_Burke's Marriage._--I am obliged to MR. GANTILLON (Vol. viii., p. 134.), but the authority referred to does not answer my questions (Vol. vii., p. 382.): When and _where_ was Burke married? There is no doubt as to _who_ he married. But some biographers say the ceremony took place in 1766, others in 1767. Some leave it to be inferred that he was married at Bath, others in London. B. E. B. _Stars and Flowers_ (Vol. iv., p. 22.; Vol. vii., pp. 151. 341. 513.).--To the passages quoted from Cowley, Longfellow, Hood, Moir, and Darwin, may be added the following ingenious application of this metaphorical language:-- "Alas for life!--but we will on with those Who have an age beyond their being's day. Mount with our Newton where Light ever flows; See him unveil its marvels--and display The hidden richness of a single ray! Unfold its latent hues like blossoms shed, Or flowers of air, outshining flowers of May! A luminous wreath in rainbow beauty spread, The noblest Fame could leave round starry Newton's head." _The Mind, and other Poems_, by Charles Swain, p. 64. BIBLIOTHECAR. CHETHAM. _Odour from the Rainbow_ (Vol. iii. pp. 224. 310.).--This idea has been traced to Bacon's _Sylva_, Browne's _Britannia's Pastorals_, Snow's _Miscellaneous Poems_, and to a Greek writer referred to by Coleridge. Georgius de Rhodes, in his _Peripatetic Philosophy_, mentions the same effect of the rainbow, and quotes Pliny: "Dico sexto, iridis effectus duos præcipue numerari. Primus est, quod plantas, arbores, frutices, quibus incubuerit, efficit odorationes. Tradunt, inquit Plinius lib. xii. c. 24., in quocunque frutice incurvetur cœlestis arcus, eandem quæ sit aspalato suavitatem odoris existere; aspalato autem inenarrabilem quandam. Terra etiam ipsa suavius halare dicitur." In the annotations on Pliny, _in loco_, Aristotle is referred to in _Problem. Quæst._ xii. BIBLIOTHECAR. CHETHAM. _Judges styled Reverend_ (Vol. iv., pp. 151. 198).--The following is an extract from the title of a small octavo volume, printed for the assignees of {159} John More, Esq., London, 1635, which lately came into my hands:--_La novel Natura Brevium du Juge Tresreverend Monsieur Anthony Fitzherbert_; with a new table by William Rastall. The preface is headed as follows:--"La Preface sur cest lieuz compose per le Reverend Justice Anthony Fitzherbert." Anthony Fitzherbert was appointed Chief Justice of the Common Pleas in 1523, and died in 30 Hen. VIII. William Rastall was appointed Serjeant-at-law in 1554, and one of the Justices of the Common Pleas in 1558: it would seem, therefore, that as Rastall is not styled "Serjeant-at-law" in the title-page of the book when he made a new table to its contents, that the complimentary style of Reverend, as applicable to the judges, was used at least as late as the middle of the sixteenth century. THOMAS W. KING, YORK HERALD. College of Arms.