if it is extant, and what
is known of its origin, &c.

G. WILLIAM SKYRING.

Somerset House.

_Greek denounced by the Monks._--

"Almost the time (A.D. 1530) when the monks preached in their sermons
to the people to beware of a new tongue of late discovered, called the
Greek, and the mother of all heresies."--_Foreign Quarterly_ for
October, 1842, No. 59. p. 137.

Can any of your readers give references to such passages in Monkish
sermons?

CPL.

_Pliny's Dentistry._--As your journal has become the repository of so many
novel and interesting _facts_, I trust that the following data will be
found acceptable to the readers of "N. & Q." Having had occasion, of late,
to look over the works of Pliny, I was struck with the extent to which this
ancient naturalist and philosopher has carried his researches on the above
subject; as, in some editions, the Index of the article DENTES occupies
several closely-printed columns. He recommends tooth-powder (_dentifricia_)
of hartshorn, pumice-stone, burnt nitre, _Lapis Arabus_, the ashes of
shells, as well as several ludicrous substances, in accordance with the
mystic prejudices of the age. Amongst the remedies for fixing (_firmare_)
teeth, he mentions _Inula_, _Acetum Scillinum_, _Radix Lapathi sativi_,
vinegar; and loose teeth are to be fixed by _Philidonia_, _Veratrum
nigrum_, and a variety of other remedies, amongst which some are most
rational, and tend to prove that more attention was paid to the
physiological (_hygeistic_) department relating to that portion of the
human body than we have been hitherto aware of, as even the most recent
works on Dentistry do not mention these facts.

GEORGE HAYES.

Conduit Street.

_J. Farrington, R.A._--Having recently met with some views by J.
Farrington, R.A., without a description of the locality, I shall be obliged
by your insertion of a Query respecting information of what views were
executed by this painter, with their localities, in or about the year 1789.
As I am informed that those above referred to belong to this neighbourhood,
and therefore would be invested with interest to me, I could ascertain
their locality with precision.

JOHN NURSE CHADWICK.

King's Lynn.

_Henry Crewkerne, of Exeter_, "Captain of Dragoons, descended from
Crewkerne, of Crewkerne, in Devonshire," died at Carlow in Feb. 1664-5. Was
he descended from Crewkerne of Chilhay, Dorset? His pedigree would be very
acceptable.

Y. S. M.