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one in 8vo., entitled "A New Catechism for the Use of the Swinish Multitude, necessary to be had in all Sties

' Grundibat graviter pecus suillum.' CLAUDIUS.

Bv the late Professor Person. From The Examiner. London : published by R. Carlile, 183. Fleet Street." No date. Another edition in 12mo., with the same title, to which is added, " A Dialogue between John Bull and Pre- sident Yankee, on Monarchs and Republics. Published at 1. Shoe-lane." No date.]

Countess of Monmouth. I enclose you a fac- simile of writing on a pane of glass lately in a house of a relative at Watford. Can you, or any of your readers, give me information concerning "the good Countice Elizabeth Monmouth" here mentioned, who is stated to have died at Watford, 1640. In The Illustrated London News, with reference to the above, the house is said to be now pulled down, which is believed to be an error, and the countess to have died in 1610, which does not agree with the above date. C. M. L.

[The "good countice" was the wife of Robert Carey, first Baron Carey of Leppington ; created Earl of Mon- mouth, Feb. 5, 1626. Sir Robert was a great favourite with his royal mistress, Queen Elizabeth, till he rashly committed the offence of wedding a fair and virtuous gentlewoman, Elizabeth, the daughter of Sir Hugh Tre- vannion of Corriheigh, Cornwall. In his Autobiography (p. 61.), he says : " I married this gentlewoman more for her worth than her wealth, for her estate was about 500/. a yeare jointure, and she had betweene five and six hun- dred pounds in her purse. The Queen was mightily offended with me for marrying, and most of my best friends, only my father was no ways displeased at it, which gave me great content." Soon after the accession of James I., in 1603, Sir Robert says : " My wife waited on the Queen [Anne of Denmark], and at Windsor was sworn of her privy-chamber, and mistress of her sweet coffers [mistress of the robes], and had a lodging allowed her at court. This was some comfort to me, that I had my wife so near me" (p. 159.). To the care of Lady Carey was committed the "baby Charles," when the royal infant was between three and four years old, and it was to her sensible management that the preservation of Charles I. from deformity may be attributed. " When the little duke was first delivered to my wife," writes Sir Robert, "he was not able to go, nor scarcely to stand alone, he was so weak in his joints, especially in his ankles, insomuch many feared they were out "of joint. Many a battle my wife had with the king, but she still prevailed. The king^vould have him put into iron boots, to strengthen his sinews and joints ; but my wife pro- tested so much against it, that she got the victory, and the king was fain to yield." Again, Sir Robert tells us that " at the queen's death in 1619, her house was dis- solved, and my wife was forced to keep house and family, which was out of our way a thousand a year that we saved before." In the second year of Charles I. Sir Robert was created Earl of Monmouth, and died April 16, 1639. Both the earl and the countess were buried in Rickmers- worth Church ; but the monumental inscription in the chancel of that church does not state the date of the death of the countess.]

Oxford Almanacs. I wish to obtain some in- formation respecting the Oxford Almanacs. Will you kindly inform me of the date of the first with the views of colleges, &c. ? And at what period

Vertue commenced his series of those engravings which have been continued by subsequent en- gravers to the present day ? JUVENIS.

[The first Oxford Almanac was drawn up by Maurice Wheeler, minor canon of Christ Church for the year 1673, in 8vo., and was ornamented with hieroglyphics. Robert White engraved the sheet almanac in 1674, with several mythological figures ; but the prints in forty-seven of the earlier numbers were mostly engraved" by Michael Burghers. From 1723 or 1725 to 1751 inclusive, were mostly engraved by Vertue, who introduced portraits of the founders and benefactors of each college, with the im- provements in the buildings which were at that time meditated, and of which plans and elevations had only been designed. For fuller accounts of these Almanacs, consult Vertue's Anecdotes of Painting, by Wai pole and Dallaway, vol. v. p. 280. ; Oxoniana, vol. i. p. 178. ; and Gentleman's Magazine, vol. Ixi. p. 207.]

" Delivre nous du malin" This is the transla- tion given (St. Matt. vi. 13.) in the French ver- sion of the New Testament, published by the British and Foreign Bible Society : the corre- sponding passage (St. Luc. xi. 4.) is translated " du mal." What is the authority for the reading " du malin" ? H. D.

[" Mais delivre nous du malin," is also the reading in the translation of James le Fevre of Estaples, from St. Jerome's version, printed at Antwerp by Martin L'Em- pereur in 1534, which is minutely described in Bibl. Sussex, vol. ii. pp. 128 131. See also the Paris edition of the New Testament of 1805.]

Epistle to Pollio. Having looked into several " complete" editions of Milton's Works, without finding his " Epistle to Pollio," can you oblige me by telling me whether any edition contains it, or if it is obtainable separately ? G. A. P.

Barnes, Surrey.

[Our correspondent is probably thinking of Miltonis Epistola ad Pollionem (Lord Polwarth), dedicated to Alexander Pope, fol. 1738, by the facetious Dr. William King, the celebrated Principal of St. Mary Hall, Oxford, and author of The Toast, The Dreamer, Sfc. See Chal- mers's Biog. Diet., and Nichols's Literary Anecdotes, ii. 607.]

MAJOR ANDRE'S EXECUTION. (1 st S. passim.)

As a constant reader, I have observed in "N". & Q." three different notices of this unfortunate officer (1 st S. viii. 174. 644. ; 2 nd S. i. 33.), sent by your correspondent SERVIENS. Desirous as he is of obtaining further information, I send the fol- lowing notice of Major Andre's execution, which I have taken from Harper's Magazine for August, 1855, pp.419, 420.:

"On 'Independence Day' we took steamer for the county of Rockland, determined to pass the Fourth in peace and quietness, and desirous of refreshing our pa- triotism amidst scenes hallowed by the sacred memories