an in London upon the second of September, 1666,
at one Mr. Farryner's house, a baker in Pudding Lane, between the hours
of one and two in the morning, and continued burning until the sixth of
that month, did overrun the space of three hundred and seventy-three
acres within the walls of the city of London, and sixty-three acres
three roods without the walls. There remained seventy-five acres three
roods standing within the walls unburnt. Eighty-nine parish churches,
besides chappels burnt. Eleven parishes within the walls standing.
Houses burnt, Thirteen thousand two hundred.

"JONAS MOORE, }
"RALPH GATRIX, } Surveyors."

I copy this from a volume of tracts, printed 1679 to 1681; chiefly
"Narratives" of judicial and other proceedings relating to the (so called)
"Popish Plots" in the reign of Charles II.

WM. FRANKS MATHEWS.

_Noble or Workhouse Names_--

"The only three noble names in the county were to be found in the great
house [workhouse]; mine [Berners] was one, the other two were Devereux
and Bohun."--_Lavengro_, iii. 232.

The above extract reminds me of a list of names of the poor about St.
Alban's, which I forwarded some months since, viz. Brax, Brandon, De Amer,
De Ayton, Fitzgerald, Fitz John, Gascoigne, Harcourt, Howard, Lacey,
Stanley, Ratcliffe.

A. C.

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Queries.

PASSAGES IN THE NEW TESTAMENT ILLUSTRATED FROM DEMOSTHENES.

Acts xvii. 21.:

"For all the Athenians and strangers which were there spent their time
in nothing else, but either to tell, or to hear some new thing."

Can any of your biblical correspondents inform me in what commentary upon
the New Testament the coincidence with the following passages in
Demosthenes is noticed, or whether any other source of the historical fact
has been recorded? In the translation of Petrus Lagnerius, Franc. 1610 (I
have not at hand the entire works), we find these words:

"Nihil est omnium, Athenienses, in praesentia nocentius, quam quod vos
alienati estis a rebus, et tantisper operam datis, dum audientes
sedetis, si quid Novi nuntiatum fuerit" (4. contr. _Phil_.).

Again:

"Nos vero, dicetur verum, nihil facientes, hic perpetuo sedemus
cunctabundi, tum decernentes, tum interrogantes, si quid Novi in foro
dicatur."--4 _Orat. ad Philipp. Epist._

Pricaeus, in his very learned and valuable _Commentarii in varios N.T.