The word here used in 1611 was evidently no American one; and yet it is singular that neither Bailey (1740), Johnson (1755), or Barclay (1800), have the word in their dictionaries; but Knowles (1835) and Blackie's _Imperial_ (1850) both mentioned it; and have _sparse_, _sparsed_, _sparsedly_, and _sparsing_, all meaning "dispersed" or "scattered." JOHN ALGOR. Eldon Street, Sheffield. _Genoveva of Brabant_ (Vol. vii., p. 212.).--There is a ballad on her legend in an obscure volume of verses published by Masters, 1846, fantastically entitled _Echoes from Old Cornwall_. CORIOLANUS. N.B. These _Echoes_ do not appear to have resounded far or wide. _God's Marks_ (Vol. vii., p. 134.).--In the register-book of St. Margaret's, Westminster, occurs this entry, under the year 1556: "Junii vij^o die. Item, Elizabeth Helhe, of the ague with Godd's marks." Shakspeare adopts the saying, "They have the plague ... For the Lord's tokens on you do I see." _Love's Labour's Lost_, Act V. Sc. 2. quoted in _Memorials of Westminster_, ch. iv. p. 152. They were the first spots which showed that the infection had been caught. M. W. _Segantiorum Portus_ (Vol. vii., p. 180.).--I know not what PRESTONIENSIS means by Ptolemy's _History of Britain_, but there can be little doubt as to the whereabouts of what is called, in the _Palatine MS._, _Segantiorum Portus_, or _Setantiorum Portus_ in Berthius's great edition of Ptolemy's _Geography_, ch. iii., tit. Albion, tab. 1. It is curious that the place _immediately_ preceding in Ptolemy's _Catalogue_ that inquired about, affords, in the vast multitude enumerated in that work, the closest approach to identity between the ancient and modern names, viz. [Greek: Morikambê Eischusis], {247} Morecambe Æstuarium, still called, _totidem literis_ and _idem sonans_, _Morecambe Bay_, in which Ulverston is the chief town, so that of this point there can be no doubt. Then comes _Setantiorum Portus_, of which Montanus, Bertius, and subsequent geographers give _Winandermere_ as the modern name, meaning of course the mouth of the river through which Lake Windermere discharges itself into Morecambe Bay. But I doubt this, for there is no town of Windermere, nor indeed any other, that Ptolemy could have called a harbour (_portus_), till we come to Lancaster, which I therefore incline to believe was the _Portus Setantiorum_. After this _portus_ comes _Belisama Æstuarium_, by which all interpreters understand the mouth of the Ribble, which is probably the point that interests PRESTONIENSIS, as Preston stands on that river. The conjecture that Lancaster was the _Portus Setantiorum_ is corroborated by the latitudes and longitudes given by Ptolemy, which, though not to be absolutely relied on, are not to be disregarded, and which give to the three places, _Morecambe Æstuarium_, _Setantiorum Portus_, and _Belisama Æstuarium_, nearly the relative positions in which we find Ulverston, Lancaster, and the Ribble. C.