(Qy. _saddle_?)"

P.C.S.S.

_St. Philip and St. James._--"And near it was the house of the apostles
Philip and James the son of Alpheus."--_Early Travels in Palestine
(Mandeville)_, p. 175.; Bohn's _Antiquarian Library_. This is the only
place, except in the Church service, where I have seen the above-named
apostles coupled together, and have often wondered whether there was any
old legend or tradition to account for the Church joining them together
in one commemorative festival.

A.H.E.

_Sir William Hamilton._--On a tombstone in the burial-ground at St.
Hilda's, South Shields, in the county of Durham, is the following
inscription:--

"Here lieth interr'd ye body of Sir W. Hamilton Knt and Baronet
sonne to ye Earle of Abercorne and late servant to Queen
Henrietta Maria ye late Queene mother of our Soveraigne Lord
King Charles that now is over England &c. who departed to ye
mercy of God June 24th anno Domni 1681."

There is in the possession of an old lady living at Durham, in 1836, an
original note in the handwriting of King Charles the Second, of which
the following is a copy:--

"Whereas a debte of foure thousande one hundred and fifty pounds
sterlinge apeares to be remayning dew by the king my father to
Sir W. Hamilton brother to the Earle of Abercorne for the
service done to the Queene my mother, I do hereby promis to pay
ye sayde debte of 4150L. to ye sayde Sir William Hamilton his
heires and assigns or to satisfie him or them to the valew
thereof when it shall please God to restore me to the possession
of my dominions.

"Given at Brussells 28 Mar. 1630.

"CHARLES REX."

Is any thing known of Sir William Hamilton, or of the services he
rendered to Queen Henrietta Maria?

A.H.E.

_The Koran by Sterne._--Can you or any of your readers inform me if the
work entitled _The Koran_, printed in some editions of Sterne's
writings, is a genuine composition of his, or not? If not, who was its
author, and what is its literary history? My reason for asking is, that
I have heard it asserted that it is not by Sterne.

E.L.N.

_Devices on Standards of the Anglo-Saxons._--Can any of your readers
inform me what devices were borne on the standards of the several
Anglo-Saxon kingdoms during the so-called Heptarchy? The _white horse_
is by many supposed to have been the standard of Wessex, and to have
been borne by Alfred; but was not this really