"A most extraordinary deluge, accompanied by signs and prodigies, happened a few years afterwards. 'On that night,' says Giovanni Villani (xi. 2.), 'a hermit, being at prayer in his hermitage above Vallambrosa, heard a furious trampling as of many horses; and crossing himself and hurrying to the wicket, saw a multitude of infernal horsemen, all black and terrible, riding by at full speed. When, in the name of God, he demanded their purpose, one replied, We are going, if it be His pleasure, to drown the city of Florence for its wickedness. This account,' he adds, 'was given me by the Abbot of Vallambrosa, who had questioned the holy man himself.'" This vision, however, without doubting the holy man's veracity, may, I presume, be considered wholly subjective. W. S. G. Newcastle-on-Tyne. {305} * * * * * Minor Queries. _Passage in Bacon._--What is the meaning of this saying of Bacon "Poetry doth raise and erect the mind by submitting the shows of things to the desires of the mind?" RECNAC. _Lamech killing Cain._--In the church of St. Neot, Cornwall, are some very interesting ancient painted windows, representing various legendary and scriptural subjects. In one of them, descriptive of antediluvial history, is a painting of Lamech shooting Cain with a bow and arrow. Are any of your readers acquainted with a similar subject? Is there any tradition to this effect? and does it throw any light on that difficult passage, Gen. iv. 23, 24.? "And Lamech said unto his wives, Adah and Zillah, Hear my voice: ye wives of Lamech, hearken unto my speech: for I have slain a man to my wounding, and a young man to my hurt. "If Cain shall be avenged sevenfold, truly Lamech seventy and sevenfold." J. W. M. Hordley Ellesmere. _Lord Chief Justice Popham._--C. GONVILLE says (Vol. vii., p. 259.) that Raleigh Gilbert "emigrated with Lord Chief Justice Popham in 1606" to Plymouth in Virginia. As this is a fact in the history of that learned judge with which I am unacquainted, I shall be obliged to your correspondent to favour me with some particulars. According to Anthony Wood he died on June 10, 1607, and was buried at Wellington in Somersetshire; and Sir Edward Coke (6 _Reports_, p. 75.) notices the last judgment he pronounced in the previous Easter Term. EDWARD FOSS. _"Her face was like the milky way," &c._--Where is the subjoined quotation taken from, and what is the context? I cannot be quite certain as to its verbal accuracy. "Her face was like the milky way i' the sky, A meeting of gentle lights without a name." VIA LACTEA. _Nelson Rings._--I am in possession of a ring, which in place of a stone has a metal basso-relievo representation of Nelson (half-bust). The inscription inside the ring is as follows: "A Gift to T. Moon from G. L. Stoppleburg 1815."