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she is said to have spent a good

anthology) sent me a copy during the last week in May. CHAS. F. FORSHAW, LL.D. Bradford.

Knaresborough, in a cottage close to the Drop- ring Well in July, 1488. She married one Tobias Ihipton; of Shipton, near York, and appears to have lived at that place as well as KnaresDorough. ShSd ied at ShiptoS in 1561, and was buried in the churchyard there, and the following lines were carved upon her tombstone :

Here lies she who never lied : Whose skill often has been tried ; Her prophecies shall still survive, And ever keep her name alive." 'Chambers's Encyclopaedia,' giving as its authority 'N. & Q.' of April 26, 1873 (4> S. xi. 355), has the following paragraph :

" A prophecy in doggrel verse under her name was put into circulation about 1862 by Charles Hindley, on his own confession. Ihese wretched lines concluded with a prophecy that the world should come to an end in 1881, which caused great anxiety amongst a few very ignorant persons in corners of England."

JOHN T. PAGE. West Haddon, Northamptonshire.

HERTFORD BOROUGH SEAL (10 th S. i. 448). Would not " R.D.G." be merely an abbrevia- tion of "Hex Dei Gratia," in allusion to the granting of the charter of the Corporation ]

J. HOLDEN MACMlCHAEL.

DRYDEN PORTRAITS (10 th IS. i. 368, 435). A miniature, said to be John Dryden, by S. Cooper, was included in the special ex- hibition of works of art at the South Ken- sington Museum in June, 1862. See revised catalogue by J. C. Robinson, January, 1863, p. 236. CHAS. HALL CROUCH.

5, Grove Villas, Wanstead.

POEMS ON SHAKESPEARE (10 th S. i. 409, 472). It is true, as MR. JAGGARD points out, that I have been forestalled in my task of com- piling a volume of tributes to our national poet ; but whereas the book produced under the able editorship of Mr. C. E. Hughes con- tains both prose and verse, the one of which I have been appointed editor will contain verse only in brief, * Poems on Shakespeare.'

To the many readers of * N. & Q.' who have most kindly referred me to poems on Shake- speare I return my most grateful thanks, arid their courtesy will be recorded in my preface. Lest any misunderstanding should arise, please allow me to add that the work edited by Mr. Hughes was not published when ] sent my query to * N. & Q.,' nor had I heard of it until my friend the Mayor of Stratford- on-Avon (to whom I am dedicating my

A DICTIONARY OF ENGLISH DIALECT SYNONYMS (9 th S. xii. 444). To all appear- ance, my suggestion has not excited sym- pathy ; and I am sorry for the failure. I N. & Q.' has been troubled as I have been by lack of such a book of reference ; and yet t. f the treasure be in existence, 1 think I should have heard of it.
 * an hardly believe that no other reader of

The following synonyms for minnow I bund mentioned in the Spectator's review of Sir Herbert Maxwell's 'British Fresh- Water Fishes' (25 May): pink, baggie, Daggit, banny, Jack Barrel, Jack Sharp, meaker, menot, minion, peer, shadbrid,. minnin. Imagine the convenience of having all these names in sight at the same moment, instead of having to spend a week in picking them out of thousands of irrelevant words in [ believe I should myself attempt to produce ' E.D.D.' was undertaken material for this would have been most difficult to obtain ; but now it is quite accessible. ST. S WITHIN.
 * he 'E.D.D.' ! Time and eternity forbid, or
 * he compilation 1 long for. Before the

LEGEND OF THE COUNCIL OF CONSTANCE. (10 th S. i. 8, 397). When visiting lately Dr. H. Krebs, justly revered at Oxford and elsewhere for his kindness and courtesy to- scholars, I saw among his library treasures a copy of Heine's essays ' Ueber Deutschland/ dealing with the history of religion and philosophy in Germany. Dr. Krebs had marked a reference (Erster Teil, p. 45) to the story of the nightingale interrupting the theological discourse, which Heine says happened at Basel in May, 1433. The Basel Council sat from 1431 to 1449, many years after the Council of Constance and the death of Hus. It appears, therefore, that A. N, Maikov based his poem on the Basel story, and referred it to the previous Council, as MR. WAINE WRIGHT remarks. Heine's account of the ascetic attitude towards the powers and beauty of nature, considered as dia- bolical seductions from the paths of virtue, is very striking, and written by as great a master of prose as of poetry.

FRANCIS P. MARCHANT.

Brixton Hill.

AUDYN OR AUDIN FAMILY (10 th S. i. 148,

495). MR. G. A. AUDEN should write to H. I. R. Audain, Esq., Board of Trade, Bank- ruptcy Buildings, Carey Street, W.C.

FRANCIS KING.