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mediately under the dais, being raise* above the crown of the vaulting of th remainder of the crypt, the result being tha a level floor throughout the entire hall 1 impossible, a few steps being necessary a the end. S. P. Q. R.

VANESSA. This name is best known in connexion with Swift's Esther Vanhomrigh or, in the scientific world, as attached to a butterfly. I presume the word is a mere Latinization of Van Esther.

What is the origin of it ? Who, in fact first used it or invented it ? TINTIN.

ISABELLA WICKLIFFE. Sir Paul Gore married Isabella, daughter of Francis Wick liffe, niece of Thomas, Earl of Strafford In what way was she his niece ?

H. S. VADE-WALPOLE.

101, Lexham Gardens, W.

FOUB WINDS, A FAIBY STORY. Can some one tell me where to find a fairy tale about the four winds ? The old mother has a sack for each wind, into which she ties him down after his work is done. It is quite a short story, and sounds like Hans Andersen ; but I have failed to find it in any collection of his stories. ALIPOBE.

GBINLING GIBBONS. A few days ago I saw in some paper or review an account of Grinling Gibbons, containing, among other things, the statement that his true name was Gibbon. If any of your readers happened to see the passage, I should be very grateful for the reference. WOODCABVEB.

BEHEADING IN GEBMANY. In ' Robin- son Crusoe ' Friday is described as having cut off a savage's head at one blow, " as cleverly, no executioner in Germany could have done it better." Why " in Ger- many n ? Were German executioners re- nowned for their skill in Defoe's time ? I am told that beheading with a sw r ord still continues in Austria and in Germany, but I should like to have this statement cor- roborated. A. C. L.

IBISH PBIESTS BANISHED TO BABBADOS.

A friend writes to me :

" More than twenty years ago I read two interest- ing articles in a magazine, the name of which I am sorry I forget, giving details of the deportation by Cromwell of priests to Barbados. The Protector's orders were that they should be treated more harshly than the negro slaves, in fact, worked to death ; and I believe they were."

Can any reader supply the name of the magazine ? Q

" THE NEMESIS OF WOBDS." Is this phrase a well-known one ? and if so, will some reader of -' N. & Q. ? refer me to any instance of it ? It is not given in the ' N.E.D.* I notice it and this, I believe, is the first time I have seen it in print as the head- line to an article in The Spectator for 29 January, p. 171. But it is the title of a paper I read in December, 1897, to the University Graduates' Club ; and as I may some day publish it, I do not want to be then accused of plagiarism. I thought it was my own. Lucis.

' DEIL STICK THE MINISTEB.' Can any one give the words or air of this song ? It is mentioned in ' The Heart of Mid- lothian,' chap. viii.

There is also a reference to it in Fountain- hall's ' Historical Notices,' p. 442 :

5 June, 1683. " One is con veined for having reviled the Minister in causing the piper play ' The Deill stick the Minister.' Sundry fiddlers were there present as witnesses to declare it was the name of ane spring."

G. W. C.

AUTHOBS OP QUOTATIONS WANTED. Where can the following lines be found? The young and the beautiful, why do they die With the flower on their cheek, and the beam in

their eye ?

The question was asked in a very old number of L ' Intermediaire des Chercheurs et Curieux. t was never answered. L. P,

Vincennes.

Prof. Tyrrell, in his recent * Essays in Greek Literature ' (p. 198) quotes a transla- iion by Benjamin Hall Kennedy of some ines of Cotton's :

Justitia gaudere Deum sic collige ; poenas Qui meruere timent, qui timuere luunt.

D rof. Tyrrell says he cannot remember the riginal. Can any one supply it ?

LAWBENCE PHILLIPS. Theological College, Lichfield.

In the old years past away, The years that long are dead, Did you hear ? &c.

O. B.

REV. JOHN JENKINSON. I should be glad to know the genealogy, &c., of John enkinson, Rector of St. John Zachary n the first half of the sixteenth century. A P.C.C. will of 1523, made by a parishioner, s stated in the registered copy to have been written by John " Genys," clerk, then rector, f course the same.

WILLIAM McMuBBAY.