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that she was in Inverness at the time of the trial, so I fancy that it took place about the beginning of the nineteenth century. I should be glad to obtain a copy of Mackenzie's work. R. M. H.

Melbourne.

PENRHYN DEVIL ' AS A KNOCKEB. I recently came across a small brass knocker for a bedroom door, the design of which puzzles me a good deal. It is obviously itself a quite modern piece of work, but its appearance suggests that it is a reproduc- tion of some object of legendary interest. It consists of a grotesque crouching human figure with distorted head and cloven hoofs ; the head hangs very much sideways, and is weighed down by a thick chain passing round the neck and down the front of the body ; at the end of the chain is a human skull, which the figure holds in both hands and apparently gloats over. It bears on the base, in partially obliterated lettering, the words " Penrhyn Devil." As the knocker is quite new, this faintness of lettering must, I think, be an attempt to correspond with an original. I have failed to find any legend connected with Penrhyn bearing on the matter, and shall feel obliged if any of your readers can help me.

C. F. DOYLE.

HOMES OF FOULSHOTLAW : JANET DICK- SON. I should be very grateful for any information about the above, who are mentioned in the Historical Manuscripts Commission Report on the MSS. of Col. David Milne Home of Wedderburn Castle. No. 619 is a " Disposition by James Broun - field of Quhythous, to Mr. John Home of Foulshotlaw and Janet Dickson his spouse (for whom Abraham Home in Kennet- sydeheid is cautioner) of the third part," of certain lands of Hassington and the croft called Clerkcroft. Dated at Hassington, April 11, 1634. Alexander and George, sons of Robert Dicksone of Stainfald, are among witnesses. Foulshotlaw is in the parish of Greenlaw. W. K. BENSON.

KINGHOBN OF FiBEBUBNMiLL. Margaret Kinghorn (or Nisbet), wife of James King- horn, farmer in " Fireburnmilne," w T as served heir general to her uncle Patric Home of^ Foulshotlaw, Aug. 20, 1741 (see * Service of Heirs in, Scotland'). Fireburnmill is near Coldstream. I should be glad of further information about these Kinghorns. W. K. BENSON.

The Corner House, Chobham Road,
 * ....--- Woking, Surrey.

THE CONSTANT REFOBMATION, FLAGSHIP : ITS CHAPLAIN. Sir Wm. Laird Clowes in his ' History of the Royal Navy,' vol. ii. p. IS 4, eays that the Constant Reformation, Prince Rupert's flagship, sank off the Azores in a gale in September, 1651, Prince Rupert and a few others being saved by a small beat from the Honest Seaman ; and he quotes Warburton's * History of the Cavaliers,' vol. iii. p. 333 : " At 9 P.M. the ship, burning two firepikes to give us notice of their departure, took leave of the world." Eva Scott in * Rupert, Prince Palatine,' says (p. 248) that the chaplain of the Constant Reformation refused to leave the sinking ship, called all hands to Holy Communion, and sank with them.

Can anybody give the name of the chaplain ? In searching the Muster Books at the P. R. O. for my * List of Chaplains of the Royal Navy, 1626-1903,' I did not find it.

The Constant Reformation was one of the eleven ships carried over to the Prince of Wales by Admiral Batten in June, 1648, when he joined the Royalists in Holland.

A. G. KEALY.

Bedford.

' ANTHOLOGIA GB^CA ' : EPICTETUS. (a) Among nearly 100 epigrams translated from the * Anthologia Grseca ' "by Dr. Johnson, and published in vol. i. of his 'Works ' fed. A. Murphy, London, 1806), is one of which I cannot find the original : Cogitat aut loquitur nil vir, nil cogitat uxor ;

Felici thalamo non, puto, rixa strepit.

(b) There are also the following lines, said to be translated from Epictetus :

Me, rex deorum, tuque due, necessitas, Quo lege vestra vita me feret mea. Sequar libenter, sin reluctari velim, Fiam scelestus, nee tamen minus sequar.

Can any one kindly direct me to the original Greek of these ?

If any one would like to have the refer- ences to the 'A. G.' of the rest of Dr. Johnson's versions, I shall be pleased to give them. H. K. ST. J. S.

Ashfield, Bedford.

MAW FAMILY. In the Herald's Visitation
 * or Suffolk there is a pedigree in which it

is stated that Symon Maw of Rendlesham ^father of Leonard Maw, Bishop of Bath and Wells in 1621) was the son of John Maw of Epworth, gent. This John Maw would probably be living at Epworth about the year 1500. I should be glad of any notes concerning this family or any of its tranches. In the Yorks Inquisitions the