_Head-dress._--The enormous head-dresses worn in the time of Charles I. gave rise to the following lines: "Hoc magis est instar tecti quam tegminis; hoc non Ornare est; hoc est ædificare caput." CLERICUS (D.) * * * * * Minor Queries. _Fox-hunting._--Can any of your correspondents inform me, when the great national sport of fox-hunting first came into vogue? Gervase Markham, whose work on sports, called _Country Contentments, or the Husbandman's Recreations_, was published in 1654, gives due honour to stag-hunting, which he describes as "the most princely and royall chase of all chases." Speaking of hare-hunting, he says, "It is every honest man's and good man's chase, and which is indeed the freest, readiest, and most enduring pastime;" but he classes the hunting of the fox and the badger together, and he describes them as "Chases of a great deal lesse use or cunning than any of the former, because they are of a much hotter scent, and as being intituled stinking scents, and not sweet scents." Although he does admit that this chase may be profitable and pleasant for the time, insomuch as there are not so many defaults, but a continuing sport; he concludes, "I will not stand much upon them, because they are not so much desired as the rest." R. W. B. _Broderie Anglaise._--Being a young lady whose love for the fine arts is properly modified by a reverence for antiquity, I am desirous to know whether the present fashionable occupation of the "Broderie Anglaise," being undoubtedly a revival, is however traceable (as is alleged) to so remote a period as the days of Elizabeth? SARAH ANNA. _"The Convent," an Elegy._--Among the works ascribed to the Abbé François Arnaud, a member of the French Academy, who died in 1784, there is one entitled, _Le Couvent, Elégie traduite de l'Anglais_. What is the English poem here alluded to? HENRY H. BREEN. St. Lucia. _Memorial of Newton._--The subscription now in progress for raising a statue to Sir Isaac Newton {173} at Grantham, the place of his early education, recalls to my recollection a memorial of him, about which I may possibly learn a few particulars from some one of the numerous readers of "N. & Q." I remember hearing when a school-boy at the college, Grantham, some thirty-five years ago, that Newton's name, cut by himself on a stone in the recess of one of the windows of the school-house, was to be seen there no long time back; but that the stone, or the portion of it which contained the name, had been cut out by some mason at a time when the building was being repaired, and was in the possession of a gentleman then living in the largest house in Grantham--built, I believe, by himself. Those of your readers who knew Grantham at the time, will not need to be told the name of the gentleman to whom I allude. The questions I would wish to ask are these: 1. Was such a stone to be seen, as described, some forty or fifty years since?