and it is surmounted with the arms of
that ancient family:

A. D. +-------------------------+ A. D.
1599. | | 1631.
24^{to} | ARMS. | 20^{mo}
Novemb^r | | Octob^r
natus est. +-------------------------+ denatus.

I nditur in gelidum G regis hujus opilio bustu M,
O mnibus irriguus L achrymis simul urbis et agr I.
H ujus erit vivax A tque indelebile nome N,
A rtibus et linguis N ecnon virtute probat I.
N obis ille novae V atem (pro munere) legi S
N aviter et graviter I ucunde et suaviter egi T.
E rgo relanguenti L icet eluctetur ab or E
S piritus; aeternum L ucebit totus ut aste R.

W. D. F.

Walton.

_Simmels._--The Vienna correspondent of _The Times_, whose letter from
"Vienna, March 5th," appeared in that paper on Friday the 10th, mentions a
Viennese loaf, the name of which so strongly resembles the _simmel_ of our
ancestors as to deserve a Note:

"The Viennese witlings, who are much inclined to abuse the hyperbole,
affirm that a magnifying glass will soon be requisite in order to
discover the whereabouts of the _semmeln_, the little wheaten loaves
for which Austria is famous."

W. J. T.

_Ogborne's History of Essex._--I lately fell in with (at a marine
store-shop in Somers Town) some scattered materials in Mrs. Ogborne's
handwriting for the above highly interesting but unfinished work. I have
not yet sorted them, but I perceive that the MSS. contain some information
that was never published, relating to Rochford Hundred, &c. The shopkeeper
stated that she had used the greater part of Mrs. Ogborne's papers as
waste-paper, but I am not without hopes that she will find more. There is a
letter from Mr. Leman of Bath, which is published in the work. I am aware
that Mr. Fossett has Mrs. Ogborne's MSS.; but those now in my possession
are certainly interesting, and might be, to some future historian of Essex,
even valuable. Should I discover anything worth inserting in "N. & Q." on
examining the MSS. I will send it.

G. I. S.

_Fleas and Bugs._--Has the following explanation of an old saying ever been
brought forward, and is it satisfactory? When a person is sent off "with a
flea in his ear," the luckless applicant is peremptorily dismissed with