The arms of Dixon, as depicted in the Cotgreave pedigree, are "Sable, a fleur-de-lis or, a chief ermine," quartering the ensigns of the noble houses of "Robert Fitz-Hugh, Baron of Malpas in the county of Chester, temp. William the Conqueror; Eustace Crewe de Montalt, Lord of Hawarden, Flintshire, during the said reign; Robert de Umfreville, Lord of Tours, and Vian, and Reddesdale, in Northumberland, who flourished in the same reign also; Pole, Talboys, Welles, Latimer," and others. In the pedigree, Camden states that the aforesaid "Ralph Dixon quartered the ensigns of the above noble families in right of his mother Maude, daughter and co-heiress of Sir Ralph Fitz-Hugh de Congleton and Elton in the county palatine of Chester." I have the honour to be, Sir, Your very obedient humble servant, WILLIAM SIDNEY SPENCE. Priory Place, Birkenhead, Chester. Dec. 14. 1848. * * * * * Minor Queries. _Atherstone Family._--Can any of your readers oblige me with information concerning the Atherstone family? Is it an old name, or was it first given some three or four generations back to a foundling, picked up near the town of Atherston? M. A. B. _Classic Authors and the Jews._--Where can I find a complete or full account of passages in Greek and Latin authors, which refer to Judea and the Jews? It has been said that these references are very few, and that in Cicero, for instance, there is not one. This last is wrong, I know. (See _e.g._ Cic. _Pro L. Flacco_, 28., and _De Prov. Consul. 5._) B. H. C. _Bishop Hooper's Argument on the Vestment Controversy._--Glocester Ridley, in his _Life of Bishop Ridley_, p. 315., London, 1763, states, in reference to Bishop Hooper's _Book to the Council against the use of those Habits which were then used by the Church of England in her sacred Ministries_, written October, 1550, "Part of Hooper's book I have by me in MS." Could any one state whether that MS. is now in existence, or where it is to be found? It is of much importance to obtain {222} an answer to this inquiry, as Bishop Ridley's MS. Reply to Bishop Hooper is, for the first time, about to be printed by the Parker Society, through the kind permission of its possessor, Sir Thomas Phillipps, Bart., in the second volume of the Writings of Bradford which I am editing; and, to make Ridley's reply fully intelligible, access is needed to Bishop Hooper's _Book to the Council_. A. TOWNSEND. Weston Lane, Bath, February 23. _The Title of "Dominus."_--How is it that at Cambridge the title of _Dominus_ is applied to B.A.'s, while at Oxford it is confined to the doctorate? W. FRASER. Tor-Mohun.