ted_, 4to., 1568, is not uncommon. Herbert and
Heber possessed copies; and a copy sold at Saunders's in 1818 for five
shillings. My own copy (a remarkably fine one) cost sixteen shillings at
Evans's in 1840. The edition of 1569, containing some additions, is of
greater rarity.

EDWARD F. RIMBAULT.

_Divining Rod_ (Vol. viii., p. 293.).--In the first edition of his
_Mathematical Recreations_, Hutton laughed at the divining rod. In the
interval between that and the second edition, a lady made him change his
note, by using one before him at Woolwich. Hutton had the courage to
publish the account of the experiment in the second edition (vol. iv. pp.
216-231.), after the account he had previously given. By a letter from
Hutton to Bruce, printed in the memoir of the former which the latter
wrote, it appears that the lady was Lady Milbanke.

M.

"_Pinece with a stink_" (Vol. viii, p. 270.).--Archbishop Bramhall's editor
should have spelled the first word _pinnace_, and then your correspondent
MR. BLAKISTON could easily have understood the {351} allusion. In speaking
of the offensive composition, well known to sailors, the word _revenge_,
and not _defend_, was used by Bramhall.

R. G.

_Longevity_ (Vol. viii., p. 113.).--I do not think any of your
correspondents has noticed the case of John Whethamstede, Abbot of St.
Albans, who wrote a Chronicle of the period between 1441 and 1461: "He was
ordained a priest in 1382, and died in 1464, when he had been eighty-two
years in priest's orders, and was above one hundred years old." Surely this
is a case sufficiently authenticated for your more sceptical readers.
(Henry's _History of Great Britain_, 2nd ed., Lond. 1788, vol. x. p. 132.)

TEWARS.

_Chronograms_ (Vol. viii., pp. 42. 280.).--The following additional
specimen of this once popular form of numerical puzzle is not, I think,
unworthy a corner in "N. & Q."

On the upper border of a sun-dial, affixed to the west end of Nantwich
Church, Cheshire, there appeared, previous to its removal about 1800, the
undermentioned inscription:

"Honor DoMIno pro paCe popVLo sVo parta."

Now, seeing that Nantwich was, during the civil dissensions which
culminated in the murder of Charles I., a rampant hot-bed of anarchy and
rebellion, we should hardly be prepared for such a complete repudiation of
those principles as is conveyed in the line before us, did we not know that
the same anxiety to get rid of the "Bare-bones" incubus