I wish for additional, and,
if possible, more recent information.

Does any one of your readers know what became of the MSS. formerly
in the possession of the above-named Thomas Astle, formerly Keeper
of the Tower Records? In Sir W. Burrell's Sussex collections in the
British Museum are copies of charters, "ex MSS. penes T. Aste," with
notices of curious seals appended, which I should be glad to be able
to inspect.

E.V.

_Stephen Eiton, or Eden's "Acta Regis Edw. II._"--The
interesting account of St. Thomas of Lancaster, with the appended
queries (No. 12. p. 181.), reminds me of the work of Stephen Eiton
or Eden, a canon-regular of Warter, in Yorkshire, entitled, "Acta
Regis Edwardi iidi," which is said still to remain in manuscript.
Where is it deposited?

T.J.

_Dog Latin._--Permit me also to ask, what is the origin of the
expression "Dog Latin"?

T.J.

_The Cuckoo--the Welch Ambassador._--In Middleton's _A Trick
to Catch the Old One_, Act iv. sc. 5., Dampet says:--

"Why, thou rogue of universality, do I not know thee? Thy
sound is like the cuckoo, the Welch Embassador."

And the editor of the continuation of Dodsley's
_Collection_ remarks on the passage,--

"Why the cuckoo is called the Welch Embassador, I know not."

{231}Perhaps some of your readers can explain why the cuckoo is so
called.

G.

_A recent Novel_.--Having lately met with an extremely rare
little volume, the title of which runs thus: "La prise d'un Seigneur
Ecossois et de ses gens qui pilloient les navires pescheurs de
France, ensemble le razement de leur fort et le retablissement d'un
autre pour le service du Roi ... en la Nouvelle France ... par le
sieur Malepart. Rouen, le Boullenger, 1630. 12o. 24pp." I was
reminded of a modern novel, the principal scenes of which are laid
in an island inhabited by a British nobleman of high rank, who,
having committed a political crime, had been reported dead, but was
saved by singular circumstances, and led the life of a buccaneer.
Can any of your numerous readers be good enough to mention the title
of the novel alluded to, which has escaped my memory?

ADOLPHUS.

_Authorship of a Couplet_.--Can you help me to the authorship
of the following lines?--

"Th' unhappy have whole days, and those they choose;
The happy have but hours, and those they lose."

P.S.

_Seal of Killigrew, and Genealogy of the Killigrew
Family_.--"BURIENSIS" (No. 13. p. 204.) is info