complaint in the thirteenth and fourteenth
centuries."

THETAS.

_Gloves not worn in the Presence of Royalty_ (Vol. i., p. 366.).--

"This week the Lord Coke, with his gloves on, touched and kissed the
King's hand; but whether to be confirmed a counsellor, or cashiered, I
cannot yet learn."--Letter in _Court and Times of Charles I._, dated
April, 1625.

W. DN.

_Nonjurors' Oratories in London_ (Vol. ii., p. 354.).--

"Nothing, my lord, appears so dreadful to me, as the account I have of
the barefaced impudence of your Jacobite congregations in London. The
marching of the King's forces to and fro through the most factious
parts of the kingdom, must (in time) put an end to our little country
squabbles; but your _fifty churches_ of nonjurors could never be thus
daring, were they not sure of the protection of some high
ally."--Letter from Bishop Nicholson to Archbishop Wake, dated Rose,
Sept. 20. 1716. in Ellis's _Letters_, Series iii.

W. DN.

_"Filthy Gingran"_ (Vol. ii., p. 335).--I have found the following clue to
the solution of my Query on this point:--

"Gingroen (gin-croen) _s. f._, the toad-flax, a kind of stinking
mushroom."--Owen's _Welsh Dictionary_.

There is, however, some mistake (a high authority informs me) in the
explanation given in the dictionary. Toad-flax is certainly not a
"mushroom," neither does it "stink." Is the Welsh word applied to both
equivocally as distinct {468} objects? In Withering's _Arrangement of
British Plants_, 7th edit., vol. iii., p. 734., 1830, the Welsh name of
_Antirrhinum Sinaria_, or common yellow toad-flax, is stated to be
_Gingroen fechan_.

I must still invite further explanation.

A. T.

_Michael Scott_ (Vol. ii., p. 120.).--A correspondent wishes to know what
works of Michael Scott's have ever been printed. In John Chapman's
Catalogue for June, 1850, I see advertised

"Michael Scott's Physionomia, Venet. 1532.
-------- Chyromantia del Tricasso da Ceresari, 2 vols. in 1, 1532."

H. A. B.

_The Widow of the Wood_ (Vol. ii., p. 406.).--Your correspondent is
referred to Lowndes's _Bibliographical Manual_, vol. iii. p. 1868, for some
mention of this work. It is there stated that the late eminent conveyancer,
Francis Hargreave, the step-son of the lady, "bought up and destroyed every
copy of this work that he could procure."

J. H. M.

Bath.

_The Widow of the Wood_, 1775, 12mo., pp. vi. and 20