1850.

_Catsup_ (no. 8. p. 125.).--"Catsup" is to be found thus spelt in Todd's
_Johnson's Dictionary_ (London, 1818). He describes it as a kind of
Indian pickles imitated by pickled mushrooms; and quotes these two lines
of Swift:

"And for our home-bred British cheer,
Botargo, catsup, and cavier."

An eminnet Sanscrit scholar informs me that "kuck-hup" is the
Hindostanee word for Turtle; it is to be met in the Vocabulary attached
to Gilchrist's _East Indian Guide_ (8vo. London, 1820). May not the name
of the sauce take its origin from the use of it in preparing the turtle
for the table? In the _Cuisinier Royal, par Viart_, p. 75., it is
mentioned among the "petites sauces," as ket-chop, "ou Soyac;" and the
receipt for making it ends with "servez le avec le poisson." (Published
at Paris, 1840.)

C.I.R.

_The Buckingham Motto_ (No. 9. p. 138., and No. 16. p. 252.).--On
examining the original manuscript the true reading of this motto appears
to me to be,

Sovente me sovene,
Harre Bokynghame.

I should translate it, "souvent me souvenez;" an Anglo-French paraphrase
of "sis memor mei;" or, "Ne m'oubliez pas." I have great doubt {284}
whether the original MS. can be safely assumed to be an _autograph_.

S.

[Our correspondent "P." writes, "It surprises me your OEdipi
should be so wide of the mark in this motto. It is simply, 'Oft
remember me.'"]

_Devices of the Standards of the Anglo-Saxons_ (No. 14. p. 216.).--The
arms, i.e. the standards of the successive rulers of Britain, may be
found in Sir Winston Churchill's curious work, _Divi Britannici_, which
gives (as your correspondent supposes) the White Horse for Kent, the
White Dragon for Wessex, and the Raven for the Danes.

C.

_Prutenicae_ (No. 14. p. 215.).--The work to which your correspondent
alludes is, I presume, _Prutenicae Tabulae Caelestium Motuum, autore Erasmo
Reinholdo_: Tubingae, 1562. This work is dedicated to Albert, Duke of
_Prussia_. In the dedication is the following passage:

"Ego has tubulas _Prutenicas_ dici volui, ut sciret posteritas
tua liberalitate, Princeps Alberte, nos adjutos esse, et tibi
gratiam ab iis, quibus profuturae sunt deberi."

Reinhold therefore called them Prutenie, _i.e. Prussian_ tables, in
compliment to the reigning duke. _Pruteni_ is an ancient name of the
Prussians. Albert (grandson of Albert the Achilles, Margrave of
Brandenburg) was in 1511 elected Grand Master of th