across an inquiry by J. WARD, of Coventry, respecting the author of Mackey's Theory of the Earth, asking for information respecting other works by him. This brought to my memory that I had recently become possessed of several works of the same author, of which I add a list; and any farther description of them, or their contents, I should be happy to furnish. It may be that he has previously obtained information; if not, the inclosed may be of service.

"The Mythological Astronomy of the Ancients demonstrated by restoring to their Fables and Symbols their original Meaning. 2nd Edit. Norwich, 1824. By Sampson Arnold Mackey. 3 Plates."

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Mythological Astronomy. Part II. Containing the Astronomical Explanation of the Hindoo Mythology, and their celebrated Mystical Numbers," &c. &c.

"A Reply intended to be made to the various Disputants, on an Essay on Chronology, which was read at the Philosophical Society of Norwich, containing Astronomical Proofs that the Sun stood still and hasted not to go down for the space of a Day, and that the Shadows on the Sundials went backwards Ten Degrees. By S. A. Mackey, n. d."

"Urania's Key to the Revelation: or the Analysation of the Writings of the Jews, as far as they are found to have any Connexion with the Science of Astronomy. By A. Mackey. London, 1833."

"A Companion to the Mythological Astronomy, &c., containing a New Theory of the Earth and of Planetary Motion: in which is demonstrated that the Sun is vicegerent of his own System. 5 Plates. By S. A. Mackey. "Man's best Friend; or the Evils of Pious Frauds. By

Norwich, 1824."

S. A. Mackey. Norwich, 1826."

"The Two Zodiacs of Tentyra and the Zodiac of Thebes, explained by S. A. Mackey of Norwich. Published May, 1832. 3 Plates."

"A Lecture on Astronomy adjusted to its dependent Science, Geology: in which is shown the plain and simple

Cause of the vast Abundance of Water in the Southern Hemisphere. By S. A. Mackey. London, 1832." SAMUEL SHAW.

Andover.

George Henderson (2nd S. vi. 158.) - Your correspondent M. G. F. would gratify me much were he to state, whether the proprietor of lands in Greenlaw parish, about the end of the seventeenth century, whose name was spelt “Hennysone,” was the father or grandfather of George Henderson, farmer at Kippetlaws; and if he could give me any extracts from those deeds to which he refers, it would be still more satisfactory.

MENYANTHES.

Galea (2nd S. vi. 245.) — Bos (Antiq. Græcarum, iii. 2.) says that the galea was often made of brass, but chiefly of the skins of animals, hence called AEOVTÉN [TEρ:Kepaλaía], a helmet made of lion's skin; Taupein, of a bull's (Hom. İl., x. 258.); aiyein, a goat's (Eust. on Odys., p. 832. lin. 48.; Hesych. in aiyeinv); àλwtekén, a fox's; Kuvén, dogskin (Hom. Il., iii. 336.; Eust., p. 319. lin. 31.). These were not "leathern helmets;" the shield, scutum, however, was covered with leather and

Thus

Unused Palimpsest (2nd S. vi. 241.) — A most interesting and valuable discovery! May not the prefixed, respecting which DR. TREGELLES inquires, be the initial of the word pos in its mediæval sense, 66 Ynpos, nota numeri ?" Theophanes (as cited by Du Cange) writes 'Ekλυσε γράφεσθαι Ελληνιστὶ τοὺς δημοσίους τῶν λογοθεσίων κώδικας, ἀλλ' ̓Αραβίοις αὐτὰ παρασημαίνεσθαι, χωρὶς τῶν nowv. Viewed in this light they would answer to our No, or No., for numero or number; e.g. 4. 8' would be equivalent to N° 12.

In the phrase τοῦ Ἱππεός ̓Αντωνίου Κόμητος, Ι would suggest that Kóuntos is not to be viewed as a proper name, but as the genitive of Kóuns, nToS, Lat. Comes. Such is the meaning of Kóuns in modern Greek, quasi Count. In medieval Greek, Kóuns is a title applied to various classes of persons, noble, ecclesiastical, civil, naval, and military: Διοδώρου Κόμητος, Βαλδουίνον Κόμητα, Ἰωάννης Κόμης the title being sometimes appended to the Christian name without mention of any surname, exactly as in the case presented by DR. TREGELLES, Αντωνίου Κόμητος. So Comes in mediæval Latin: Henricus Comes, Ludovicus Comes. Kóuns Tîs grávτpas, Comes Flandriæ.

| The author of the note in pencil did not, perhaps, intend to write "Comuto," but "Comnto," inserting, in his Italian version of the Greek, an eta in correspondence with Kóunros (however pronounced). So we sometimes see an omega inserted where the remaining type is roman, as in crisews.

