,
Brockhaus),--a collection of _causes celebres_ which has been in course
of publication at intervals since 1842. The volume in question appeared
in the present year (1850).

V.

Belgravia.

_Vineyards_ (Vol. ii., p. 392.).--At Ingatestone Hall, in Essex, one of
the seats of Lord Petre, a part of the ground on the south side of the
house still goes by the name of "the Vineyard." And this autumn grapes
came to great perfection on the south wall.

J.A.D.

_Cardinal_ (Vol. ii., p. 424.).--The expression referred to by O.P.Q.
was in some degree illustrated at the coronation of Edward II., 1308,
when the Pope, wishing the ceremony to be performed by a cardinal, whom
he offered to send for the purpose, was strenuously opposed by the king,
and compelled to withdraw his pretensions. (See Curtis's _History of
England_, vol. ii. p. 309.)

C.H.

St. Catherine's Hall, Cambridge.

_Weights for weighing Coins_ (Vol. ii., p. 326.).--If the question of
your correspondent, who wishes to know at what period weights were
introduced {523} for weighing coins, is intended to have a general
reference, he will find many passages alluding to the practice amongst
the ancient Romans, who manufactured balances of various kinds for that
purpose: one for gold (_statera auraria_, Varro _Ap. Non._, p. 455., ed.
Mercer.; Cic. _Or._ ii. 38.); another for silver (Varro _De Vit. P.R._
lib. ii.); and another for small pieces of money (_trutina momentana
pro parva modicaque pecunia._ Isidor. _Orig._, xvi. 25. 4.). The mint
is represented on the reverse of numerous imperial coins and medals
by three female figures, each of whom holds a pair of scales, one for
each of the three metals; and in Rich's _Illustrated Companion to the
Latin Dictionary_, under the word LIBRA, there is exhibited a balance
of very peculiar construction, from an original in the cabinet of the
Grand Duke at Florence, which has a scale at one end of the beam, and
a fixed weight at the opposite extremity, "to test the just weight of
a given quantity, and supposed to have been employed at the mint for
estimating the proper weight of coinage."

MONETA.

_Umbrellas_ (Vol. i., p. 414. etc.).--To the extensive exhibition of
_umbrellas_ formed through the exertions of the right worthy editor of
the "NOTES AND QUERIES" and his very numerous friends, I am happy to
have it in my power to make an addition of considerable curiosity, it
being of much earlier date than any speci