Latin Names of Towns.—­A correspondent who answered the Query as to the “Latin Names of Towns” in titles, referred your readers to the Supplement of Lempriere.  I am much obliged to him for the hint, and have obtained the work in consequence; but it is right your readers should know that the information therein given must only be taken as suggestive, and sometimes as dismissible upon reference to the commonest gazetteer.  I opened at the letter N; and found, that of three entries, the first my eye lighted upon, two were palpably wrong.  The first informs us that “Naeostadium in Palatinatu” is in “France;” the third that “Nellore” is in “Ceylon.”  I am bound to say that I do not find errors so thickly scattered throughout, and that the list will be useful to me.  But, Query, is there any thing extensive of which the accuracy can be depended upon?

M.
Kilkenny.

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REPLIES.

SCALA COELI.

I incline to think that the testator whose will is referred to in No. 23. p. 336., by “Scala Coeli,” meant King Henry the Seventh’s Chapel at Westminster.

Margaret Countess of Richmond and Derby, mother to King Henry VII., in the indenture for founding Chantry Monks in the Abbey of Westminster, dated 2.  March, 21 Henry VII. (1506-6), states that she had obtained papal bulls of indulgence, that all persons saying and hearing her chantry masses should have as full remission from sin as in the place called Scala Coeli beside Rome, “to the great comfort and relief of the said Monasterie and all Cristen people resorting thereto.” (MS. Lansd. 444.)

Henry Lord Marney, by his will, dated 22d Dec., 15 Hen.  VIII. (1523), directs a trental of masses to be “first at Scala Coeli, in Westminster.” (Testamenta Vetusta, 609.)

Blomefield (Hist. of Norfolk, 8vo. edit., iv. 60) speaking of the Church of the Augustine Friars at Norwich, observes,—­

“That which brought most profit to the convent, was the chapel of Our Lady in this church, called Scala Celi, to which people were continually coming in pilgrimage, and offering at the altar there; most folks desiring to have masses sung for them here, or to be buried in the cloister of Scala Celi, that they might be partakers of the many pardons and indulgences granted by the Popes to this place; this being the only chapel (except that of the same name at Westminster, and that of Our Lady in St. Buttolph’s church at Boston,) that I find to have the same privileges and indulgences as the chapel of Scala Celi at Rome; which were so great as made all the three places aforesaid so much frequented; it being easier to pay their devotions here, than go so long a journey; all which indulgences and pardons may be seen in Fox’s Acts and Monuments, fo. 1075.”

In Bishop Bale’s singular play of Kynge Johan, published by the Camden Society, the King charges the clery with extorting money