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NOTES AND QUERIES. [ii s. vi. NOV. 9, 1912.

W. WILLIS MOSELEY. In the middle of last century Dr. W. Willis Moseley, M.A., LL.D., &c., cured all kinds of insanity and nervous diseases, " as certainly as water relieves thirst." His address was Char- lotte Street, Bloomsbury. Can any one give information as to his successor or the nature of his remedies ? S. D.

B. CROZIEK. He cannot be the man men- tioned in your notice ante, p. 340, for in 1796 he painted a water-colour drawing of the Skerton Bridge over the Biver Lune in Lancaster. The drawing has just been given to the Corporation. The bridge was erected in 1788. I should be glad of in- formation about him.

T. CANN HUGHES,

Lancaster. Town Clerk.

A " DISH " OF TEA. Was the " dish " a kind of saucer ? If so, was it mounted on a foot ? Where can such a dish be seen ?

E. O. [See 10 S. xii. 287, 377, 436.]

SECBET SERVICE. I should be much obliged for any information or illustrative quotations which will throw light on the following entries in the overseers' accounts for Walton-on-the-Hill, Surrey.

It is quite clear that the word " Sec " can- not be read see oujsea.

1794-5. Paid for a Man for the Sec

Service .. .. .. ..860

1814, April. Paid for Bread Given to the

Poor Informing Money. . ..420

1829, March 10. Paid E. D. Bennett

association Money. . . . ..6146

W. P. D. STEBBING.

PAMPELLONNE. It is stated that this man had a school of great celebrity at Wandsworth. Further particulars are de- sired, both of the master and of the school.

LlBBAKIAN. Public Library, Wandsworth.

BIOGRAPHICAL INFORMATION WANTED. 1. WILLIAM INCE was appointed Bector oJ Patney, Wilts, in 1708. When did he die ? Did he hold any other preferments ?

2. ALEXANDER INGLIS graduated LL.B at Cambridge from Trinity Hall in 1726 Any information about his subsequent career is desired.

3. WILLIAM JAMES was the Public Orator at Oxford University 1601 to 1604. When did he become a student of Christ Church ? When did he die, and where was he buried ? G. F. B. B.

" NTTLLA NON DON AND A LATJRU." Whence does this quotation come ? It is not given in King's ' Classical and Foreign Quotations.'

BLADTJD.

PAGAN CUSTOMS. (11 S. vi. 250,351.)

Hymns. Zedler's ' Lexicon ' under ' lana ' " Kalo,'Iana Novella," as a cry uttered by the priest (sic) in Borne, when proclaiming in each month on what day of the month the Nones were to fall. Zedler gives no reference, but he is evidently founding him- self on Macrobius, ' Sat.,' I. xv. 10, and Varro, ' Ling. Lat.,' vi. 27. Now the pas- sage of Macrobius does not contain " lana Novella," or anything like it ; and in the passage in Varro the reading " Novella " is disapproved by Forcellini, who reads " luno Covella " ; the same is the reading of Goetz and Schoell, and of Wissowa ; and Dr. Beid, referring to the same passage, states that on the Kalends a pontifex minor used to announce

" the time at which the Nonae would arrive. He used a kind of sing-song addressed to Juno : ' dies te quinque calo, luno Couella,' or : ' septem dies te calo, luno Couella ' (Juno, Queen of the sky)."

I submit, therefore, that the idea of a goddess Jana Novella, or of a hymn addressed to her, is without foundation ; and that the only " hymn," more properly " chant," was that which, according to Forcellini and the other above authorities, was addressed by a pontifex minor to Juno on the 1st of each month. See Forcellini's ' Lexicon, Onomasticon,' ' Covella ' ; Varro, ' Ling. Lat.,' vi. 27, ed. Goetz and Schoell, 1889 ; Wissowa, ' Beligion und Kultus der Bomer,' ii. 1, p. 116 ; Dr. Beid in the Cambridge ' Companion to Latin Studies,' ch. iii. 1, 111,

p. 95. WlTHERNAM.

Priestly Colleges. See the third volume of Marquardt's ' Bomische Staatsverwal- tung,' and the articles in Smith's ' Dictionary of Greek and Boman Antiquities ' on ' Collegium,' ' Augur,' ' Epulones,' ' Ponti- fex,' ' Decemviri sacris faciundis,' &c.

Hymns. Only scanty relics of pagan Latin hymns and religious formulae have come down to us. The ' Carmen Fratrum Arvalium ' and remains of the ' Carmen