_The Alibenistic Order of Freemasons._--Can any of your readers, masonic or otherwise, inform me what is meant by this order of Freemasons? The work of Henry O'Brien of the _Round Towers of Ireland_ is dedicated to them, and in his preface they are much eulogised. H. W. D. _Saying respecting Ancient History._--In Niebuhr's _Lectures on Ancient History_, vol. i. p 355., I find-- "An ingenious man once said, 'It is thought that at length people will come to read ancient history as if it had really happened,' a remark which is really excellent." Who was this "ingenious man"? J. P. _An Apology for not speaking the Truth._--Can any of your correspondents kindly inform me where the German song can be found from which the following lines are taken? "When first on earth the truth was born, She crept into a hunting-horn; The hunter came, the horn was blown, But where truth went, was never known." W. W. Malta. _Sir John Morant._--In the fourth volume of Sir John Froissart's _Chronicles_, and in the tenth and other chapters, he mentions the name of a Sir John Morant, Knight, or Sir John of Chatel Morant, who lived in 1390-6. How can I find out his pedigree? or whether he is an ancestor of the Hampshire family of Morants, or of the Rev. Philip Morant? H. H. M. Malta. _Portrait of Plowden._--Is any portrait of Edmund Plowden the lawyer known to exist? and if so, where? P. P. P. _Temperature of Cathedrals._--Can any of your readers favour me with a report from observation of the greatest and least heights of the thermometer in the course of a year, in one of our large cathedrals? I am informed that Professor Phillips, in a geological work, has stated that the highest and lowest temperatures in York Minster occur about five weeks after the solstices; but it does not appear that the altitudes are named. T. _Dr. Eleazar Duncon._--Dr. Eleazar Duncon was of Pembroke Hall, Cambridge, D.D., anno 1633, Rector of Houghton Regis same year, Chaplain to King Charles I., Prebendary of Durham. He is supposed to have died during the interregnum. Can any of your correspondents say when or where? D. D. _The Duke of Buckingham._--Do the books of the Honorable Society of the Middle Temple disclose any particulars relating to a "scandalous letter," believed to have been written by "a Templar" to George Villiers, the Great Duke of Buckingham, in 1626, the year before his grace was assassinated by Felton; which letter was found by a servant of the inn in a Temple drinking-pot, by {57} whom it was handed over to the then treasurer of the Society, Nicholas Hide, Esq.? and was the author of such scandalous letter ever discovered and prosecuted? CESTRIENSIS. _Charles Watson._--Can any of your readers give me any account of Charles Watson, of Hertford College, Oxford, author of poems, and _Charles the First_, a tragedy?