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his black art over that hair, when the mare from, whose tail the hostess had twitched it broke open the stable door, and rushed into his apartment quite of unawares. And let him fly in this or that direction as he would, she did pursue him with so frenzied gallops that he missed his footing and fell down in a deep well. After investigations he was found to be a notorious malefactor who had dis- honoured a great number of women by working enchantments with their hairs.

KUMAGUSU MlNAKATA.

WE must request correspondents desiring in- formation on family matters of only private interest to affix their names and addresses to their queries, in order that answers may be sent to them direct.

SIGNOB ANTONIO CACCIA. I have a draw- ing of this gentleman by Isaac F. Bird, of Exeter. There is a note on it to the effect that Signor Caccia married the Hon. Miss Lamb, of Dawlish, the niece of Lord Mel- bourne. Can any reader of N. & Q.' give me particulars of Signor Caccia when he died, and if he left any issue ?

JOHN LANE.

The Bodley Head, Vigo Street, W.

ACILIUS. Who was the Acilius to whom the following lines are ascribed in the article on Epigrams in ' The Encyclo- paedia Britannica ' ?

O Bruscus, cease pur aching ears to vex With thy loud railings at the softer sex ! No accusation worse than this could be That once a woman did give birth to thee.

CHAKLES LLEWELYN DAVIES. 14, Barton Street, Westminster, S.W.

EGYPTIAN DEITY. Among the monstrous shapes of ancient Egyptian deities was there a deity represented under the form of a combination of the human figure with that of a stork or a stork-like bird ? I should be glad to know, if there is any such representa- tion, where a picture of the kind may be found. JOHN WILLCOCK.

Lerwick.

[We think our correspondent must have in mind Thoth, who has the head of an ibis. He was the god of letters and the scribe of the gods. Budge's of him.]
 * Gods of the Egyptians ' contains many illustrations

' JUSTICE,' BY SIB JOSHUA REYNOLDS. Where is this painting of a full-length female figure now located ? A plate was draw^n by Josiah Boydell, and published by John Boydell in Cheapside.

J. LANDFEAB LUCAS.

" HOMO BULLA." A cartellino upon the wall bearing the words " Homo Bulla " appears in pictures of the Netherlandish School representing St. Jerome within a room in contemplation, or engaged on his version of the Scriptures. These pictures are variously attributed to Lucas van Leyden, Quentin Matsys,and Marinus van Roemers- wael. One is in the possession of the Duke of Fife, another in that of the Maharaja Gaekwar of Baroda, and theie are others. T should be grateful for a detailed explanation of the words, which, in general terms, explain themselves. M. H. S.

BUCKHOBN, THE PBIZEFIGHTEB. When

did this celebrity, whose real name is said to have been John Smith, die ? If the account of him in The European Magazine, xlvi. 249-54, is to be trusted, the event occurred before the year 1804.

HOBACE BLEACKLEY.

RlCHABD HUMPHBIES, PBIZEFIGHTEB.

What is the date of the death of Richard Humphries or Humphrey, the prizefighter, whose famous battle with Daniel Mendoza took place on 9 Jan., 1788 ? According to his biographers, he lived for many years after his retirement in 1790.

HOBACE BLEACKLEY.

BlOGBAPHICAL INFOBMATION WANTED. 1

should be glad to learn any information about the following Wards or Wardes who were educated at Westminster School : (1) Isaac Ward, a native of Kent, who graduated B.A. at Oxford from Ch. Ch., 1572. (2) Michael Ward, who was elected head into College at Westminster, 1699, and left 1701. (3) Richard Warde, a native of Kent, who graduated M.A. at Oxford from Ch. Ch., 1570, and became Rector of Beddington, Surrey, 1578. (4) Robert Ward, a native of Middlesex, who graduated M.A. at Oxford from Ch. Ch., 1627, and is said to have died in 1631. (5) Thomas Ward, who graduated M.A. at Cambridge from Trin. Coll., 1680. (6) Thomas Ward, son of the Ven. Thomas Ward, Arch- deacon of Wilts, who graduated M.A. at Oxford from Ch. Ch., 1 Feb., 1711-12.

G. F. R. B.

FITZWILLIAM OF MAPLETHOBPE. Can any correspondent of ' N. & Q.' give me the name of the wife of Sir John FitzWilliam of Maplethcrpe and Spro thorough, who died in 1470, and whose daughter Lucia married Sir William de Ryther, of Ryther, co. York ? WM. JACKSON PIGOTT.

Manor House, Dundrum, co. Down.