Chapter C: H. P

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WILLIAM LYON, BISHOP OF CORK, CLOYNE, AND ROSS.

It is very generally believed that Dr. William Lyon (not Lyons, as he is sometimes called) was originally in the navy; that having distinguished himself in several actions against the Spaniards, he was promised by Queen Elizabeth the first crown appointment that should be vacant; and that this happening to be the see of Cork, he was appointed to it. This is mentioned in other works as well as in Mr. Crofton Croker's very agreeable _Researches in the South of Ireland_, p. 248.; and I have more than once heard it given as a remarkable instance of church preferment. {193}

Sir James Ware informs us that Bishop Lyon was Vicar of Naas in 1573, Vicar of Brandanston in 1580, and chaplain to Lord Grey, who was sent to Ireland as Lord Deputy in September, 1580. This is inconsistent with the statement, that Queen Elizabeth took him from the quarter-deck to make him a bishop, inasmuch as he was in holy orders, and in possession of preferment in Ireland, nearly ten years before he was raised to the highest order in the ministry. If, therefore, he was ever distinguished for gallantry in naval warfare, it must have been before 1573; for we have no reason to suppose that the Rev. George Walker, the hero of Londonderry, had him as an example. But, as no action with the Spaniards could have taken place prior to 1577, how is this to be reconciled with the common account, that his gallantry against them attracted the notice of the queen? In a miscellaneous compilation, entitled _Jefferson's Selections_ (published in York in 1795, and indebted for its information about Lyon to an old newspaper, which gave oral tradition as its sole authority), we are told that his picture, in the captain's uniform, the left hand wanting a finger, is still to be seen in the bishop's palace at Cork. The picture is there, and represents him certainly as wanting a finger; he is dressed, however, not in a captain's uniform, but in a very scholar-like black gown.

I know not how Mr. Croker could have given the year 1606 as the date of his appointment to the see of Cloyne, for we learn from Ware, who is no mean authority, that he was first appointed to the see of Ross in 1582; that the sees of Cork and Cloyne were given to him _in commendam_ in 1583 (as is recorded in the Consistorial Court of Cork), and that the three sees were formally united in his person in 1586.

In 1595 he was appointed one of the commissioners to consider the best means of peopling Munster with English settlers, and of establishing a voluntary composition throughout that province in lieu of cess and taxes; this does not look as if he had been an illiterate captain of a ship, or one of those "rude-bred soldiers, whose education was at the musket-mouth." In fact, Ware does not seem to have considered him remarkable for anything except such qualities as well became his order. And we have the high testimony of Archbishop Bramhall (quoted by Ware), that "Cork and Ross fared the best of any bishoprick in that province, a very good man, Bishop Lyon, having been placed there early in the Reformation."

ABHBA.

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CURIOUS MARRIAGE AGREEMENT.

The original of the following paper is in existence in this city:

"To MRS. DEBORAH LEAMING.

"Madam.--Seeing I, Jacob Sprier, have addressed myself to you upon the
design of marriage, I therefore esteem it necessary to submit to your
consideration some particulars, before we enter upon that solemn
enterprise which may either establish our happiness or occasion our
inquietude during life, and if you concur with those particulars, I
shall have great encouragement to carry my design into execution; and
since happiness is the grand pursuit of a rational creature, so
marriage ought not to be attempted short of a prospect of arriving
thereat; and in order thereto (should we marry) I conceive the
following rules and particulars ought to be steadily observed and kept,
viz.:

"1st. That we keep but one purse: a severance of interest bespeaking
diffidence, mistrust, and disunity of mind.

"2nd. That we avoid anger as much as possible, especially with each
other; but if either should be overtaken therewith, the other to treat
the angry party with temper and moderation during the continuance of
such anger; and afterwards, if need require, let the matter of heat be
coolly discussed when reason shall resume its government.

"3rd. As we have different stocks of children to which we are and ought
to be strongly attached by ties of nature, so it's proper when such
children or any of them need correction, it be administered by the
party from whom they have descended; unless, in the opinion of both
parties, it shall be thought necessary to be otherwise administered for
the children's good.

"4th. That no difference or partiality be made with respect to such
children who live with us in point of common usage touching education,
food, raiment, and treatment, otherwise than as age, circumstance, and
convenience may render it necessary, to be agreed upon between us, and
grounded upon reason.

