if the
following extract may be relied on:

"The well-known epitaph of the celebrated Countess of Pembroke, the
sister of Sir Philip Sidney, has been generally ascribed to Ben Jonson.
The first stanza is printed in Jonson's poems; but it is found in the
manuscript volume of poems by William Browne, the author of
_Britannia's Pastorals_, preserved in the Lansdown Collection, British
Museum, No. 777., and on this evidence may be fairly appropriated to
him, particularly as it is known that he was a great favourite with
William, Earl of Pembroke, son of the Countess."--_Relics of
Literature_: London, Boys, 1823, p. 60.

ALFRED GATTY.

_Scandal against Queen Elizabeth_ (Vol. ii., p. 393.; Vol. iii., pp. 11.
151. 197. 225.).--Your correspondents seem to have overlooked the
celebrated {308} letter of Queen Mary of Scotland, printed in the _State
Trials_, and lately reprinted by Lord Campbell in his _Lives of the
Chancellors_, tit. Sir C. Hatton. I may as well add (though I do not
believe the fact) that my grandmother (herself a Devereux) repeated to me
the tradition of a son of Queen Elizabeth's having been sent to Ireland.

C.

_The Tanthony_ (Vol. III., pp. 105. 229.).--I am obliged to A. for the
trouble he has taken in reference to my Query; but perhaps I may be correct
in my suggestion, for on looking into the second volume of the
_Archaeological Journal_ the other day, I accidentally found an account of
the discovery of a figure of St. Anthony at Merthyr, near Truro, in which
it is mentioned that

"Under the left arm appears to have passed a staff, and the pig, with
_a large bell_ attached to its neck, appears in front of the
figure."--P. 202.

I shall be much obliged to anybody who will settle the point
satisfactorily. The fair held on old St. Andrew's Day is always called in
Kimbolton and the neighbourhood "Tandrew" fair, so why not "Tanthony" for
"Saint Anthony?"

ARUN.

_The Hippopotamus_ (Vol. iii., p. 181.).--Your correspondent MR. E. S.
TAYLOR will find in Vol. ii, p. 458, an example of the word [Greek:
hippopotamos] cited from Lucian, a writer anterior both to Horapollo and
Damascius. In the same page is a reference to the story of the wickedness
of the hippopotamus in Plutarch; so that Horapollo and Damascius,
doubtless, borrowed from a common source, or repeated a current fable, to
be found in many writings then extant.

L.

_Tu Autem_ (Vol. iii.,