"_Qui facit per alium, facit per se_."--In Vol. vii., p. 488., I observe an attempt to trace the source of the expression, "Qui facit per alium, facit per se." A few months since I met with the quotation under some such form as "Qui facit per alium, per se facere videtur," in the preface to a book on _Surveying_, by Fitzherbert (printed by Berthelet about 1535), where it is attributed to St. Augustine. As I know of no copy of the works of that father in these parts (though I heard him quoted last Sunday in the pulpit), I cannot at present verify the reference. J. SLEEDNOT. Halifax. _Engin-a-verge_ (Vol. vii., p. 619. Vol. viii., p. 65.).--H. C. K. is mistaken in his conjecture respecting this word, as the following definition of it will show: "_Engins-a-verge_. Ils comprenaient les diverges especes de catapultes, les pierriers, &c."--Bescherelle, _Dictionnaire National_. B. H. C. _Campvere, Privileges of_ (Vol viii., p. 89.).--"Jus Gruis liberae." Does not this mean the privilege of using a crane to raise their goods free of dues, municipal or fiscal? _Grus_, _grue_, _krahn_, {232} _kraan_, all mean, in their different languages, crane the bird, and crane the machine. J. H. L. _Humbug_--_Ambages_ (Vol. viii., p. 64.).--May I be permitted to inform your correspondent that Mr. May was certainly correct when using the word "ambages" as an English word in his translation of Lucan. In Howell's _Dictionary_, published in London in May 1660, I find it thus recorded "Ambages, or circumstances." "Full of ambages." W. W. Malta. "_Going to Old Weston_" (Vol. iii., p. 449.).--In turning over the pages of the third volume of "N. & Q." recently, I stumbled on ARUN'S notice of the above proverb. It immediately struck me that I had heard it used myself a few days before, without being conscious at the time of the similarity of the expression. I was asking an old man, who had been absent from home, where he had been to? His reply was, "To Old Weston, Sir. You know I must go there before I die." Knowing that he had relatives living there, I did not, at the time, notice anything extraordinary in the answer; but, since reading ARUN'S note, I have made some inquires, and find the saying is a common one on this (the Northamptonshire) side of Old Weston, as well as in Huntingdonshire. I have been unable to obtain any explanation of it, but think the one suggested by your correspondent must be right. One of my informants (an old woman upwards of seventy) told me she had often heard it used, and wondered what could be its meaning, when she was a child. W. W. B---- Rectory, Northamptonshire.