ed of, but that lambs of
a year old, otherwise called "hogs" or "hoggets," are often infested by
it. It would appear, therefore, that the poet, misled by the ambiguous
name, and himself knowing nothing of the matter but by report,
attributed to pigs that which happens to the other kind of animal, viz.
lambs a year old, which have not yet been shorn.

J. MN.

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QUERIES.

A QUERY AND REPLIES.

_Plaister or Paster--Christian Captives--Members for Calais, &c._--In
editing Tyndale's _Pathway_ (_Works_, vol. i. p. 22.), I allowed
preceding editors to induce me to print _pastor_, where the oldest
authority had _paster_. As the following part of the sentence speaks of
"suppling and suaging wounds," I am inclined to suspect that "paster"
might be an old way of spelling, "plaster." Can any of your
correspondents supply me with any instance in which "plaster" or
"plaister" is spelt "paster" by any old English writer?

In return for troubling you with this question, you may inform Mr.
Sansom, in answer to Query, Vol. ii., p. 41., that Hallam says, "Not
less than fifty gentlemen were sold for slaves at Barbadoes, under
Cromwell's government." (_Constit. Hist._, ch. x. note to p. 128., 4to.
edit.) And though Walker exaggerated matters when he spoke "a project to
sell some of the most eminent masters of colleges, &c., to the Turks for
slaves," Whitelock's _Memorials_ will inform him, under date of Sept.
21, 1648, that the English Parliament directed one of its committees "to
take care for transporting the Scotch prisoners, in the first place to
supply the plantations, and to send the rest to Venice."

To another, O.P.Q. (Vol. ii., p. 9.), you may state that the members for
Calais in the time of Edw. VI., and in the first four parliaments of
Mary, may be seen in Willis' _Notitia Parliamentaria_, where their names
are placed next to the members for the Cinque Ports. Willis states that
the return for Calais for the last parliament of Henry VIII is lost.
Their names indicate that they were English,--such as Fowler,
Massingberd, &c.

As to umbrellas, there are Oriental scholars who can inform your
inquirers that the word "satrap" is traceable to words whose purport is,
the bearer of an umbrella.

Another of your latest Querists may find the epigrams on George II.'s
(not, as he imagines, Charles I.'s) different treatment of the two
English universities in Knox's _Elegent Extracts_. The l