faciendam Pharaonem instigaret, non obsequentem contentibus plagis insectaretur; eodem fere sensu dici potest, eundem quoque constituisse in Deum unicuique hominum singularium propriam Conscientiam."

Sanderson's Lectures were delivered at Oxford in 1647, but not published till 1660. The Dedication to Robert Boyle is dated November, 1659. The Ductor Dubitantium is dedicated to Charles II. after the Restoration, but has a preface dated October, 1659. It is not likely, therefore, that, Taylor borrowed from the printed work of Sanderson. Perhaps the quotations and illustrations which they have in common were borrowed from some older common source, where they occur associated as they do in these two writers. I should be glad to have any such source pointed out.

W. W.

Cambridge.

Minor Queries.

220. "Vox verè Anglorum."—"Sacro-Sancta Regum Majestas."—Translator of Horrebow's "Iceland."

—Perhaps some of your readers may be able to tell me the names of the writers of the two following works, which were published anonymously.

1. Vox verè Anglorum: or England's loud Cry for their King. 4to. 1659. Pp. 15. In this the place where it was published or printed is not given.

2. Sacro-Sancta Regum Majestas: or, the Sacred and Royall Prerogative of Christian Kings. 4to. Printed at Oxford, 1644. The Dedication is signed "J. A."

I should also wish to find out, if possible, the name of the translator of Horrebow's Natural History of Iceland, published in folio, in London, in 1758.

Βορέας.

221. "Kings have their Conquests."

—I have met with a passage commencing thus:

followed by two more lines expressive of the infinity of Divine power, as compared with human, which I have forgotten. Where is the passage to be found?

JAMES F. ABSALON.

Portsea.

222. Dryden—Illustrations by T. Holt White.

—The late T. Holt White, Esq. (who edited and published in 1819 the Areopagitica of Milton, adding a very ably composed preface, erudite notes, and interesting illustrations), had compiled in many interleaved volumes of the works of Dryden, such a mass of information, that Sir Walter Scott, when he had turned over the leaves of a few volumes, closed them, and is reported to have said, "It would be unjust to meddle with such a compilation; I see that I have not even straw to make my bricks with." Can any one of your correspondents inform me if that compilation has been preserved, and where it is?

ÆGROTUS.

223. Pauper's Badge, Meaning of.

—In the Churchwarden's Accounts for the parish of Eye for the year 1716, is the following entry:

"22 July, 1716.

"It is agreed that, forasmuch as Frances Gibbons hath refused to weare the badge, that she should not be allowed the collection [i.e. the weekly parish allowance] now due, nor for the future wh shall be due."

Can any correspondent inform me what this badge was, and also if it was of general use in other places?

J. B. COLMAN.

224. The Landing of William Prince of Orange in Torbay. Painted by J. Northcote, R. A.

—Can any of the readers of "NOTES AND QUERIES" inform me who is the owner of the above-named painting, which was in the Exhibition of the Royal Academy at the end of the last century, and afterwards engraved by J. Parker?

A. H. W.

225. The Lowy of Tunbridge.

—Lambarde (Perambulation of Kent, 1596, p. 425.) says, that round about the town of Tunbridge lieth a territory commonly called the Lowy, but in the ancient records written Leucata or Leuga, which was a French league of ground, and which was allotted at first to one Gislebert, son of Godfrey (who was natural brother to Richard, second Duke of Normandy of that name), in lieu of a town and land called Bryonnie in Normandy, which belonged to him, and which Robert, eldest son to King William the Conqueror, seized and bestowed on Robert Earle Mellent. I should be glad to know if there is at present any trace of such a territory remaining.

E. N. W.

Southwark, Sept. 28, 1851.

226. Bones of Birds.

—Some naturalists speak of the hollowness of the bones of birds as giving them buoyancy, because they are filled with air. It strikes me that this reason is inconclusive, for I should suppose that in the atmosphere, hollow bones, quite empty, would be more buoyant than if filled with air. Perhaps one of your correspondents will kindly enlighten my ignorance, and explain whether the air with which the bones are filled is not used by the bird in respiration in the more rarefied altitudes, and the place supplied by a more gaseous expiration of less specific gravity than the rarefied atmosphere?

Although of a different class from the queries you usually insert, I hope you will not think this foreign to the purpose of your useful miscellany.

AN AERONAUT.

227. "Malvina, a Tragedy."

—Can any of your readers afford any information about (1.) Malvina, a Tragedy, Glasgow, printed by Andrew Foules, 1786, 8vo., pp. 68? A MS. note on the copy in my library states it to be written by Mr. John Riddel, surgeon, Glasgow. (2.) Iphigenia, a Tragedy in four acts. In Rege tamen Pater est.—Ovid. MDCCLXXXVII. My copy has this MS. note: "By John Yorke, of Gouthwait, Esq., Yorkshire," in the handwriting of Francis, seventh Baron Napier. Neither of these tragedies in noticed in the Biographia Dramatica.

J. MT.

228. Rinuccini Gallery.

—I see by a late number of the Athenæum newspaper, that the splendid collection of pictures preserved in the Rinuccini Palace at Florence will be brought to the hammer in the month of May 1852. It has been stated, that amongst the works of art at one period extant in the Rinuccini Palace, were a number of paintings made by Italian artists for Cardinal Rinuccini, when on his Legatine mission to Ireland in the middle of the seventeenth century, and representing his triumphal entry into Kilkenny in November 1645. It has also been asserted that these interesting historical paintings were wilfully destroyed from a very discreditable motive. The importance of these cartoons, as illustrating a period when Ireland became the final battle-field of the contending parties which then divided the British dominions, will at once be acknowledged; and at this period, when so many foreigners are assembled in London, perhaps some reader of "NOTES AND QUERIES" may be able to set the question of the existence or destruction of these cartoons at rest. Or, at all events, some person about to seek the genial air of