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. 2. 1850.] Antony Alsop. Will any of your correspondents kindly tell me who Antony Alsop was? A thin 4t. volume of Latin Odes was published in 1753, with the following title: " Antonii Alsopi ^Jdis Christi olim Alumni Odaruiu Libri Duo," Lon- dini, 1753. They are extremely elegant, and de- serving the attention of all lovers of Latin poetry. I have also another volume, " Latin and English Pooms, by a Gentleman of Trinity College, Oxford," 4to. London, 1738. In this latter volume, with but two or three exceptions, the poems are very obscene, yet I find one or two of Alsop's odes in it. Could any of your readers tell me if both volumes are by the same author ? Was Alsop at Trinity College and subsequently a student of Christ Church? R. H. Derivations of " Calamity" and " Zero ;" and meaning of " Prutenicce" Will some of your cor- respondents give the derivations of Calamity and Zero ; also the meaning of the word Prutenicae, used by Erasmus Rheinholt, in his astronomical work on the Motions of the Heavenly Bodies f F. S. MABTIN. Jews-Harp. What is the origin of the term Jew's-Harp, applied to a well-known musical toy ? MELANION. Sir G. WyatteiUe. 3. P. would be glad to be informed in what year Sir G. Wyattville was knighted ? Sparse. As I am "less an antique Roman than a Dane," I wish to know what authority there is for the use of this word, which is to be found in a leading article of The Times, January 8th, 1850? "A sparse and hardy race of horsemen." I should like to see this among the Queries, but I send it as a protest. " Hostis et Peregrinus unus et idem." C. FORBES. The word " Peruse." I find the word Peruse employed as a substantive, and apparently as equivalent to Examination, in the following part of a sentence in the martyr Fryth's works, Russell's ed., p. 407. : " He would have been full sore ashamed so to have overseen himself at Oxford, at a peruse." Can any of your correspondents cite a corre- sponding instance of its use, or say whether it is still retained at Oxford as the name of any aca- demic exercise ? 11. V. French Maxim. Who is the author of the fol- lowing French saying? " L'hypocrisie est un hommage que le vice rend a la vertu." U. V. Ave Trici and Gheeze Ysenoudi. If " S. W. SINGKU" can ir'ive information as to what convent, English or foreign, the sisters Ave Trici and Gheeze Ysenoudi, mentioned in his note on Otloh, state themselves (or are assumed) to have be- longed, he will much oblige, by doing so, H. L. B. A Latin Verse. Every body has seen the fol- lowing quotation " Tempora mutantur, nos et mutamur in illis," and every body thinks he knows from whence it is taken. Which of your readers can verify it ? E.V. Table-Book. Can any of your readers refer me to a museum containing a specimen of an ancient table-book f Douce had one, which was in Mr. Rodd's catalogue, but now sold ; and Hone also possessed one. These two, and another in the hands of a friend of mine, are the only specimens I have heard of; but they are not quite as old or as genuine as one could wish. J. O. HAULIWELL. Origin of Name "Polly." Will you allow me to ask how persons of my name came to be called Potty f MAEY. Tomlinson, of Southwingjield, Derbyshire. The parochial register of the parish of Southwing- field, in the county of Derby, contains, among its earliest entries (A. D. 1586), the name of Tomlin- son, as then resident therein. The family, to the present time, continues to reside within the parish, as respectable yeomen, and has thence extended itself to many of the neighbouring parishes, as well as to more distant localities. Blore's History of Sovtihwingjield makes no mention of such a family connected with the parish, as tenants or otherwise; nor does it appear that there is at present any family of Tomlinson bearing arms that can have been derived from any of the ancient lords of Wingfield. The wills at Lichfield, to whose registry Sout^wiugfield belongs, are in a very dilapidated and unsatisfactory state, at the time immediately preceding the commencement of the Southwingfield parochial register. Pro- bably some genealogist will be enabled to offer a suggestion as to the means which are available for tracing the genealogy of this family prior to the year 1586. * * The Phrase " To have a Button in the Room and " Sally." I have again been reading that most amusing book, The Lives of the Norths. At p. 88. of vol. i. (edit. 1826) there is a passage which has always puzzled me. Speaking of some law proceedings in which the Lady Dacres was con- cerned, Roger North says : " And herein she served herself another way, for her adversary defamed her for swearing and ur.swearing, and it was not amiss to have a button in the room." At p. 92. (post) there is another strange ex- >:i :