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. 5. 1850.] without any printed title, date, place, or publisher's name; but in the elaborately engraved frontis- piece, which serves as a title, is inserted " Atlas Novus, sive Tabulae Geographicae, totius Orbis fa- ciem, partes, imperio, regna et provincias exhi- bentes, exactissiina cura juxta recentissimas ob- servationes aeri incisae et venuin expositae a Matthaeo Scutter, Sac. Caes.Majest. Geogr. Augustae Vindeli- corum." It contains 385 maps, plans of cities, forti- fications, views of buildings, costumes, and genealo- gical tables, chronological notices of popes, kings, &c., carefully coloured ; and apparently published after 1744. It is, in every point of view, a most curious and valuable publication ; and I am sur- prised to find no notice of it in any book to which I have referred. W. B. D. D. TURMJULL. Miss Warneford and Mr. Cresswcll. In the reign of Queen Anne or George I. there was living in or about Solro Square a lady of considerable fortune, a Miss Warneford ; a Mr. Cresswell sought to make her his wife. A pamphlet was published at the time giving a full account of the affair. Can any gentleman favour me with the correct title and date of it ? B. Beaufoys Ringers True Guide. A tract was published in 1804 (12mo. p. 24.), entitled The Ringers' True Guide, by S. Beaufoy. Does any reader possess a copy or know where one may be seen, or who was the publisher ? B. Hordys Gold Florens Kilkenny. In that most curious volume, published by the Camden Society in 1843, viz., Proceedings against Dame Alice Kyteler, prosecuted for Sorcery in 1324, by Richard de Ledrede, Bishop of Ossory, p. 14., the bishop appears in court before Arnold Le Poer, Seneschal of Kilkenny, with the consecrated host in his hands, whereon the seneschal irreverently commands him to be placed at the bar, " cum suo hordys quern port at in manibus." I have not been able to find the word hordys in any dictionary or glossary to which I have access. Can you, or any of your correspondents, help me with an expla- nation of the word? The editor, Mr. Wright, takes no notice of it. At p. 29. of the same work florens of gold are mentioned. Query, was such a coin in circulation in England or Ireland about 1324? Mr. Wright says, there can be no doubt that this is a contemporary narrative of the ull'iir. Query, if so, why does the writer term Kilkenny a city, "in civitate Kilkenniac," page 1.? Kilkenny was not raisi-d to the dignity of a city till the reign of James I., 1609. In all authentic documents previous to that date the style "Villa Kilkenniae" is used. J. G. Germain* Lij,s. Can any of your correspond- ents state the origin of the proverb, "As just as -' lips"? "it occurs in Culfhill's Answer to Martiall, p. 345. ed. Parker Soc. In the Sermons and Remains of Bishop Latimer, published by the same society (p. 425.), this phrase is thus ex- tended : "Even as just as Germain's lips, which came not together by nine mile, ut vulgo dicunt." Is it possible that the following words of Bishop Barlow can be a various reading or corruption of the saying ? " Now heere the Censurer makes an Almaine leape, skipping 3 whole pages together." Ansicer to a Catholihe Englishman, p. 231., Lond. 1609. R. G. [Ben Jonson, in his Devil is an Ass, speaks of " And take his Almain-leap into a custard ; " which is explained by the commentators as a " dancing leap." " Germain's lips " is, as it seems to us, a phrase quite unconnected with it.] Sir Walter de Bitton. Sir Walter de Bitton is said by Burke in his Commoners, vol. iv. p. 120., to have been knighted by Henry III. I shall be much obliged to any gentleman who may be able to give a reference to authority for such a fact, or to any notices respecting the said Sir Walter. The date of his death is given 1227. B. A Fool or a Physician. Can any of your readers inform me who first had the hardihood to enun- ciate, as his own, the proposition, that " After the age of thirty, a man is either a fool or a physician ?" I believe that we owe that saying, as well as the beautiful, though now sadly hackneyed, metaphor of "the parasitical adoration of the rising, and contempt of the setting sun," the one to the shrewd observation, the other to the fancy, of the same mind that of the imperial Macchiavel, Ti- berius "Let us render unto Caesar the things that are Caesar's." See Tacit. Ann. 6. 46. Temple, Dec. 24. 1849. C. FORBES. Caerphili Castle The use of the Samolus and Selago by the Druids. Can any Welsh scholar inform me of the derivation of the name of Caer- phili Castle, near Cardiff? This is the Welsh spelling of it; in English it is generally spelt Caerphilly. I have seen a derivation of it from Caer-phuli, the Castle of Haste; but is there such a word as phiili, or rather pull, in Welsh? Cliffe, in his Book of South Wales, follows a Mr. Clarke, in deriving it from Caer-Pwll, the Castle of the Pool; but this does not seem satisfactory. Is any thing known of the early history of this castle? Mr. ClifTe says, "Daines Barrington, in an essay published seventy or eighty years ago, attributed the erection of the present structure to Edward I. merely because it had been recorded that that monarch had passed through South Wales; luit there is no reason to doubt, after an examination of authorities, that Gilbert de Clare, the last but one of that name, was the founder,