on 7." I find Nero accusing Seneca of having had the insolence
to use the words, "I and my king." I have often heard of Henry VIII.,
Wolsey, and "Ego et rex meus;" but as I never heard Quevedo quoted as
an illustration, I look upon this as one of the suspicious passages in
my copy of his work.

C. FORBES.

Temple.

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MINOR QUERIES.

_Gilbert Browne_.--"G.C.B." is desirous of information respecting
the family from which was descended Gilbert Browne of the Inner
Temple, who died about a century ago, and was buried in North Mymms
Church, Herts, where there is a monument to him (vide Clutterbuck's
_History_); also as to the arms, crest, and motto, as borne by him,
and whether he was in any way related to Michael Browne of Hampton
Court, Herefordshire, who married Elizabeth Philippa, daughter of
Lord Coningsby, as stated in Collins's _Peerage_. He also desires
information as to any enrolment of arms previous to the Visitations,
by which the bearings of families who had grants of land from the
Conqueror may be ascertained; as, for instance, a family who began
to decay about the end of the 14th century, having previously been of
great rank and position.

_The Badger_.--Can any body point out to me any allusion, earlier than
that in Sir T. Browne's _Vulgar Errors_, to the popular idea that the
legs of the badger were shorter on one side than on the other, whence
Mr. Macaulay says, "I think that Titus Oates was as uneven as a
badger?"

W.R.F.

_Ecclesiastical Year_.--_Note_ in an old parish register, A.D. 1706.
"Annus Domini Secundum Ecclesiae Anglicanae Supputationem incipit 25to
Mensis Martij."

_Query_ the _authority_ for this? the _reason_ seems easy to define.

NATHAN.

_Sir William Coventry_.--Pepys mentions in his _Diary_, that Sir
William Conventry kept a journal of public events. Is anything known
of this journal? It is not known of at Longleat, where are several
papers of Sir William Conventry's.

A MS. letter from Lord Weymouth to Sir Robert Southwell, giving an
account of Sir W. Conventry's death, was sold at the sale of Lord de
Clifford's papers in 1834. Can any of your readers inform me where
this letter now is?

C.

_Shrew_.--Is _shrew_, as applied to the shrew-mouse, and as applied to
a scolding woman, the same word? If so, what is its derivation?

The following derivations of the word are cited by Mr. Bell. _Saxon_,
"Schreadan," to cut; "Sc