rm of judicial oath was first sanctioned by the professors of
Christianity as a body? It is stated in Haydn's _Dictionary of Dates_, that
"oaths were taken on the Gospels so early as A.D. 528." How were they taken
before then?

2. Did the practice of swearing on the Gospels prevail in England before
the Reformation? If not, at what period was it introduced?

3. When was that form of oath first adopted by the Irish; and was its
adoption a voluntary proceeding on their part, or enforced by legislative
enactment?

4. Was the practice of raising the hand in use in Scotland before the
Reformation?

5. At what period was the latter form adopted by the Continental
Christians, in lieu of the more solemn oath on the Gospels?

6. Are there now, or have there been at any former period, any forms of
judicial oath in use among Christians, other than the forms above
mentioned?

HENRY H. BREEN.

St. Lucia.

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Minor Queries.

_Passage in Boerhaave._--Will any of our readers kindly oblige me by the
_exact word_ of a passage in Boerhaave, of which I cite the following from
memory?--

"The only malady inherent in the human frame, is the decay of old age."

A FOREIGN SURGEON.

7. Charlotte Street, Bedford Square.

_Story of Ezzelin._--Where is the story to be found from which Fuseli
derived the subject for his remarkable picture of Ezzelin (Braccioferro)
musing over the body of Meduna? It was engraved by J. R. Smith, and
published by Jas. Birchel, 473. Strand, May, 1781. What has become of the
original picture?

J. SANSOM.

_The Duke._--Can any of your readers tell me whether Sir Arthur Wellesley's
speech in the House of Commons upon Mr. Paull's charge against his brother,
was the first he made in Parliament?

ROBERT J. ALLEN.

Oxford.

_General Sir Dennis Pack._--This gallant officer, who, in command of the
light division of the Duke's army, distinguished himself in nearly every
battle of the Peninsula, and finally at Waterloo, was descended from a
younger son of Simon, son of Sir Christopher Pack, Alderman and Lord Mayor
of London. The family was originally from Leicestershire. Sir Christopher,
having advanced money for the reduction of the Irish rebels of 1641,
received a grant of land in the county of Westmeath; and his younger son,
Simon, settled in Ireland about that period. From this Simon descended
Thomas Pack, Esq., of Ballinakill in the Queen's County, grand