Testaments, respectively, is considered the
best? Also, what Syriac Lexicon stands highest for value and accuracy?

T. TN.

_Villiers Duke of Buckingham._--There is a tradition in Portsmouth, that in
the evening preceding his assassination, Villiers Duke of Buckingham killed
a sailor. Is there any authority for this?

E. D.

_Porci solidi-pedes._--Can any of your readers inform me if any pigs with
single hoofs are in existence in any county in England? They are mentioned
in a letter from Sir Thomas Browne to Dugdale the antiquary.

J. S. P. (a Subscriber).

_The Heywood Family._--I am anxious to know if Thomas Heywood, the
dramatist, was in any way related to Nathaniel Heywood or Oliver Heywood,
the celebrated Nonconformist ministers in the seventeenth century? Could
any of your correspondents give me information on this point?

H. A. B.

Trin. Coll. Camb.

_Was Charles II. ever in Wales?_--There is a tradition amongst the
inhabitants of Glamorganshire, that, after his defeat at the battle of
Worcester, Charles come to Wales and staid a night at a place called
Llancaiach Vawr, in the parish of Gelligaer. The place then belonged to a
Colonel Pritchard, an officer in the Parliamentary army; and the story
relates that he made himself known to his host, and threw himself upon his
generosity for safety. The colonel assented to his staying for {264} _one_
night only, but went away himself, afraid, as the story goes, that the
Parliament should come to know he had succoured Charles. I know that
Llancaiach was a place of considerable note long after that, and that an
old farmer used to say he had heard tile story from his father. The
historians, I believe, are all silent as to his having fled to Wales
between the time of his defeat at Worcester and the time he left the
country.

DAVYDD GAM.

[Some accounts state that Charles I. was entertained by Colonel
Prichard, when that monarch, travelling through Wales, lost his way
between Tredegar and Brecknock. (See Lewis's _Topographical Dictionary
of Wales_, art. "Gellygaer.")]

_Dog's Head in the Pot._--"Thomas Johnson, Citizen and Haberdasher of
London, by will, dated 3d Sept. 1563, gave 13s. 4d. annually to the
highways between Barkway and Dogshed-in-the-Pot, otherwise called
Horemayd."

The Dogshed-in-the-Pot here mentioned was, as I infer, a public-house in
the parish of Great or Little Hormead in Hertfordshire, by the side of the
road from Barkw