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Spanish Enigma. Can any reader of " N. & Q." furnish" a translation of the accompanying enigma, and throw any light on its meaning and political or religious bearing ?

It was written by Luis de Leon of Salamanca, a contemporary of Luther, whose opinions he at one time favoured.

" Al propio osunto.

" Sentaronse a una mesa probre y rica Un sano y ua enfermo y un difunto : Al enfermo el manjar le fue botica, Tagando el rauerto escote todo junto ; Mas el que llegd sano se platica Que a sepultar llegaba el cuerpo junto: Decidme de este enigma lo que toca, Si se atreve a explicarlo vuestra boca."

Q.Q.

Coney of Walpole and Sassingthorpc. I wish to ascertain the connexion between the families of Coney of Walpole in Norfolk, and Coney of Bas- singthorpe in Lincolnshire. In 1632, William Coney, Esq., held estates at Walpole. In 1648, the estates of William Coney, Esq., of North Stoke in Lincolnshire (one of the Bassingthorpe Co- neys), were sequestered. Were they one and the same individual ? if so, my object is gained. To ?ave trouble, I may say that I have consulted Blomfield's History of Norfolk, articles WALPOLE and SODTHACRK ; the " Lincolnshire Visitations," iu Ilarleian MSS. ; and the Cole MSS. S.

Family of De Loges of Orlingbere, Co. North- ampton. In Henry III.'s time, Simon de Loges was rated for one knight's fee of the fee of Mar- gery de Redvers, in Orlingbere, Harewedon and Holecote. By inquisition taken in the twenty- fourth year of Edward I., Richard de Loges, suc- cessor of Simon de Loges, was certified to hold in Orlingbury, Harewedon, and Isham, half a knight's fee of Ralph, the son of William de Essex. Upon levying the aid for the knighthood of the king's son, in the twentieth year of Edward III., Robert de Orlyngbere and William de Loges ac- counted each for the fourth part of a knight's fee. The manor of Orlingbere was, I apprehend, the lands formerly in the possession of William de Loges. Whalley's Northamptonshire.

Can any of your correspondents inform me what became of this family of De Loges, once so wealthy, and what were their armorial bearings ? P.

Numismatic Query. I have an ancient Portu- guese coin in brass, found at Braga. Obv., head of an ecclesiastic ; legend, "TIEN iv LEPISCO." Rev., a castle of three towers ; legend (the divisions a little doubtful), " CAED SPA DYING." It is in high relief and about the size of an English penny. I should be obliged by any information of the date, and an interpretation of the second legend ; the first is probably Stephen IV., Bishop of Lusitania.

HUGH

Rowe's Diary. Hawkins, in his History of Music, vol. v. p. 77., speaks of the MS. Diary of Mr. Thomas Rowe, the husband of the famous Mrs. Elizabeth Rowe, and the author of some supplemental Lives to Plutarch. I should be glad to know where this MS. may be found.

EDWARD F. RIMBAULT.

Inscription, Sfc., at Stuheley, Huntingdonshire. Will some of your readers tell me whether the following inscription, of which I have a note, really exists at Stukeley, Huntingdonshire, in the words given ? if so, the name of the writer cer- tainly deserves to be immortalised :

" Sacred to the Memory of the EEV. JOSHUA WATER- HOUSE B.D. nearly 40 years Fellow of Catherine Hall, Cambridge, Chaplain to his Majesty, Rector of this Parish, and of Colon, near Cambridge, who was inhumanly mur dered in this parsonage house about ten o'clock on the morning of July 3rd, 1827, aged 81 :

" Beneath this Tomb his Mangled body's laid, Cut stabb'd and Murdered by Joshua Slade ; His ghastly Wounds a horrid sight to see And hurled at once into Eternity. What faults you've seen in him take care to shun And look at home, enough there's to be done ; Death does not always warning give Therefore be carefull how you live."

The position of the capital letters and punctua- tion correspond with the original.

R. W. HACKWOOD.

Tradescant. In Granger's Letters, p. 288., re- ference is made to James West's MSS. about Tradescant. Where are they now ?

EDWARD F. RIMBAULT.

First Impression. " This is a case of first im- pression." Will any of the legal readers of "N. & Q." explain what is the meaning of the above expression, to be met with in the Equity Reports, and used both by judges and counsel ? B. N. S.

Distance between the Sun and the Earth. I have observed in the Morning Advertiser of Feb. 26, a paragraph stating that tables and cal- culations have been published in Germany, which prove that the distance between the sun and the earth is constantly increasing, and attributing to this fact the decrease of temperature upon the latter. Is there any foundation for the alleged calculation ? B. A

Election of Proctors in the Diocese of Oxford. The citation of the clergy to the Diocesan Synods for the election of proctors for convo- cation, is to " all and singular the rectors and vicars whose names are underwritten." Are perpetual curates included in this citation, and are their votes received for the election of proc- tors ? I shall be glad of an answer from a clergy- man of the diocese. WILLIAM FBASEB, B.C.L.

Alton, Staffordshire,