ne fenetre, et n'avait jamais
reparu. Richard de Poictiers, selon un contemporain, avait coutume de
rapporter cette aventure, et de dire a ce propos: 'Est-il etonnant que,
sortis d'une telle source, nous vivions mal, les uns avec les autres?
Ce qui provient du diable doit retourner au diable.'"

Thierry quotes _Brompton apud Scriptores Rerum Francorum_, tom. xiii. p.
215.:

"Istud Ricardus referre solebat, asserens de tali genere procedentes
sese mutuo infestent, tanquam de diabolo venientes, et ad diabolum
transeuntes."

I shall be glad of any assistance in tracing the story up or down.

H. B. C.

U. U. Club.

_Anglo-Saxon Graves._--The world is continually hearing now of researches
in Anglo-Saxon graves. I beg to inquire whether Anglo-Saxon coins or
inscriptions have been found in any of these, so as to identify them with
the people to whom these interments are ascribed? or upon what other proof
or authority these graves are so assigned to the Anglo-Saxons?

H. E.

_Robert Brown the Separatist._--Robert Brown the Separatist, from whom his
followers were called "Brownists." Whom did he marry, and when? In the
_Biog. Brit._ he is said to have been the son of Anthony Brown of Tolthorp,
Rutland, Esq. (though born at Northampton, according to Mr. Collier), and
grandson of Francis Brown, whom King Henry VIII., in the eighteenth year of
his reign, privileged by charter to wear his {495} cap in the royal
presence. He was nearly allied to the Lord Treasurer Cecil Lord Burleigh,
who was his friend and powerful protector. Burleigh's aunt Joan, daughter
of David Cyssel of Stamford (grandfather of the Lord Treasurer) by his
second wife, married Edmund Brown. She was half-sister of Richard Cyssel of
Burleigh, the Lord Treasurer's father. What connexion was there between
Edmund Brown and Anthony Brown of Tolthorp?

Fuller (_Ch. Hist._, b. ix. p. 168.) says, he had a wife with whom he never
lived, and a church in which he never preached. His church was in
Northamptonshire, and he died in Northampton Gaol in 1630.

From 1589 to 1592 he was master of St. Olave's Grammar School in Southwark.

G. R. CORNER.

Eltham.

_Commissions issued by Charles I. at Oxford._--In Lord Campbell's _Lives of
the Chancellors_, vol. ii. p. 604., it is stated that a commission was
granted to Lord Keeper Littleton to raise a corps of volunteers for the
royal service among the members of the legal profession, "and t