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CHARLES I. : ' BIBLIA AUREA ' (11 S. rv 70). The volume to which POURQTJOI PAS refers is more accurately described by its full title ' Directorium Biblie Aureum.' It is also entitled ' Repertorium ' and ' Repor- tatorium.' Its author was Antonius Rampegollis " de Senis ordinis .fratrum heremitarum Sancti Augustini." The earliest dated edition was printed by Johann Zainer at Ulm in 1475, and more than a dozen editions appeared during the fifteenth century. Some of these are by no means rarities.

The book is a kind of dictionary oJ Biblical quotations. It is divided into 138 chapters ; each of them deals with a subject or group of subjects, and contains a mass of texts from the Bible which are relevant Perhaps ch. cviii., entitled ' De prelatis el principibus bonis,' may have been of special interest to Charles I.

The popularity of the book was probably due to its obvious utility to preachers. CHARLES THOMAS-STANFORD, F.S.A.

Preston Manor, Brighton.

PRINCESS VICTORIA'S VISIT TO THE MAR- QUIS OF ANGLESEY (11 S. iv. 67). Her late Majesty Queen Victoria spent a couple of months as the guest of the Marquis of Angle- sey in August and September, 1832. The Princess, as she then was, was accompanied by her mother the Duchess of Kent. Accord- ing to Edward Parry's ' Royal Visits and Progress to Wales,' they made a stay of some months at Plas Newydd, on the bank of the Menai in Anglesea, the marine resi- dence of the Marquis of Anglesey. After a loyal reception at .Shrewsbury, they tra- velled via Oswestry to Wynnstay Park, the seat of Sir Watkin Williams Wynn, Bt., M.P., where they spent Sunday. Although most of the time they were at Plas Newydd, they stayed for some days at " The Bulkley Arms Hotel," Beaumaris, whence they made numerous excursions in Snowdonia. They also visited Carnarvon Castle, the scene of the recent investiture of the Prince of Wales. Princess Victoria was escorted up the spiral steps to the top of the Eagle Tower, and visited the apartment in which, according to tradition, Edward II. was born. It is worthy of mention that the Prince, King George, and Queen Mary entered and left the castle through the Eagle Tower.

During her visit the Princess Victoria attended an Eisteddfod at Beaumaris and distributed a number of prizes.

D. M. R. [Further reply next week.]

BATTLE ON THE WEY : CARPENTER,. CRESSINGHAM, AND ROWE FAMILIES (US. iv.. 24, 77.) What Fordun has to say of Cres- singham may be easily stated. In the bello pontis de Strivelyn,' and it is intro- duced with the statement that the activities of William Wallace in Scotland proved intolerable to his Majesty of England. Then the narrative proceeds thus :
 * Gesta Annalia ; section xcix. is headed ' De

" Qui [rex Anglise, videlicet], arduis negotiis- alibi niultipliciter intentus, suum thesaurarium, nomine Hugonem de Clissinghame, cum magna potentia, ad reprimendam ipsius Willelmi auda- ciam, et regnum Scocise sibi subjiciendum r destinavit. Audito ergo hujus viri adyentu, praedictus Willelmus, tune circa obsessionem Anglorum in castro de Dunde existentium occu- patus, statim, commissa cura et diligentia ob- sessionis castri ejusdem Villas burgensibus, sub- poena amissionis vitae et membrorum, cum exercitu sub omni festinatione versus Strivelyn- eidem Hugoni obvius processit, et, bello commisso apud pontem de Forth juxta Striyelyne, iii idusr Septembris, idem Hugo de Clissinghame inter- fectus est, et cunctus ejus exercitus in fugam conversus, aliis ex ipsis gladiis jugulatis, aliis captis, aliis aquis submersis, sed, cunctis Dei virtute superatis, praedictus Willelmus cum laude- non modica felici potitus est victoria."

There is nothing here to shed light, except inferentially, on the Treasurer's character and his personal history, even his name being inaccurately given. The writer's con- cern was with the general's hapless venture, and this he impressively delineates in his- characteristic fashion. THOMAS BAYNE.

" CASTLES IN SPAIN " : " CASTLE IN THE AIR" (11 S. iv. 66). The phrase "in nubibus," applied to things invisible and intangible, must be due to somebody who was familiar with the Vulgate Psalms : e.g., Ixvii. 35, " magnificentia ejus et virtus ejus in nubibus," A.V. Ixviii. 34. It is used n ' Les Termes de la Ley,' written by John Rastell, 1527, and translated by William Rastell, 1567, wherein a certain remainder is stated to be in abeyance " and as we say n the clouds," " come nous dicimus in ^uUbus" ed. 1667, p. 6.

" Castles in Spain " occurs in George Herbert's ' Jacula Prudentum,' printed first n 1640. W. C. B.

AUTHORS OF QUOTATIONS WANTED (US, ii. 468). M. M.'s fifth quotation, And now a poet's gratitude you see ; Grant him two favours, and he '11 ask for three,.

was rightly attributed by Cowper to Dr^ Young. It is the second couplet of Young's Universal Passion,' Satire III., addressed x> Bubb Dodington. EDWARD BENSLY.