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202 their writings any record of the indignation sup- posed to have been expressed by Jonson and Dennis at the favour shown by majesty to their less worthy rivals. P- C. S. S. Discovery of the Circulation of the Blood. There is a passage in Longinus (ch. xxii.), familiar perhaps to some of the readers of the " NOTES AND QUERIES," which indicates that the fact of the circulation of the blood was well established in the days of Plato. The father of critics, to exemplify, and illustrate the use and value of trope m writing, has garbled from the Timaeus, a number of sentences descriptive of the anatomy of the human body, where the circulation of the blood is pointed at in terms singularly graphic. The exact extent of professional knowledge arrived at in the time of the great philosopher is by no means clearly defined : he speaks of the fact, however, not with a view to prove what was contested or chimerical, but avails himself of it to figure out the surpassing wisdom of the gods in constructing the human frame. Perhaps some of the readers of the " NOTES," who are more thoroughly conversant with the subject, may think it worth while to inquire how much was known on that subject before Harvey wrote his Exercitationes Anatomica. The Procemium of that author seems hardly suffi- cient to satisfy the desire of every reader, who has looked with some care to the passage in Longinus to which I have taken the liberty of calling public attention. A. W. Brighton. The Meaning of " Pallace" A lease granted by the corporation of Totness in Devon, in the year 1703, demises premises by this description : " All that cellar and the chambers over the same, and the little pallace and landing-place adjoining to the river Dart." Can your readers give an explanation of the term " pallace ? " J. R. ROGERS. Did Oliver Cromwell write " The New Star of the North f" Perhaps some of your numerous correspondents, who have perused a curious letter of Count de Tessins, in Clements' BiUiotheque Curieuse, tome ix. p. 331., can inform me what credit, or if any, is due to the Count's conjecture, that Oliver Cromwell was the author of the book entitled The New Star of the North, shining upon the victorious King of Sweden, &c. 4to. London, 1632. J. M Oxford. Meaning of Savegard and Russells. In the will of Elizabeth Coddington, lady of the manor of Ixworth, 1571, mention is made of "the rec russells quilt," of " a felde bed," and of " my cloke and saoegard offreseadon" 1 shall be obliged by any description of the garment known as the save- gurd, and of the russells quilt. BURIENSIS Pandoxare. Having met with an old volume containing the entire household expenses, as well as in some degree a diary, kept by a country gen- tleman during the reigns of James II., William and Mary, and Anne, I observed that he has made use of a species of hieroglyphics, to facilitate his reference to his book, as it contained all the entries of all kinds, in chronological order. For instance, where mention is made of money spent on behalf of one person in his house, he puts at the side of the page a clay pipe, rudely drawn ; an entrjr of the payment of wages to another servant has a jug of ale ; another a quill pen ; another a couple of brooms, as the housemaid ; a fiddle for the dancing master for his daughter ; payment made to the sexton or parish-clerk has a representation of the village church by its side, and the window-tax a small lattice-window ; and on the days that they brewed, a small barrel is drawn by the side of the date. And the chief object of my letter is with respect to this last ; a barrel is often drawn, and by its side the words, primb relinitus, and the date, naturally meaning the day it was tapped; and then shortly after comes another barrel, and to it is written the word Pandox., or sometimes in full Pandoxavimus ; in some places at the end of the year there is a list to this effect : " (1705.) Memoranda. 29. Mar. Pandox 6 . . Apr. relinit. 28. Apr. relinit. . May. Pandox 6 . 17. May. relinit. 31. May. relinit. . lun. Pandox 6 . and at the top of the list the figure of a barrel. should be glad if any of the readers of your paper could tell me the meaning of the word Pan- doxare? Whatever it was, it took place about once a month. H. B. [Ducange explains Pandoxare " Cauponam exercere, agere ; cerevisiam venum exponere atque adeo confi- cere."] Lord Bacon's Metrical Version of the Psalms. In old Izaak Walton's Life of George Herbert, I find the following passage : " He (i. e. Lord Bacon) thought him so worthy o f his friendship, that having translated many of the Prophet David's Psalms into English verse, he made George Herbert his patron, by a public dedication of them to him, as the best judge of divine poetry." Can any one of your numerous readers inform me if these " Metricals" are known ? if so, it will greatly oblige A CORNISHMAN. Festival of St. Michael and All Angels. Can any of your readers inform me why double second