ance of the
Latin." This is his excuse for offering to the public a third
translation, in which he professes to have allowed himself such
"elbow-room of expression as the humoursomeness of the subject and the
idiom of the language did invite."

HERMES.

The intermediate translation of the _Moriae Encomium_ of Erasmus, to
which your correspondent refers, is that by John Wilson, 8vo. London
1661, of which there is a copy in the Bodleian.

M.

Oxford.

_Court of Wards._--I cannot tell "J.B." (No. 11. p. 173.) anything about
Mr. D'Israeli's researches in the Court of Wards; but "J.B." may be glad
to know that there is among the MSS. in the British Museum a treatise on
the Court of Wards. I remember seeing it, but have not read it. I dare
say it might be usefully published, for we know little in detail about
the Court of Wards.

C.H.

_Scala Coeli_ (No. 23. p. 366.).--In Foxe's _Acts and Mon._, vol. v. p.
364., Lond. 1838, your Querist may see a copy of a grant from Pope
Clement VII. in 1526, to the brethren of a Boston guild, assuring them
that any member thereof who should enter the Lady Chapel in St.
Botolph's Church, Boston, once a quarter, and say there "a Paternoster,
Ave Maria, and Creed, shall have the full remission due to them that
visit the Chapel of Scala Scoeli."

H.W.

_Twm Shawn Cattie_ (No. 24, p. 383.).--The following extract from
Cliffe's _Book of South Wales_, furnishes a reply to this Query.

In describing the beautiful mountain scenery between Llandovery and
Tregaron, he says:--

"High in the rock above the fall yawns a hole, hardly a cavern,
where once lurked a famous freebooter of Wales, Twm Sion Catti:
the entrance to this cave is through a narrow aperture, formed
of two immense slate rocks, which face each other, and the space
between them is narrower at the bottom than the top, so {456}
that the passage can only be entered sideways, with the figure
inclined according to the slanting of the rock.

"The history of Twm Sion Catti (pronounced Toom Shone Catti),
alias Thomas Jones, Esq., is very romantic. He was a natural son
of John ap David Moethe, by Catharine, natural daughter of
Meredydd ap Ivan ap Robert, grandfather of Sir John Wynne, of
Gwydir (see _The Heraldic Visitations of Wales_, published by
the Welsh MSS. Society), and is said to have died in 1630, at
the age of 61. In early life, 'he was a notorious freeboot