om the trouble of seeking an answer,
and being disappointed at their profitless labours. If I may venture a
guess at its author, I should be inclined to ascribe it to some idle
schoolboy, or perhaps schoolmaster, who deserved to be whipped for their
pains.

C. W. B.

_"A Diasii 'Salve'," &c._ (Vol. vii., p. 571.).--The deliverance desired in
these words is from treachery, similar to that which was exhibited by the
fratricide Alfonso Diaz toward his brother Juan. (Vid. Senarclaei _Historiam
veram_, 1546; _Actiones et Monimenta Martyrum_, foll. 126-139. [Genevae],
1560: _Histoire des Martyrs_, foll. 161-168., ed. 1597; M^cCrie's
_Reformation in Spain_, pp. 181-188., Edinb. 1829.)

The "A Gallorum 'Venite,'" probably refers to the singing of the "Venite,
exultemus Domino," on the occasion of the massacre of St. Bartholomew.

R. G.

_Meaning of "Claret"_ (Vol. vii., pp. 237. 511.).--Old Bartholomew
Glanville, the venerable Franciscan, gives a recipe for claret in his
treatise _De Proprietatibus Rerum_, Argent., 1485., lib. xix. cap. 56.,
which proves it to be of older date than is generally supposed:

"Claretum ex vino et melle et speciebus aromaticis est confectum ...
Unde a vino contrahit fortitudinem et acumen, a speciebus autem retinet
aromaticitatem et odorem, sed a melle dulcedinem mutuat et saporem."

H. C. K.

---- Rectory, Hereford.

"_The Temple of Truth_" (Vol. vii., p. 549.).--The author of this work,
according to Dr. Watt, was the Rev. C. E. de Coetlogon, rector of Godstone,
Surrey.

[Greek: Halieus].

Dublin.

_Wellborne Family_ (Vol. vii., p. 259.).--The following is from the _Town
and Country Magazine_ for 1772:

"_Deaths._--Mr. Richard Wellborne, in Aldersgate Street, descended in a
direct male line from the youngest son of Simon Montfort, Earl of
Leicester, who flourished in King Henry III.'s time, and married that
king's sister."

There is now a family of the name of Wellborne residing in Doncaster.

W. H. L.

_Devonianisms_ (Vol. vii., p. 544.).--While a resident in Devonshire, I
frequently met with localisms similar in character to those quoted by
J. M. B.; but what at first struck me as most peculiar in common
conversation, was the use, or rather abuse, of the little preposition _to_.
When inquiring the whereabouts of an individual, Devonians ask one another,
"Where is he _to_?" The invariable reply is, "_To_ London," "_To_
Plymouth," &c., as the case m