RUFA.

Poetical Symbolism.—­In answer to the question of your correspondent, “STEPHEN BEAUCHAMP” (No. 11. p. 173.), I beg leave to mention a work, which answers in some degree to the description which he gives; namely, De Symbolica AEgyptiorum Sapientia, and Polyhistor Symbolicus, electarum Symbolarum et Parabolarum Historicurum Stromata XII.  Libris complectens, by Nicolas Caussin, {220} 8vo.  Col.  Agr. 1631.  There were other editions, I believe, in the same century.  The former work treats of Egyptian symbols; the titles of the twelve books of the latter are:  I. Mundus et Elementa.  II.  Dii Gentium.  III.  Hominis Bona.  IV.  Hominis Mala.  V. Ritus Gentium.  VI.  Aves.  VII.  Quadrupedes.  VIII.  Pisces.  IX.  Serpentes et Insecta.  X. Plantae.  XI.  Lapilli.  XII.  Manufacta.

M.

Oxford.

Fraternitye of Vagabondes.—­It does not appear very clearly from the wording of the query at p. 184. of your 12th number, whether the object of your correspondent, “A.  GRIFFINHOOF, JUN.,” be to ascertain the fact of the reprint in question having been published by Stace, or (having ascertained that fact) to procure further information as to the publisher.  I cannot find any allusion to the work in the Censura Literuria, (2nd ed. 1815), another instance of the absolute necessity for exact references, the want of which you would do well in making a ground of exclusion from your columns.  However, on the chance of being useful I send you an exact copy of the rubricated title-page of the reprint, which is as follows: 

“The Fraternitye of Vacabondes; As wel of ruflyng Vacabondes, as of beggerley, of Women as of Men, of Gyrles as of Boyes, With Their proper Names and Qualities.  With a Description of the Crafty Company of Cousoners and Shifters.  Whereunto also is adioined The XXV orders of Knaues, Otherwyse called A Quartern of Knaues.  Confirmed for euer by Cocke Lorell.—­¶ The Vprightman speaketh.

¶ Our Brotherhood of Vacabondes, If you would know where dwell:  In grauesend Barge which syldome standes, The talke wyll shew ryght well.

      ¶ Cocke Lorell answereth.

¶ Some orders of my knaues also In that Barge shall ye fynde:  for no where shall ye walke I trow, But ye shall see their knynde.

    ¶ Imprinted at London by John Awdely, dwellyng in little
    Britayne Streete without Aldersgate. 1575.

    Westminster:  Reprinted for Machell Stace, No. 12, Little
    Queen-Street, and R. Triphook, St. James’s Street. 1813.”

Those who are curious about Mr. Stace may consult Boaden on the Shakespeare Portraits, p. 141., Wivell on do., p. 189., and Chaleographimania, p. 16. 32. 95.

J.F.M.

Anonymous Ravennas.—­In answer to the query of “W.C.,” in No. 8., p. 124., I beg to state that Gronovius published the Cosmography of Ravennas, with other ancient scraps of geography, annexed to a neat edition of Pomponius Mela, printed at Leyden, in 1696.  Gronovius refers the anonymous author to the seventh century.  His Chorography of Britain forms a part of the work; but it is printed from one MS., and wretchedly obscure.