"5th. That civility, courtesy, and kind treatment be always exercised
and extended towards such child or children that now is or hereafter
may be removed from us.

"6th. That we use our mutual endeavours to instruct, counsel, improve,
admonish, and advise all our children, without partiality, for their
general good; and that we ardently endeavour to promote both their
temporal and eternal welfare.

"7th. That each of us use our best endeavours to inculcate upon the
minds of our respective stocks of children a venerable and honourable
opinion of the other of us; and avoid as much as possible any
insinuation that may have a different tendency.

"8th. That in matters where either of us is more capable of judging
than the other of us, and best acquainted therein, that the person so
most capable of judging, and best acquainted, do follow his or her own
judgment without control, unless the other shall be able to give a
sufficient reason to the contrary; then, and in such case, the same to
be conclusive; and that we do adhere to each other in things reasonable
and expedient {194} with a mutual condescension, and also advise with
and consult each other in matters of importance.

"9th. That if any misunderstanding should arise, the same be calmly
canvassed and accommodated between ourselves, without admitting the
interposition of any other, or seeking a confident to either to reveal
our mind unto, or sympathise withal upon the occasion.

"10th. That no suspicious jealousies of any kind whatever be harboured
in our breasts, without absolute or good circumstantial evidence; and
if conceived upon proof or strong presumption, the same to be
communicated to the suspected person, in temper and moderation, and not
told to another.

"11th. That we be just, chaste, and continent to each other; and should
either prove otherwise, that then we separate, notwithstanding the most
solemn ties to the contrary, unless it shall suit the injured party to
forgive the injury and continue the coverture; and in case of
separation, each of us to keep such share of wealth as we were
possessed of when are came together, if it remains in the same state,
as to quantum; but if over or under, then in proportion to what we
originally had.

"12th. That we neither give into, nor countenance any ill advisers who
may have a design to mar our happiness, and sow discord between us.

"13th. That in matters of religious concernment, we be at liberty to
exercise our sentiments freely without control.

"14th. That we use our mutual endeavours to increase our affection,
cultivate our harmony, promote our happiness, and live in the fear of
God, and in obedience to His righteous laws.

"15th. That we use the relatives of each other with friendly kindness;
and that the same be extended to our friends and benefactors, mutually,
without grudging.

"16th. That the survivor of us endeavour, after the death of either of
us, to maintain the reputation and dignity of the deceased, by avoiding
levity of behaviour, dissoluteness of life and disgraceful marriage;
not only so, but that such survivor persevere in good offices to the
children of the deceased, as a discreet, faithful, and honourable
survivor ought to do.

"17th. That in case Jacob Sprier, after trial, shall not think it for
his interest, or agreeable to his disposition, to live at the
plantation where Deborah Leaming now resides, then, and in such case,
she to remove with him elsewhere upon a prospect promising to better
his circumstances or promote his happiness, provided the landed
interest of the said Deborah's late husband be taken proper care of for
the benefit of her son Christopher.

"18th. That the said Jacob Sprier be allowed from time to time to
purchase such books from our joint stock as he shall think necessary
for the advantage and improvement of himself and our children jointly,
or either of them, without grudging.

"19th. That the said Jacob Sprier do continue to keep Elisha Hughes,
and perform his express agreement to him according to indenture already
executed, and discharge the trust reposed in him the said Sprier by the
another of the said Elisha, without grudging or complaint.

"20th. And as the said Deborah Leaming, and the said Jacob Sprier, are
now something advanced in years and ought to take the comfort of life
as free from hard toil as convenience will admit, therefore neither of
them be subject thereunto unless in case of emergence, and this
exemption to be no ways censured by each other, provided they
supervise, contrive, and do the light necessary services incumbent on
the respected heads of a family, not omitting to cultivate their minds
when convenience will admit.

"21st. That if anything be omitted in the foregoing rules and
particulars, that may conduce to our future happiness and welfare, the
same to be hereafter supplied by reason and discretion, as often as
occasion shall require.

"22nd. That the said Jacob Sprier shall not upbraid the said Deborah
Leaming with the extraordinary industry and good economy of his
deceased wife, neither shall the said Deborah Leaming upbraid the said
Jacob Sprier with the like extraordinary industry and good economy of
her deceased husband, neither shall anything of this nature be observed
by either to the other of us, with any view to offend or irritate the
party to whom observed; a thing too frequently practised in a second
marriage, and very fatal to the repose of parties married.

