tonanti.” On connait l'épigraphe qu'il fit pour le portrait The Biographie merely notes that, of Turgot, de Franklin- 'Eripuit,'" &c., without further explanation. It will thus be seen that my article preceded that of the Quarterly by three years; and I may add, that long before I furnished these particulars to the Gentleman's Magazine, though I cannot now go in search of the article, thinking it sufficient to refer to the Dublin Review in claim of priority. I am not in the habit of keeping copies of what I consign to the press, which, I own, is wrong, and am sometimes made to feel it so. Cork. J. R. St. Augustinus "De Musica" (Vol. v., p. 584.) is enumerated as being in vol. i. of the Benedictine edition of his Works: 4to. Bassano, 1807. J. M. Oxford. Giving the Sack (Vol. v., p. 585.).— "Donner à quelqu'un son sac; c'est le congédier brusquement, le mettre dehors, le casser aux gages." See Dictionnaire des Proverbes, par Quitard: 8vo. Paris, 1842. In the same work it is said that the origin of the phrase was traced by Goropius (who was rather fanciful in his etymologies) to the Confusion of Tongues at Babel, the word sack being the same in all languages: sakkos, Greek; saccus, Latin; sakk, Gothic; sac, Anglo-Saxon; sack, in English, German, Danish, and Dutch; sacço, in Italian; saco, in Spanish; sak, in Hebrew, Chaldee, and Turkish; suc, in Celtic, &c.; and the reason given by Goropius for this uniformity is, that when the workmen dispersed at Babel, none of them forgot, in going away, to take his sack with him. J. M. Oxford. Royal Arms in Churches (Vol. v., p. 559.).— As these can hardly be intended to excite devotional feelings, we must imagine them to denote the royal supremacy. The origin may of course be traced to the Roman eagle placed on the Temple at Jerusalem! A. A. D. Meaning of Royd (Vol. v., pp. 489. 571. 620.). -Not at all differing with your correspondent LANCASTRIENSIS in the meaning to be applied to Royd in Huntroyd, &c., as explained, p. 571., I must express a doubt if "Ormerod" should be referred to "Royd," as the derivative of its last syllable. I apprehend od means old, and is now pronounced oud, in the East Riding dialect. Thus, in the reign of Edward I., two places stood at the mouth of the Humber, spoken of in old charters and deeds respectively as "Ravenser" and "Ravenserod," that is, Old Ravenser. I fancy od, affixed to Ormer, means Old Ormer, and not Ormer in the clearing. T. THOMPSON. Foundation-Stones (Vol. vi., p. 20.).- Foundation of Blackfriar's Bridge, from Noorthouck's History of London, 1773, p. 404. : "The first stone of the new bridge at Blackfriars was laid with great ceremony on the last day of October (1760), by the Lord Mayor and Bridge Committee. Several gold, silver, and copper coins of the late King were deposited under the stone, together with the silver medal given to Mr. Mylne by the Roman Academy. By order of Common Council, a plate with the following inscription on it was placed there likewise, the classical Latinity of which was much burlesqued by the wits at the time: Ultimo die Octobris, Anno ab Incarnatione Auspicatissimo principe Georgio Tertio Pontis hujus, in Reipublicæ Commodum Roberto Mylne, Architecto. Qui Vigore Ingenii, Animi Constantiâ, Probitatis et Virtutis suæ felici quadam Contagione, (favente Deo faustisque Georgii secundi auspiciis) In Asia, Africa, et America, Restituit, auxit, & stabilivit, Necnon Patriæ antiquum Honorem & Auctoritatem Inter Europæ gentes instauravit, Cives Londinenses, uno Consensu, There is added to the above a translation, which you already have. As there is a great probability that the present bridge will be taken down, the first stone, with the inscription, &c. as above, may perhaps be found. E. N. W. Southwark. Meaning of "Whit" (Vol. v., p. 610.; Vol. vi., p. 45.).-Your correspondent J. B. COLMAN repeats an error I noticed in an Illustrated Almanack a year or two ago. Our forefathers would never have been content with the quantity of ale one of these small earthen bottles contained. They were used for wine. Two exactly alike in form and material are now in the Norwich Museum; one is inscribed "wHIT, 1648," and the other “ CLARET, 1648." Another of the same form, but much smaller, has "SACK, 1650" upon it. The larger bottles would hold about half a pint, the small one about a quarter. HENRY HARRod. 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