ELIZABETH HARDWICK, the next daughter, was the celebrated Countess of
Shrewsbury. Her _representatives_ are all noble, and their pedigrees may
be found in the Peerages. They are--

1. _The Duke of Devonshire_, representing Wm. Cavendish, first earl.

Certain descendants of Sir Charles Cavendish, of Welbeck Abbey, or
rather of his grandson, Henry, second Duke of Newcastle, namely,

2. The _Duke of Portland_, representing Margaret Pelham, the Duke's
eldest coheir;

3. The _Marquis of Salisbury_ from Catherine, and second coheir;

4. The _Earl De la Warr_; and

5. The _Earl of Aboyne_, are the coheirs of Sir Charles Cope, Baronet,
of Orton; who represented Arabella, Countess of Sunderland, third
coheir. These five all quarter Hardwick.

ALICE HARDWICK, next daughter, married Francis Hercy, according to some
pedigrees. No issue recorded.

There are therefore descendants certainly known of only two of the
children of John Hardwick. Possibly some of your correspondents can
supply those of Wingfield and Hercy.

The crest and arms of the Hardwicks may be found in Edmondson. They only
quartered Pynchbeke. I am not aware of any motto. {284}

Miss Costello, and other biographers of the Countess of Shrewsbury, have
quite overlooked all the descendants of her sisters. Possibly, should
these lines meet the eye of the Duke of Devonshire, who possesses the
estates and papers of the Hardwicks, it may lead to more particulars
concerning the family being made public.

ERMINE.

Torquay.

_Quotations in Bishop Andrewes_ (Vol. ii., p. 245.).--

"Minutuli et patellares Dei."

is from Plautus:

"Di me omnes magni minutique et patellarii."
_Cistell._ II. 1. 46.

and

"Sed quae de septem totum circumspicit orbem
Collibus, imperii Roma Deumque locus."

is from Ovid (_Trist_. I. 5. 69.).

J.E.B MAYOR.

Marlborough College.

_The Sun Feminine in English_ (Vol. ii., p. 21).--MR. COX may perhaps be
pleased to learn _why_ the northern nations made the sun feminine. The
ancient Germans and Saxons--

"When they discovered how the sun by his heat and influence
excited venereal love in creatures subserviant to his dominion,
they then varied his sex, and painted him like a woman, because
in them that passion is most impotent, and yet impetuous; on her
head they placed a myrtle crown or garland to denote her
dominion, and that love should be alwaies verdant as the myrtle;
in one hand