"I, Deborah Leaming, in case I marry with Jacob Sprier, do hereby
promise to observe and perform the before-going rules and particulars,
containing twenty-two in number to the best of my power. As witness my
hand, the 16th day of Decem'r, 1751:

(Signed) "DEBORAH LEAMING.

"I, Jacob Sprier, in case I marry with Deborah Leaming, do hereby
promise to observe and perform the before-going rules and particulars,
containing twenty two in number, to the best of my power. As witness my
hand, the 16th day of December, 1751:

(Signed) "JACOB SPRIER."

OLDBUCK.

Philadelphia.

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ANCIENT AMERICAN LANGUAGES.

(_Continued from_ Vol. vi., pp. 60, 61.)

Since communicating to you a short list of a few books I had noted as having reference to this obscure subject, I have stumbled over a few others which bear special reference to the Quichua: and of which I beg to send you a short account, which may be worthy a place in your valuable pages.

The first work upon the Quichua language, of which I find mention, is a grammar of the Peruvian Indians (_Gramatica ó arte general de la lengua de los Indios del Perù_), by the brother Domingo de San Thomas, published in Valladolid in 1560, and republished in the same year with an appendix, being a Vocabulary of the Quichua. The demand for the first edition appears to have been considerable; or, what is more likely, from the extreme rarity of the work, the careful author {195} suppressed or called in the first edition, in order to add, for the benefit of his purchasers, the vocabulary which he had found time to prepare within the year.

The work of San Thomas seems to have glutted the market for some twenty years; for we do not find that any one made a collection of words or grammatical forms until the year 1586, when Antonio Ricardo published a kind of introduction to the Quichua, having sole reference to that language, without anything more than an explanation in Spanish.[1] This work, like that of his predecessor, was immediately remodelled and re-published in a very much extended form in the same year. Ricardo's books are amongst the first printed in that part of America.

Diego de Torres Rubio is the next writer of whom I am cognizant. He published at Seville, in 1603, a grammar and vocabulary of the Quichua; the subject still continuing to attract attention. Still, as was to be expected, the Quichua language was of more consequence to the Spaniards of Peru. No doubt, therefore, that Father Juan Martinez found a ready sale for his vocabulary, published at Los Reyes in 1604. Indeed, the subject is now attracting the attention of the eminent Diego Gonzalez Holguin, who published first a new grammar (_Gramatica nuevu_) of the Quichua and Inca dialect, in four books, at the press of Francisco del Canto, in Los Reyes, 1607; and second, a vocabulary of the language of the whole of Peru (_de todo el Perù_), in the same year and at the same press.

It is worthy to remark, as confuting somewhat fully the assertion of Prescott (_Conquest of Peru_, v. ii. p. 188.), that the Spanish name of Ciudad de los Reyes ceased to be used in speaking of Lima "within the first generation," that the books of Ricardo, Holguin, and Huerta (of whom presently) are all stated to have been printed in the Ciudad de los Reyes, though the latest of these appeared in 1616. In 1614, however, to confine myself strictly to the bibliographical inquiry suggested by the heading of my article, a method and vocabulary of the Quichua did appear from Canto's press, dated Lima,--a corruption, as is well known, of the word _Rimac_.

That, however, the Castilian name should be employed later, is curious. At any rate, it occurs for the last time on the title of a work printed by the same printer, Canto, in 1616; and written by Don Alonso de Huerta, the old title being adhered to, probably from some cause unknown to us, but possibly in consequence of old aristocratic opinions and prejudices in favour of the Spanish name. That the name of Lima had obtained considerably even in the time of the Conquerors, Mr. Prescott has sufficiently proved; but as an official and recognised name it evidently existed to a later period than the historian has mentioned.

The work of Torres Rubio, already mentioned, was reprinted in Lima by Francisco Lasso in 1619. From this time forward, the subject of the native language of Peru seems to have occupied the attention of many writers. A quarto grammar was published by Diego de Olmos in 1633 of the Indian language, as the Quichuan now came to be called.

Eleven years later, we find Fernando de Carrera, curate and vicar of San Martin de Reque, publishing an elaborate word bearing the following title:

"Arte de la lengua yunga de los valles del obispado de Truxillo; con un
confesonario y todas las oraciones cotidianas y otras cosas: Lima, por
Juan de Contreras, 1644, 16mo."

