r:

"DEUS DET NOBIS SUAM PACEM
ET POST MORTEM UITAM ETERNAM."

The clasps have engraven on them, in the same character,--

"LIB D[=N]S ET M[=GE]R JOANNIS VAM MERE."

On the title-page, slightly varied in each volume, is the following
inscription, in a hand not much later than the publication of the book:

"Liber M. Joachimi Moller ex testamento M. Johan[=i]s vam mer optim et
maximus deus illius anime misereatur. Amen."

I shall be much obliged to any one who will explain to me the figures on
the cover, which, doubtless, have some legendary or symbolic meaning; and
also give me any notes or references concerning either of the former
possessors of the book, both of whom have, I believe, enriched it with
manuscript notes.

EDWARD PEACOCK.

Bottesford Moors, Messingham,

Kirton-in-Lindsey.

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Minor Queries.

_Barristers' Gowns._--What is the meaning of the lapel, or piece which
hangs from the back of the barristers' gown? Has it any particular name? In
shape it is very similar to the representations we see in pictures of the
"cloven tongues." It is not improbable that it may be intended figuratively
to bear reference to them.

HENRY T. RILEY.

"_Charta Hen. 2. G. G. n. 2. q._"--In Cowell's _Law Dictionary_ (ed. 1727),
under the word LUSGUL, I find the following reference: "Charta Hen. 2.
G. G. n. 2. q." I should be much obliged to any person who would suggest
for what "G. G. n. 2. q." stands.

K.

_Albany Wallace._--Can any of your correspondents, familiar with the drama,
tell me who this gentleman was? In 1827, there appeared _The Death of Mary
Queen of Scots_, an historic drama in five acts, by A. W., Esq.: Worthing,
printed for the author by W. Verrall. His name occurs again on the
title-page of _The Reigns of the Stuarts in England dramatised. The First
Part of King James the First_, a play in five acts: London, printed by the
author, at his private press, Queen Ann Street, 1835.

I naturally turned up Mr. Martin's _Privately Printed Books_, but neither
our dramatist nor his press is there alluded to. Touching the latter, Mr.
Wallace says in his preface,--

"A certain picture was said by a connoisseur to be 'very well painted
for a _gentleman!_' a species of {324} negative praise which gave but
little satisfaction to the artist. Should the amateur printer, however,
meet with as much, he will be very well contented. All he can h