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 us. vi. AUG. 3, 1912.] NOTES AND QUERIES.

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" STEPHANI RODERICI CASTRENSIS Lvsi-

TANT ANN. -ETAT. LXXVIII." (11 S. vi. 10).

In the ninth volume of the ' Nouvelle Biographic Generale ' a few biographical details may be found, at col. 124, of " Castro (Etienne-Rodriguez De)," a Portuguese physician, who was born about 1559, and died in 1637, aged 78. De Castro was the author of numerous works, many of which are in the Brit. Mus. Library, catalogued under " Rodrigues de Castro <(Estevam). ; ' This De Castro is not to be confounded with the " Castro (Roderic ou Rodriguez) " at col. 133, who was a Sephardic Jew and a physician of some eminence. He died at Hamburg in January, 1627. MR. I. SOLOMONS would probably find in the works of Charas and De Castro the portraits of which he has copies. A. T. WV

AUTHOR OF QUOTATION WANTED (US. vi. 11).

Ah ! the good saint little knew What that wily sex can do

,re the last two lines of the first stanza of

sixth poem in the fourth number of Moore's
 * By that Lake whose Gloomy Shore,' the

" The good saint " is, of course, St. Kevin.
 * Irish Melodies,' published November, 1811.

JOHN R. MAGRATH. Queen's College, Oxford.

[Many thanks to numerous other correspondents who have sent replies to this query.]

DISEASES FROM PLANTS (11 S. iv. 530 ; v. 56, 158, 257, 398, 515). Country-folk believe that the wild red poppy of the corn- fields will produce sickness if a person lies down in the corn where the poppy is plentiful. A very common name for the poppy is " headache," this being the least of the probable bad results of going to sleep amongst growing poppies.

THOS. RATCLIFFE.

Worksop.

SIR THOMAS BROWNE : QUOTATION FROM PTOLEMY (11 S. vi. 30). See Book V. chap. xvi. of Ptolemy's Ma#i//iartfci) ~iWais (Almagest), where it is demonstrated that the bulk of the sun is just about 170 times that of the earth. EDWARD BENSLY.

CANONGATE EDINBURGH CHURCH REGIS- TERS (11 S. vi. 50). Referring to this inquiry, I beg to inform you that the Scottish Record Society is at present in course of publishing the Register of Marriages for the Canongate Parish, Edinburgh.

JOHN MACGREGOR,

Hon. Treasurer. -3, Coates Crescent, Edinburgh.

ARMS ON A SEAL (11 S. vi. 49). The arms are those of the old East India Company. In former days, when it was customary to seal all letters with wax, the principal officials of the Company received seals for that purpose. I still possess the seal that belonged to my father between eighty and ninety years ago. The motto should read, " Auspicio regis senatusque Angliae."

W. F. PRIDEAUX.

UMBRELLA (10 S. vii. 267 ; viii. 16, 94, 328). Compare also Swift, ' A City Shower ' : The tucked-up semstress walks with hasty strides, While streams roll down her oiled umbrella sides.

Jonas Hanway's crime appears to have been that he publicly carried an article which hitherto had been regarded as appro- priate only to womenfolk.

JOHN B. WAINEWRIGHT.

'THE CHAMBER OVER THE GATE' (11 S. v. 509). This is Longfellow's. It may be seen in W. G. Harder 's ' Treasury of American Sacred Song,' published by the Oxford University Press ; or in W. Learned's ' Treasury of American Verse,' published by Stokes, prices 12s. 6rf. and 4s. 6d. respec- tively. C. B. S. Liverpool. [MR. C. W. FIREBRACE also thanked for reply.]

EPITAPHIANA (US. v. 504). The Tipper epitaph at Xewhaven was composed by Thomas Clio Rickman of Lewes. In his diary Moore records Lamb's admiration of the couplet,

He played through life a varied comic part, Ana knew immortal Hudibras by heart ;

but Moore quotes it wrongly.

E. V. LUCAS. Kingston, Lewes.

XICOLAUS MYSTICUS AND COSMAS ATTICUS (11 S. v. 408). Cosmas Atticus was Patri- arch of Constantinople from April, 1146, to February, 1147. He was deposed because he showed favour to an adherent of the heresy of the Bogomils. See Krumbacher, ' Geschichte der Byzantinischen Literatur,' 2nd ed., pp. 86 and 1149, and Index : and the ' Catholic Encyclopedia ' (New York), article ' Bogomili.' LOWATEB.

BRODRIBB (11 S. v. 71, 251,450; vi.30). One or two small errors need correction at v. 253. W. A. Brodribb (not " Broad-" ) was a very well-known colonist in N.S. Wales and Victoria. He published ' Recollections of an Australian Squatter,' Sydney, 1883.