Grammars and methods here follow thick and fast. A few years after Carrera's book, in 1648, comes Don Juan Roxo Mexia y Ocon, _natural de Cuzco_, as he proudly styles himself with a method of the Indian language: and after a few insignificant works, again another in 1691, by Estevan Sancho de Melgar.

The most common works on the Quichua are the third and fourth editions of Torres Rubio, published at Lima in the years 1700 and 1754. Of these two works done with that care and evident pleasure which Jesuits always, and perhaps only, bestow upon these difficult by-roads of philology, I need say no more, as they are very well known.

Before I close this communication, allow me to suggest to the readers and contributors to the truly valuable "N. & Q.," that no tittle of knowledge concerning these early philological researches ought to be allowed to remain unrecorded; and with the position which the "N. & Q." occupies, and the facilities that journal offers for the preservation of these stray scraps of knowledge, surely it would not be amiss to send them to the Editor, and let him decide as he is very capable of doing, as to their value.

KENNETH R. H. MACKENZIE.

February 20. 1854.

[Footnote 1: Arte y Vocabulario de la lengua, Uamada quichua. En la Ciudad de los Reyes, 1586, 8vo.]

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CONDUITT AND NEWTON

In the prospectus of a new _Life_ of sir Isaac Newton, by sir David Brewster, it is stated that in examining the papers at Hurstbourne Park, the seat of the earl of Portsmouth, the discovery had been maple of "copious materials which Mr. Conduit had collected for a life of Newton, _which had never been supposed to exist_."

About the year 1836 I consulted the principal biographers of Newton--Conduitt, Fontenelle, Birch, Philip Nichols, Thomas Thomson, Biot, {196} Brewster--and I have ever since believed that such materials _did exist_.

We are assured by Mr. Edmund Turnor, in the preface to his _History of Grantham_, printed in 1806, which work is quoted in the prospectus, that the manuscripts at Hurstbourne Park then chiefly consisted of some pocket-books and memorandums of sir Isaac Newton, and "the information obtained by Mr. Conduitt for the purpose of writing his life." Moreover, the collections of Mr. Conduitt are repeatedly quoted in that work as distinct from the memoirs which were sent to M. de Fontenelle.

I shall give another anecdote in refutation of the statement made in the prospectus, albeit a superfluity. In 1730 the author of _The Seasons_ republished his _Poem to the memory of sir Isaac Newton_, with the addition of the lines which follow, and which prove that he was aware of the task on which Mr. Conduitt was then occupied. The lines, it should be observed, have been omitted in all the editions printed since 1738.

"This, CONDUITT, from thy rural hours we hope;
As through the pleasing shade, where nature pours
Her every sweet, in studious ease you walk;
The social passions smiling at thy heart,
That glows with all the recollected sage."

The _pleasing shade_ indicates the grounds of Cranbury-lodge, in Hampshire, the seat of Mr. Conduitt--whose guest the poet seems previously to have been.

Some inedited particulars of the life of Mr. Conduitt, drawn from various sources, I reserve for another occasion.

BOLTON CORNEY.

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Minor Notes.

_The Music in Middleton's Tragi-Comedy of the "Witch."_--Joseph Ritson, in a letter addressed to J. C. Walker (July, 1797), printed in Pickering's edition of Ritson's _Letters_ (vol. ii. p. 156.) has the following passage:--

"It may be to your purpose, at the same time, to know that the songs in
Middleton's _Witch_, which appear also to have been introduced in
_Macbeth_, beginning, 'Hecate, Hecate, come away,' and 'Black spirits
and white,' have (as I am informed) been lately discovered in MS. with
the complete harmony, as performed at the original representation of
these plays. You will find the words in a note to the late editions of
Shakspeare; and I shall, probably, one of these days, obtain a sight of
the musick."

The MS. here mentioned was in the collection of the late Mr. J. Stafford Smith, one of the Organists of the Chapel Royal. At the sale of this gentleman's valuable library it passed, with many other treasures of a similar nature, into my possession, where it now remains.

EDWARD F. RIMBAULT.

_Mr. Macaulay and Sir Archibald Alison in error._--How was it that Mr. Macaulay, in two editions of his _History_, placed the execution of Lord Russell on Tower Hill? Did it not take place in Lincoln's Inn Fields? And why does Sir A. Alison, in the volume of his _History_ just published, speak of the children of Catherine of Arragon? and likewise inform us that Locke was expelled from Cambridge? Was he not expelled from the University of Oxford?

