_Vox Populi_--_Monody on Sir John Moore._--Can any reader give me the origin of the saying "_Vox Populi, Vox Dei_?"--and has any one of your correspondents ever heard of any doubts being raised as to the original author of the _Monody upon Sir John Moore_, which is now always assigned to the Rev. Dr. Wolfe? I saw it stated in an English paper, published in France some few years back, that Wolfe had taken them from a poem at the end of the _Memoirs of Lally Tottendal_, the French governor of Pondicherry, in 1756, and subsequently executed in 1766. In the Paper I refer to, the French poem was given; and certainly one of the two must be a translation of the other. I have not been able to get a copy of Tottendal's _Memoirs_, or of the Paper I refer to, or I would not trouble you with this Query; but perhaps some one can inform me which is the Merchant here, and which the Jew. QUAESITOR. Reg. Coll. London. _Use of Coffins._--How long has it been the custom to inter the dead in coffins? "In a table of Dutyes" dated 11th Dec. 1664, and preserved at Shoreditch Church, it is mentioned:-- "For a buryall in the New Church Yard without a coffin, 00 00 08. "For a buryall in ye Old Church Yard without a coffin seauen pence 00 00 07. "For the grave marking and attendance of ye Vicar and Clarke on ye enterment of a corps uncoffined the churchwardens to pay the ordinary duteys (and no more) of this table." H.E. _Rococo._--Would any correspondent of "NOTES AND QUERIES" give the history of this word, or indicate where it is to be found? or, if the history is not known, state when, and by whom, it appears to have been _first_ used? T. Oxford. _Howlett the Engraver._--Can any of your readers furnish me with an account of the "Publications of Bartholomew Howlett," who was an engraver of some note, and about forty-five or fifty years ago resided in London? He was a native of Louth in Lincolnshire, and about forty-five years ago, being then resident (as appears from his book) somewhere in the neighbourhood of the Blackfriars' Road, published by subscription a book containing a series of engravings, entitled "Views in Lincolnshire." L.L.L. _The Bear, the Louse, and Religion._--I should be much obliged to any of your correspondents who will inform me where I can find _The Bear, the Louse, and Religion_: a fable. It commences-- "A surly Bear, in college bred, Determin'd to attack Religion; A Louse, who crawl'd from head to head, Defended her--as Hawk does pidgeon. Bruin Subscription discommended; The Louse determin'd to support it--" I know no more. When was it written?--upon what occasion?--who are meant by the Bear and the Louse? GRIFFIN. Mar. 5. 1850. * * * * * REPLIES. LETTER ATTRIBUTED TO SIR R. WALPOLE.