o l'Esquisse, en termes de
Peinture) Libri valde famigerati Mich. Serveti, a Joanne Calvino
cum ipso Serveto combusti, cui Titulus, _Christianismi
Restitutio, hoc est totius Ecclesiae Apostolicae ad sua limina
Vocatio_, &c. &c., typis mandati anno 1554, Viennae Allobrogum,
8vo. pagg. 734," concluding with an anecdote of the rarity of
the volume.

There may be some to whom these "Notes" may be of use, others to whom a
reply to the "Queries" may have interest, and so I send them to you.
Such MSS. are of great historical importance.

S.H.

Athenaeum, July 26.

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ETYMOLOGICAL QUERIES.

Any remarks on the meaning and derivation of the following words, will
be thankfully received.

_Rykelot_.--A magpie?

_Berebarde_.--"In the fever or the _Berebarde_."

_Wrusum_, or _Wursum_.--"My wounds that were healed gather new _wrusum_,
and begin to corrupt."

_Deale_.--Placed always between two sentences without any apparent
connection with either of them. Is it an abbreviation of "Dieu le sait?"

_Sabraz_.--"He drinks bitter _sabraz_ to recover his health."

_Heteneste_.--"Inclosed _hetenest_ in a stone coffin or tomb."

_Schunche_.--"Schunche away."

_I-menbred_.--"A girdle _i-menbred_."

_Blodbendes_ of silk.

_Hesmel_.--"Let their _hesmel_ be high _istiled_, al without broach."

_Irspille_.--"Wear no iron, nor haircloth, nor _irspilles_ felles."

J. Mn.

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MINOR QUERIES

_Countess of Desmond_.--I should be much obliged if any of your readers
would inform me of the manner of the death of Catherine Fitzgerald,
Countess of Desmond, commonly called the "old Countess of Desmond," who
died in 1626, aged above 140 years,--some say, 162 years. I think I
remember reading, some years since, that she died from a fall from a
cherry-tree, at the age of 144 years. If so, where can the account be
found?

K.

Cheetham Hill.

_Noli me tangere_.--Can any of your readers refer me to pictures upon
the subject of _Noli me tangere_. I want to know what artists have
treated the subject, and where their pictures exist.

B.R.

_Line in Milton's "Penseroso."_--In those somewhat hacknied lines,

"And may my due feet never fail," &c.,

I am somewhat puzzled to understand the expression,

"With antique pillars massy _proof_."

Now what is "proof,"--a substantive or adjective? If the latter, no
edition is righ