du pays assuroient
etre de la race du traitre Judas--quoiqu'il le niat. C'est un bruit qui
court depuis long tems en cette contree, sans qu'on en sache la cause
ni l'origine. Le peuple de la ville de Ptolemais (autrement de l'Acre)
disoit de meme sans raison que dans une tour de cette ville on avoit
fabrique les trente deniers pour lesquelles Judas avoit vendu notre
Seigneur, et pour cela ils appelloient cette tour la _Tour Maudite_."

This is taken from the second volume of _Menagiana_, p. 232.

J. H. P. LERESCHE.

Manchester.

_Milton's Widow_ (Vol. viii., p. 12.).--The information once promised by
your correspondent CRANMORE still seems very desirable, because the
statements of your correspondent MR. HUGHES are not reconcilable with two
letters given in Mr. Hunter's very interesting historical tract on Milton,
pages 37-8., to which tract I beg to refer MR. HUGHES, who may not have
seen it. These letters clearly show that Richard Minshull, the writer of
them, had only _two aunts_, neither of whom could have been Mrs. Milton, as
she must have been if she was the daughter of the writer's grandfather,
Randall Minshull. Probably this Elizabeth died in infancy, which the
Wistaston parish register may show, and which register would perhaps also
show (supposing Milton took his wife from Wistaston) the wanting marriage;
or if Mrs. Milton was of the Stoke-Minshull family, that parish register
would most likely {135} disclose his third marriage, which certainly did
not take place sooner than 1662.

GARLICHITHE.

_Whitaker's Ingenious Earl_ (Vol. viii., p. 9.).--It was a frequent saying
of Lord Stanhope's, that he had taught law to the Lord Chancellor, and
divinity to the Bishops; and this saying gave rise to a caricature, where
his lordship is seated acting the schoolmaster with a rod in his hand.

E. H.

_Are White Cats deaf?_ (Vol. vii., p. 331.).--In looking up your Numbers
for April, I observe a Minor Query signed SHIRLEY HIBBERD, in which your
querist states that in all white cats stupidity seemed to accompany the
deafness, and inquires whether any instance can be given of a white cat
possessing the function of hearing in anything like perfection.

I am myself possessed of a white cat which, at the advanced age of upwards
of seventeen years, still retains its hearing to great perfection, and is
remarkably intelligent and devoted, more so than cats are usually given
credit for. Its affecti