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NOTES AND QUERIES. [9 th s. XL MAY 23, iocs.

St. Bartholome w massacre, " When the real

facts became fully known to the Pope [Gre- gory XIII.], he expressed both in speech and writing his horror of the crime." Mr. H. White, 'The Massacre of St. Bartholomew,' 1868, p. 477, says :

" Gregory sent Charles the Golden Rose ; and four months after the massacre, when humaner feelings might have been supposed to have resumed their sway, he listened complacently to the sermon of a French priest, the learned but cankered Muretus, who spoke of ' that day so full of happiness and joy when the Most Holy Father received the news and went in solemn state to render thanks to God and

Sr. Louis That night the stars shone with greater

lustre, the Seine rolled her waters more proudly to cast into the sea the corpses of those unholy men '; and so on in a strain of rhapsody unendurable by modern ears."

When and where did the Pontiff express his profound sorrow at the deed of blood ?

A. LE LIEVRE.

16 and 17, Imperial Buildings, B.C.

DUDLEY OF WILTSHIRE. Henry, son of William and Ellen Dudley, of Uttoxeter, Staffs, matriculated 25 January, 1638/9, aged eighteen, at Oriel Coll., Oxford; created B.A. 1 November, 1642. Foster's 'Alumni Oxo- nienses ' says of him, " perhaps vicar of Broad Hinton, Wilts, 1665." His son, Joseph Dudley, matriculated 5 December, 1673, aged sixteen, at St. Alban Hall, Oxford, as son of Henry, of Broad Hinton, Wilts, clerk. ' Al. Ox.' says, " See Foster's ' Parliamentary Dictionary,' " but this work was never published. I shall be glad to know if Henry really was vicar of Broad Hinton, or to obtain any other infor- mation concerning him and his family, espe- cially Joseph. Henry had an elder brother Thomas Dudley, who was an M.A. of Trin. Coll., Oxford, 1632, but of whom I have no later information. ALEYN LYELL READE.

Park Corner, Blundellsands.

PRYNNE'S ' LIFE OF LAUD.' Can any of your readers kindly inform me who the gentleman is in this volume facing the por- trait of Laud near the centre of the volume 1 There is no name, but arms are shown with three escallops. The crest is like a coronet, with a demi bird or eagle with six-feathered wings. F. BROWN.

ENGLISH ACCENTUATION. Can any con- tributor to ' N. & Q.' explain the apparent anomaly in such compounds as the follow- ing 1 In one set we have bardmeter, chron6- meter, thermometer, &c., with accent on ante- penult while in another there are the terms of the decimal system, as decameter, kilometer, &c.. accented on the penult (vide Worcester and Webster and Chambers's Eng. diet.).

The Greek origins obtaining in each being alike, why the difference? Euphony does not seem to require it. Perhaps there is no reason except that the English (Inglish) will poll it so. T. H. W.

[English quantities and English accent are past praying for.]

SAMUEL BRESTSENUS. Can your corre- spondents help me to identify this indi- vidual ? The name seems to be badly cor- rupted. According to Dr. Erasmus Schwab, he was an Englishman, and was present at the General Council of Jews held at Nagy- Ida, in Hungary, in October, 1650. He brought a complete transcript of all the acts of that council home to England, and had them printed here ('Land und Leute in Ungarn,' Leipzig, 1865, i. 287). Many thou- sands of Jews, some three hundred rabbis among them, from all parts of Europe and Asia, are said to have attended the council. According to the same authority, a Danish book has also been published on the same subject, giving a full account of the affair, of which nothing seems to be known in Ger- many. Who was the Danish author 1

L. L. K.

VERSES ASCRIBED TO LONGFELLOW, &c.

(9 th S. xi. 208, 257.)

THESE truly beautiful verses were written by the Rev. Samuel Longfellow, a younger brother of the celebrated poet, and also his brother's biographer. He was a man of exquisite refinement, broad culture, and greatly admired and devotedly beloved by all who knew him. Possibly, had he not been overshadowed by the fame of his greater brother, he would have written more, and his fine poetic talent become thereby more widely recognized. HORACE HOWARD FURNESS.

THE MAGI (9 th S. xi. 346). As to the identity of the Magi, I refer to the most scholarly note of Prof. Albrecht Dieterich (now at the Heidelberg University), 'Die Weisen aus dem Morgenlande,' in the 'Zeit- schrift fiir die Neutestamentliche Wissen- schaft und Kunde des Urchristenthuras,' 1901. The deductions of Prof. Dieterich are accepted by German science. No doubt Isaiah Ix. 6 and Psalm Ixxii. 10 have co- operated in the dressing of the legend in Matthew ; but it is singular that Matthew, who likes those relations, does not acknow- ledge the fulfilment. The Magi are the servants of Mithra ; and in the oldest Chris-