In compliance with your excellent suggestion (Vol. vii., p. 2.), I send my address in a stamped envelope for any private communication which may not interest the general reader. E. A. D. * * * * * Minor Queries. _The Rothwell Family._--When William Flower, Esq., Norroy, confirmed the ancient arms of this family to Stephen Rothwell, gent., of Ewerby, county of Lincoln, on the 1st April, 1585, and granted a crest (no such being found to his ancient arms), the said Stephen Rothwell was stated to be "ex sui cognominis familia antiqua in comitatu Lancastriæ oriundus." Can any of the readers of "N. & Q." give any information respecting the family from which he is stated to be descended? GLAIUS. _Definition of a Proverb._--Where can I find the source whence I. D'Israeli took his definition of a proverb, viz. "The wisdom of many and the wit of one?" C. MANSFIELD INGLEBY. Birmingham. _Latin Riddle._--Aulus Gellius (_Noctes Atticæ_, lib. XII. cap. vi.) proposes the following enigma, which he terms "Per hercle antiquum, perque lepidum:" "Semel minusne, an bis minus, non sat scio, An utrumque eorum, ut quondam audivi dicier Jovi ipsi regi noluit concedere." The answer he withholds for the usual reason, "Ut legentium conjecturas in requirendo acueremus." Is there among the readers of "N. & Q." an Œdipus who will furnish a solution? R. PRICE. St. Ives. _D. Ferrand--French Patois._--Hallman, in the 7th chapter of his _Poesie und Beredsamkeit der Franzosen_, gives several specimens of the French provincial poets of the sixteenth century, and among these the following from a poem on the dispersing of a meeting of Huguenots by the soldiers: "Quand des guerriers fut la troupe entinchée Non n'aleguet le dire du Prescheux, Que pour souffrir l'ame est de Dieu tombée, Femme et Mary, comme le fianchée, Pour se sauver quitest leu zamoreux En s'enfiant ocun n'avet envie, De discourir de l'Eternelle vie, Sainct Pol estet en alieur guissement No ne palet de Bible en Apostille Qui en eut palé quand fut en un moment Les pretendus grippez par la Soudrille. "Le milleur fut quand la troupe enrangée Fut aux Fauxbourgs, hors de lieu perilleux, Car tiel n'estet o combat qu'on Pygmée, Qui se diset o milieu de stermée S'estre monstre un géant orgueilleux Les femmes ossi disest ma sœur, m'amie, De tout su brit ie sis toute espamie, Petit troupeau que tu as de tourment, Pour supporter le faix de l'Evangile Souffrira-t-on qu'on vaye impudement Les pretendus grippez par la Soudrille." D. Ferrand, _Inv. Gen._, p. 304. Hallman gives no farther information. I shall be glad if any of your readers can tell me who D. Ferrand was, what he wrote, and of what province the above is the _patois_. B. SNOW. Birmingham. _"Fac precor, Jesu benigne," &c._--In the _Sacra Privata_, new edition, Bishop Wilson quotes the following lines: