he conditions offered them, were thrown entirely on the charity of
their brethren at Malta. Henry offered Sir Wm. Weston, Lord Prior of
England, a pension of a thousand pounds a year; but that knight was so
overwhelmed with grief at the suppression of his Order, that he never
received a penny, but soon after died. Other knights, less scrupulous,
became pensioners of the crown."

W. W.

La Valetta, Malta.

[Footnote 4: I have sought in vain among the records of the Order at this
island to find any mention made of those English knights, whom Sutherland
thus mentions as having fled to Malta at the time of this persecution in
their native land.]

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Replies to Minor Queries.

_Anticipatory Worship of the Cross_ (Vol. vii., p. 548.).--A correspondent
wishes for farther information on the anticipatory worship of the cross in
Mexico and at Alexandria. At the present moment I am unable to refer to the
works on which I grounded the statement which he quotes. He will, however,
find the details respecting Mexico in Stephens's _Travels in Yucatan_; and
those respecting Alexandria in the commentators on Sozomen (_H. E._, vii.
15.), and Socrates (_H. E._, v. 16.). A similar instance is the worship of
the _Cross Fylfotte_ in Thibet.

THE WRITER OF "COMMUNICATIONS WITH THE UNSEEN WORLD."

_Ennui_ (Vol. vii., p. 478.).--

"Cleland (voc. 165.) has, with his usual sagacity, and with a great
deal of trouble, as he himself acknowledges, traced out the true
meaning and derivation of this word: for after he had long despaired of
discovering the origin of it, mere chance, he says, offered to him what
he took to be the genuine one: 'In an old French book I met,' says he,
'with a passage where the author, speaking of a company that had sat up
late, makes use of this expression, "l'ennuit les avoit gagnes," by the
context of which it was plain he meant, that the common influence of
_the night_, in bringing on _heaviness_ and _yawning_, had come upon
them. The proper sense is totally antiquated, but the figurative
remains in full currency to this day."--Lemon's _Etymological
Dictionary_.

The true synonym of _ennui_ seem to be _taedium_, which appears to have the
same relation to _taedo_, a torch, as _ennui_ to _nuit_.

B. H. C.

_"Qui facit per alium, facit per se," &c._ (Vol. vii., p. 488.).--This
maxim is found in the foll