way connected with the village of
Horninger or Horringer, near Bury St. Edmunds, was author of a work on the
Thirty-nine Articles, and died in the year 1616?

S.G.

Corpus Christi Col., Cambridge.

_Armorial Bearings._--Three barrulets charged with six church bells, three,
two, and one, is a shield occurring in the Speke Chauntry, in Exeter
Cathedral. Can this coat be assigned?

J.W.H.

_Lady Compton's Letter to her Husband._--In Bishop Goodman's _Court of King
James I.,_ edited by John S. Brewer, M.A. (vol. ii. p. 127..), is a letter
from Lady Compton to her husband, William Lord Compton, afterwards Earl of
Northampton, written upon occasion of his coming into possession of a large
fortune. This letter, with some important variations, is also given in
Knight's _London_ (vol. i. p. 324.), and, if my memory does not deceive me,
in Hewitt's _Visits to Remarkable Places_. This letter is very curious, but
I can hardly think it genuine. Can any of your correspondents throw any
light on the matter? Was it printed before 1839, when Mr. Brewer's work
appeared? Where is the original, or supposed original, to be seen? Above
all, is it authentic? If not, is it known when, and by {425} whom, and
under what circumstances it was written?

C.H. COOPER.

Cambridge, November 15. 1850.

_Romagnasi's Works._--In a "Life of G.D. Romagnasi," in vol. xviii. _Law
Mag._, p. 340., after enumerating several of his works, it is added, "All
these are comprised in a single volume, Florentine edit. of 1835." I have
in vain endeavoured to procure the work, and have recently received an
answer from the first book establishment in Florence, to the effect that no
such edition ever appeared either at Florence or elsewhere.

This is strange after the explicit statement in the _Law Mag._, and I shall
be obliged to receive through the medium of your useful pages any
information regarding the work in question.

F.R.H.

_Christopher Barker's Device._--I have often been puzzled to understand the
precise meaning of the inscription on Christopher Barker's device. Whether
this arises from my own ignorance, or from any essential difficulty in it,
I cannot tell; but I should be glad of an explanation. I copy from a folio
edition of the Geneva Bible, "imprinted at London by Christopher Barker,
printer to the Queene's Majesty, 1578."

The device consists of a boar's head rising from a mural crown, with a
scroll proceeding from its mouth, and embracing