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Hill at Rome. The accusation rests chiefly on a statement by Moroni in the ' Dizionario d Erudizione Storico-Ecclesiastica,' xv. 24, wh< asserts he had read in a contemporary diary by GiacintoGigli that "in the night following, the 21st March, 1644, part of the Coliseum was pulled down, that is to say, three arcades anc a half, and the materials used to build the Palazzo Barberini." Prof. Gaetano Bossi, who has examined the diary in question, which is in MS., has failed to discover an entry of the kind under the date quoted, or in any other of Gigli's works to which he has had access. He further points out that, according to an inscription on an engraving of the palace, the building was completed by the year 1630, or fourteen years before the date of the alleged entry in Gigli's diary.

Prof. Bossi considers that the famous pas- quinade was intended to apply to Cardinal Maffeo Barberini, afterwards Urban VIII., who stripped the bronze from the portico and dome of the Pantheon in order to provide materials for the baldacchino of the high altar at St. Peter's and to furnish cannon for the defence of the Castle of St. Angelo. He attributes the authorship of the epigram to Carlo Castelli, ambassador from the Duke of Mantua to the Papal Court. JOHN HEBB.

WE must request correspondents desiring infor- mation on family matters of only private interest to affix their names and addresses to their queries, in order that the answers may be addressed to them direct.

" JUGGINS." This is an English surname, which, I am informed by Bodley's Librarian, occurs in the Worcestershire Quarter Sessions Rolls in 1607. Since some time in the eighties the name has been in use in the sense "foolish fellow, simpleton, one easily imposed upon." Is this taken from any novel, play, or farce in which a Mr. Juggins figures in such a

ader of ' N. & Q.' ha to know, I shall be glad if he will, to save

capacity ? If any reader of ' N. & Q.' happens to know, I shall be glad if he will, to save time, send a note to me direct (address Dr. Murray, Oxford), besides replying in these columns. J. A. H. M.

"NoN TERRA SED AQUis." What family uses this motto? Is it an English family motto? W. R.

DR. FORBES WATSON. I should feel obliged for any information about Dr. Forbes Wat- son, the author of a charming book called and the book was published after his death.
 * Flowers and Gardens.' He died in 1870,

I should also be glad to know something of J. B. P., who wrote a very graceful preface to the book. H. N. ELLACOMBE.

" TOUT LAflSE TOUT CASSE TOUT PASSE."

Can anybody tell me if this is the proper order, or whence the quotation comes ?

G. S. C. S.

[The order we believe to be correct. The autho- rity was vainly sought 7 th S. x. 369.]

STONEHENGE. We were told a few weeks ago that the Druids taught that the fall of a lintel at Stonehenge portended the death of a monarch. Where was this lore of theirs recorded? ST. SWITHIN.

OLD FEUDAL RIGHTS, &c. Can any of your readers tell me the names of books which will give me information about curious rights claimed in old English villages and towns, survival of feudal and other customs, and of land tenures and customs under which some properties are still held ? MARY JEUNE.

79, Harley Street, W.

[Consult Blount's ' Tenures of Land and Customs of Manors,' ed. Hazlitt (Reeves & Turner, 1874).]

ST. CHRISTOPHER AND LAUGHTER. The votive figure of St. Christopher embossed, now on view at the Burlington Fine- Arts

lub in an exhibition of a collection of silversmiths' work of European origin, at 17, Savile Row, and described as No. 5 on 3. 158 of the catalogue, bears this inscription n Latin rimes, dated 1493 :

Christofere sancte virtutes sunt tibi tante Qui te mane videt tempore nocturne ridet,

Christopher, thou hast so many virtues [or powers], Ie who sees thee in the morning laughs at night time.

To what belief is allusion made by this in- cription? E. S. DODGSON.

BRECKENRIDGE. I am desirous of tracing .he line of descent of my emigrant ancestor Alexander Breckenridge back to the stock rom which he sprang, presumably Scotch. He "imported himself and his family at his own charges from the north of Ireland to Philadelphia" in 1728, "and thence to the
 * olony of Virginia," and founded the South-

ern family of the name. Tradition with us )utlines an original residence in Ayrshire, vhence the forefathers of our particular ine were driven by persecution, in Cove- nanter times, to the Breadalbane district of J erthshire, later to the island of Arran, and hence to Ireland. Can any one suggest sources of information, or present location of