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NOTES AND QUERIES. [11 s. xn. SEPT. 4, 1915.

-5 S. i. 460 ; vi. 49, 96, 197 ; 6 S. iii. 425 ; iv. 34, 397 ; x. 386, 470 ; xi. 344, 456.

Some years ago I found several holes in paper laid on the bottom shelf of an old bookcase, in which I kept bundles of pam- phlets. The holes corresponded with some worm -barrows in the wood below. Into these I poured paraffin two consecutive springs, and I believe the plague has ceased.

I have an idea that worms do not eat their way into furniture, but that they eat their wa\ out, after a long period of inactivity in the egg stage. ST. SWITHIN.

See Publishers' Circular, 3 July, 1915, p. 9 ; 10 July, p. 28 ; 24 July, p. 63.

WM. H. PEET.

ROYAL CHAPLAINS (US. xii. 119, 164). Lists during the reign of George II. will be found in the annual volumes of Chamber- layne's ' State of Great Britain.'

W. D. MACRAY.

WALTER RAGNALL (11 S. xii. 118). See

II S. v. 328; vi. 173, 291. At the last reference MR. PHILIP H. RAGENAL of

17, Clarence Drive, Harrogate, writes' : "I .am completing a family history of the Irish branch of the Ragenal family."

Assuming that the Rlue-book of Members of Parliament is to be trusted, the record of the Ragenals who were members of Parliament, given at 11 S. vi. 173 by MR. E. McC. S. HILL, is incomplete and not quite correct. According to the Rlue-

Parliaments of Ireland.

Sir Nicholas Bagnoll, Knt., of The Newry, M.P. Down County, 1585-6.

George Bagenal, of Dunleckny, Ballymone, M.P. Carlow County, 1613-15.

Beauchamp Bagenal, M.P. Enniscorthv, 1761- 1768.

Beauchamp Bagenal, M.P. Carlow County, 1768 *-76. (He was elected also for Enniscorthy, "but elected to sit for Carlow County. )

Beauchamp Bagenal, M.P. Carlow County in

-the Parliament of 1776-83, in the place of

William Bunbury deceased. The date of the

latter's death is not given, but see MR. KILL'S reply.

Beauchamp Bagenal's address is not noted."

Parliament of the United Kingdom.

Walter Bagenal, of Dunleckney, County Carlow, M.P. Carlow County, 1802-6.

Walter Bagnel, of Killedmonde, County Carlow, M.P. Carlow County, 1806-7.

Walter Bagenal (no address given), M.P. Carlow -County, 1807-12.

ROBERT PIERPOINT.

substituted for 1769.
 * In the Corrigenda of the Blue-book 1768 is

EMPLOYMENT OF WILD REASTS IN WAR- FARE (11 S. xii. 140). Prof. W. A. Merrill's edition of Lucretius, 1907, in a note on book .v. 1309, gives a reference to the ' Historia Augusta.' The full passage is as follows :

" Dehinc per Cadusios et Babylonios ingressus tumultuarie cum Parthorum satrapis manum contulit, feris etiam bestiis in hostes inmissis." ^Elius Spartianus, 'Anton. Carac.,' c. 6, s. 4.

During the South African War there was an account in the newspapers of a feat by which General de Wet, when almost surrounded, drove a herd of cattle against barbed wire and broke through with his commando. Perhaps some one better versed

Novis annalibus atque recenti Historia could say whether this was fact or journalism.

Did not Drake or one of the buccaneers make use of wild cattle in an expedition on the Spanish Main ? As regards the employ- ment of carnivorae, since opposing forces with a wide front, moving across wild country, would probably have put up big game which would rush towards one side or the other, might not a legend have arisen in some cases that lions, &c., had been deliberately em- ployed ? EDWARD RENSLY.

University College, Aberystwyth.

ACILIUS (11 S. xii. 85). The lines are a translation of

Quid tot oriminibus rabiosae fulmine linguae

Femineum incessis, Brusce proterve, secus? Desirie clamorem, nam quo eonvicia tanta?

Unum pro cunctis sat tibi criminibus. Uno hoc nil gravius, quo uno simul oninia dices : Te talem genitrix femina quod tulerit.

" Acilius " in ' The Encyclopaedia Rritan- nica ' is an error. The author of the Latin epigram is the German scholar known as Valens Acidalius (1567-95), still remembered for his work on Latin authors, above all Plautus. He encountered some obloquy because of the supposition that he w r as the author of a tract that denied women to be rational beings (' Mulieres non esse homines'). See Rayle's 'Diet.' under ' Acidalius ' and ' Gediccus.'
 * Delitise Poetarum Germanorum,' i. 137-

EDWARD RENSLY.

DATE OF COMET (11 S. xii. 101, 148). Reing qualified (unfortunately) to remember the comets of 1858 and 1882 (but was it not 1881 ?), I suggest that the latter was not such as to provoke comparisons with the 1811 apparition. At its best (as seen in this country) it was a poor affair a mere farthing squib. My recollection of Donati's