"On the 13th inst. put into this port (Yarmouth), having been grounded on the Barnard Sand, _The Royal Escape_, government hoy, with horses for his royal highness at Hanover. This vessel is the same that King Charles II. made his escape in from Brighthelmstone." JOSEPH DAVEY. * * * * * Queries. "THE LIGHT OF BRITTAINE." I should be glad, through the medium of "N. & Q.," to be favoured with some particulars regarding this work, and its author, Maister Henry Lyte, of Lytescarie, Esq. He presented the said work with his own hand to "our late soveraigne queene and matchlesse mistresse, on the day when shee came, in royall manner, to Paule's Church." I shall also be glad of any information about his son, Maister Thomas Lyte, of Lytescarie, Esq., "a true immitator and heyre to his father's vertues," and who "Presented to the Majestie of King James, (with) an excellent mappe or genealogicall table (contayning the bredth and circumference of twenty large sheets of paper), which he entitleth _Brittaines Monarchy_, approuing Brute's History, and the whole succession of this our nation, from the very original, with the just observation of al times, changes, and occasions therein happening. This worthy worke, having cost above {571} seaven yeares labour, beside great charges and expense, his highnesse hath made very gracious acceptance of, and to witnesse the same, in court it hangeth in an especiall place of eminence. Pitty it is, that this phoenix (as yet) affordeth not a fellowe, or that from privacie it might not bee made more generall; but, as his Majestie has granted him priviledge, so, that the world might be woorthie to enjoy it, whereto, if friendship may prevaile, as he hath been already, so shall he be still as earnestly sollicited." These two works appear to have been written towards the close of the sixteenth century. Is anything more known of them, and their respective authors? TRAJA-NOVA. * * * * * Minor Queries. _Thirteen an unlucky Number._--Is there not at Dantzic a clock, which at 12 admits, through a door, Christ and the Eleven, shutting out Judas, who is admitted at 1? A. C. _Quotations._-- "I saw a man, who saw a man, who said he saw the king." Whence? "Look not mournfully into the past; it comes not back again," &c.--Motto of _Hyperion_. Whence? A. A. D. _"Other-some" and "Unneath."_--I do not recollect having ever seen these expressions, until reading Parnell's _Fairy Tale_. They occur in the following stanzas: "But now, to please the fairy king, Full every deal they laugh and sing, And antic feats devise; Some wind and tumble like an ape, And _other-some_ transmute their shape In Edwin's wondering eyes.