ABHBA.

"_Paid down upon the nail._"--The origin of this phrase is thus stated in the _Recollections of O'Keefe_ the dramatist:

"An ample piazza under the Exchange [in Limerick] was a thoroughfare:
in the centre stood a pillar about four feet high, and upon it a
circular plate of copper about three feet in diameter: this was called
_the nail_, and on it was paid the earnest for any commercial bargains
made; which was the origin of saying, 'Paid down upon the nail.'"

But perhaps the custom, of which Mr. O'Keefe speaks, was common to other ancient towns?

ABHBA.

_Corpulence a Crime._--Mr. Bruce has written, in his _Classic and Historic Portraits_, that the ancient Spartan paid as much attention to the rearing of men as the cattle dealers in modern England do to the breeding of cattle. They took charge of firmness and looseness of men's flesh; and regulated the degree of fatness to which it was lawful, in a free state, for any citizen to extend his body. Those who dared to grow too fat, or too soft for military exercise and the service of Sparta, were soundly whipped. In one particular instance, that of Nauclis, the son of Polytus, the offender was brought before the Ephori, and a meeting of the whole people of Sparta, at which his unlawful fatness was publicly exposed; and he was threatened with perpetual banishment if he did not bring his body within the regular Spartan compass, and give up his culpable mode of living; which was declared to be more worthy of an Ionian than a son of Lacedæmon.

W. W.

_Curious Tender._--

"If any young clergyman, somewhat agreeable in person, and who has a
small fortune independent, can be well recommended as to strictness of
morals and good temper, firmly attached to the present happy
establishment, and is willing to engage in the matrimonial estate with
an agreeable young lady in whose power it is immediately to bestow a
living of nearly 100l. per annum, in a very pleasant situation, with a
good prospect of preferment,--any person whom this may suit may leave a
line at the bar of the Union Coffee House in the Strand, directed to
Z. Z., within three days of this advertisement. The utmost secrecy and
honour may be depended upon."--_London Chronicle_, March, 1758.

E. H. A.

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_The Year 1854._--This year commenced and will terminate on a Sunday. In looking through the Almanac, it will be seen that there are _five Sundays in five months_ of the year, viz. in January, April, July, October, and December; five _Mondays_ in January, May, July, and October; five _Tuesdays_ in January, May, August, and October; five _Wednesdays_ in March, May, August, and November; five _Thursdays_, in March, June, August, and November; five _Fridays_ in March, June, September, and December; five _Saturdays_ in April, July, September, and December; and, lastly, fifty-three _Sundays_ in the year.

The age of her Majesty the Queen is thirty-five, or seven times five; and the age of Prince Albert the same.

Last Christmas having fallen on the Sunday, I am reminded of the following lines:

"Lordings all of you I warn,
If the day that Christ was born
Fall upon a Sunday,
The winter shall be good I say,
But great winds aloft shall be;
The summer shall be fine and dry.
_By kind skill, and without loss,_
_Through all lands there shall be peace._
Good time for all things to be done;
But he that stealeth shall be found soon.
What child that day born may be,
A great lord he shall live to be."

W. W.

Malta.

_A Significant Hint._--The following lines were communicated to me by a friend some years ago, as having been written by a blacksmith of the village of Tideswell in Derbyshire; who, having often been reproved by the parson, or ridiculed by his neighbours, for drunkenness, placed them on the church door the day after the event they commemorate:

"Ye Tideswellites, can this be true,
Which Fame's loud trumpet brings;
That ye, to view the Cambrian Prince,
Forsook the King of Kings?
That when his rattling chariot wheels,
Proclaim'd his Highness near,
Ye trod upon each others' heels,
To leave the house of prayer.
Be wise next time, adopt this plan,
Lest ye be left i' th' lurch;
And place at th' end of th' town a man
To ask him into Church."

It is said that, on the occasion of the late Prince of Wales passing through Tideswell on a Sunday, a man was placed to give notice of his coming, and the parson and his flock rushed out to see him pass at full gallop.

E. P. PALING.

Chorley.

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Queries.

LITERARY QUERIES.

