rother of the present
de jure King of Spain, Carlos VI.

J.K.

_Nicholas Breton's Fantasticks_ (Vol. ii., p. 375.).--In reply to the
second Bibliographical Query of J. MT., Edinburgh, respecting Nicholas
Breton's _Fantasticks_, I beg to inform him that my copy is perfect, and
contains twenty-two leaves. The title is _Fantasticks: seruing for a
perpetuall Prognostication_, with the subjects of the twenty-four
_Descants_, as they are called, in prose, contained in the volume. 4to. bl.
lett. London: Printed for Francis Williams, 1626. After this is a
dedication "To the worshipfull and worthy knight Sir Marke Ive, of Rivers
Hall, in Essex;" and a short address "To the Reader," one leaf. It is an
entertaining work, and contains some curious and useful remarks on our
ancient manners, customs, and habits. My copy had successively belonged to
Garrick, Fillingham, and Heber; the latter of whom has written in it, "Who
has ever seen another copy?"

T.C.

Strand.

_Gaudentio di Lucca_ (Vol. ii., pp. 247. 298. 327.).--The Rev. Simon
Berington, the author of _The Memoirs of Gaudentio di Lucca_, "of whom" MR.
CROSSLEY (Vol. ii., p. 328.) "regrets that so little is known," was the
fourth son of John Berington, of Winesley, co. Hereford, Esquire, by
Elizabeth, daughter of Sir Thomas Wolrich, of Dudmaston, co. Salop, Bart.
He was born 1679. He studied and took holy orders at Douay College.

W.L.

Nov. 3. 1850.

_Weights for weighing Coins_(Vol. ii., p. 326.).--I am able to supply H.E.
with a reference to this subject of an earlier date than those he quotes.
In the MS. _Compotus_ or _Accounts of Sibton Abbey, in Suffolk_, in my
possession, occurs the following item, under the year 1363-4:

"Et de ix d. pro ij paribus Balaunces pro aure ponderand'."

The following extract, although of later date than H.E. requires, may yet
be not without its use to him in illustration of the subject. It occurs in
the _Compotus_ of a collegiate establishment at Mettingam, Suffolk, from an
earlier volume of which some extracts were furnished to the _Archaeological
Journal_ (vol. vi. p. 62.). It is as follows, under the year 1464:--

"Item in ponderibus pro novo aura ponderant' s' nobili _xs._ di. nobyl
et quadrant' ejusdem cunagii et pro nobili de _vj_s. _viij_d. di. nobil
et quadrant' et minoribus ponderibus utriusque cunagii cum le Scolys et
Cophino pro eisdem. _ij_s. _j_d."

The new gold is of course the reduced coinage