obliged to any of the readers of "N. & Q." who could and would
help me to answer the anxious Query from the Hymmalayas.

M. M.

Wybunbury, Nantwich.

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Minor Queries.

"_De la Schola de Sclavoni._"--On a large marble slab at North Stoneham,
near Southampton, is the following, inscription:

Ano Dni MCCCCLXXXI Sepvltvra de la Schola de Sclavoni."

Is this the burial-place of the family of one of the foreign merchants
settled in this country, and can any of the correspondents of "N. & Q."
give any information about it?

JOHN S. BURN.

_Mineral Acids._--As it is generally supposed that these powerful solvents
were not known anterior to circiter A.D. 1100, I should be glad to learn
what opinion is entertained by the learned concerning {340} the death of
the prophet Haken al Mokannah. This person is said to have disappeared in
785, or 163 of the Hejrah, by casting himself into a barrel of corrosive
fluids, which dissolved his body. Is it not the best supposition, that this
story was supposed by Khondemir and others, in more advanced ages of
science, to account for the fact of his having disappeared, and of his real
fate having never been ascertained? I have never seen this apparent
anticipation of chemical discoveries animadverted on.

A. N.

_Richard Geering._--Wanted, arms, pedigree, and particulars of the family
of Richard Geering, one of the six clerks in Chancery in Ireland from March
1700 to April 1735. One of his daughters, Prudence, married, in 1722,
Charles Coote, Esq., M.P., and by him was mother of the last Earl of
Bellamont. Another daughter, Susannah, was wife of Mr. Charles Wilson; who
was, it is believed, a connexion of the family of Ward of Newport, in
Shropshire. Any information about Mr. Wilson's ancestry would be very
acceptable.

Y. S. M.

_Stipendiary Curates._--What is the earliest mention of stipendiary curates
in our ecclesiastical establishment? And what other national churches have
priests placed in a corresponding position?

BEROSUS.

_Our Lady of Rounceval._--Can you or any of your correspondents furnish me
with particulars of our Lady of Rounceval?

A. J. DUNKIN.

_Roden's Colt._--A lady of a certain age is said in common parlance to be
"Forty, save one, the age of Roden's colt." What can Nimrod tell us
touching this proverbialised animal?

R. C. WARDE.

Kidderminster.

_Sir Christopher Wren and the Young Carver._--A reader