"_Paetus and Arria_."--Can you inform me who is the author of _Paetus and Arria, a Tragedy_, 8vo., 1809? In Genest's _Account of the English Stage_, this play is said to be written by a gentleman of the University of Cambridge. Can you tell me whether this is likely to be W. Smyth, the late Professor of Modern History in that university, who died in June, 1849? GW. _Heraldic Query_.--A. was killed in open rebellion. His son B. lived in retirement under a fictitious name. The grandson C. retained the assumed name, and obtained new arms. Query, {220} Can the descendants of C. resume the arms of A.? If so, must they substitute them for the arms of C., or bear them quarterly, and in which quarters? FRANCIS P. _Lord Chancellor Steele._--Is any pedigree of William Steele, Esq., Lord Chancellor of Ireland temp. Commonwealth, extant; and do any of his descendants exist? It is believed he was nearly related to Captain Steel, governor of Beeston Castle, who suffered death by military execution in 1643 on a charge of cowardice. STATFOLD. _"A Tub to the Whale."_--What is the origin of this phrase? PIMLICO. _Legitimation_ (_Scotland_).--Perhaps some of your Scotch readers "learned in the law" would obligingly answer the subjoined Queries, referring to some decisions. 1. Will entail property go to a _bastard_, _legitimated before the Union_ under the great seal (by the law of Scotland)? 2. Will titles and dignities descend? 3. Will armorial bearings? M. M. Inner Temple. _"Vaut mieux," &c._--The proverb "Vaut mieux avoir affaire a Dieu qu'a ses saints" has a Latin origin. What is it? M. _Shakspeare First Folio._--Is there any _obtainable_ edition of Shakspeare which follows, or fully contains, the first folio? M. _The Staffordshire Knot._--Can any of your readers give the history of the Staffordshire knot, traced on the carriages and trucks of the North Staffordshire Railway Company? T. P. _Sir Thomas Elyot._--I shall be extremely obliged by a reference to any sources of information respecting Sir Thomas Elyot, Knight, living in the time of Henry VIII., son of Sir Richard Elyot, Knight, of Suffolk. I shall be glad also to know whether a short work (among others of his in my possession) entitled _The Defence of good Women_, printed in London by Thomas Berthelet, 1545, is at all a rare book? H. C. K. _"Celsior exsurgens pluviis," &c._-- "Celsior exsurgens pluviis, nimbosque cadentes, Sub pedibus cernens, et caeca tonitrua calcans." Can you oblige me by stating where the above lines are to be found? They appear to me to form an appropriate motto for a balloon. J. P. A. _The Bargain Cup._--Can the old English custom of drinking together upon the completion of a bargain, be traced back farther than the Norman era? Did a similar custom exist in the earlier ages? Danl. Dyke, in his _Mysteries_ (London, 1634), says: