Protectorate. The subject is an interesting one in these days, when
Jewish disabilities are under discussion.

I wish to offer two queries:--1. Is this story confirmed by any
contemporary writer? 2. Is it conceivable that the Jews would have
consented to worship in a _cruciform_ church, such as was old St.
Paul's, which was standing at the time this offer is supposed to have
been made?

H.M. AUSTEN.
St. Peter's, Thanet.

_The Complutensian MSS._--Has not there been an account of these MSS.
published in London in 1821? My authority for this Query is to be found
in a work of Dr. D. Antonio Puigblanch:--

"En el ano 1821 per encargo que hice desde Madrid _se imprimio
mio aca en Londres_, de que es falso este rumor[2], pues en la
biblioteca de la Universidad de Alcala quedaban pocos meses
antes en gue estune en ella siete manuscritos biblicos en
aquellas dos lenguas[3], que son sin duda los mismos siete de
que hace mencion en la Vida del Cardenal Cisneros, Alfonso de
Castro, doctor teologo de la misma Universidad, i escritor
contemporaneo o de poco tiempo despues, parte de los cuales
manuscritos, es a saber, los caldeos, son de letra de Alfonso de
Zamora, que es uno de los tres judios conversos editores de la
Complutense."--_Opusculos Gramatico-Satiricos del Dr. D. Antonio
Puigblanch_, Londres [1832], p. 365.

If the Chaldee and Hebrew MSS. of the Complutensian Polyglot were at
Alcala in 1821, when were they removed to Madrid, and in what library at
Madrid are they now? The Greek MSS. are supposed to have been returned
to the Vatican Library. If the Chaldee MSS. are in the handwriting of
one of the editors, as stated by Puigblanch, they cannot be of much
value or authority. I shall add another Query:--Are they paper or
parchment?

E.M.B.

[Footnote 2: That the MSS. were destroyed.]

[Footnote 3: Hebrew and Chaldee.]

_Latin Names of Towns._--A correspondent who answered the Query as to
the "Latin Names of Towns" in titles, referred your readers to the
Supplement of Lempriere. I am much obliged to him for the hint, and have
obtained the work in consequence; but it is right your readers should
know that the information therein given must only be taken as
suggestive, and sometimes as dismissible upon reference to the commonest
gazetteer. I opened at the letter N; and found, that of three entries,
the first my eye lighted upon, two were palpably wrong. The