"A philosophicall epitaph in hierogliphicall figures. A briefe of the
golden calf (the world's idol). The golden ass well managed, and Midas
restored to reason. Written by J. Rod, Glauber, and Jehior, the three
principles or originall of all things. Published by W.C., Esquire, 8vo.
Lond. Printed for William Cooper, at the Pellican, in Little Britain,
1673."

With a long catalogue of chemical books, in three parts, at the end. My
copy has two titles, the first being an engraved one, with ten small
circles round it, containing hieroglyphical figures, and an engraved
frontispiece, which is repeated in the volume, with some other cuts. There
are two dedications, one to Robert Boyle, Esq., and the other to Elias
Ashmole, Esq.; both signed "W.C. or twice five hundred," which signature is
repeated in other parts of the book. What is the meaning of "W.C. or twice
five hundred"?

T. CR.

_Brandon the Juggler._--Where is any information to be obtained of Brandon
the Juggler, who lived in the reign of King Henry VIII.?

T. CR.

_Jacobus Praefectus Siculus._--I have a beautiful copy of a poem by this
person, entitled _De Verbo DEI Cantica_. The binding expresses its date:
"Neapoli, 1537." It is not, I believe, the work which suggested to Milton
his greater songs, though it is a pretty complete outline of the _Paradise
Lost_ and _Regained_/ What is known about the author, or any other works of
his?

J.W.H.

_The Word "after" in the Rubric--Canons of 1604._--

1. Can any of your correspondents who may have in their possession any old
Greek, or Latin, or other versions, of the Book of Common Prayer, kindly
inform me how the word _after_ is rendered in the rubrics of the General
Confession, the Lord's Prayer in the Post Communion, and the last prayer of
the Commination Service? Is it in the sense of _post_ or _secundum_?

2. Where can any account of the translation of the Canons of 1604 into
English be found? It is apprehended the question is one more difficult to
answer than might be supposed.

T.Y.

_Hard by._--Is not _hard by_ a corruption of the German _hierbei_? I know
no other similar instance of the word _hard_, that is to say, as signifying
_proximity_, without the conjoint idea of _pressure_ or _pursuit._

K.

_Thomas Rogers of Horninger._--Can any of the readers of your valuable
publication give me, or put me in the way of obtaining, any information
about one Thomas Rogers, who was in some