"Oaken tombs are very rare; that of Aymer de Valence in Westminster Abbey has been and still is in part coated over with copper, gilt, and enamelled, and I have seen another in the church of Tickencote in Rutlandshire. I do not recollect a third specimen." Query, How many have been discovered since the great historian's day? ST. BEES. _Alleged Bastardy of Elizabeth._--In the State Paper Office (_Dom. Pap._, temp. Jac. I.), there is, under date of 1608, a letter from Mr. Chamberlaine to Sir Dudley Carleton, of October 28, in which Chamberlaine says: "I heare of a Bill put into the Exchequer, concerninge much lande that sh^d be alienated on account of the alleged bastardy of Queen Elizabeth." P. C. S. S. is desirous to know whether there be any record in the Court of Exchequer which bears out this singular statement. P. C. S. S. _"Pugna Porcorum."_--Where may be found some account of the author, object, &c. of this facetious production? P. J. F. GANTILLON, B.A. _Parviso._--Can any of your readers inform me as to the meaning of the word _parviso_; it occurs in the usual form of the "Testamur" for Responsions. On reference to Webster's _Dictionary_, I find that _parvis_ is a small porch or gateway; perhaps this may throw some light upon the question. OXONIENSIS. _Mr. Justice Newton._--There is a very stiff Indian-ink copy of a portrait in the _Sutherland Illustrated Clarendon_, in the Bodleian Library, the original of which I should be glad to trace. It is described in the Catalogue to be "by Bulfinch," {529} which is probably a mistake. It bears the following inscription: "This is drawn from the painting in the hands of Mr. Justice Newton of the Middle Temple." Can any one inform me when this learned justice lived; or rather, for it concerns me more, when he died? And farther, if it be not too hopeless an inquiry to make, who his existing representatives (if any) may be? F. KYFFIN LENTHALL. 36. Mount Street, Grosvenor Square. _Mufti._--I hear military men employ this term, "we went in _mufti_:" meaning, out of uniform. Whence is it derived? MARIA. _Ryming and Cuculling._--In that very curious volume of extracts from _The Presbytery Book of Strathbogie_, A.D. 1631-54, which was printed for the Spalding Club in 1843, occurs the following passage: "George Jinkin and John Christie referred from the Session of Abercherder, for _ryming and cuculling_, called, compeird not. Ordained to be summonded _pro_ 2^o."--P. 242. Accordingly, on-- "The said day, George Jinkin in Abercherder, being summonded for his _ryming and cuculling_, being called, compeired; and being accused of the foresaid fault, confessed he only spoke three words of _that ryme_. Being sharpely rebuked, and instructed of the grosnes of that sin, was ordained to satisfie in sackcloth, which he promised to do."--P. 245.