Sir Frederic Madden, in the Introduction to _Illuminated Ornaments_, fol. 1833, and Mr. Ottley, in _Archæologia_, vol. xxiv. art. 1., have both written very minutely on the subject of illuminating, but their observations are too long for quotation. E. G. B. I remember reading in an old French work the process used in illuminating parchments, and remember that the gilding was laid upon garlic juice; it might very possibly be diluted with proof spirits of wine; at all events, no parchments can bear water at whatever time they may have been prepared: the process of making them wear out with water would turn them into leather. The work I allude to was brought out, I recollect, under the auspices of the French Academy. W. T. {318} _"I hear a lion," &c._ (Vol. vii., p. 205.).--These lines (corrupted by your correspondent SAGITTA into _five_) are two couplets in Bramstone's lively poem of the _Art of Politics_. They are a versification of a shrewd question put by Colonel Titus in the debate on the celebrated bill for _excluding_ James Duke of York. C. The _Art of Politics_, by the Rev. Mr. Bramston, contains the following lines, which will, I apprehend, give your correspondent the required information: "With art and modesty your part maintain; And talk like Col'nel Titus, not like Lane. The trading knight with rants his speech begins, Sun, moon, and stars, and dragons, saints, and kings: But Titus said, with his uncommon sense, When the exclusion-bill was in suspense, I hear a lion in the lobby roar; Say, Mr. Speaker, shall we shut the door And keep him there, or shall we let him in To try if we can turn him out again?" Mr. Bramston's poem is in the first volume of Dodsley's _Collection_. Perhaps some of your correspondents may be able to refer to a cotemporary account of Colonel Titus's speech on the Exclusion Bill. C. H. COOPER. Cambridge. _Fercett_ (Vol. vi., p. 292.).--The term _Fercett_ is probably intended as the _designation_ of some collection in MS. of family evidences and pedigrees. It was usual among our ancestors thus to inscribe such collections either with the name of the collector, or that of the particular family to whom the book related. Thus the curious MS. in the library of the City of London, called _Dunthorne_, and containing ancient municipal records, is so called from its collector, whose name was Dunthorne. Instances of such titles are to be found in the collections of Gervase Holles in the _Lansdowne MSS._, where one of such books is referred to as _Trusbutt_. E. G. B.