May I be permitted to ask a question respecting Ἱππεός ? Is Ἱππεός, in the phrase τοῦ Ἱππεός ̓Αντω

copied from the marriage registers of the Holy Trinity parish, Chester:

"Upon the 22nd of June, in the year 1654, a marriage

between William Mulieneux of Neston in the County of Chester, Mariner, and Margaret Bellin of Thornton in the same county, Spinster, was solemnised before the Worshipful John Johnson, Esq., Alderman and Justice of Peace within the City of Chester, and publication of an intention of that marriage having been first published at the Market Cross in Chester, three market days in three several weeks, that is, the 7th, the 14th, and 21st days in the month of June, in the said year 1654; which marriage being performed by the said William and Margaret, according to an Act of the late Parliament, the said Justice of Peace pronounced them from thenceforth to be Husband and Wife, in the presence of Thomas Humphreys and Robert Dentith, witnesses present at the said marriage." T. HUGHES.

Chester.

Cromwell's Act of Parliament, 24th Aug. 1653, enacted that the banns of marriage should be published three times on three separate Sundays in the church or chapel, or (if the parties desired it) in the market-place next to such church or chapel, on three market days, in three several next following weeks, between the hours of 11 and 2. (See Burn on Parish Registers, p. 27.) As the act did not prescribe who was to publish the banns in the market-place, it would no doubt often occur that the bellman of the town would be the most eligible person to perform that duty, both on account of his bell and his voice. This appears to have been a favourite mode of proclaiming the banns, since the parish registers of Boston in Lincolnshire state that the banns proclaimed in the market-place of that town, during 1656, 1657, and 1658, were 102, 104, and 108 respectively; those proclaimed in the church during those years were 48, 31, and 52. The last recorded proclamation in the market-place was on the 1st of July, 1659.

PISHEY THOMPSON.

In illustration of the entry relative to the publication of banns by the bellman, as noted by N. B., it may be mentioned that by an ordinance dated August 23, 1653, the banns of marriage were ordered to be published in the market-place of towns, the marriage itself taking place before a justice of the peace. Holland, in his History of Worksop, says this act continued in force till 1658, between which date and that above mentioned sixty marriages were so conducted in that small town, the banns, in one instance, being expressly stated to have been, "according to the act, published at Worksop Market Cross," perhaps by the bellman. X.

Opus Posthumum. Heb. xi. 4. He being dead yet speaketh. Oxford, printed in the Yeere 1645."

Prefixed to the three tracts above mentioned is the following dedicatory epistle : —

and dread Soveraign. "To the sacred Majesty of King Charles, my most dear

"Sir, Be pleased to cast a gracious eye upon these three Tracts, and at Your leasure (if Your Royall Imployments lend You any) to peruse them.

"In Your Three Kingdoms You have three sorts of people: The first, confident and faithfull; The second, diffident and fearfull; The third, indifferent and doubtfull. "The first are with You in their Persons, Purses (or desires), and good wishes.

"The second are with You neither in their Purses, nor good wishes, nor (with their desires) in their Persons. ther in their Persons, nor Purses, nor Desires. "The third are with you in their good wishes, but nei

"In the last, entituled The Whipper Whipt, these three sorts are represented in three Persons, and presented to the view of Your Sacred Majesty.

"You shall find them as busie with their Pens as the selves, let the People judge: I appeale to Cesar. Your Armies are with their Pistols: How they behave themMajesties Honour, Safety, and Prosperity, The Churches Truth, Unity, and uniformity, Your Kingdoms Peace, Plenty, and Felicity, is the continued object of his Devotion, who is, Sir, Your Majesties most Loyall Subject, "FRA. QUARLES."

