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LAWYERS IN LITERATURE. I should like to know if anything has been written on this subject, excluding the Dickens lawyers, who have been dealt with fairly thoroughly. I should be obliged if any reader would suggest examples of legal characters in English literature. H. V. B.

1. PHARAOH'S LEAN KINE. Has this subject ever been treated by any painter ?

2. DEVOTIONS ON HORSEBACK. Who was the Hebrew general who was accus- tomed to say his prayers on horseback ?

. F. BOURGEOIS.

RICHARD HENRY WOOD, F.S. A. Harrison Ainsworth dedicated his ' Beau Nash ' to a man of this name, of Rugby. Is this Mr. Wood a descendant of the celebrated archi- tect Wood mentioned in the book, author of 4 A Description of Bath ' ? F. R. SMITH.

" THE HINDMOST WHEEL OF THE CART." -

The Italians have a way of alluding to a person who lags behind as " 1' ultima ruota del carro." Can the use of this simile bo traced far back ? It is not mentioned in 1 Chi 1' ha detto ? ' L. A. DUKE.

Hornsey.

EPITAPH : CHRISTCHURCH, HAMPSHIRE. What is the interpretation of the follow- ing ?

We were not slayne but raysd

Raysd not to life But to be buried twice

By men of strife. What rest could the living have

When dead had none Agree amongst you

Here we ten are one. Hen: Rogers, Died Aprill 17, 1641.

JOHN B. WAINEWRIOHT.

"WHAT YOU DON'T KNOW WON'T HURT YOU." I have heard this expression from sever 1 persons. Is it commonly known ? Probably some one will say that it is an Americanism. THOS. RATCLIFFE.

THE CALENDAR. An innumerable variety of calendars and almanacs are now printed year by year in various forms of diaries, &c. Whence do the several printers and pub- lishers obtain their " copy " ? i.e., who works out one or more years beforehand the actual dates of festival and fast, the times of the moon and the sun rising, setting, and of the changes of the moon ?

I assume there is some standard basis to which each publisher adds the matters which best suit his own class of customers.

W. S. B. H.

SIR GREGORY NORTON, THE REGI- CIDE, AND HIS SON SIR HENRY.

(1 S. ii. 216, 251 ; 6 S. xii. 187 ; 7 S. viii. 324, 394 ; 10 S. vii. 168, 330, 376, 416 ; 11 S. x. 12, 61, 91, 131.)

TOWARDS the end of 1660 we find Lady Mabella, wife of Sir Henry Norton, Bart., petitioning the King for

" restoration of 300Z. a year, recovered by her husband, at expense of her portion of 2,0001., out of the estate of his father, Sir Gregory Norton, who had his hands died in the blood of the late King, and disinherited her husband because he abhorred such deeds. Her own father Sir Richard Norton bart and her late brother Sir John Norton of Hampshire bart suffered for the late King in the Wars."

This petition was sent to Treasurer Southampton, who on 18 Oct., 1661, reported as follows :

Treasury (Miscellaneous Warrants), 51/7.

Lady Mabella Norton wife to Sir Henry Norton, bart. That this pet r is daughter of S r Richard Norton Kt & Baront who manifested his loyalty by Imprisonm* & sufferings during his life, and is sister to S r John Norton of Hampsh r a sufferer likewise That the pet r having 2,0001. portion married S r Henry Norton sonn of S r Gregory who had his hands in the blood of his Soveraigne, w ch horrid Act the pet re husband abhorred, in so much that his father disinherited him, whereby hee was forced to contract great debts for his subsistence. That the pet husband w th the expence of her pore 'on in divers suits recovered pt of his Estate to the value of 300Z. p. ann w ch is setled upon the pet r for her ioynture. And praies his Mat to restore what remaines it being all the support & future subsistence of her husband.

Referred 20 July 1661 by Do r Mason from the King to my Lord Tre'r to give such ord r therein as his Lordsp. shall thinke meete", and to certify his Ma tie what he conceives fit to bee done therein.

May it pleane yo r Ma tie

Though this petic'on bee referred singly to myself, yet upon a generall ord r concerning buisness of this nature, I considered it in the company of my Lord Chancello r, Lord Chamber- lain, and Lord Ashby. And wee all having weighed the certificat of M r Sollicitor Generall who conceives in extremity of Law because the Lands (wch are valued at 3001. p. ann) were vested in the father Sr Gregory Norton, yo r Maty by the Act of Parliament may have a right to them, yet because they were recovered by the son with the fortune of his wife and that hee him- self was disinherited of them by his father in respect of his constant loyalty to the Crowne (wch loyalty and disinherison for that cause were likewise certified to us by many psons of quality)