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 274 NOTES AND QUERIES. [io- s. iv. SEPT. so, IMS. Paginse Doctor." A doctorate implies the •conferring of a degree; not so a professor- ship, however. In his ' Drurnmond of Haw- thornden' (chap. xi. note), Emeritus-Professor Masson refers to a correspondent of Scot of •Scotstarvet as "S.P.D." The correspondent was John Leitch, a Scottish scholar, who took the Latinized name of "Leochseus." Leitch's letters, dated 1618 and 1619, were written from Paris and other foreign towns. W. B. SPANISH VERSE (10th S. iv. 229).—S. J. A. F.'s letter has not reached me. As might be inferred from a brief reference on p. 410 of my ' Spanish Literature,' I quoted from Edward Churton's 'Gongora: an Historical and Critical Essay on the Times of Philip III. and IV. of Spain, with Translations.' The work, which is in two volumes, was published by Murray in 1862. It is easily obtainable. See also Churton's ' Poetical Remains.' JAMES FITZMAURICE-KELLY. SCOTTISH NAVAL ANTI MILITARY ACADEMY '(10th S. iii. 148, 209 ; iv. 212).—I am much indebted to W. S. for the information kindly given, and as I am still endeavouring to gather what further knowledge I can re- specting this Academy, I gladly avail myself of the offer of the loan of the pamphlet referred to. When recently in Edinburgh I made inquiries of the late Capt. Orr's relatives there, but they were unable to give me any very definite particulars or statistics con- cerning the Academy. From a reference to Oliver <fc Boyd's Edinburgh Almanacs, I gather that Capt. Orr was appointed Super- intendent in 1832, as his name appears for the first time in that year. His Majesty King William IV. appears as patron, and the presidents are Field-Marshal his Grace the Duke of Wellington, K.G., <fec., and General Jiis Grace the Duke of Gordon, G.C.B., &c. In 1860 the only reference I can find, from the same source, is under the heading ' The Scottish Institute for Civil, Commercial, and Military Education,' Royal Academy Build- ings, Lothian Road. I shall be glad of any further particulars with which readers are able to supply me. CHARLES E. HEWITT. 20, Cyril Mansions, S. W. "THE FATE OF THE TRACYS" (10th S. iv. 128, 192). — The " tradition " connecting Morthoe with the murderer of St. Thomas is not older, it is to be feared, than the nine- teenth century, and probably originated in the lively imagination of the writer whom MR. HEMS has quoted. There is no connexion between the priest Sir William de Traci, rector of Morthoe 1257-1322, and Sir William de Traci, the archbishop's assassin, who died in 1176. There are two Traci families, one descended in the maternal line from the Domesday baron Juhel of Totnes, the other descended from William de Traci, stated to be a natural son of Henry I. A descendant of Juhel, Sir Henry de Traci, was in 1241 overlord of the manors belonging to the barony of Barnstaple, amongst whicn Morthoe was one. The manorial lord of Morthoe at the same date was " the heir of Ralf de Bray " (' Testa Nevil,' p. 175a). Sir Henry de Traci, who in 1257 presented a relative of his own, called Sir William de Traci, to Morthoe, did so not in his own right, but as "guardian of the lands and of the heir of Ralf de Bray " (' Bronescombe Regis- ters,' p. 157). The presentee is called "Sir," because that prefix was usually applied to clergy in priest's orders who were not uni- versity graduates. This "Sir" William de Traci died 12 September, 1322 ('Stapeldon's Registers,' p. 256), and is the person whose tomb is shown at Morthoe. The murderer of St. Thomas was the younger son of Sir John de Sudeley, who took the name of Traci when he married Grace, the daughter of William de Traci, a natural son of Henry I. He is the William de Traci of the Black Book, who held the honour of Braneys or Braduinch in 1166 ('Lib. Nig.,' p. 121), and was justiciar of Normandy in 1174 (Ramsay's 'Angevin Kings,' p. 137). He died in 1176, one hundred and forty-six years before his namesake at Morthoe, leav- ing an only daughter Eva, who married William, son of Sir Gervase de Courtney. This William took his wife's name of Traci, and is the William de Traci who held the honour of Braneys in 1196. In 1203 Heury, the son of Earl Reginald, gave 1,200 marks for the land of William de Traci (Dugdale, ' Baronage,' i. 610), and in 1207 bestowed on Ford Abbey "Countisbury and all the land* which [it held] of the fee of Braneys before he recovered his inheritance" (Oliver, 'Mon, p. 347). To which of these families does the saying apply that the Tracys have the wind in their faces ? OSWALD J. REICHKL. A la Ronde, Lympstone, Devon. " BEAR BIBLE," SPANISH (10th S. iv. 1S9)--: Mathias Bienenvater (Apiarius) introduced printing into Berne and was at the same time an agent of the Protestant propaganda. The first edition of the "Bear Bible" has the following title:— " La Biblia quo es los sacros libros del v'e'° ? nuevo tcstiiineiito. Traaladada en Espanol [oy