C. FORBES.

Temple, April 25.

L.C. may find the following references of service to him in his inquiry into the origin of this expression:—­“Solanus ad Luc.  D.M. 1. 2.; Jacobs ad Lucill.  Epigr. 9.; Belin. ad Lucian, t. iii. p. 326.; Huschk. Anal. p. 168.; Lambec. ad Codin.  Sec. 126.; Nodell in Diario Class. t. x. p. 157.; Bayl. Dict. in Junone, not.  E.”  Boissonade’s note in his Anecdotae, vol. iii. p. 140.

J.E.B.  MAYOR.

Marlborough College.

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REPLIES TO MINOR QUERIES

Shipster (Vol. ii., p. 30.).—­If C. B. will consult Dr. Latham’s English Language, 2nd ed., he will find that the termination ster is not merely a notion of Tyrwhitt’s, but a fact.  Sempstress has a double feminine termination. Spinster is the only word in the present English which retains the old feminine meaning of the termination ster.

E.S.  JACKSON.

Three Dukes (Vol. ii., p. 9.).—­I should like a more satisfactory answer to this Query than that I given by C. (Vol. ii., p. 46.).  I can give the I names of two of the Dukes (viz.  Monmouth and Albermarle); but who was the third, and where can a detailed account of the transaction be found?  In Wades’ British History chronologically arranged, 3rd edit. p. 230, is the following paragraph under the date of Feb. 28, 1671 (that is, 1670-1):—­

“The Duke of Monmouth, who had contrived the outrage on Coventry, in a drunken frolic with the young Duke of Albemarle and others, deliberately kills a ward-beadle.  Charles, to save his son, pardoned all the murderers.”

The date given in the State Poems is Sunday morning, Feb. 26th, 1670-71.  Mr. Lister, in his Life of Edward, Earl of Clarendon (vol. ii. p. 492.), alludes to the affair:—­

    “The King’s illegitimate son Monmouth, in company with the young
    Duke of Albemarle and others, kills a watchman, who begs for
    mercy, and the King pardons all the murderers.”

C.H.  Cooper

Cambridge, June 24, 1850.

Bishops and their Precedence (Vol. ii., p. 9.).—­I believe bishops have their precedence because they are both temporal and spiritual barons.  Some I years ago, I took the following note from the Gentleman’s Mag. for a year between 1790 and 1800; I cannot say positively what year (for I was very young at the time, and unfortunately omitted to “note” it):—­

    “Every Bishop has a temporal barony annexed to his see.  The
    Bishop of Durham is Earl of Sudbury and Baron Evenwood; and the
    Bishop of Norwich is Baron of Northwalsham.”

Query, where may the accounts of the respective baronies of the bishoprics be found?

HENRY KERSLEY.