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Further proof is the following from vol. xliii. (1601-2) of the ' Acta Curia ' of the Arch- deacon of Canterbury, now in the cathedral library : that on 23 September, 1601, Joan Hooker, or Nethersole, executrix of the last will and testament of Richard Hooker, clerk, formerly rector of Bishopsbourne, deceased, brought an action in the Archdeacon's Court against [John] Harsfield, of the same parish, for unpaid tithe. She also sued William Austen of Barham for the like.

Hooker's widow, therefore, within five months of her husband's death, married in March, 1600/1, Edward Nethersole, of a family whose descendants remain to the present day. She was also alive nearly a year after the death of her first husband.

When she died or where she was buried is not known, but the registers of St. Peter's, Canterbury, have the following entry of burial under 18 February, 1602/3 : " Joan Nethersole, wife of Edward, Alderman, from St. Mildred's" parish. This might, perhaps, be the widow of Richard Hooker.

ARTHUR HUSSEY.

Tankerton-on-Sea, Kent.

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.

BORROW'S 'ZiNCALi.' I noticethe announce- ment of a new edition of this book. I possess a copy which does not contain the Spanish- gipsy vocabulary. Without this vocabulary the book is valueless, and hitherto I have not succeeded in securing a first edition. Like Miss Dartle, I " ask for information." Does this new issue contain the missing section 1 If not, can this vocabulary be procured 1 Furthermore, Borrow speaks of certain MS. vocabularies of his own compiling in Tran- sylvania, &c. Have these been printed 1

FRED. G. ACKERLEY.

Seemannsheim, Libau, Russia.

(.More than one edition has recently, we think, appeared.]

RICHARD I. Prof. H. Graetz, the modern Jewish historian, makes the following state- ment in his ' History of the Jews,' English edition, vol. iii. p. 488 : " Maimuni's reputation was so great that the English king, Richard Cceur de Lion, the soul of the third Crusade, wanted to appoint him his physician in ordi- nary, but Maimuni refused the offer." Graetz is usually so accurate that the above may be

relied on as an irrefutable fact. What founda- tion is there for Graetz's statement?

M. D. DAVIS.

CHARLES V. ON THE DIFFERENT EUROPEAN TONGUES. Every reader of Chesterfield's etters will remember the (repeated) allusion to Charles Quint's characterization of the principal European languages. We should speak to God in Spanish, to men in French, to horses in German, make love in Italian, and so on. I quote from memory only, but I
 * ancy that the emperor described English

as the language of birds a remark which I remember to have been made to myself in Rome. To what was Chesterfield referring, and where is this dictum of Charles V. to be
 * ound 1 PHILIP NORTH.

[We have heard that one should speak in German

soldiers, in Hungarian to horses, in English to geese, and in Bohemian to the Devil. We have a dim idea that the phrase occurs in OllendorfF.]

COSSEN OR COSEN. Henry Cossen was M.P. for Truro 1604-11, and mayor of that borough in 1606. Thomas Cosen, LL.D., was M.P. for Downton 1584-5. I shall be obliged by any information about them. Thomas Cosen, if not wrongly named and identical with, was doubtless closely related to the better - known Richard Cossyn, D.C.L., Master in Chancery, and Chancellor to the Archbishop of Canterbury, who represented Downton in the Parliament of 1588-9.

W. D. PINK.

SHELLEY'S COTTAGE AT LYNMOUTH, DEVON. There are no fewer than three houses Claiming this distinction. Has it ever been definitely decided which of them is entitled to it? F. CHURCH.

HYMNBOOK USED IN HORSHAM CHURCH. SUSSEX. In the year 1834 there was printed by C. Hunt, in Horsham, a little book of 120 pages, the title of which was

"Selected Portions from the New Version of the Psalms ; together with Hymns suitable to Festivals, &c., of the Established Church of England and Ireland. For the use of the parish church of Horsham."

It was compiled by the Rev. Henry Winck- worth Simpson, vicar of the parish 1830-40. It is not referred to in the comprehensive lists given in the article on ' Church of Eng- land Hymnody/ by the Rev. J. Julian, in his

1 Dictionary of Hymnology,' 1892, pp. 331-43, and is not in his collection of hymnbooks now in the library of the Church House, Westminster, nor known to him. Is the book to be found in any library or accessible collection of hymnbooks? Was any later edition of it published ] C. W. H.