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If there is not, there _ought_ to be, some collection of the nomenclature
and mythological history of the heavens, with a familiar treatise on
astrology ancient and modern. The Chaldeans, Egyptians, Grecians, Arabs,
Celts, and Norsemen, must have had names and stories, whose relation (both
in itself and to one another) would make a very pretty volume either of
poetry or prose. Perhaps some of your readers may be able to inform me of
such a work, or where detached masses of the information I want could be
found.
G.I.C.
_Sword of William the Conqueror._--Can any one inform me where is the sword
of William the Conqueror? It was kept in Battle Abbey till the dissolution,
and then taken to Sir John Gage's house at Firle, as it is said.
P.
_Neville Family._--Will any of your correspondents inform me what family of
the Nevilles were connected by marriage with the Fleetwoods or Cromwells?
In a collateral note in my family pedigree, I find it stated, that Sarah
Neville (who married Thomas Burkitt, in 1683) was cousin to General Charles
Fleetwood, who married Bridget Cromwell, daughter of the Protector; and, on
the cover of a book, I find written--
"My Cozen Fleetwood he gave me this book.--Sarah Burkitt, 1684."
I have also traditional testimony in possessing a valuable cabinet, known
us "the Fleetwood;" and a portrait of the above Bridget Cromwell; both of
which have been preserved in the family for more than a century and a half,
and supposed to have passed into their possession by the marriage of Sarah
Neville.
A.H.B.
Clapham, Jan 1. 1851.
_Difformis, Signification of._--Can any of your classical readers refer me
to a competent source of information with regard to the signification of
the word _difformis_, which is repeatedly to be met with in the writings of
Linn�us, and which I cannot find recorded in _Ducange_, _Facciolati_, or
any of our ordinary Latin dictionaries?
TYRO.
Dublin.
_Lynch Law._--What is the origin of this American phrase?
J.C.R.
_Prior's Posthumous Works._--Among the curiosities collected by the Duchess
of Portland, was a volume containing some prose treatises in MS. of the
poet Prior. Forbes, in his _Life of Beattie_ (Vol. ii. p. 160.), speaking
of this interesting volume, says:--
"Her Grace was so good as to let me read them, and I read them with great
pleasure. One of them, a dialogue between Locke and Montaigne, is all
admirable piece of ridicule on the subject of Locke's philosophy."
Have these treatises since been printed? And where now is Prior's original
MS.?
EDWARD F. RIMBAULT.
_Suppressed Chantries._--Does there exist (and if so, where is it to be
found) a list of the 2374 chantries suppressed by 37 Henry VIII. and 1
Edward VI.?
IGNOBUS.
* * * * *
REPLIES.
BIBLIOGRAPHICAL QUERIES BY R.G.
(Vol. ii., p. 422.).
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