_--Speaking of the periods of a man's life, Tusser's advice,
from the age of fourteen years to twenty-one, is to "Keep under Sir Hubbard
de Hoy." Is it known whether there ever existed a personage so named,
either as a legend or a myth? And if not, what is the origin of the modern
term "Hobble de Hoy" as a designation for a stripling? Bailey omits it in
his _Dictionary_.

L. A. M.

_Humphrey Hawarden._--Information is solicited respecting this individual,
who was a Doctor of Laws, and living in 1494. Also, of a Justice Port,
living about the same period.

T. HUGHES.

Chester.

_"Populus vult decipi."_--

"Populus } {
Mundus } vult decipi { et decipiatur,
Vulgus } { decipiatur ergo."

Who was the author of the maxim? which is its correct form? and where is it
to be found? It seems to present another curious instance of our ignorance
of things with which we are familiar. I have put the question to a dozen
scholars, fellows of colleges, barristers, &c. &c., and none has been able
to give me an answer. One only _thinks_ it was a dictum of some Pope.

HARRY LEROY TEMPLE.

_Sheriffs of Huntingdonshire and Cambridgeshire._--Where can any list of
the sheriffs for these counties be found, _previous_ to the list given by
Fuller from the time of Henry VIII.?

D.

_Harris._--The Rev. William Harris, B.A., was presented, by Thomas Pindar,
Esq., to the vicarage of Luddington, Lincolnshire, on the 7th August, 1722.
Mr. Harris died here in June, 1748, aged eighty-two. On his tomb is
inscribed,--

"Illi satis licuit
Nunc veterum libris, nunc
Somno, et inertibus horis
Ducere solicitae jucunda oblivio vitae."

A tradition of his being a wizard still lingers in the village, and I
should be very glad to receive any particulars respecting him. From an
inspection of his will at Lincoln, it appears that he used the coat of the
ancient family of Harris of Radford, Devon, and that his wife's name was
Honora, a Christian name not infrequent about that period in families of
the West of England also, as, for instance, Honora, daughter of Sir Richard
Rogers of Bryanstone, who married Edward Lord Beauchamp, and had a daughter
Honora, who married Sir Ferdinand Sutton; Honora, the wife of Harry Conway,
Esq., of Bodrhyddan, Flint; Honora, daughter of Edward Fortescue of
Fallapit; besides others.

W. H. LAMMIN.

Fulham.

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