"I cannot omit the sacrilege and punishment of King John, who in the seventeenth year of his reign, among other churches, rifled the abbeys of {572} Peterborough and Croyland, and after attempts to carry his sacrilegious wealth from Lynn to Lincoln; but, passing the Washes, the earth in the midst of the waters opens her mouth (as for Korah and his company), and at once swallows up both carts, carriage, and horses, all his treasure, all his regalities, all his church spoil, and all the church spoilers; not one escapes to bring the king word," &c. Is the precise spot known where this catastrophe occurred, or have any relics been since recovered to give evidence of the fact? J. SANSOM. _"Elementa sex," &c._--Perhaps one of your readers, given to such trifles, will hazard a guess at the solution, if not at the author, of the subjoined: "Elementa sex me proferent totam tibi; Totam hanc, lucernis si tepent fungi, vides, Accisa senibus suppetit saltantibus, Levetur, armis adfremunt Horatii; Facienda res est omnibus, si fit minor, Es, quod relinquis deinde, si subtraxeris; Si rite tandem quaeritas originem, Ad sibilum, vix ad sonum, reverteris." EFFIGY. _Jack and Gill--Sir Hubbard de Hoy._--Having recently amused myself by a dive into old Tusser's _Husbandrie_, the following passages suggested themselves as fitting _Queries_ for your pages: _Jack and Gill._-- "Let Jack nor Gill Fetch corn at will." Can the "Jack and Gill" of our nursery tales be traced to an earlier date than Tusser's time? _Hobble de Hoy._--Speaking of the periods of a man's life, Tusser's advice, from the age of fourteen years to twenty-one, is to "Keep under Sir Hubbard de Hoy." Is it known whether there ever existed a personage so named, either as a legend or a myth? And if not, what is the origin of the modern term "Hobble de Hoy" as a designation for a stripling? Bailey omits it in his _Dictionary_. L. A. M. _Humphrey Hawarden._--Information is solicited respecting this individual, who was a Doctor of Laws, and living in 1494. Also, of a Justice Port, living about the same period. T. HUGHES. Chester. _"Populus vult decipi."_-- "Populus } { Mundus } vult decipi { et decipiatur, Vulgus } { decipiatur ergo." Who was the author of the maxim? which is its correct form? and where is it to be found? It seems to present another curious instance of our ignorance of things with which we are familiar. I have put the question to a dozen scholars, fellows of colleges, barristers, &c. &c., and none has been able to give me an answer. One only _thinks_ it was a dictum of some Pope. HARRY LEROY TEMPLE. _Sheriffs of Huntingdonshire and Cambridgeshire._--Where can any list of the sheriffs for these counties be found, _previous_ to the list given by Fuller from the time of Henry VIII.? D.