Dublin.

Αλιεύς.

Blackheath Ridges (2nd S. vi. 267.)- If the querist respecting the above alludes to the hollows near Dartmouth House, I remember above thirty years since being told by my father that they were traces of a Danish encampment. What his authority for the statement was I do not know, but I think their shape and length would lead to the very natural conclusion that they are the remains of intrenchments of some sort; and the vicinity of what is called Whitfield's Mount, otherwise the Blacksmith's Forge, has led me to believe that it might have formed part of the defences, and afterwards been used by Wat Tyler, when he camped on the heath, and from its shape and position by Whitfield. En passant, it may be remembered by some of your readers that from this mound it is stated by Evelyn that he saw the first shell fired. It is much to be re

gretted that from its great historical interest the topography of both Greenwich and its suburbs has been so little investigated. GEORGE W. Bennett. Pillory (2nd S. vi. 245. 278.)—In reply to the inquiry of T. N. B., there is, or was two or three years ago, a pillory in the church at Rye, in Sussex. It was kept in a part of one of the aisles, used as a kind of lumber place. The last time it was used, I was told, was in 1813; when a Mr. Hughes and a Mr. Robins were put in the pillory at Rye, and imprisoned for two years, for aiding in the escape of two French general officers.

OCTAVIUS MORGAN.

Sebastianus Franck (2nd S. vi. 232.) — He was an Anabaptist and mystic of Woerden in Holland. He taught with the Stoics that all sins were equal, and that all sects and religions belonged to the true Church. He despised the Holy Scriptures, and insisted solely on the spirit. He was opposed by Luther, Melancthon, and others of the Reformers, and died before Luther in 1545. A work, in which he appears to have satirised the female sex, is strongly censured in a Treatise on Matrimony by Frederus, and by Luther in the preface to the same.

The above account is taken from Jöcher's Allgemeines Gelehrten Lexicon. Αλιεύς. Dublin.

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We are indebted to Mr. Albany Fonblanque, Jun., for a little volume entitled How We are Governed; or, The Crown, the Senate, and the Bench. A Handbook of the Constitution, Government, Laws, and Power of Great Britain. In the form of Letters, Mr. Fonblanque furnishes brief sketches of the constitution of England, and by whom and in what way the country is governed: treating, as he goes on, of the Origin of that Constitutionthe Prerogative of the Crown-the Composition and Privileges of the two branches of the Legislature — our Financial System - -our principles of Local Government

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Messrs. Routledge have added to their Series of British Poets an edition of Godfrey of Bulloigne, or Jerusalem Delivered, by Torquato Tasso, translated by Edward Fairfax. Edited by Robert Aris Wilmott, Incumbent of Bearwood. Mr. Wilmott has aimed at a popular edition, and tells us that we shall find "the Archaisms occasionally modified." This may be popular; but we doubt its propriety; and if, as he admits, "the language of Fairfax is commonly simple and unaffected," there can be little reason for making it "assume a modern dress with easy elegance." Mr. Wilmott's Biographical Sketch of Fairfax is very pleasantly written.

The Society for making known on the Continent the Principles of the Church of England have just issued Histoire de la Reforme en Angleterre, par le Rev. F. C. Massingberd, Traduit de l'Anglais. Edité, avec une Preface par le Rev. Frederic Godfray. The popularity of Mr. Massingberd's little volume is well known, and this translation of it into French is certainly well calculated to advance the objects of the Society.

Students of Spanish Literature are indebted to Messrs. Williams and Norgate for the reprint of a very interesting specimen of the early Drama of Spain, La Gran Semiramis, Tragedia del Capitan Cristoval de Virues, Escrita A.D. 1579. The original is of very great scarcity, and it is to be hoped that the attention which this remarkable work cannot fail to excite, may be the means of inducing its editor to produce, not only the more valuable of Virues' other Dramas, but also his Lyrical Poems, and a good life of the Poet.

In a little volume entitled Notes on Ancient Britain and the Britons, the Rev. William Barnes has given us the result of his Collections for a course of Lectures on this subject; and has produced a series of sketches of the Ancient Britons, their language, laws, and mode of life, and of their social state as compared with that of the Saxons, which will be read with considerable interest.

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