Calvin:

"Tota jacet Babylon; destruxit tecta Lutherus,
Calvinus muros, sed fundamenta Socinus."

Query, By what Socinian writer are these two hexameter verses used?

L.

_Descent of Edward IV._--Professor Millar, in his _Historical View of
the English Government_ (ii. 174.), in discussing the claim of Edward
IV. to the English throne, speaks of "a popular though probably a
groundless tradition, that by his mother he was descended from Henry
III. by an elder brother of Edward I., who, on account of his personal
deformity, had been excluded from the succession to the crown." Where
may I find this tradition? or where meet with any information on the
subject?

S.A.Y. {376}

_Viscount Castlecomer._--Sir Christopher Wanderforde, who succeeded poor
Strafford as Lord Deputy of Ireland, in April, 1640, was created,
between that date and his death, which occurred in December of the same
year, Baron Mowbray and Musters, and Viscount Castlecomer. I should be
glad to know the date of the patent of his creation, whether Sir
Christopher himself ever took up the title, and what became of the title
afterwards?

S.A.Y.

_Judge Cradock, afterwards Newton._--MR ELLACOMBE (Vol. ii., p. 249.),
in his notice of a monument in Yatton Church to "Judge Newton, _alias_
Cradock," says, "the arms of Cradock are _Arg._ on chevron _az._ three
garbs _or_." Richard Cradock, he adds, "was the first of his family who
took the name of Newton." Does MR. ELLACOMBE mean that the above arms
were those of the _Cradock family_, or that this Richard Cradock assumed
the coat as well as the name of _Newton_? The above was the bearing of
the family of Newton, of East Newton, in the North Riding of York. The
eldest daughter and coheir of John Newton of East Newton was married to
William Thornton, which family thus became possessed of the estate of
East Newton, and quartered the coat assigned by MR. ELLACOMBE to
Cradock. I should be glad to know the occasion on which Richard Cradock
assumed the name and arms of Newton, as well as the connexion between
these Newtons and those settled at East Newton.

S.A.Y.

_Totness Church._--In Totness Church, the N. angle of the chancel is cut
off in the lower part of the building, in order to allow an arched
passage from one side of the church to the other outside.

The upper part of the building is supported by a very strong buttress or
pier, leaving the diagonal passage between it and the int