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called the Baling hearth." Again, in the important decree as to the custom of Furness Fells, Hilary Term, 7 Eliz. (1565), I find : " Two little houses called Easing Harthes w th the brusinge woode and the Ealinge asshes ther to be made."

The " asshes " must be wood ashes, and I can conjecture their use. Can any one offer evidence as to the meaning of the word "ealing" or "easing" in this connexion ? H. W. DICKINSON.

ATJTHOBS OP QUOTATIONS WANTED. Who is the author of

Th' Eternal Wisdom doth not covet

Of man his strength or reason, but his love ?

A. O. V. P.

Who is the author of the following lines, and in what book do they appear ?

'Tis not the brave, the rich, the wise, Alone who make a nation rise ; But every one in each degree Who strives to keep his spirit free From sin, and loves God's truth to spread, Helps to exalt his country's head, And merits though unknown to fame He lives and dies a patriot's name.

G. H. G.

CATALAUNIAN FIELDS. What is the mean- ing of this expression ? It is used by Prof. Eucken in the introductory chapter of his ' Life of the Spirit,' as translated by Mr. F. L. Pogson. The sentence containing it is as follows :

" Of course the individual actors have withdrawn from the stage, but their ideas have remained, and passionately continue the tight, like the spirits on the Catalaunian Fields."

W. B.

[B. E. Smith's useful 'Cyclopaedia of Names'

says: "Catalaunian Fields L. Campi Cata-

launici. A plain near Chalons-sur-Marne, famous for the victory (451 A.D.) of Aetius and the Gothic King Theodoric I. over Attila." Chalons was the ancient Catalaunum.]

MOLIERE ON OPIUM. In what play of Moliere occur the words of the medical student who accounts for the phenomenon of sleep produced by opium bv a soporific tendency in the opium ?

H. S. BRANDRETH.

TEXTUAL CRITICISM IN RUFINUS. In the forty-third chapter of the commentary on the Creed by Rufinus occurs a passage Avhich, as printed by Dr. Heurtley in his ' De Fide et Symbolo,' seems corrupt. The commentary was one of the first works printed in England, and it is strange that a corruption of the text should have re-

mained so long unamended. The passage is printed by Heurtley as follows : -

" Itaergouniuscujusque carnis substantia, quam- vis varie diverseque dispersa sit, ratio tamen qua inest unicuique carni immortalis est, quia inimor- talis aniniffi caro est, ex eo tempore quo ser in terram corporibus primum veri Dei voli arrisit, censum reddit."

From this breathless and invertebrate mass of words I can make no sense but by the following emendations: (1) substanttct being the subject to the concessive clause only, the comma must be put after ergo;

(2) a stronger stop is required after caro est ;

(3) the next word, both to avoid asyndeton and to give better sense to the following passage, should be et, instead of ' ex

(4) the superfluous " veri " should be changed into ver, a poetical word which would easily be altered by a scribe missing the poetical flavour of seminatis and arrisit, and so- making the latter an awkward impersonal verb ; (5) voluntati must be ablative, the dative being a consequence of the preceding corruption.

I shall be glad of any inf ormationthrowing light on the passage. W. E. B.

ANNE BOLEYN'S REMAINS. I shall be glad if some reader of ' N. & Q-' will kindly inform me where I may see an account of the finding of the supposed remains of Queen. Anne Boleyn in the chapel of St. Peter ad Vincula, Tower Green. Is it in Hepworth Dixon's ' Her Majesty's Tower ' ?

CHARLES J. HILL.

Belmont Lodge, Waterford.

[For her execution and burial see 8 S. viii. 325 r 451, 496; 9 S. ii. 468; iii. 17, 114.]

DENVIR OR DENVER. I wonder if any of your readers can throw light on the origin of this name. The Rev. J. O'Laverty, in his ' History of Down and Connor,' states that it is believed to be of Norman origin, which seems likely enough, as in the barony of Lecale, where the name is chiefly found, there are other names, such as Russell, which come from that source. The late Dr. Cornelius Denvir, Bishop of Down and Connor (my father's second cousin), held this theory, and, I think, mentioned that he had come across traces of the name in Normandy.

The city of Denver, Colorado, was called after General James William Denver (Governor of Kansas 1858-9), and, though he was born in America (see ' National Cyclo- paedia of American Biography,' vol. viii. pp. 341-2), I am assured by a relative of his (whose own mother, a Denver, was born