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Queries.

JOHN KNOX.

In completing the proposed series of Knox's writings, I should feel greatly indebted to DR. MAITLAND or any of your readers for answering the following Queries:—

1. In the Catalogue of writers on the Old and New Testament, p. 107.: London, 1663, a sermon on Ezechiel ix. 4., attributed to Knox, is said to have been printed anno 1580. Where is there a copy of this sermon preserved?

2. Bale, and Melchior Adam, copying Verheiden, include in the list of Knox's writings, In Genesim Conciones. Is such a book known to exist?

3. Bishop Tanner also ascribes to him Exposition on Daniel: Malburg, 1529. This date is unquestionably erroneous, and probably the book also.

4. Knox's elaborate treatise Against the Adversaries of God's Predestination was first published at Geneva, 1560, by John Crespin. Toby Cooke, in 1580, had a license to print Knoxes Answere to the Cauillations of ane Anabaptist. (Herbert's Ames, p. 1263.) Is there any evidence that the work was reprinted earlier than 1591?

5. The work itself professes to be in answer to a book entitled The Confutation of the Errors of the Careles by Necessitie; "which book," it is added, "written in the English tongue, doeth contain as well the lies and blasphemies imagined by Sebastian Castalio, ... as also the vane reasons of Pighius, Sadoletus, and Georgius Siculus, pestilent Papistes, and expressed enemies of God's free mercies." When was this Confutation printed, and where is there a copy to be seen?

DAVID LAING.

Edinburgh.

Minor Queries.

116. "Fœda ministeria, atque minis absistite acerbis" (Vol. iii., p. 494.).

—Will any of your readers who may be metrical scholars, inform me whether there is any classical example of such an accent and cæsura as in this verse of Vida?

C. B.

117. Cornish Arms and Cornish Motto.

—The Cornish arms are a field sable with fifteen bezants, not balls as they are commonly called, 5. 4. 3. 2. 1. in pale or. These arms were borne by Condurus, the last Earl of Cornwall of British blood, in the time of William I., and were so borne until Richard, Earl of Cornwall, on being created Earl of Poictou, took the arms of such. According to the custom of the French, these were a rampant lion gules crowned or, in a field argent; but to show forth Cornwall, he threw the fifteen bezants into a bordour sable, round the bearing of the Earl of Poictou; but the Cornish arms, those of Condurus, are unaltered, though the coins are often mistaken for balls, and painted on a field coloured to the painter's fancy. Can you tell me when the Cornish motto "one and all" was adopted, and why?

S. H. (2)

118. Gloucester saved from the King's Mines.

—In Sir Kenelm Digby's Treatise of Bodies, ch. xxviii. sec. 4., is this passage:

"The trampling of men and horses in a quiet night, will be heard some miles off.... Most of all if one set a drum smooth upon the ground, and lay one's ear to the upper edge of it," &c.

On which the copy in my possession (ed. 1669) has the following marginal note in a cotemporary hand:

"Thus Gloucester was saved from the King's mines by ye drum of a drunken dru̅mer."

To what event does this refer, and where shall I find an account of it? It evidently happened during the civil wars, but Clarendon has no mention of it.

T. H. KERSLEY, A.B.

119. Milesian.

—What is the origin of the term Milesian as applied to certain races among the Irish?

W. FRASER.

120. Horology.

—Can any of your numerous correspondents kindly inform me what is the best scientific work on Horology? I do not want one containing mere mathematical work, but entering into all the details of the various movements, escapements, &c. &c. of astronomical clocks, chronometers, pocket watches, with the latest improvements down to the present time.

H. C. K.

121. Laurentius Müller.

—Can any of your readers mention a library which contains a copy of the Historia Septentrionalis, or History of Poland, of Laurentius Müller, published about 1580?

A. TR.

122. Lines on a Bed.

—Can you tell me where I can find the antecedents of the following couplets? They are a portion of some exquisite poetical "Lines on a Bed:"