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George Munford.
East Winch.
MINOR QUERIES.
F. Madden.
British Museum, March 28.
F.E.
Is any thing known of Richard Milton, who signs his name as the attesting witness to the releases given by two of the poet's daughters for their share of his estate? Is there any pedigree of the family of Sir Christopher Milton, the poet's brother, drawn up with sufficient apparent accuracy to exclude the probability of Richard Milton being his son? I have referred to the pedigree in the British Museum , which makes no mention of the letter; but it is evidently so imperfect a notice, as to be of little authority one way or other.
J.F.M.
sco toot X vinic X poncs.
I have not been able to find the Sapcote motto on record; and I believe the Carysfoot family, the possessors of Elton, and the Duke of Bedford, the heir in blood, to be ignorant of what this scroll is intended to represent.
Erminois.
Athenaeum Club.
A Subscriber.
Robert Snow.
It is made up of three apparently distinct treatises; the first on the twelve articles of the Apostles' Creed. The second is "The ryght foundation, and pryncypall common places of the hole godly Scripture," &c., by Doctor Urbanus Regius. Prefixed is an epistle to Thomas, Archbishop of Canterbury , to whom "Hys dayly oratoure, Gwalter Lynne , wyssheth lyfe euerlastynge." Between this second treatise and the third, and apparently belonging to the latter, is a title-page with the following inscription:
This last treatise is in smaller type than the others, and has no general designation: it contains chapters on various subjects, e.g. "The Signification of Baptism," &c.
Query 1. Is this volume well known? 2. Who were Urbanus Regius and Walter Lynne?
G.P.
March 16. 1850.
REPLIES.
THE ARABIC NUMERALS AND CIPHER.
T.S.D.
Shooter's Hill, March 5.
The best account, because the most consistent and intelligible, of the Greek arithmetic, is that by Delambre, affixed to Peyraud's edition of Archimedes.
At a period of leisure I may be tempted to send you a few extracts, somewhat curious, from some of the papers of Mr. Strachey in my possession.
Henry Wilkinson.
REPLIES TO MINOR QUERIES.
I send you a few Notes on Queries scattered through some of the later numbers of your very valuable publication:
Portugal is a country that is so little travelled in either by natives or foreigners, that information regarding places in the interior is not easily obtained; and facilities for travelling, as well as accommodation for travellers, is of a very limited description.
W. CALVERLEY TREVELYAN.
DERIVATIONS OF "NEWS."
It is not declared with what motive "Mr. GUTCH" has laid before the readers of "NOTES AND QUERIES" the alleged derivation of N.E.W.S.
"Besides, such a splitting up of a word of significant and perfect meaning in itself is always a bad and suspicious mode of derivation.
"It is generally an after-thought, suggested by some fortuitous or fancied coincidence, that appropriateness of which is by no means a sufficient proof of probability.
Here is one more proof of the usefulness of your publication, that I am thus enabled to strengthen the illustration of a totally different subject by the incidental authority of a fellow correspondent.
A.E.B.
Leeds, March, 1850.
REPLIES TO MINOR QUERIES.
T.S.D.
"In liberatione portarii castelli ... 30s. 5d."
"In liberatione constitut? portarii de Hereford, 30s. 5d."
Again, in Pipe 3 Joh.
"In liberatione constitut? portario de Hereford, 30s. 5d."
E.S.
DANIEL ROCK.
ECCLESIASTES.
I presume that "RAHERE" is a young brass-rubber, or the fact of a plate being engraved on both sides would have presented no difficulty to him.
ARUN.
I do not imagine that there was any idea of either assistance or opposition to the Church of England, in the mind of him who recommended, or those who adopted, the alteration, or that either of them expected or sought any thing by this measure but to obtain a greater security for property, or, rather, to avoid some real or imagined insecurity, found or supposed to attach to the form of description previously in use.
A BARRISTER.
"--Ane furme, ane furlet, Ane pott, ane pek."
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