mitting to
notice the alleged desire of the Jews to obtain St. Paul's Cathedral,
considered that the acrimonious statements of Monteith were not borne
out by accredited or unprejudiced authorities; for it is but justice
to state, it has been admitted by some of our most eminent critics,
that Mr. Egan's book on the Jews displays as dispassionate and
impartial a review of their condition in this country as it evinces a
profundity of historical and legal research.

"H.M.A.'s" second question I am unable to answer, not being
sufficiently versed in the religious dogmas of the Jews.

B.A.

Christ Church, Oxford.

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_Emancipation of the Jews_ (No. 25. p. 401.).--"MR. AUSTEN," who
inquires (p. 401.) about the Jews during the Commonwealth will do
well to refer to a chapter on the Jews in Godwin's _History of
the Commonwealth_, and to Sir Henry Ellis's notes on a remarkable
letter describing a Jewish synagogue in London immediately after the
Restoration, in the second series of his _Letters_; and in these two
places he will, I think, find references to all known passages on the
subject of Cromwell's proceedings as regards the Jews.

C.H.

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_As lazy as Ludlum's Dog_ (No. 24. p. 382.).--This proverb is repeated
somewhat differently in _The Doctor, &c._, "As _lazy_ as _Ludlum's_
dog, as _leaned_ his head against a wall to bark." I venture to
suggest that this is simply one of the large class of alliterative
proverbs so common in every language, and often without meaning. In
Devonshire they say as "Busy as Batty," but no one knows who "Batty"
was. As I have mentioned _The Doctor, &c._, I may was well jot down
two more odd sayings from the same old curiosity-shop:--"As proud as
old COLE's dog which took the wall of a dung-CART, and got CRUSHED by
the wheel." And, "As queer as Dick's hat-band, that went nine times
round his hat and was fastened by a rush at last."

J.M.B.

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_St. Winifreda_ (No. 24. p. 384.).--Your Querist will find some
information in Warton's _Hist. Eng. Poetry_, vol. i. p. 14., note,
1824.

J.M.B.

Totnes, April 18. 1850.

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"_Vert Vert_" (No. 23. p. 366.)--It may be of some assistance to your
Querist "ROBERT SNOW," in his endeavour to trace illustrations from
Gresset's "Vert Vert," to know that the mark of RAUX, who is said to
have pa