er my Query respecting Philip D'Auvergne, has probably seen that the
Bible of which he inquires has turned up. {537} It seems to have been
pawned (if I rightly understand the report in the newspapers) to a Mr.
Broughton of the Foreign Office, who had advanced money to the prince to
enable him to prosecute his claim to the dukedom. It has now been ordered
by Vice-Chancellor Sir W. P. Wood to be offered for sale as part of Mr.
Broughton's estate, for the benefit of that gentleman's creditors. It was
stated in court, that on a former occasion, when the late Archbishop of
Canterbury wished to purchase it, 1500l. was asked for it. I was much
obliged to H. W. for the information he gave me, as I took some little
interest in Philip D'Auvergne from having heard that he was a friend of my
grandfather. They were, I find, both of them officers in the Racehorse
during Lord Mulgrave's discovery voyage to the North Pole.

E. H. A.

_Rhymes on Places_ (Vol. vii., p. 143.).--Northamptonshire:

"Armston on the hill,
Polebrook in the hole,
Ashton turns the mill,
Oundle burns the coal."

Repeated to me by poor old drunken Jem White the sexton, many years since,
when on the "battlements" of Oundle Church; Oundle being the market town
for the three villages in the rhymes quoted.

BRICK.

_Serpents' Tongues_ (Vol. vi., p. 340.; Vol. vii., p. 316.).--May I be
allowed to inform MR. PINKERTON that the sharks' teeth (fossils), now so
frequently found imbedded in this tufa rock, and cheaply sold, are not
known as "the tongues of vipers," but, on the contrary, from time
immemorial, as the "tongues of St. Paul." In proof of this, I would refer
MR. PINKERTON to the following extract, which I have taken from an Italian
letter now in the Maltese Library; which was published on August 28, 1668,
by Dr. Francis Buonamico, a native of this island, and addressed to
Agostino Scilla of Messina. Page 5., the writer remarks:

"Che avanti de partire da questa isolde dovesse farle una raccolta di
glossopietre, _O lingue come que le chiamiamo di S. Paolo_."

W. W.

Malta.

_Consecrated Roses, &c._ (Vol. vii., pp. 407. 480.).--An instance of the
_Golden Rose_ being conferred on an English baron, will be found related in
Davidson's _History of Newenham Abbey in the County of Devon_, p. 208.

J. D. S.

* * * * *

Miscellaneous.

NOTES ON BOOKS, ETC.

That well-worn quotation, "who shall decide