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Thomas de Howom (sic) in 1406 was, " Item lego cuilibet lecto domus Infirmarie hospital' Sci Leonard! Ebor Id."

I think it is almost certain that a " cremitt " was not a hermit. Was it an invalid or a bed ? ST. SWITHIN.

Z : NAME OF THE LETTER. This letter, called zed in England, is almost uniformly called zee in the United States, and I think this nomenclature is of long standing. The curious name izzard does not seem to be more than two centuries old : see the 'N.E.D.' which notes that Dr. Johnson (1755) gives "zed, more commonly izzard or uzzard, that is s hard" One may perhaps put a query after the derivation.

RICHARD H. THORNTON.

WE must request correspondents desiring in- formation on family matters of only private interest to alfax their names and addresses to their queries, in order that answers may be sent to them direct.

ROMAN INSCRIPTION AT BAVENO. A short time ago (10 S. ix. 352) I drew attention to an altar-slab bearing a Roman inscription which was inserted in the wall of a shed attached to the church of San Stefano at Pallanza on Lago Maggiore. Another very ancient slab has been built into the north wall of the parish church in the neighbouring town of Baveno. The inscription is quite illegible, but the following lines, which purport to be a copy, have been incised upon a larger stone, which has been inserted in the wall beneath the original :

TR. OPTIMVS TI. CLAVDII C^S.

AVGVSTI GERMANIC. SER. DARIJE ET DIANAS

MEMORISE ET TARPEI^E SACRVM

RENOVAT.

ANNO MDCCLXXXV.

On the domed ceiling of the porch the follow- ing lines, which seem to be an explanatory gloss on the inscription, have been painted in ordinary Roman script :

Historise Cultor quisquis es Crede Templum hocce

A Trophimo

Ti. Claudij Caesaris Augusti Germanic. Serv. Darinidiano

Memoriae Conditum,

Anno Christi LXXVIII.

Baveni antiquitatem demiratua

Eius Incolas Reverere.

Trophimus, a slave or freedman of the Emperor Claudius, is supposed to have founded the temple on the site of which the church of Baveno popularly regarded as the oldest on Lago Maggiore was sub- sequently built. The emperor died in A.D. 54, and if the date which is recorded in the later inscription, and for which no authority is given, is correct, the temple must have been built twenty-four years after his death. The first line of the Latin inscription should doubtless read TROPHIMO, but I am puzzled with regard to the dedi- cation, which in the slab appears as " Darise et Dianse," and in the gloss as " Darinidiano." Perhaps PROF. BENSLY, or some other of the learned correspondents of * N. & Q.' can help me in the matter.

The Lake of Como (Lacus Larius) is closely associated with the elder and the younger Pliny. I should be glad to learn if there is any reference in classical literature to a connexion between Lago Maggiore (Lacus Verbanus) and the princes of the Claudian line. W. F. PRIDEAUX.

POPE'S SHAKESPEARE QUARTO. Pope, in the Preface to his edition of the ' Works of Shakespeare.' 1725, when speaking of the Quartos and First Folio, says that " the additions of trifling and bombast passages are in this edition [First Folio] far more numerous. For whatever had been added, since those Quartos, by the actors, or had stolen from their mouths into the written parts, were from thence conveyed into the printed text, and all stand charged upon the

author And / have seen one in particular (which

seems to have belonged to the playhouse, by having the parts divided into lines, and the actors' names in the margin) where several of those very passages were added in a written hand, which are since to be found in the Folio." Pp. xvi, xvii.

Has this " one in particular " Quarto seen by Pope been identified ? If so, which and where is it ? F. J. FURNIVALL.

THE GRAND KHAIBAR. I am particularly anxious to obtain some information as to the origin of the name, and the status of the society, convivial or otherwise, so designated. I have a very elaborate in- vitation card, designed and etched by George Bickham, by which, in 174-, a member is invited to meet " the rest of the Brethren." At the top three robed male figures hold a wreath in front of a tree, to the branches of which a harp is suspended. There is a medallion on either side, on one of which is a palm tree with the word " Khaibar." Below two females are pouring libations into a large cup supported by Cupids. In 1726 George Roberts published an ' L Ode to