ground in his _Essay on Poetical Similes_.
Any notes on this subject, addressed to the "care of the Editor," will
greatly oblige

SIGMA.

Customs, London.

_Quotations wanted._--Whence the following:

1. "Condendaque Lexica mandat Damnatis, poenam pro poenis omnibus
unam."

Quoted at the end of the Preface to Liddell and Scott's _Lexicon_?

2. "_Rex_ erat _Elizabeth_, sed erat _Regina Jacobus?_"[1]

P. J. F. GANTILLON.

[Footnote 1: Rapin has given the parentage of this pasquil at the end of
his History of James I.:

"Tandis qu' Elizabeth fut Roy
L'Anglois fut d'Espagne l'effroy,
Maintenant, devise et caquette,
Regi par la Reine Jaquette."

"Extinctus amabitur idem."

Unde?

W. T. M.

_Griffith, William, Bishop of Ossory._--Any facts relative to the life of
this prelate will be acceptable, as I am about to go to press with a work
comprising _Lives of the Bishops of Ossory_.

JAMES GRAVES.

Killkenny.

"_Cowperiana._"--Southey, in his preface to the last volume of his edition
of Cowper's _Works_ (dated Aug. 12, 1837), speaks of his intention to
publish two additional volumes under the title of _Cowperiana_. Were these
ever published? If not, will they ever be?

W. P. STORER.

Olney, Bucks.

_John Keats's Poems._--Can any of your readers inform me what legend (if
any) John Keats the poet refers to in his beautiful poem of _St. Agnes'
Eve_, st. xix., when he says:

"Never on such a night have lovers met,
Since Merlin paid his demon all the monstrous debt."

And pray let me know what is implied in the concluding lines of his absurd
poem of _Hyperion_, as they have always been a mystery to me.

[Greek: Xanthos].

_Holland._--We have the kingdom of Holland, we have the Holland division of
Lincolnshire, and in Lancashire we have the two townships of Downholland
and Upholland. Is the derivation of each the same, and, if it be, what is
the affinity?

PRESTONIENSIS.

_Armorial._--Can the younger son of a peer use the supporters to his family
arms?

PRESTONIENSIS.

_Stoke and Upton._--These names of places are so very common, and in some
counties, as Bucks, Worcester, and Devon, apply to adjoining villages, that
it would be interesting to know the origin of the names, and of their
association.

JNO. D. ALCROFT.

_Slavery in England._--One of the recent volumes published by the Chetham
Society, the _Stanley Papers_, part ii., contains the household books of
the