the county palatine of Chester."

I have the honour to be, Sir,
Your very obedient humble servant,
WILLIAM SIDNEY SPENCE.
Priory Place, Birkenhead,
Chester.
Dec. 14. 1848.

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Minor Queries.

_Atherstone Family._--Can any of your readers oblige me with information
concerning the Atherstone family? Is it an old name, or was it first given
some three or four generations back to a foundling, picked up near the town
of Atherston?

M. A. B.

_Classic Authors and the Jews._--Where can I find a complete or full
account of passages in Greek and Latin authors, which refer to Judea and
the Jews? It has been said that these references are very few, and that in
Cicero, for instance, there is not one. This last is wrong, I know. (See
_e.g._ Cic. _Pro L. Flacco_, 28., and _De Prov. Consul. 5._)

B. H. C.

_Bishop Hooper's Argument on the Vestment Controversy._--Glocester Ridley,
in his _Life of Bishop Ridley_, p. 315., London, 1763, states, in reference
to Bishop Hooper's _Book to the Council against the use of those Habits
which were then used by the Church of England in her sacred Ministries_,
written October, 1550, "Part of Hooper's book I have by me in MS." Could
any one state whether that MS. is now in existence, or where it is to be
found? It is of much importance to obtain {222} an answer to this inquiry,
as Bishop Ridley's MS. Reply to Bishop Hooper is, for the first time, about
to be printed by the Parker Society, through the kind permission of its
possessor, Sir Thomas Phillipps, Bart., in the second volume of the
Writings of Bradford which I am editing; and, to make Ridley's reply fully
intelligible, access is needed to Bishop Hooper's _Book to the Council_.

A. TOWNSEND.

Weston Lane, Bath,

February 23.

_The Title of "Dominus."_--How is it that at Cambridge the title of
_Dominus_ is applied to B.A.'s, while at Oxford it is confined to the
doctorate?

W. FRASER.

Tor-Mohun.

_The De Rous Family._--Hugh Rufus, or De Rous, was Bishop of Ossory, A.D.
1202. He had been previously an Augustinian Canon of Bodmin, in Cornwall.
Query, Was he a cadet of the ancient family of De Rous; and if so, what was
his descent?

JAMES GRAVES.

_Where was the Fee of S. Sanxon?_--At the end of "Ordericus Vitalis," in
the _Gesta Normannorum_, is a list called the "Feoda Normanniae," wherein,
under the title