MR. RICHARD BINGHAM will feel grateful to any literary friend who may be able to assist him in solving some or all of the following difficulties.

1. Where does Panormitan or Tudeschis (_Commentar. in Quinque Libros Decretalium_) apply the term nullatenenses to titular and utopian bishops? See _Origines Ecclesiasticæ_, 4. 6. 2.

2. In which of his books does John Bale, Bishop of Ossory, speaking of the monks of Bangor, term them "Apostolicals?" See Ibid., 7. 2. 13.

3. Where does Erasmus say that the preachers of the Roman Church invoked the Virgin Mary in the beginning of their discourses, much as the heathen poets were used to invoke their Muses? See Ibid., 14. 4. 15.; and _Ferrarius de Ritu Concionum_, l. I. c. xi.

4. Bona (_Rer. Liturg._, l. II. c. ii. n. 1.) speaks of an epistle from Athanasius to Eustathius, where he inveighs against the Arian bishops, who in the beginning of their sermons said "_Pax vobiscum!_" while they harassed others, and were tragically at war. But the learned Bingham (14. 4. 14.) passes this by, and leaves it with Bona, because there is no such epistle in the works of Athanasius. Where else? How can Bona's error be corrected? or is there extant _in operibus Athanasii_ a letter of his to some other person, containing the expressions to which Bona refers?

5. In another place (_Rer. Liturg._, l. II. c. 4. n. 3.) Bona refers to tom. iii. p. 307. of an _Auctor Antiquitatum Liturgicarum_ for certain _formulæ_; and Joseph Bingham (15. 1. 2.) understands him to mean _Pamelius_, whose work does not exceed two volumes. Neither does Pamelius notice at all the _first of the two formulæ_, though he has the second, or nearly the same. How can this also be explained? And to what work, either anonymous or otherwise, did Bona refer in his expression "Auctor Antiquitatum Liturgicarum?"

6. In which old edition of _Gratiani Decretum_, probably before the early part of the sixteenth century, can be found the unmutilated glosses of John Semeca, surnamed Teutonicus? and especially the gloss on _De Consecrat., Distinct._ 4. c. 4., where he says that even in his time (1250?) the custom still prevailed in some places of giving the eucharist to babes? See _Orig. Ecclesiast._, 15. 4. 7.

7. Joseph Bingham (16. 3. 6.) finds fault with Baronius for asserting that Pope Symmachus anathematized the Emperor Anastasius, and asserts that instead of _Ista quidem ego_, as given by Baronius and Binius, in the epistle of Symmachus, Ep. vii. al. vi. (see also Labbe and Cossart, t. iv. p. 1298.), the true reading is _Ista quidem nego_. How can this be verified? The epistle is not extant either in Crabbe or Merlin. Is the argument {198} of J. B. borne out by any good authority, either in manuscript or print?

MR. BINGHAM will feel further obliged if the Replies to any or all of these Queries be forwarded direct to his address at 57. Gloucester Place, Portman Square, London.

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Minor Queries.

_Hunter of Polmood in Tweed-dale._--Where can the pedigree of the Hunters of Polmood, in Peebleshire, be seen?

HUFREER.

_Dinteville Family._--Of the family of Dinteville there were at this time, viz. 1530, two knights of the Order of St. John of Jerusalem. 1st. _Pierre de Dinteville_, Commander of Troyes, and Seneschal of his Order; son of Claude de Dinteville, Seigneur de Polisi and Chevets in Burgundy, and his wife Jeanne de la Beaume, daughter of the Lord of Mont St. Sorlin. The other was nephew to the _Pierre_ above mentioned, son of his younger brother Gaucher, Lord of Polisi, &c.; and his wife, Anne du Plessis d'Ouschamps. His name was _Louis de Dinteville_: he was born June 25, 1503; was Commander of Tupigni and Villedieu, and died at Malta, July 22, 1531; leaving a natural son, Maria de Dinteville, Abbé of St. Michael de Tonnerre, who was killed in Paris by a pistol-shot in 1574. The brother of this Chevalier Louis, _Jean_, Seign. of Polisi, &c., was _ambassador_ in England, and died a cripple A.D. 1555.

Query, Which was the "Dominus" of the king's letter?

ANON.

_Eastern Practice of Medicine._--I shall feel indebted to any correspondent who will refer me to some works on the theory and practice of medicine as pursued by the native practitioners of India and the East generally?